Artist.......: Badly Drawn Boy
Album........: Is There Nothing We Could Do ? (Music Inspired By
Label........: BigLife Music Company
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jan-23-2010
str.date.....: 2010
quality......: VBR/44.1KHz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. opening theme 01:55
02. is there nothing we could do 03:38
03. a gentle touch 00:27
04. all the trimmings 02:11
05. welcome me to your world 03:41
06. guitar medley 03:31
07. is there nothing we could do (reprise) 03:48
08. big brian arrives 02:29
09. amy in the garden 01:03
10. been there, verified 01:27
11. just look at us now 03:33
12. wider than a smile 05:07
13. piano theme 02:26
14. the letter 03:06
15. i'll carry on 03:58
Runtime 42:20 min
Size 50,4 MB
Release Notes:
Damon Gough (stage name Badly Drawn Boy) is a
Mercury Prize-winning English alternative music
singer/songwriter. He was born on 2 October 1969,
in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. He grew up in the
Breightmet area of Bolton, Greater Manchester,
England.
Damon Gough chose his stage name from the title
character in the show Sam and his Magic Ball, which
he saw on TV at a party in Trafford, Manchester in
1995. Before he thought of using this name he made
some business cards, each one unique, with a
printed picture of a drawing by his nephew and a
small collage by Gough. This was then laminated and
given out to friends and people at clubs in
Blackburn and Manchester.
A chance meeting with Andy Votel at the Generation
X bar in Manchester, where Gough's friends Scott
Abraham and Damon Hayhurst were contributing to an
exhibition by the Space Monkey Clothing Company and
Votel was DJing, led to the foundation of Twisted
Nerve Records. Badly Drawn Boy's first 7-inch
single, EP1, was pressed the following year to
critical acclaim, although only 500 copies were
made.[citation needed]
In 2002, Q magazine named Badly Drawn Boy in their
list of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die",
although this was as part of a sub-list of "5 Bands
That Could Go Either Way" on account of Gough's
tendency to talk and tell stories for extended
periods rather than playing songs.
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Early years: 1995û1998
Gough's recording career began in September 1997
with the five track vinyl release "EP1". This was
distributed among friends and family members. With
only 500 being pressed, the record is now
considered something of a Holy grail for Badly
Drawn Boy enthusiasts, with copies commanding up to
ú100 on eBay.[citation needed]
In April 1998 Gough released his second EP, "EP2".
This featured one track less than its predecessor
but twice as many copies were pressed. The
highlight track "I Love You All" was later
transferred to a music box which was released
alongside the EP. The box plays eleven seconds of
the song and is considered much rarer than the
record itself due to its limited production.
GoughÆs third EP, "EP3", was released in November
1998 on both CD and vinyl formats, and was the
first release in what would become a long-term
partnership with XL Recordings. "Road Movie" was
released as a live recording with Gough's fellow
Mancunians Doves. The B-side to the single was
another track from the EP, "My Friend Cubilas".
Videos were recorded for both tracks.
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Mainstream success: 1999û2002
It Came from the Ground was the next EP, released
in March 1999 on CD and vinyl. The style of this
recording focused on woodland environments, an
aspect displayed in both the cover art and the
title track's video. Also released during this
period was the single "Whirlpool". An instrumental
was released on vinyl in April 1999.
Gough's last EP, Once Around the Block was released
in August 1999 in two vinyl formats and one CD
edition. The release is almost short enough to be
considered a single.
Damon playing a show in the Urban Lounge, Salt Lake
City, Utah. (March 2007)
Following the success of his early EPs, Gough's
debut album, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, was
released in June 2000, accompanied by four singles
(including a re-release of Once Around the Block).
The album was critically acclaimed and Badly Drawn
Boy was successful in winning the 2000 Mercury
Music Prize, beating his contemporaries Doves to
the ú20,000 prize. The album sold well (300,000
copies) and is widely considered to be his defining
work.
After a short break, Gough returned to score the
film adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy.
Impressed by his past work, the Weitz brothers
asked Gough to score the film, a task which he
undertook alone. Three singles from the album were
released over the course of 2002.
His third album, Have You Fed the Fish?, introduced
more guitars and an increasingly mainstream pop
sound which was not welcomed by all critics. The
album is a play on Gough's minor celebrity status
and namechecks music icons such as Madonna and John
Lennon. Another three singles and a long American
tour accompanied the album.
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Recent years: 2003ûpresent
After his long spell in America, Gough suffered
from homesickness and decided to record his next
album closer to home. Recorded in a studio in
Stockport, Greater Manchester, One Plus One Is One
was a portrait of his personal life. Documenting a
death of a close friend and the loss of a
grandfather in the Battle of Normandy, the album
was highly intimate at times. Released in 2004, it
was not a great commercial success, and Gough
decided to leave his contract with XL Recordings
after only one single was released. He is currently
signed to EMI.
Two years went by before news arrived of a new
Badly Drawn Boy album, Born in the U.K., which aims
to explain GoughÆs experience of growing up in the
United Kingdom. The album was promoted with a small
UK tour, profits from which were donated to Oxfam,
a charity which "offers the chance for thousands of
people to use music to achieve something together,
which is an idea that gets me excited," said
Gough.
In November 2009 it was announced on the Badly
Drawn Boy website that "Damon is currently in the
studio putting the finishing touches to a very
exciting new project which will be reaching your
eardrums in the very near future".This album
was soon revealed to be titled "Is There Nothing We
Could Do?" featuring 'music taken from and inspired
by the motion picture The Fattest Man in Britain.