Babybird

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Babybird
General information
Genre (s) pop
founding 1995
resolution 2012
Website www.babybirdmusic.me
Founding members
Stephen Jones
Luke Scott
John Pedder
Huw Chadbourn
Robert Gregory

Babybird , also known as Baby Bird , was a British band formed by Stephen Jones .

history

Stephen Jones had recorded over 400 songs (in appropriate Lo-Fi quality ) in his one-room apartment from 1993 onwards with a four-track recorder . In 1995 he founded his own record company Baby Bird Recordings and released four albums in a row within just six months , on which only his compositions could be heard. In 1996 he got a recording deal and formed the band Baby Bird. Some tracks from the first four albums and some new recordings appeared in October 1996 on the album Ugly Beautiful . Also on this album is probably the group's best-known song, You're Gorgeous ( UK # 3).

Since 1996 the group name is mostly written in one word.

At the end of 2006, Babybird returned with the album Between My Ears There's Nothing but Music . This was released in Germany in February 2008 by the Popup label (Cargo Records).

Johnny Depp called himself a fan of the band and directed the video for the song Unloveable .

The band Babybird officially broke up in 2012, the farewell concert took place at the Leicester Square Theater and was released on DVD under the title The End Is Here .

Discography

Albums

As a baby bird

  • 1995: I Was Born a Man
  • 1995: Bad Shave
  • 1995: Fatherhood
  • 1996: The Happiest Man Alive
  • 1997: Dying Happy
  • 2012: The Black Album

As a baby bird

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK
1996 Ugly beautiful - UK9
gold
gold

(12 weeks)UK
1998 There's Something Going On - UK28 (2 weeks)
UK

More albums as Babybird

  • 2000: Bugged
  • 2006: Between My Ears There's Nothing nut Music
  • 2010: Ex-Maniac
  • 2011: The Pleasures of Self Destruction
  • 2012: Live at the Electric Ballroom Bootleg 1996 (mp3 album)
  • 2013: Outtakes (mp3 album)

Compilations

  • 1997: The Greatest Hits (2 CDs)
  • 2002: The Original Lo-Fi (box with 5 CDs)
  • 2004: The Best of Babybird
  • 2012: The Original Lo-Fi Greatest Hits

EPs

  • 1997: Candy Girl EP1
  • 1997: Candy Girl EP2
  • 2000: Double A EP

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK
1996 Goodnight
Ugly Beautiful 		- UK28 (2 weeks)
UK
You're Gorgeous
Ugly Beautiful 		DE74 (9 weeks)
DE 		UK3
gold
gold

(16 weeks)UK
1997 Candy Girl
Ugly Beautiful 		- UK14 (3 weeks)
UK
Cornershop
Ugly Beautiful 		- UK37 (2 weeks)
UK
1998 Bad Old Man
There's Something Going On 		- UK31 (2 weeks)
UK
If You'll Be Mine
There's Something Going On 		- UK28 (4 weeks)
UK
1999 Back Together
There's Something Going On 		- UK22 (3 weeks)
UK
2000 The F-Word
Bugged 		- UK35 (2 weeks)
UK
Out of Sight
Bugged 		- UK58 (1 week)
UK

More singles

  • 1995: Snake Caves / Baby Lemonade
  • 1996: Farmer
  • 1999: Drunk Car (on Split 1 - limited vinyl 7inch, with East River Pipe)
  • 2006: Too Much / Dive
  • 2010: Unloveable
  • 2010: Maniac
  • 2011: Can't Love You Anymore
  • 2012: F @ & k You Father Xmas

Promo videos

swell

  1. ↑ a b Babybird - The End is Here (DVD booklet)
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles albums
  3. ↑ a b UK gold / platinum database

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