Badly Drawn Boy

Badly Drawn Boy at a concert in Cardiff (2005)

Badly Drawn Boy (* 2. October 1969 in Manchester , England as Damon Michael Gough ) is an English musician and songwriter , a folk / pop plays mixture.

His stage name comes from a character in the animated series Jamie and His Magic Ball . He had seen this series on television in 1995 at a party in Trafford , Manchester .

biography

Together with Andy Votel, Gough founded the record label Twisted Nerve Records. In 1997 and 1998 he released three EPs in small numbers before switching to XL Recordings . There he released further EPs and singles, which were followed in 2000 by the debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast .

After a short break, he wrote the score for the Nick Hornby film About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck , from which three singles grew.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	The Hour of Bewilderbeast	-	-	-	UK13 platinum (51 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 26, 2000
2002	About a boy	DE53 (6 weeks) DE	AT51 (5 weeks) AT	-	UK6th platinum (20 weeks)UK	US180 (2 weeks) US	First published: April 23, 2002
	Have You Fed the Fish?	DE87 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK10 gold (22 weeks)UK	US135 (1 week) US	First published: November 5, 2002
2004	One Plus One Is One	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK9 silver (5 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 21, 2004
2006	Born in the UK	-	-	-	UK17th silver (2 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 16, 2006
2010	It's What I'm Thinking Pt.1 - Photographing Snowflakes	-	-	-	UK63 (1 week) UK	-	First published: October 4, 2010
2020	Banana Skin Shoes	-	-	-	UK34 (1 week) UK	-	First published: May 22, 2020

More albums

• 1997: EP1
• 1998: EP2
• 1998: EP3
• 1999: How Did I Get Here?
• 1999: It Came from the Ground
• 2002: The Guardian Presents Badly Drawn Boy
• 2007: BDB At The Britons Protection
• 2009: Is There Nothing We Could Do?
• 2012: Being Flynn

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1999	Once Around the Block The Hour of Bewilderbeast	-	-	-	UK27 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: August 1999
2000	Another Pearl The Hour of Bewilderbeast	-	-	-	UK41 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 2000
	Disillusion The Hour of Bewilderbeast	-	-	-	UK26 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 2000
2001	Pissing in the Wind The Hour of Bewilderbeast	-	-	-	UK22 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 2001
2002	Silent Sigh About a Boy	-	-	-	UK16 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 2002
	Something to Talk About About a Boy	-	-	-	UK28 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 2002
	You Were Right Have You Fed the Fish?	-	-	-	UK9 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 2002
2003	Born Again Have You Fed the Fish?	-	-	-	UK16 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 2003
	All Possibilities Have You Fed the Fish?	-	-	-	UK24 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: April 2003
2004	Year of the Rat One Plus One Is One	-	-	-	UK38 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 2004
2006	Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind Born in the UK	-	-	-	UK38 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 2006
2007	A Journey from A to B Born in the UK	-	-	-	UK78 (1 week) UK	-	First published: March 2007

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT UK US
2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links

Commons : Badly Drawn Boy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Badly Drawn Boy at MusicBrainz (English)
• Badly Drawn Boy at Discogs (English)
• Review of "Born In The UK" on monoton.at
• Works by and about Badly Drawn Boy in the catalog of the German National Library