However, he was unable to gain a recording contract, and formed a plan to self-finance the release of a series of albums featuring his home demos, limited to 1,000 copies of each, under the name Baby Bird.
During the second half of 1995, Jones toured under the name Babybird with Huw Chadbourne (keyboards), Robert Gregory (drums), John Pedder (bass) and Luke Scott (guitar).
[4] The album Ugly Beautiful produced two more hit singles, "Candy Girl" and "Cornershop".
However, sales were poor and the two singles from it, "The F-Word" (later the theme tune to a UK TV cookery show of the same name) and "Out of Sight" barely dented the charts.
Again, Jones was to score a critical success, but legal problems over samples delayed its release.
The eponymous debut album, a 32 track 2-disc CD set was released on 10 November 2008 on ATIC Records.
[6] Jones has produced two works of fiction, The Bad Book in 2000 and Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (also the title of a Babybird b-side) in 2003.
He also collaborated with DED Associates, who have designed many of his CD covers, on a 2000 art book Travel Sickness.