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The Babes are a British Celtic Hardcore Punk Crust band formed in 2005. They first formed as a 3 piece band (Bagpipes, Bass, Drums) and are based in London. The band plays Bagpipes punk in English and Spanish. Their lyrics carry personal experiences, political ideology, and "happy punk"

Core history
The Babes original consisted of Mao Holiday (Vocals + Bagpipes), Matt "Ren Ex" Renicks (Vocals + Bass), and Marvin Pedro (Drums). Mao Holiday and Matt Renicks met in the Islington Music Workshop City and Islington College while both were studying Sound Engineering, in London: A group of misfits that wanted to play "Happy punk" type of music. According to Matt and Mao, "they met their first day of classes, and while everybody was trowing names and showing off while talking in the kitchen at break time, Mao Holiday and Matt Ren Ex clicked immediately, after sharing their taste for punk music and the fact that they wanted to learn how to record themselves. Pretty much since that moment The Babes were born". Even though they never studied together, they kept in touch, and while planning his Major Project plan to graduate as a Sound Engineer, Mao Holiday contacted Matt Ren Ex, and proposed to start the band they have talked forever, so he could record their own music and present the project so he could graduate since two bands he had planned, fleak and let him down to start his project, at the same time that it was a great chance to record their music for free.

In their first rehearse at Mao's garage in Twickenham, they composed the music of "Tomorrow Seems So Far Away", later on, they decided to rehearse in Overdrive Studios. A couple of months later, they talked to Marvin, who met Matt already and was studying with Mao at the time. Marvin never played with any band, however, "he gave us what we needed: a wicked snare sound since he took drumming classes with an army teacher, just perfect since the Bagpipes are a war instrument". They rehearsed at Overdrive Studios in Deptford, and at the time that Marvin Joined The Babes, They had already 3 songs: "Tomorrow Seems So Far Away", "Kids", and "Do something".

Later on, Matt Ren Ex met Theo Lucky 7 in a pub and invited him to play guitars in his band. That was the very first lineup with guitars. They recorded their first single "Tomorrow Seems So Far Away" at IMW Studios as part of a demonstration class for new engineers. Colin Smith, who was Marvin and Mao's tutor was the recording engineer. Mao Holiday did the mixing, production, and mastering of that single, which video is recorded at Mao's garage at the time. Theo Lucky 7 left the band a few days after recording the video due to "indifferences for not having enough treble in the guitars that were recorded for this song". A month and 14 days later, The Babes went on their first tour called "The Babes invade Mainland Europe" where they had the opportunity to visit France, Germany, Belgium & Holland and toured with Saul Holden on guitars.

After this tour, The Babes performed without a guitarist staying as a 3 piece band for nearly 3 years. The decision was made due to "2 guitarists flaking down on us".

Since then, The Babes self-released their debut album "Greetings from London" engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered at IMW Studios by Mao Holiday. The only song with guitars on this album is "Tomorrow Seems So Far Away". The Babes did 4 more European tours and were invited to perform at Rebellion Festival in 2018 (later on got invited as well for Rebellion '19 & '20)

In February 2018, Marvin left The Babes. Steve (Gurgle) joined the band on 2 European tours and sadly calling it off the day before the last gig of their tour "Only Life We Know". It didn't stop The Babes to go on stage and performed their 30 minutes set with a drummer for a day. Kike, aka "Kike-d ass" from the Mexican band Migraña Social.

On August 16th, 2018, Alberto "Animal" joined the band on drums. Also, The Babes decided to play with a guitarist again, introducing their 4th band member: Adriano the toxic waste, who joined the band on guitars on November 16/2018. Both, Animal and Adriano, played with Matt in "Apocalypse Addiction". This Babe's last lineup toured Europe once again and performed a badass gig in Rebellion 2019, taking revenge for what happened the year before.

Since the beginning, The Babes have been touring multiple times and different cities in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Wales, Belgium, The Netherlands, Bretagne, and Mexico.

"No Mames Wey tour, Mexico 2019" was The Babes' last tour, performing on drums with Oscar Herbas (Scandals (Texas), Blitz, Warcola) playing 10 gigs total.