This already set him apart from the indie britpop world. Then an album and single went gold, Stephen was hounded and heckled out of Manchester for being that ‘bleeding gorgeous bloke’, to settle in London, and four band studio albums followed.
Musical life started with the mid 90s with his lo-fi years, consisting of five Stephen Jones solo albums ‘I WAS BORN A MAN’ through to ‘DYING HAPPY’ – a life cycle, released in a nine month period.
Babybird is an odd one, deceptively sweet and cute in name, but happily for Stephen Jones, it hides something darker growing inside the fluff. Imagine the David Lynch ‘Blue Velvet’ mechanical bird.
After many TV shows and world tours, including 6 or 7 appearances on TFI Friday and playing TOTP three times, Babybird released 9 Top 40 hits, a gold single and album.
Then with the recent help of Johnny Depp Stephen recorded two albums in LA, Johnny playing guitar on both, then going onto direct the video “UNLOVEABLE”.
His song “THE F-WORD” has featured on 13 series of the Gordon Ramsey show. He has had music featured on Dom Joly’s ‘Trigger Happy TV’, ‘Vic and Bob’ shows, and recently on ‘Paul and Bob’s Gone Fishing’ show. Stephen consequently remained friends with Paul, with the pair drawn together by their health issues…
Six years ago Stephen had a heart attack, all whilst releasing over 150 albums on Bandcamp; the phenomenal site that he cites as giving him complete freedom outside of the music business, to persist and meddle.
Most recently a Babybird song featured on the Margot Robbie produced movie ‘Saltburn’.
It cannot be stressed enough, how extremely unusual this all is.
With new dates in store for May 2024, fans can enjoy this off-kilter marvel at these venues as follows:
BABYBIRD – 2024 LIVE DATES
MAY 22 LIVERPOOL EBGBS
MAY 23 MANCHESTER Factory
MAY 24 LEEDS Wardrobe
MAY 28 BRISTOL Exchange
MAY 29 BRIGHTON Dust
MAY 30 MARGATE Lido
MAY 31 LONDON 100 Club
Tickets on sale now:
https://www.seetickets.com/tour/babybird