Evan Dando: Baby I'm Bored/The Go-Betweens: Bright Yellow Bright Orange
Lisa Verrico, The Times, 28 February 2003
A DECADE AGO, Evan Dando was pretty much the perfect pop star. He was a tousle-haired, scatterbrained blond who posed for teen magazines with his top off, a tabloid-friendly party animal with heaps of famous friends and a hard-drug habit he didn't mind discussing, and a singer/songwriter who wrote hummable tunes with hilarious lyrics.
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