Sounds From The Junkshop #65 - Badly Drawn Boy
"And I remember doing nothing o n the night Sinatra died...a nd the night Jeff Buckley died... and the night Kurt Cobain died... and the night John Lennon died..." - Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right It's weird to think now that there was a period of a few years just after the turn of the millennium when Badly Drawn Boy aka Damon Gough was pretty much absolutely everywhere, the darling of the "indie" press, a Mercury Music Prize winner and seemingly unable to put a foot wrong in the wake of his 2000 debut The Hour Of Bewilderbeast . I'll admit it - I liked that album. I mean, I know by this point I was pretty much turning my back on what the NME were desperately trying to throw at me quite rapidly (the rise of the Strokes, a classic case of all hype and very little substance, the following year pretty much sealed that deal) but there was something about the simple heartfelt honesty in that album that kept it as a regular presence on my CD player through t...