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Badly Drawn Boy

May 2020

  • Badly Drawn Boy.

    Culture webchats
    Badly Drawn Boy webchat: your questions answered on Springsteen, About a Boy and writing in his sleep

    Ahead of his first album in eight years, Banana Skin Shoes, the artist otherwise known as Damon Gough spoke about film soundtracks, ‘the world going crazy’ and giving up alcohol

July 2018

  • Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, PJ Harvey and Dizzee Rascal

    Ranked
    Every Mercury prize-winning album – ranked!

    Following the announcement of this year’s nominees, we run the rule over the 26 albums that have earned the crown, from Klaxons and James Blake to M People and Talvin Singh

March 2016

  • Andy Shauf

    New band of the week
    New band of the week: Andy Shauf (No 95)

    Canadian singer-songwriter whose forthcoming album of lush chamber-pop is full of awkward characters and lovely atmospherics

August 2015

  • Jazz Summers at the Oxford Literary festival last year.

    Jazz Summers obituary

  • Richard Osman

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: July 2015

July 2015

  • 'The engine can still roar': Badly Drawn Boy.

    Badly Drawn Boy review – returning hero welcomed with kisses

  • Damon Gough: 'When I write a song, it gives me such a sense of achievement.'

    Badly Drawn Boy: ‘Music has saved me in a lot of ways’

April 2015

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Badly Drawn Boy's Bewilderbeast tour is cause for genuine celebration

    The quite and fame-phobic Damon Gough’s career became overshadowed by his classic seminal album. Now he has a chance to embrace its success

September 2014

  • Sun Kil Moon play in Kentucky

    Music blog
    See me after the show: when pop stars attack their own audiences

    From Kanye West’s face-off with a fan over a diamond-encrusted mask to Badly Drawn Boy’s on-stage meltdown, why do so many musicians pick fights with their own crowds?

October 2013

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Gomez, Ms Dynamite and M People: how we spent our Mercury prize winnings

    Unlike the Brits, a Mercury prize win comes with a fat cheque attached. So who lost theirs, who gave it to charity, and who spent it all on beer

June 2012

  • Bruce Springsteen File Photos

    Music blog
    Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show?

    Dorian Lynskey: For all the everyman gestures, what the Boss really does is remind his fans how perfect and ridiculous pop can be

August 2011

  • Magic Loungeabout festival (day 3) – review

    Ed Sheeran proved the day's big draw in an expensive, posh pop-festival experience, writes Dave Simpson

April 2011

  • Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy

    Music blog
    New music exclusive: Badly Drawn Boy – Is There Nothing We Could Do?

    Michael Cragg: To promote the Manchester Aid to Kosovo charity album, Badly Drawn Boy performs this elegiac acoustic track

December 2010

  • Badly Drawn Boy

    Badly Drawn Boy apologises for onstage meltdown

  • Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy

    Badly Drawn Boy has onstage meltdown in LA

October 2010

  • Badly Drawn Boy - review

    If he carries on like this, Damon Gough will one day put on a show devoid of bumbling and quirks, and where's the fun in that, writes Caroline Sullivan

September 2010

  • Badly Drawn Boy: It's What I'm Thinking: Part 1 - Photographing Snowflakes

    Damon Gough has rediscovered the qualities that made him such a prospect a decade ago, says a delighted Dave Simpson

December 2009

  • Badly Drawn Boy: Is There Nothing We Could Do?

    After a break of three years, Badly Drawn Boy brings us a delightful collection inspired by Caroline Aherne's new film, writes Luke Bainbridge

November 2009

  • Paul Morley's showing off ...
    Badly Drawn Boy performs The Shining

  • Paul Morley's showing off ...
    Badly Drawn Boy performs Is There Nothing We Could Do?

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