Sweet Baboo
The BoomBox Ballads – Live
Following the huge success of his 2013 album Ships, which included three bonafide radio hits, Sweet Baboo returned in 2015 with his endlessly melodic and luscious opus The Boombox Ballads. It’s an album that was massively ambitious in scope. Recorded over eight months and with SB using a string arranger for the first time it’s a statuesque statement of just how little Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) is willing to rest on his past laurels and gather any moss. The fact that and album that takes in 7 minute prog explorations, Bavarian drinking tunes and afro-beat tape experiments, can hang together so seamlessly is testament to just how strong an identity Sweet Baboo has developed as an artist over 10 years and 5 albums. It’s a journey that has taken in many of the UK’s biggest festival’s including Glastonbury, Latitude and End of the Road and seen him develop a devoted audience up and down the country.
In support of The Boombox Ballads Sweet Baboo made a conscious decision to make the live shows as expansive as the record itself. Accordingly the live band was upscaled from a trio to a core of six members with the occasional addition of a string quartet. The first show of the campaign was on the main stage of Green Man Festival in August 2015 followed a month later by a three week full UK tour to packed rooms.
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