THE FACE
OCTOBER 1995
BEACH BOYS
BABY BIRD are the fledgling group with a phenomenal back catalogue, who refuse to sellout a dream of pop success. Confused?
BEACH BOYS
Bad Shave
RIPPLE, LEICESTER UNI
OCTOBER 1995
Baby Bird – Bad Shave
Quite clearly the work of an absolute nutter. A man obsessed with his own musical genius but sadly incapable of rendering anything remotely conventional.
BAD SHAVE
HULLFIRE, HULL UNI
OCTOBER 1995
BABY BIRD – BAD SHAVE
Usually, were you to use the worlds ‘Lo’ and ‘Fi’ in my presence, the next sound to avail your ears would be my rapidly fading screams as I sprint towards the nearest cliff in order to throw myself off it.
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Bad Shave
NME
OCTOBER 1995
BABY BIRD
Bad Shave
More bedroom shenanigans from the enigmatic Steven Jones in his Sheffield hideaway. The follow-up to August’s I Was Born A Man, Bad Shave is the second of five collections of four-track home demos, a series which should be complete by spring of next year.
Baby Bird
MOJO
OCTOBER 1995
Remember when Jim Morrison drove past that car crash in the desert and all those native Americans’ souls mingled with his? Something very similar happened to Stephen Jones, the creative force behind compelling Sheffield-based newcomers Baby Bird. Except he trod on a bird. (Well, he’s pretty sure it was a bird – “it was definitely squidgy, and there was a feather in it.”)
BABY BIRD
SPLASH MAGAZINE
OCTOBER 1995
BABY BIRD
Low-fi. Wistful. Prolific. Three words that more than sum up Sheffield’s Baby Bird, an orchestra of talent from the mind of one man.
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