The Barons Boys

Album: The Barons Boys - Self Fulfilling Prophecy - 2017 - Digital and limited CDR
The Barons Boys

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The Barons Boys were formed as a partnership between Steve Howard and guitarist Greg Smith of The X-Rays in 2015. Writing a dozen demo songs Steve then put a band together using the nucleus of the 2013 Steve Mixup - Small Talk album line up.
Stephen Howard (keyboards and vocals), Tony Foster (guitar, bass and keyboard) and Chris Paul Green (drums) and Tracey Beeby on saxophone. 

Three songs were recorded (2 released in Spain on a CD compilation) then Miles Wilson joined on bass and Joe Need of The Wickets adding a few vocals and this became the backbone for the album Self Fulfilling Prophecy.
Tony, Chris, Miles, Greg & SteveTwo "Barons Boys" songs appeared on the compilation "Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume 2" on DigTheFuzz Records in 2016. You can hear "Beautiful Day" here.
Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume 2The album Self Fulfilling Prophecy released in 2017 has a blend of pastoral, edgy beat, occasionally drifting into a touch of psych the songs have a meloncholic lyrical twist taking influence from the everyday to the comically surreal.

Stephen Howard also known as Mixup has a long list of bands and projects he has been in since the late seventies, The Steamroller Gloves, Cardboard Warus, Tunnel Vision, Fez, The Blackmarket Sound, many with an experimental leaning. For the last ten years he has taking a more serious role in song writing and as lead singer. A self confessed music nut, his influences come from every aspect of the rock pantheon but just as importantly the local scene. "I remember with fondness watching Gaffa, Plummet Airline and Cisco in the seventies but equally this year Babe Punch, Cherry Hex and The Dream Church and Ben Bennett's band." Tony Foster is currently performing with Spiritualised and Be-One, other live gigs and studio recordings in a non stop deluge of rock and roll. Greg smith is guitarist with The X-Rays and curator of the British Music Archive conserving rare and unreleased recordings from the 1960's and 1970's. Chris Paul Green has worked with The Last Pedestrians and solo projects with Tony Foster and Wayne Evans. Miles Wilson has worked with Goldrush, Spiritualised and Jake Bugg. Tracey Beeby has worked with Steve in the Blackmarket Sound for the last ten years. He has a diverse role call of bands to his name, The Ska's, Aistaguca, and The Beeston Big Band. Joe Need was the lead singer with The Wickets.

There is an unreleased track from 2016 on my soundcloud page