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6 unusual facts about Badly Drawn Boy


Badly Drawn Boy

A chance meeting with Andy Votel at the Generation X bar in Manchester, where Gough's friends Scott Abraham and Damon Hayhurst were contributing to an exhibition by the Space Monkey Clothing Company and Votel was DJing, led to the foundation of Twisted Nerve Records.

Breightmet

Badly Drawn Boy (real name Damon Gough), indie singer-songwriter, grew up in Breightmet.

Guerrilla gig

In another famous instance, singer Badly Drawn Boy earned £1.60 from passersby while busking outside London's Waterloo Station for a day in 2003, going largely unrecognized by the public.

Sasha Krivtsov

Sasha's recording credits include stints with British alterna-pop darling Badly Drawn Boy and Vivian Campbell's side project, Clock.

The Seahorses

Following the split of The Shining, Heaney carried on working as a drum teacher and session musician, appearing on Squire's first solo album Time Changes Everything and working with Gang Of Four, Badly Drawn Boy and Klaxons.

Under an Hour

Consisting of three instrumental tracks, the album is considered to be an experimental soundtrack along the lines of Peter Gabriel's Passion or Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack for About a Boy.


Dave Tyack

He recorded alongside fellow Twisted Nerve artists Badly Drawn Boy and Andy Votel on several releases and played drums with two further bands, Misty Dixon and D.O.T.

Hovis Presley

The show was held in the Albert Halls, Bolton and was attended by Johnny Vegas, Badly Drawn Boy, Graham Fellows, Mark Radcliffe, Justin Moorhouse, Bernard Wrigley, Archie Kelly, Susan Vale, Phil Cool, Bob Williamson and Thick Richard.

King Creosote

2006: He recorded an original song about the biblical plague of frogs called Relate the Tale for the Artangel /4AD project Plague Songs; He remixed Badly Drawn Boy's Nothing's Going to Change Your Mind for the single release (highest chart position in the UK #38); He recorded a version of the song Nothing Compares 2 U, originally written by Prince.

The Hour of Bewilderbeast

The Hour of Bewilderbeast is an album that was released by Badly Drawn Boy in 2000 (see 2000 in music).


see also

Nick Brandt

He moved to the United States in 1992 and directed many award-winning music videos for the likes of Michael Jackson (Earth Song, Stranger in Moscow, Cry), Moby, Jewel (singer), XTC, Badly Drawn Boy).

Volován

It is internationally well known for its collaborations with the American Andy Chase (Smashing Pumpkins), the English man Joe Robinson (Badly Drawn Boy) and the Mexican Alejandro Rosso (Plastilina Mosh).