---
name: "Badly Drawn Boy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/badly-drawn-boy"
fi1m_id: "badly-drawn-boy"
imdb_id: "nm1035448"
tmdb_id: 3314
wikidata_id: "Q508888"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "2 October 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T02:48:40.627943+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Badly Drawn Boy

## Identity

Badly Drawn Boy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/badly-drawn-boy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** badly-drawn-boy
- **IMDb ID:** nm1035448
- **TMDB ID:** 3314
- **Wikidata ID:** Q508888
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badly_Drawn_Boy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508888, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3314

Composer. Born 2 October 1969 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 2 October 1969, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Damon Michael Gough, Damon Gough
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badly_Drawn_Boy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508888, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035448/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3314

## Biography

Badly Drawn Boy is the stage name of English singer-songwriter and composer Damon Michael Gough (also credited as Damon Gough). Born in Bolton, Lancashire, he began releasing music in the late 1990s on the independent Twisted Nerve label.

Gough composed and performed the entire soundtrack for the 2002 film *About a Boy*, which was released as his second album. He later provided the music for *Being Flynn* (2012). His debut album *The Hour of the Bewilderbeast* (2000) won the Mercury Prize.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *About a Boy* (2002), Fi1m 77, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/about-a-boy.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Moorside* (2017), series, Music
- *Add the Words* (2014), Director
- *Being Flynn* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *The Fattest Man in Britain* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Actor
- *About a Boy* (2002), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/about-a-boy.md)

## Gallery

- ![Badly Drawn Boy Live @ l'Elysée Montmartre, Paris (2003)](https://film.one/media/person/5603119/gallery-d44c7ec8fa45.jpg) Badly Drawn Boy Live @ l'Elysée Montmartre, Paris (2003) — Claude-Étienne Armingaud - Claudé, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Badly_Drawn_Boy_Live_at_l%27Elys%C3%A9e_Montmartre.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Badly Drawn Boy playing a show in the Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, Utah. (March 2007).](https://film.one/media/person/5603119/gallery-cb8ac1256c4f.jpg) Badly Drawn Boy playing a show in the Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, Utah. (March 2007). — Dinsdale.jake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Badly_Drawn_Boy_SALT_LAKE.JPG/1280px-Badly_Drawn_Boy_SALT_LAKE.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Badly Drawn Boy and Andy Votel in Tokyo, Japan](https://film.one/media/person/5603119/gallery-8b91e5caf7c8.jpg) Badly Drawn Boy and Andy Votel in Tokyo, Japan — Masao Nakagami, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Badly_Drawn_Boy_and_Andy_Votel_%28181677852%29.jpg/1280px-Badly_Drawn_Boy_and_Andy_Votel_%28181677852%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Badly Drawn Boy](https://film.one/media/person/5603119/gallery-d5288e287238.jpg) Badly Drawn Boy — Yummifruitbat, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Badly_drawn_boy_cardiff_ts_2005.jpg/1280px-Badly_drawn_boy_cardiff_ts_2005.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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