SWEET Baboo's Sunday night gig in York is switching from The Crescent to The Fulford Arms with tickets remaining valid for the 7.30pm triple bill.

"Sweet Baboo's Stephen Black returns to York this weekend with a full band, celebrating the August release of his fifth studio album, The Boombox Ballads, and we're very pleased to have the full five-piece Piney Gir and great York country-noir duo The Lungs in support too," says Please Please You promoter Joe Coates.

Black, a single-minded, idiosyncratic singer from the north Wales countryside, will be performing alongside Rob Jones, alias The Voluntary Butler Scheme, Paul Jones, Avvon Chambers and Charles Watson.

"Stephen possesses an ear for a sparkling melody, a restless soul, and a gift for a deft lyrical turn, from darkly funny to piercingly tender, twinklingly boastful to deliciously self-deprecating," says Joe.

Over the past few years, Sweet Baboo has played such festivals as Latitude, Green Man and SXSW (South by South West) in Austin, Texas, and has taken up repeated invitations to record sessions for BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley, Huw Stephens and Stuart Maconie.

"Black's productivity is all the more remarkable given his extra-curricular activities, which have seen him working with an ever-growing array of musicians," says Joe.

"He's played on albums by Cate Le Bon, Slow Club and H. Hawkline, and has been a regular part of the touring line-up for all three bands. He's also performed with and produced Euros Childs, The Pictish Trail, The Voluntary Butler Scheme, Islet and Spencer McGarry Season and collaborated on stage and in the studio with Gruff Rhys."

This summer, the focus falls on The Boombox Ballads. "The new album highlights Stephen's wry and subtle songwriting skills while displaying his talent as an arranger with many of the songs augmented with strings," says Joe. "Once again released by indie label Moshi Moshi, it's another superlative work, further proving that Stephen's knack for song craft and melody is a cut above."

Support act Piney Gir hails from the American Midwest but has lived in London for ten years. "After lots of phases, from pop to goth, hippy, rocker, hip-hopper, metaller, psychedelic traveller, straight-edger, grunger, raver, country rocker, folky lady, funkadelic, electro-girl, jazz lover, mod, rockabilly quiff-wearer, she finally settled on ‘everything’ as a genre for herself," says Joe. "Because the conclusion that Piney came to was that she didn’t need to be categorised and that maybe not being categorised could be her niche."

Piney says: “If you appreciate many types of music, why only limit yourself to one thing all the time? So much inspires me.”

"But there is a Piney sound," says Joe. "It’s perfectly formed indie-pop with tuneful riffs and Piney’s lovely voice unifying it all. With that lyrical rhyme and reason that you can’t quite put your finger on, it’s pleasing, charming and poetic."

Piney Gir will be showcasing characterful, fuzzy pop songs from her sixth album, Mr Hyde’s Wild Ride, released on Damaged Goods in May.

Tickets for Sunday cost £10 in person from The Inkwell in Gillygate, York, or Jumbo Records, in St Johns Shopping Centre, Leeds, or online at pleasepleaseyou.com or £12 on the door.