Sweet Baboo

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Let's Go Swimming Wild 04:54 Tools
PINK RAINBOW 04:54 Tools
Sometimes 03:45 Tools
Don't Be Alone (This Christmas) 03:50 Tools
C'mon Let's Mosh! 03:45 Tools
Girl Under a Tree 04:36 Tools
If I Died… 01:30 Tools
The Morse Code for Love Is Beep Beep, Beep Beep, The Binary Code Is One One 03:42 Tools
I'm a Dancer 04:09 Tools
Woe Unto Me to Get High 03:48 Tools
Twelve Carrots of Love 03:50 Tools
If I Died... 03:05 Tools
Wild Imagination 03:05 Tools
Chubby Cheeks 01:47 Tools
The Day I Lost My Voice 04:17 Tools
Got To Hang On To You 04:53 Tools
8 Bit Monsters 03:24 Tools
You Are A Wave 03:19 Tools
Badminton 04:53 Tools
Cate's Song 04:53 Tools
Bounce 04:16 Tools
The Sea Life Is The Life For Me (Mermaid Cutie) 03:20 Tools
Build You A Butterfly 02:25 Tools
MB 01:40 Tools
Y'r Lungs 03:44 Tools
Motorhome 03:44 Tools
Great Year 03:51 Tools
If I Died Would You Remember That You Loved Me 04:12 Tools
Wish I Was Made Out of Steel 03:53 Tools
LB 01:04 Tools
To the Sea 03:21 Tools
Swallows 05:20 Tools
Lost Out on the Floor 07:30 Tools
Motoring Home 05:20 Tools
You Got Me Time Keeping 07:30 Tools
The Gardener 07:30 Tools
You Are Gentle 02:43 Tools
Three Thumbs 04:11 Tools
Two Moles 04:08 Tools
Baby Let Me Let You Sleep 07:30 Tools
Walking In The Rain 02:43 Tools
Who Would Have Thought... 02:43 Tools
Two Lucky Magpies 02:43 Tools
Tonight You Are A Tiger 02:43 Tools
Clear Blue Skies 02:43 Tools
I Just Want To Be Good 02:43 Tools
The Boombox Ballad 02:43 Tools
Hold On 02:43 Tools
Humberside 03:39 Tools
The Night Gardener 02:43 Tools
Over & Out 03:39 Tools
You Are The Best Beach That I Know 02:43 Tools
Californ-i-a 03:39 Tools
Traffic Report (Experimental Road Layout) 02:43 Tools
If I'm Still In Love When I Get Back Home From Travelling (America) 03:39 Tools
Everything's A1 03:39 Tools
Animals Crossing 03:39 Tools
A Stand Off With Those At Hook Up No. 8 02:43 Tools
How I'd Live My Life Aka The Bumblebee Song 02:43 Tools
Lay Bye Bye 02:43 Tools
Got To Hang Onto You 04:03 Tools
Cross Animals 02:43 Tools
Little Bernadette 03:50 Tools
It's Three, Let's Go 02:45 Tools
Traffic Report 2 03:50 Tools
Weak As In Good 03:52 Tools
Let's Go To Town 04:03 Tools
The Acorn Drop 04:06 Tools
I Can See Geese in Your Eyes 03:51 Tools
Hello Bullfrog, Hello Wave 05:04 Tools
Darlin' If You Think My Songs Are Fun Then Darlin' You Are Wrong 03:24 Tools
Tim's Song 03:49 Tools
The Shipping Forecast 02:48 Tools
In The Night Sky (I Hear Him Calling Me) 03:17 Tools
Positive Record 00:01 Tools
We Used To Call Him Dennis 04:06 Tools
Tom Waits Rip Off 04:06 Tools
You're Too Close To My Hip Bone 03:07 Tools
Putting Things In Boxes And Places 02:41 Tools
Early Riser 00:05 Tools
Tv Theme 00:05 Tools
Do The Buzzard 03:05 Tools
Be Bawn Ni'n Marw 03:04 Tools
Jonathan Richman 02:48 Tools
You Can Turn A Smile Right Back Into A Smile 02:24 Tools
Pannage / Panic 00:01 Tools
Barnyard Rhumba 00:05 Tools
My New Found Love Of Recorders 02:01 Tools
Blowin' up My Mind 03:05 Tools
Wolfie 93 02:11 Tools
Mountain Top 00:01 Tools
Emotionally Alone (Close To Me) 03:05 Tools
Cuddle Up 00:01 Tools
Recapping All My Other Songs 03:10 Tools
Good Lord The Sun (Good Lord The Sun) Is Gonna Smile On Me 02:14 Tools
Down the Afon Gwendraeth 03:36 Tools
If I Died 00:01 Tools
