Badly Drawn Boy

The Hour of Bewilderbeast

The Hour of Bewilderbeast

Friday 21st Mar 2025

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Badly Drawn Boy

Badly Drawn Boy is Bolton-born, Mercury Music prize-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Damon Gough.

He helped form Twisted Nerve Records with Andy Votel and released his first single "EP1" in 1997. Other successful songs include "Once Around The Block", "Silent Sigh", "You Were Right" and "Born Again".

He won the Mercury Music Prize for his 2000 debut album: "The Hour of Bewiderbeast". Follow-up album, "Have You Fed the Fish?" was released in 2002, followed by: "About a Boy" (2002), "One Plus One Is One" (2004), "Born in the U.K." (2006), "Is There Nothing We Could Do?" (2009), "It's What I'm Thinking Pt.1 - Photographing Snowflakes" (2010), "Being Flynn" (2012), plus 2020's: "Banana Skin Shoes".