Baby Smith

Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable grew up in sleepy beach towns on Australia’s east coast. Their parents were hippies and rockers, and they grew up listening to Nirvana and The Beach Boys on the car radio whether they liked it or not. Both began writing songs from an early age, evoking the rolling foothills and wild flotillas of the ancient Tweed Volcano and Gondwana rainforest that were their back yards. By college, they were writing hazy, sunkissed demos to upload online and burn onto CDs for their friends. Inspired by technicolor, small-town beatniks and surfers, and the romantic soundtracks of their early youth, the foundations of Baby Smith were laid a long time ago. But neither Saxon nor Ray knew each other yet, despite likely crossing paths. In 2017, the pair each moved to Berlin separately to explore new subcultures, and write songs. They met, and soon married, spiritually united by their affection for the whimsical, intimate, deeply melodic sounds of 1960s psychedelia and 1990s Grunge. Several bands followed, experiments that led to the genesis of Baby Smith in 2022. Onstage, Baby Smith have toured their raucous, groovy, sometimes mourning live show to the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Australia. They’ve played several festivals, including Waking Life (Portugal), Another Love Story (Ireland) and Atmosfera Festival (Slovakia). In a world saturated with noise, Baby Smith stand out as they plunge us into a raw, forever expanding galaxy of love, and its demise.