The Boombox Ballads 00:05 Tools
C'Mon Let's Mosh! (Single Version) 00:05 Tools
Who Would Have Thought.... 02:44 Tools
The Ballad Of Mr. Mario 02:20 Tools
C'mon Let's Mosh! (Live at St. Pancras Church) 03:36 Tools
I'm a Dancer - Version 2 03:03 Tools
Balloon Ride to Rome (Wickes Version) 03:44 Tools
I Want To Write You A Song As Good As I Can 02:58 Tools
The Boys are back in Town 02:22 Tools
Emotionally Alone 03:02 Tools
Crip To Be Square 03:18 Tools
Home 03:44 Tools
If I Died Would You Remember? 03:04 Tools
The Ballad Of Mr Mario 02:22 Tools
If I Died (2013) 03:03 Tools
C'mon Beef 03:03 Tools
C'mon Let's Mosh 03:40 Tools
Lets Go Swimming Wild 04:55 Tools
Lets Go Swimming Wild (2013) 04:54 Tools
How I'd Live My Life Aka The Bumble Bee 02:44 Tools
The Morse Code For Love Is Beep Beep, Beep Beep, The Binary 03:42 Tools
Let's Go Swimming Mild 03:42 Tools
Who Would Have Thought 02:46 Tools
Recaping All My Other Songs 03:13 Tools
Let's Permoose 00:00 Tools
Black Domino Box (H Hawkline Cover) 03:42 Tools
The Morse Code For Love 03:42 Tools
Hoedown 03:42 Tools
Spazmin Son 02:32 Tools
Tom Waits Rip Off - 6 Music session 10/04/2008 02:14 Tools
The Lifeguard 02:49 Tools
If I Died Would You Remember 03:04 Tools
Balloon Ride To Rome (Bonus Track) 03:18 Tools
Shave my face 03:04 Tools
Bounce (BBC session) 03:04 Tools
How Id Live My Life aka The Bumblebee Song 02:46 Tools
Clam Song (Bonus Track) 05:21 Tools
I Wish I Was Made Out Of Steel 03:34 Tools
Traffic Report 1 (Experimental Road Layout) 05:21 Tools
Do Do D Do Charlene 00:00 Tools
Darlin If You Think My Songs Are Fun Then Darlin You Are Wrong 03:28 Tools
How I'd Live My Life (AKA The Bumblebee Song) 02:44 Tools
How I'd Live My Life a.k.a. The Bumblebee Song 03:28 Tools
The Sea Life's the Life for Me 03:28 Tools
The Eyes The Eyes 03:28 Tools
A Stand Off With Those At Hookup No. 8 03:28 Tools
The Boys Are Back In Town (Marc Riley Session) 00:30 Tools
I'd kill for you even if you don't want me to 00:00 Tools
Darlin If You Think My Songs are Fun, Then Darlin You Are Wrong 03:25 Tools
(Good Lord the Sun) Is Gonna Smile On Me 00:30 Tools
I'm a Dancer (Version 2) 03:18 Tools
Tom Waits Rip Off (6 Music Marc Riley Session, 3 Apr 2014) 03:18 Tools
Lost Out On The Floor (6 Music 26th April 2018) 00:30 Tools
The Boys Are Back In Town (Marc Riley BBC Session) 00:30 Tools
Balloon Ride To Rome 03:18 Tools
You`re Too Close To My Hip Bone 03:08 Tools
frankie 03:18 Tools
Blowing up My Mind 03:18 Tools
If I Died Would You Remember That You Loved Me? (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2010) 03:18 Tools
03 EVERYTHING'S A1 03:18 Tools
Bounce - 6 Music session 12/10/2011 03:18 Tools
Bounce (12th Oct 2011 Riley Session) 03:34 Tools
Clear Blue Skies (6 Music 26th April 2018) 03:18 Tools
Wen Der Sudwind (6 Music 26th April 2018) 03:18 Tools
Sweetheart O' Mine 03:18 Tools
Reccaping All My Other Songs 03:11 Tools
Lifeguard 03:18 Tools
If Im Still In Love When I Get Back Home From Travelling (America) 03:47 Tools
04 A STAND OFF WITH THOSE AT HOOKUP No. 8 03:08 Tools
C'mon Let's Mosh! (Chips Version) 03:34 Tools
05 ANIMALS CROSSING 03:34 Tools
01 TRAFFIC REPORT 1 (EXPERIMENTAL ROAD LAYOUT) 03:34 Tools
08 TRAFFIC REPORT 2 03:34 Tools
I'm A Dancer (6 Music Session, 29 July 2009) 03:34 Tools
