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Boston Paradise
We stand uncomfortably, bemused and wondering if we too are being challenged by folk genius or if we're just being totally fucked about...
- Nov 6, 2000
Club Quattro, Osaka, Japan
Another classic shambling-but-charming performance from [b]Damon Gough[/b]...
- Oct 2, 2000
Badly Drawn Boy : Have You Fed The Fish?
If he still sounds semi-conscious half the time, so be it
- Oct 31, 2002
Badly Drawn Boy : Something To Talk About
He gets the title of the film in. It's not cheesy. And everything works out happily ever after...
- Jun 7, 2002
Badly Drawn Boy / Jane Weaver : Manchester Night&Day
A strange mix of ego and bumbling Boltonian vulnerability - precious entertainment...
- Apr 9, 2002
Badly Drawn Boy : I Love You All
'I Love You All'is not a record; it's a musical box about the same size as a packet of 20 tabs
- Feb 12, 2000
Glasgow King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
Though many have tried to present him as the new [a]Beck[/a], perhaps hectic mutation of disaster zone and songwriting savant is exactly how this most spectacular of wild cards would prefer to r
- Nov 3, 1999
Badly Drawn Boy : Once around the block
'[B]Once Around The Block[/B]' is a bit of an aberration. It's a wistful romp through butterfly-strewn fields, hand-in-hand with [B]Astrud Gilberto,[/B]
- Aug 21, 1999
Badly Drawn Boy : It came from the ground
It's as scruffy as it is genuine as it is dead clever, which therefore makes it quite, quite insane.
- Apr 6, 1999
Badly Drawn Boy: London Royal Albert Hall
Another triumphant performance from Damon Gough...
- Apr 9, 2001
London W1 Improv
Maybe this pitiful performance is a further round in [B]Gough[/B]'s death-match with the music industry, akin to confounding hapless A&R men at last year's [B]In The City[/B]...
- Mar 15, 1999
Badly Drawn Boy: Stockholm Sodra Teatern
Damon Gough shares a picture of his daughter as well as two hours-worth of beaufitul songs...
- Mar 19, 2001
Manchester Night & Day
"Fresh from supporting Jean-Michel Jarre," the compere bellows, "it's [a]Badly Drawn Boy[/a]!" [B]Gough[/B] drags out an acoustic guitar and starts to play songs that can only be described as 'ditti
- Jan 13, 1999
