Sweet Baboo
To celebrate the release of his fifth album, The Boombox Ballads on August 14th through Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo (aka. Stephen Black) has announced a special solo performance at Rough Trade East on release day (full info is here).
Sweet Baboo has also unveiled the new video for ‘You Got Me Time Keeping’. The song is Black’s attempt to write a song like Scott Walker’s The Electrician, although Walker’s mordant personality and Black’s essentially sunny one meant that it was never going to come out as he hoped and it’s all the better for it.
A native of the North Wales countryside, The Boombox Ballads follows Black’s Motorhome Songs EP, his 2013’s acclaimed Ships and 2010’s I’m A Dancer / Songs About Sleeping – both nominated for the Welsh Music Prize. Black has this to say about the new release: “I really did try to rip off the middle section to The Electrician”, says Black, seemingly unconcerned about a Blurred Lines-style million-dollar legal case coming his way. “I said to my friend and arranger Paul Jones, “can you write something exactly like The Electrician?” But it ended up very different. I’m not sure why”.
Black will embark on a full tour of the UK this autumn, including Manchester’s Deaf Institute in September:
Upcoming UK dates
14th August – Rough Trade East, London
20th – 23rd August – Green Man Festival, Wales
16th Sept – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
17th Sept – Leaf, Liverpool
18th Sept – Leadmill, Sheffield
19th Sept – King Tuts, Glasgow
20th Sept – The Crescent, York
22nd Sept – The Rainbow, Birmingham
23rd Sept – Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London
24th Sept – Lamplighter, Northampton
25th Sept – Cluny 2, Newcastle
26th Sept – Deaf Institute, Manchester
27th Sept – Bodega Social Club, Nottingham
30th Sept – Thekla, Bristol
1st Oct – The Old Market, Brighton
2nd Oct – Revelation St Mary’s, Ashford
3rd Oct – The Globe, Cardiff
For headline tour tickets, visit www.sweetbaboo.co.uk/gigs
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