If I'm Still In Love When I Get Back From Travelling (America) 03:34 Tools
Pink Rainbow - live 03:34 Tools
Wild Imagination - live 03:34 Tools
Swallows - live 03:34 Tools
Blowin Up My Mind 04:04 Tools
Over And Out 02:15 Tools
02 MOTORHOME 03:34 Tools
Sweetheart O'Mine 03:34 Tools
The Morse Code For Love Is Beep Beep, Beep Beep, The Binary Code Is One One (Chips Version) 04:07 Tools
Tom Waits Rip Off (Marc Riley Session 10.4.2008) 03:42 Tools
10.MOTORING HOME 03:42 Tools
09.LAY BYE BYE 03:42 Tools
07 YOU ARE THE BEST BEACH THAT I KNOW 03:42 Tools
06 CROSS ANIMALS 03:42 Tools
You Are A Wave (Chips Version) 02:25 Tools
Who Would Have Thought? (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2010) 02:25 Tools
Tom Waits Rip Off (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2010) 02:25 Tools
I'm A Dancer (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2010) 02:25 Tools
I Wanna Write You A Song (6 Music Session, 29 Sept 2010) 02:25 Tools
Keep the Customer Satisfied (Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 Session) 02:25 Tools
Wolfie 93 (Marc Riley session 10.04.2008) 02:08 Tools
Over Out 04:04 Tools
47. I Want To Write You A Song As Good As I Can 00:00 Tools
Good Lord The Sun Is Gonna Smile On Me 02:15 Tools
Yr Lungs 03:46 Tools
Brain Squish 02:27 Tools
cmon lets mosh 02:54 Tools
In The Night Sky 02:27 Tools
Eggs 02:27 Tools
Let's Go Swimming Wild (Chips Version) 04:04 Tools
C'mon Let's Mosh (In Session for Bethan Elfyn) 04:04 Tools
Keep The Customer Satisfied 04:04 Tools
If I Died Would Huw Remember? 04:04 Tools
The Day That I Had Lost My Voice 04:04 Tools
01 IF I DIED WOULD YOU REMEMBER 03:04 Tools
02 THE MORSE CODE FOR LOVE 03:42 Tools
Santa Baby 03:42 Tools
Motor Home 03:42 Tools
A Stand Off With Those At Hook Up No.8 02:54 Tools
Good Lord The Sun(Good Lord The Sun) Is Gonna Smile On Me 02:14 Tools
Boxes And Places 02:14 Tools
The Boys Are Back In Town (6 Music session 3.4.2014) 02:14 Tools
Something About Bumble Bees 02:14 Tools
Motoring Home (Live) 02:14 Tools
Tom Waits Rip Off (Live Session Version) 02:14 Tools
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Sweet Baboo a.k.a Stephen Black formulated in the hills of North Wales some 10 or 11 years ago, initially as a way to impress girls and to waste Sundays. Locked inside his parents’ loft he would noodle and tinkle with his Casio keyboard, a 10 pound Tandy microphone, a little four track recorder and his father’s guitar. The culmination of this experimentation was the first two batches of Sweet Baboo songs. Firmly rooted in Welsh Psychedelic Pop (S.F.A, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci) and a love of his Parents records (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash) the songs would be early inclinations of the music SB makes today - a love of the country strum, flashes of keyboard wizardry, sweet, if slightly off key, harmonies and songs about girls, putting heads in vases, drinking, and sleeping. These concealed home recordings SB remained a brainchild for a good 2 years or so, when Steve relocated to Wales’ capital City, Cardiff for another 3 years, and a pointless degree in playing the clarinet. During this time, a stint in local band JT Mouse made SB make the unavoidable decision to do this sh*t properly and go it alone. Countless