Badly Drawn Boy
- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Bolton-born singer/songwriter (stagename: Badly Drawn Boy) recognised
for his trademark tea cosy hats. Damon Gough's chance encounter with DJ
Andy Votel in Manchester's Generation X bar brought about a meeting of
minds that would launch independent record label Twisted Nerve (named
after the Bryan Forbes film) and the release of
well-received Badly Drawn Boy EPs in the late 1990s. 2000 saw Gough's
debut album "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" win the coveted Mercury Music
Prize and, within a year, he had recorded the soundtrack to Hugh Grant
vehicle "About A Boy". After a spell signed to XL Recordings, Gough
signed to EMI. Other albums include "Have You Fed The Fish?", "One Plus
One Is One", "Born In The U.K", "Is There Nothing We Could Do?", It's What I'm Thinking Pt. 1 - Photographing Snowflakes", and "Being Flynn".
