Baby Chaos

Baby Chaos
Baby Chaos playing live at King Tut's in 2017
Background information
Also known as	Deckard (1998–2004)
Origin	Glasgow, Scotland
Genres	Rock
Years active	1993–1998, 2013–present
Labels	Electric Honey, East West, Atlantic, Elektra, Reprise
Website	www.babychaos.com
Members	Chris Gordon Bobby Dunn Grant McFarlane Davy Greenwood
Past members	Gen Matthews

Baby Chaos are a Scottish rock band based in Glasgow, who originally formed in 1993, then returned in 2015 after a long hiatus. The band consists of Chris Gordon on lead vocals & guitar, Grant McFarlane on guitar & backing vocals, Bobby Dunn on bass and Davy Greenwood on drums.

Baby Chaos formed in 1993 when the band members met at school, in Stewarton, Ayrshire. They relocated to Glasgow and in May 1993 released their first EP, Buzz, on the Electric Honey label. After appearing on TV in a feature on Scottish bands on The Late Show on BBC2 the band were signed to East West Records by Nathan McCough in August 1993 A first single "Sperm" was released by East West before the end of the year and Kerrang featured the band as one of their "Klass of '94" feature, comparing them to Therapy? and the Smashing Pumpkins.

Their debut album Safe Sex Designer Drugs & the Death of Rock 'N' Roll was released in the UK in October 1994 and in the USA in June 1995, after US radio stations such as KROQ took an interest. They toured across the UK and Europe with the likes of Terrorvision and The Wildhearts in 1994 and also the USA where they did a tour supporting Elastica in 1995. Kerrang magazine gave the band 5/5 in their live reviews for the Camden Monarch and Highbury Garage shows. A second album was recorded in 1995 with Al Scott and Zmago Smon. Love Your Self Abuse was released in April 1996 and earned them a 5K review in Kerrang magazine who have since cited it as one of Kerrang reader's 100 best British rock albums. The album was released in the UK on East West and then a year later in the USA and Japan on Atlantic Records with a slightly different track listing. The album featured the singles "Hello" and "Ignoramus", which was made Kerrang's Single of the Week. Changes at East West led to them being transferred to Atlantic Records for a short time before their contact there left and they found themselves without a label in 1998.

In 1998 after parting ways with their label the band also underwent a line up change as drummer Gen Matthews (previously of Jesus Jones) joined in place of Davy. The group decided to change name to Deckard and start afresh with a new record deal with Reprise Records in the USA. They recorded a new album Stereodreamscene with Nick Launay at Ocean Way Studios in LA which was released in the USA in July 2000. A review of the album on Five Miles High website described it as having "choruses with hooks so big you could use them to catch whales." Unfortunately changes at the label again led to a change of strategy and the band and label parted ways soon after without much promotion of the album. Deckard took a break until 2002 when they started work on a second album, Dreams Of Dynamite And Divinity, which was self-recorded and self-released in 2003.