stories in Cardiff’s legend of the first few gigs are, if nothing else, entertaining. Steve enlisted a number of friends to play and p*ss about on stage, and would become the blind drunk ringleader playing four songs on a ukulele in an hour. He would forget words, forget songs and for a special occasion decided to remove one item of clothing after every song. Luckily someone thought to tell him to stop when he got down to his underwear. These early gigs cemented SB in the minds of Cardiff’s music mafia and opportunity came a’ knockin’. A five track single ‘C’mon Let’s Permoose’ was to be released on Huw Stephen’s (BBC Radio 1) record label Boobytrap Records. SB got a band together and started to think he would take on the world, enlisting friends and local musicians to play and to produce the e.p. where the recordings were more competent than earlier home – grown efforts. Despite his best efforts, the scheme fell through and the record was never officially released. Not letting disappointment influence him, the ever autonomous SB released two singles himself, ‘Mountain’ and ‘C’mon Beef’ over the following two years. Cardiff’s elite received them with healthy applause and SB was reaching further a field with airplay on both BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Wales. More prospects came. SB played at the Green Man Festival four years in a row, and supported the likes The Hidden Cameras and Jeffrey Lewis. People noted his musical talent and adaptability moonlighting in other Cardiff bands such as Neon Neon member Cate Le Bon’s solo project and Spencer McGarry Season. 2007 was a good year for SB. By mid April he was asked to play bass in Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci front man Euros Childs’ solo project. High profile gigs at Glastonbury festival, a tour in both Europe and America, a recording session with Grammy nominated producer Mark Nevers in Nashville ensued. This was a dream come true as Euros Childs was SB’s hero and to travel to the back ends of the world were, bizarrely, otherworldly. In the summer SB was asked to assemble Daniel Johnston’s backing band for the Cardiff leg of his European tour, as well as offering his solo services to support. This was another big deal for Steve, his second hero of the year. During this time on the solo front, SB decided his efforts were best put to his own work unaccompanied, and so began on his debut album ‘The Mighty Baboo’. Recorded partly in church, partly in his housemates loft studio, and partly on his own, ‘The Mighty Baboo’ is a squashed version of all SB recordings to date, elements of earlier influences such as G.Z.M and the Beach Boys shine through but the record is left to breathe and SB’s guitar playing and lyricism are pushed to the fore. The record has already had heavy rotation on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 and XFM and has earned praise from Bethan Elfyn (BBC Radio 1) and Mark Riley (BBC Radio 6). Gone are the days of stripping off to an uninterested public. Today sees a confident live performer, both funny and heart warming in equal measures and a maturing recording artist with a good ear for melody, a heavy soul and a sharp tongue ready to knock anyone off their block. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.