Artist of the week: The Babe Rainbow

Bio

Members: Jack Crowther(guitarist/vocalist)

Angus Dowling(drummer/vocalist)

Louise (bass player/vocalist)

Location Based: Byron Bay, Australia

If you’re all about the 60’s surfer hippy aesthetic you have come to the right place. The Babe Rainbow is an Australian band who has been making alternative jams with psychedelic sitar riffs since 2015. They call themselves “children of the sun,” aiming to make music that’s optimistic and adds some colour to the music industry.

The band makes music influenced by their own experiences and their single “Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest” is inspired from the experience they had working on a local organic farm. They aim to be authentic and do not plan on ever changing their sound to fit mainstream trends or secure radio play. The band formed through Dowling and Crowther meeting at a screening of a television commercial. Dowling sang in the youth choir that featured in the commercial while Crowther was hanging out nearby the shoot. From then on, they began writing music and their song “Love Forever” which was featured on their debut EP was written at this time. Louise, Venezuelan-born bass player, met his future band mates in the African quarter of Paris and the rest was history. Their musical influences include Nirvana, Sea Sea Rider and Teddy Roosevelt.

The Babe Rainbow can be seen in the surf film “The Rare Bird” and their self-titled EP “The Babe Rainbow” as well as albums “Double Rainbow” and “Today” can be streamed off Apple Music.

Song Picks

Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest

Peach Blossom Boogy

Love Forever

Many Moons of Love

Evolution 1964