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Badly Drawn Boy: It’s What I’m Thinking (Part One Photographing Snowflakes)

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On October 4, 2010, “V2” label released “It’s What I’m Thinking (Part One Photographing Snowflakes)”, the seventh Badly Drawn Boy album. It was recorded in 2010, and was produced by Stephen Hilton.

Personnel:

  • Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) – vocal, guitar, piano, keyboards, harmonica, photography
  • Leo Abrahams – guitar
  • Woodrow Wilson Jackson III – guitar, percussion
  • Mike TV (Mike Bottomley) – guitar, effects
  • Ollie Collins – bass
  • Stephen Fretwell – bass
  • Mary Scully – double bass
  • Che Beresford – drums
  • Jay Sikora – drums
  • Everton Nelson – strings leader
  • English Session Orchestra
  • Geese – strings, strings arrangements
  • Chris Tombling, Eos Chater, Gareth Griffiths, Kerenza Paecock, Natalia Bonner – violin
  • Bruce White, Maxine Moore, Reiad Chibah – viola
  • Caroline Dale, Ian Burdge, Chris Worsey – cello
  • Stephen Hilton – synthesizer, sampler, noises, recording, mixing
  • Matt Dunkley – conductor, strings arrangements
  • Seadna McPhail – recording
  • Geoff Foster – strings recording
  • Nigel Walton – mastering
  • Andy Votel – artwork
  • Dom Kelly – strings contractor

Track listing:

All tracks by Damon Gough.

  1. In Safe Hands
  2. The Order of Things
  3. Too Many Miracles
  4. What Tomorrow Brings
  5. I Saw You Walk Away
  6. It’s What I’m Thinking
  7. You Lied
  8. A Pure Accident
  9. This Electric – Janine Rostron
  10. This Beautiful Idea

Badly Drawn Boy: Is There Nothing We Could Do?

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On December 14, 2009, “Big Life” label released “Is There Nothing We Could Do?”, the sixth Badly Drawn Boy studio album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Stephen Hilton.

Personnel:

  • Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) – vocals, guitars, keyboards
  • Ollie Collins – bass
  • Che Beresford – drums
  • Bob Marsh – trumpet, fluglehorn
  • Colin Mcleod – clavichord, effects, cage
  • Natalie Dudman – violin
  • Sinead Fletcher – cello
  • Norman Mcleod – ladders

 The Heath Quartet

  • Oliver Heath – violin 1
  • Natalie Dudman – violin 2
  • Gary Pomeroy – viola
  • Christopher Murray – cello

Track listing:

All tracks by Damon Gough.

  1. Opening Theme
  2. Is There Nothing We Could Do?
  3. A Gentle Touch
  4. All The Trimmings
  5. Welcome Me To Your World
  6. Guitar Medley
  7. Is There Nothing We Could Do? Reprise
  8. Big Brian Arrives
  9. Amy In The Garden
  10. Been There, Verified
  11. Just Look At Us Now?
  12. Wider Than A Smile
  13. Piano Theme
  14. The Letter
  15. I’ll Carry On

Badly Drawn Boy: The Hour of Bewilderbeast

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On June 26, 2000, “XL” label released “The Hour of Bewilderbeast”, the debut Badly Drawn Boy studio album. It was recorded in 2000, and was produced by Badly Drawn Boy, Gary Wilkinson, Joe Robinson and Ken Nelson. “The Hour of Bewilderbeast” won the 2000 “Mercury Prize”.

Personnel:

  • Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, drum machine,  tambourine, harp, handclaps, whistling, harmonica, Wurlitzer electric piano, keyboards,  organ, drum machine organs, percussion, crash cymbal,  vibraphone, xylophone,  sound effects, string arrangements
  • Jez Williams– slide and electric guitar
  • Matt Wardle – vocals, piano, organ, synthesizer, keyboards
  • Martin Rebelski– Wurlitzer electric piano, clavinet, keyboards
  • Gary Wilkinson – keyboards, drum programming, sirens, noises
  • Jimi Goodwin– bass
  • Sam Morris – bass, keyboards, French horn, handclaps
  • Andy Votel– drum programming, effects, piano, keyboards, strings samples, samples
  • Ian Smith – drums, electric guitar, percussion, vibraphone, handclaps
  • Sean Kelly – drums, handclaps
  • Spencer Birtwhistle – drums
  • Adrian Dacre – drums
  • Joe Robinson – drum programming, loops, theremin, effects, sound effects
  • Andy Williams– drums
  • Sophie Williams – handclaps
  • Ian Rainford – handclaps
  • Derrick Santini – handclaps
  • Northern New Orleans Brass Band – horns
  • Matt McGeever – cello, handclaps
  • Paul Taylor – string arrangements
  • Clare Hewitt – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough).

  1. The Shining
  2. Everybody’s Stalking
  3. Bewilder
  4. Fall in a River
  5. Camping Next to Water
  6. Stone on the Water
  7. Another Pearl
  8. Body Rap
  9. Once Around the Block
  10. This Song
  11. Bewilderbeast
  12. Magic in the Air
  13. Cause a Rockslide
  14. Pissing in the Wind
  15. Blistered Heart
  16. Disillusion
  17. Say It Again
  18. Epitaph

Badly Drawn Boy: One Plus One Is One

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One is one

On June 21, 2004, “XL Recordings” label released “One Plus One Is One”, the fourth Badly Drawn Boy studio album. It was recorded June 2003, at “Moolah Rouge Studio” in Stockport, and was produced by Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) and Andy Vote.

Personnel:

  • Damon Gough – vocals, guitars, piano, celeste, clavinet, Wurlitzer Fun-Maker, Hammond Organ, Melotron, Fender Rhodes piano, glockenspiel
  • Stockport Music Project (STOMP) – vocals
  • Norman Mcleod – slide guitar
  • Colin Mcleod – accordion
  • Sean McCann – bass
  • Alex Thomas AKA Earl Shilton – drums, timpani, gong, bells, orchestral crash cymbal.
  • Andy Votel – tubular bells, cymabls, cowbell, chimes, samples,
  • Charles Ashby – percussion
  • Bob Marsh – trumpet
  • Roger Wickham – flute
  • Oliver Heath – violin
  • Chris Worsey – cello, electric cello

Track listing:

  1. One Plus One Is One
  2. Easy Love
  3. Summertime in Wintertime
  4. This Is That New Song
  5. Another Devil Dies
  6. The Blossoms
  7. Year of the Rat
  8. Four Leaf Clover
  9. Fewer Words
  10. Logic of a Friend
  11. Stockport
  12. Life Turned Upside Down
  13. Take the Glory
  14. Holy Grail

Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed The Fish?

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Have youfed the fish

On November 5, 2002, “Twisted Nerve” label released “Have You Fed the Fish?”, the third Badly Drawn Boy studio album. It was recorded in 2002, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Tom Rothrock and Damon Gough

  • Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) – vocals, guitars, piano, synth, tambourine, clavier, percussion, flute, chamberlain strings
  • Jon Brion– electric guitar, fuzz guitar, bass, Casio solo, Chamberlin, Chamberlain strings, string arrangement,  conducting
  • John “Gumby” Goodwin – guitars
  • Sasha Kristov – bass
  • Joey Waronker– drums, percussion
  • Danny Heifetz– drums, horns
  • Tom Rothrock – drum programming, synth, shaker, skateboard
  • Pete Thomas– drums, percussion
  • Probyn Gregory– horns
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg – backing vocals, chorus backing vocals
  • Clare Hewitt – backing vocals
  • Sharon Celani, Gia Ciambotti, Drew Arrison, Gemma Gough – backing vocals
  • Matt Dunkley – string arrangements, conducting

Track listing

All tracks by Damon Gough.

  1. Coming in to Land
  2. Have You Fed the Fish?
  3. Born Again
  4. 40 Days, 40 Fights
  5. All Possibilities
  6. I Was Wrong
  7. You Were Right
  8. Centrepeace
  9. How?
  10. The Further I Slide
  11. Imaginary Lines
  12. Using Our Feet
  13. Tickets to What You Need
  14. What Is It Now?
  15. Bedside Story