Live music review: Badly Drawn Boy at Live At St Luke’s, Cork
If prizes were awarded for between-song chat, Damon Gough would have a shelf full to go with his Mercury Prize for his 2000 debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast. Ranging from endearingly humble to charmingly cocky, the artist known as Badly Drawn Boy was also surprisingly confessional, particularly when touching upon his disappearance from the limelight in recent years, which coincided with the breakup of his marriage.
It has been four years since his last recorded work and Gough eased himself back into the fray a little gingerly. Marking his first live appearance in Cork, Gough shuffled on stage in his trademark tea cosy hat and conveyed his satisfaction to be playing here a week out from Christmas. It was expected his three Irish dates would sell out, yet he still expressed surprise at this.
