Sweet Baboo

NEW SINGLE AND BIG GIG ANNOUNCED FOR NOVEMBER

Moshi Moshi are set release the next single from Ships, the album, on the 29th of July.

It’s a shorter, friendlier version of the song C’mon Let’s Mosh!  All chorus and no verse, like the new radicals.

Anyway you can listen to it here

To celebrate, Moshi, eatyourownears, me and the band have announced our biggest gig to date.

Uh oh!

November the 13th at the Islington Assembly Hall in London.

You can buy tickets here

A full tour of the Uk is being finalised at the moment and more exciting gigs across the summer. I’ll try and keep things up to date.

Expect some new songs and a highly sophisticated light show.

A SMALL UPDATE

So I and we, the sweet baboo extended posse, have been pretty busy over the last couple of months. Thank you to everyone who came to see us on our tour, and all the people who helped us along the way. I think I’m allowed to say it was a total success and we, the band, didn’t fall out once.

Having said that, I start a weeks worth of solo gigs next Saturday, Full details below.

Due to a small counting error, there are a few tickets left for the London St Pancreas gig. You can get them here.

JUNE

01 – Railway Institute and Club – Bangor *

02 – Looking Glass Cafe – Bristol (Tickets)

03- St Pancreas Old Church – London

04 – Toast – Falmouth (FREE) *

05 – The New Inn – Tywardreth (FREE) *

06 – The Taphouse – St. Agnus (FREE) *

07 – B Side Bunters – Truro (INFO) *

08 – Studio Bar – Penzance (FREE) *

We’re making a little road movie on the cornish part of the tour so please come and say hello.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances the gig in Totnes has had to be cancelled. We are hoping to reschedule  in November as part of a bigger and louder tour. Fingers crossed.

On other news, due to popular demand Moshi Moshi have repressed the new album on limited edition coloured vinyl (as of yet I have no idea what colour ) . They will only be available at gigs I think, at least for the time being.

There’s a complete list of Festivals at the gigs page. We are gonna have a slightly bigger band over the summer and it should sound a bit like this. We hope to see you then.

 This link has been removed cause it plays every time the page opens. To hear the band here’s the link

On non Sweet Baboo based news. Two records I helped make are available to buy here and here

H.Hawkline

Islet

Finally, Sweet Baboo produce and Bass player Rob Jones has a new record out under the name The Gene Dudley Group. It’s pretty dope and you can buy it here

ALBUM OUT TODAY / HOORAY + other news

My new album Ships is out today. You can buy it in all manner of formats here.

It will also be available to buy on our upcoming tour which start TODAY. Woohoo!!!!!

The tour has been extended to play a few solo gigs in June. Those dates are below.

JUNE

01 – Railway Institute and Club – Bangor

02 – Looking Glass Cafe – Bristol (Tickets)

03- St Pancreas Old Church – London (Tickets)

04 – Toast – Falmouth (FREE)

05 – The New Inn – Tywardreth (FREE)

06 – The Taphouse – St. Agnus (FREE)

07 – B Side Bunters – Truro (INFO)

08 – Studio Bar – Penzance (FREE)

09 – Studio Lounge – Totnes (Tickets)

New Single New Video Album Preorder

A bit late in the day I know, I’ve been jet setting the last couple of weeks, but belatedly I’m excited to announce that I have a new single out on the 23rd of April. It’s called If I died… and is the first track on Ships also out on the 23rd.

You can listen to it here:

With the lyrical help from my friend H.Hawkline we also recorded a Welsh version of the song. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to embed it so you can listen to it here.

Finally my friend Casey Raymond made a video for the song, and very good it is too. It features the acting debut of Bronwen Blatchford and me as a giant head.

I’ve updated the gigs page to feature all upcoming gigs and links to tickets and stuff where I can here

Finally you can preorder my album here . We’re releasing a special 12″ Vinyl version for record store day too with an added bonus disk, I’ll let you know more information when I’m better informed.

NEW VIDEO TOUR AND ALBUM PREORDER

Super exciting times. The ‘let’s go swimming wild’ single is finally available to buy on ITunes and equivalents from Monday the 11th of February. To celebrate my friend Casey Raymond has made this amazing and very silly Louis Wain inspired psychedelic cat video.

Props go out to Casey, Claire Roberts, Cate Timothy and Huw Evans for their help.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us and the song over the last couple of months, it’s exceeded all of our expectations 100 times over.

Next BIT – ALBUM AND TOUR

Ships, the album is officially released on the 22nd of April but you can preorder it here . It will soon be available from this websites shop too. I shall let you know when it is.

