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Badly Drawn Boy: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow

Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 6 November 1999

SHAMBOLICALLY DRESSED and scowling at his keyboard as if he hates its electronic guts, Damon Gough is supposedly a man with much to prove tonight. Regularly charged with being an erratic postmodern troubadour who rarely, if ever, mirrors the frazzled beauty of his records when onstage, the time, it's deemed, has come for a Badly Drawn Boy show you can actually attend without earplugs, being very drunk or accompanied by a peculiar sense of humour.

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