Badly Drawn Me
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- 187LockDown
Can some one please explain a little about "Badly drawn boy" to me. I know they are a band and had something to do with a movie soundtrack awhile back??
- Bio0
Belying his status as a narcoleptic slacker icon, Badly Drawn Boy proved himself a tireless pop songwriter, with arrangements that reflect a great deal of creativity. Born Damon Gough, he began recording after meeting the like-minded Andy Votel at a Manchester nightclub. The pair formed the Twisted Nerve label, and Gough debuted as Badly Drawn Boy with an EP and several singles. The recordings dovetailed nicely with the experimentalist pop fringe of artists like Scott 4 and the Beta Band, and the attendant media hype allowed him to guest alongside Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft, and Mike D on 1997's celebrity-filled U.N.K.L.E. LP Psyence Fiction. His 1999 single "Once Around the Bend" grazed the British charts, while XL Recordings signed the pop auteur and released his debut album, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, in 2000. Just before its American release, the album earned another round of critical praise with Britain's vaunted Mercury Prize for Best Album. December 2000 brought the birth of his daughter. Author Nick Hornby was won over by his music, and asked the singer to score the film being made of this book About a Boy. After that project, he moved away from music for a few months to work on new material. After recording during most of 2002, he emerged that fall with Have You Fed the Fish?
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- ********0
It's a man not a band ;)
- ********0
He did the 'About A Boy' soundtrack i think?
- 187LockDown0
I was wondering when I wrote that if it was just one guy. Thanks Bio.
- Raind0g0
Too bad he had to stab himself in the chest. Aahh, that was Elliot Smith...
- r_gaberz0
don't you know about this great site ???
- smartK0
he's a man, and he's brillant.
have you fed the fish is an awesome album.
- mirola0
i used to go to his pop quizzes at the brewery tap in manchester a few years ago. he's very talented but i was really disspointed with his performance on nye 2001. it was the worste gig i had ever seen.
- 187LockDown0
No Im a fucking moron I have never heard of google!
I asked here because I had a hard time understanding what the badlydrawnboy site that I found from google was all about. Plus I knew something about a movie he scored but had no idea what the name was. Thanks to BIO I was able to find out this info and perfect my searches at google you ass!
- lind0
There's some Badly Drawn Boys recordings on KCRW
http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/k…
- JamesEngage0
Anyone that says go to google, is obviously a fuckwit... Have you thought he/she may be asking here because they value a peoples opinion?