We’re also off on tour in April. The band practises are going well, I’ve bought a vauxhall astra estate and we’re gonna squish in. I’ve also bought a pedal board, so we better be pro. The dates are below

APRIL
22 - Leicester (Cookie Club)
23 - London (The Lexington) [Tickets]
24 - Oxford (Academy 2) [Tickets]
25 - Stroud (The Prince Albert) [Tickets]
26 - Northampton (The Lamplighter) [Tickets]
27 - Nottingham (Chameleon Arts Centre) [Tickets]
28 - Birmingham (Yardbird) [Tickets]
29 - York (The Basement) [Tickets]
30 - Chester (Telfords Warehouse) [Tickets]

MAY
1 - Hull (Fruit) [Tickets]
3 - Halifax (The Doghouse) [Tickets]
4 - Leeds (Live at Leeds) [Tickets]
7 - Glasgow (King Tuts) [Tickets]
8 - Newcastle (Heartattack & Vine)
11 - Cardiff (Clwb Ifor Bach)
17 - Rochester (Royal Function Rooms) [Tickets]

More exciting news as and when it comes.

APRIL GIG FEBRUARY GIG PICTISH TRAIL R.SEILIOG

Sweet Baboo news.

Today is the last day you are able to download my song Let’s go Swimming Wild. Go here if you haven’t had a chance to get it already.

Unfortunately my gigs at the Shacklewell Arms and The Roundhouse  in February are sold out but, and big drum roll, the album launch for ships has been booked at the Lexington in London on the 23rd of April. Hopefully a full tour will be announced soon.

You can buy tickets for the gig here

Kind of Sweet Baboo news and only slightly nepotistic.

This time last year I drove 11 hours in my dying ford Escort all the way up to the Scottish island of Eigg to help my friend The Pictish Trail to record his second album Secret Soundz Vol. 2.  I was in charge of pressing space bar, 3, and telling him to do it again. I bought a chorus pedal because of it and am very proud of it.

Well it’s out next week (I think) on Fence Records. You can buy it here

Here’s a video:

Finally. My friend Robin, who I’ve played with in numerous bands (including his and mine) has just released his first EP on the Peski record label under his alter ego R.Seiliog. It’s called Shuffles and is really brill. You can buy it here

Here’s a video

Voluntary Butler / Sweet Baboo / Peter et le Wolff

Tomorrow I start a short tour playing Bruce Springteen style saxophone for my friend, and producer of my new album Rob Jones of the Voluntary Butler Scheme .

We’re off to London, Manchester, Sheffield and Brum. I get to support on some of the gigs too. Here’s a video for his new single Brain Freeze which you buy as an app.

Imagine that, an app!

Some exciting Sweet Babs news. My new album is definitely called SHIPS and will be out in March 2013 (it takes that long these days apparently) it will be proceeded by a single called ‘Let’s Go Swimming Wild’ at the beginning of next year. It’s a big ballsy brass heavy ballad in E major. We’re making a psychedelic cat video to go with it and then hopefully, will take over the world (tour a bit) over the next coming months.

I played a gig, playing lots of the songs off the new album, as well as some older ones, which was streamed live on the interweb. Good times.

Finally a man from manchester called Pete has made a t-shirt inspired by one of my songs. Go buy it here

He also drew this picture of me up a tree. It’s brill. You can buy that too. If I wasn’t a doufus I would embed the picture underneath but I can’t seem to do it.

End of message.

GIGS

Late in the day I know but I’ve been gallivanting around America touring with my friends bands.
I have some gigs coming up, some on my own and some with the band they are all there to see in print format on the gigs page.

My news and musings to follow soon.

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS

Right? Well in this case I suppose it is. I, along with my friend Rob (Voluntary Butler Scheme) I finally finished my album SHIPS. It won’t be out till early next year. It’s eleven songs of sea based brass heavy pop music.  There’s not much more to say about it at the moment but there’s exciting times afoot in the sweet baboo camp.

While not making my album, I’ve been fannying about making music with my friends.

We’ve been here there and everywhere with Slow Club this year. Too many places to mention but here’s some, along with a one word memory, that spring to mind. Eating poutine in Toronto, my birthday in Melbourne, watching Seals in San Diego, supporting the Mystery Jets at the Brixton Academy, recording at Edwyn Collins’ studio, and we’re off again at the end of the month supporting the mumford and sons in America. One of them is in an amphitheatre where U2 played a notorious gig (?)*.  It’s turned out to be quite the bonkers year for the slows.

I’ve also toured with my friend Catelebon, and we’re off again in September for a month. She has an e.p out soon. Called Cyrk II on it. I played bass on it*. There’s one song that sounds like Weezer. You can preorder it here

My friend H.Hawkline has an ep out on the Trash Aesthetics label. Which you can buy here. I play bass on this too*

Finally my friend Euros Childs‘ album is coming out soon. It’s called Summer Special. Here’s the video for his single Ohh That’s Better. If you look closely you’ll see a vision in sky blue.

Friends Stuff and Gigs

A quick post to back slap some of my friends

CateleBon
Her album is out on Monday proper. Cool

My friend Tim who was an original member of the Sweet Baboo band and can be heard on such songs as Tim’s Song now lives in Paris and does this

My friend Ceri who has just released a new album which you can listen to hear . I did try and embed it on the website but I failed miserably. Ceri was also an original member of the Sweet Baboo band and produced my first album, The Mighty Baboo.

I’ve a couple of gigs coming up over the summer. It’s gonna be big band tastic and we’ll be playing songs of the new album, which is slowly coming together. I’ve added them to the gigs page.