Badly Drawn Boy
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Badly Drawn Boy: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
Live Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 6 November 1999
SHAMBOLICALLY DRESSED and scowling at his keyboard as if he hates its electronic guts, Damon Gough is supposedly a man with much to prove tonight. ...
Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, CMJ New Music Monthly, October 2000
YOU'RE LISTENING to The Hour Of Bewilderbeast, the acerbic, eclectic and often quite magical debut album by English eccentric Damon "Badly Drawn Boy" Gough. ...
The Hour Of The Nouvel Troubadour
Review by Art Sperl, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of BewilderbeastMagnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs ...
Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of Bewilderbeast (XL/Twisted Nerve)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Spin, Summer 2000
ENGLAND’S SEARCH for post-Britpop heroes goes on. Following the Oasis implosion, everyone’s looking to the bedsit mavericks to save the day: Summer 2000 saw indie ...
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, May 2000
THERE WAS ONE gig that really caught the attention of the swarming hordes of A&R men at 1998's In The City convention in Manchester. The ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Portrait of an Artist in the Making
Profile and Interview by Ben Thompson, The Independent, 22 October 1998
Badly Drawn Boy is challenging pop's establishment. He's that hard, is Damon. ...
Badly Drawn Boy: About A Boy (XL) ***
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2002
LIGHTWEIGHT BRITFLICK score finds Mercury winner treading water. ...
Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, July 2000
Could Damon Gough's long-awaited debut be the indie Pet Sounds? ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2000
IN AN ANNOYINGINGLY loud Oxford Street pub, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, is struggling to make his voice heard above the raucously assertive blare ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed the Fish?
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 1 November 2002
BOTH OF Badly Drawn Boy's full-length albums begin the same way. There's the rush of esotericism right away, the musical equivalent to gibberish, which lasts ...
Various Artists: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Twisted Nerve But Were Afraid to Ask
Review by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 5 November 2001
EVEN THOUGH he won the UK's prestigious Mercury Music Prize, Damon Gough, a.k.a Badly Drawn Boy, isn't much for hubris. In fact, he seems to ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Irving Plaza, NYC
Book Excerpt by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 1 May 2001
YOU COULD CALL Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, the British indie equivalent of the Little Engine That Could. ...
Guide by Devon Powers, PopMatters, 18 December 2000
FOR A MUSIC whore like myself, even a good album can be a little like a one-night stand. There's that lovely moment of courting, checking ...
Badly Drawn Boy: This Charming Man
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Select, July 2000
Floral tributes please for Badly Drawn Boy: incurable romantic, nicotine addict and, quite probably, the best songwriter in the world... ...
Rock Stars Storm the Movie Soundtrack World
Overview by Graeme Thomson, The Guardian, 19 November 2009
From Goldfrapp to Badly Drawn Boy, from Karen O to Nick Cave, more and more big names are lining up to write music for films. ...
The rough guide to genius: Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed The Fish? (XL) *****
Review and Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, November 2002
Follow-up proper to the 2000 Mercury Prize-winning album is a masterpiece of disjointed eclecticism ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Amoeba Records, Hollywood
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2002
WITH HIS WOOL skull cap, scraggly beard and black T-shirt bedecked with glitter graffiti, English singer-songwriter Damon Gough, a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy, could have been ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Born in the UK (EMI)
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 6 October 2006
JAMES BLUNT may have recently been voted Britain's fourth-biggest irritant, but he's found an unlikely ally in Damon Gough, the man who trades as Badly ...
Badly Drawn Boy: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 14 December 2002
ON HIS arrival in 1997, Badly Drawn Boy was feted as a Beck-style musical polymath, but was then embraced as a traditional singer-songwriter. Lately though, ...
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