Badly Drawn Boy

Bolton-born singer/songwriter (stagename: Badly Drawn Boy) recognised for his trademark tea cosy hats. Damon Gough's chance encounter with DJ Andy Votel in Manchester's Generation X bar brought about a meeting of minds that would launch independent record label Twisted Nerve (named after the Bryan Forbes film) and the release of well-received Badly Drawn Boy EPs in the late 1990s. 2000 saw Gough's debut album "The Hour of Bewilderbeast" win the coveted Mercury Music Prize and, within a year, he had recorded the soundtrack to Hugh Grant vehicle "About A Boy". After a spell signed to XL Recordings, Gough signed to EMI. Other albums include "Have You Fed The Fish?", "One Plus One Is One", "Born In The U.K", "Is There Nothing We Could Do?", It's What I'm Thinking Pt. 1 - Photographing Snowflakes", and "Being Flynn".