Badly Drawn Boy

...live at Bloomsbury Ballrooms. Poshest gig i've been to in a long time, but none the worse for it. in fact, there's something quite pleasant about a gig where the audience stand on a light maple dancefloor... After apologising for playing his new material (despite Born in the U.K. being a stormer) Badly Drawn Boy proceeded to do everything to get the crowd on side, including giving a fag to a hard-up punter and mocking the inherently Bono nature of crowd participation. Looked like he was drinking tea though. Is that rock 'n' roll? Hmmm....

Isobell Campbell played support, which I can't do justice blogging from my mobile, but suffice to say that she and her band know how to put the desolate sigh into slide guitar...