Badly Drawn Boy live & in conversation

Metronome Nottingham

Thursday 23 April 2026

7:00 pm : Doors

Seated

14+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18)

Tickets

General admission: £25 + booking fee
NTU students: £5 + booking fee

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Stage Times
Doors: 7 pm
Jess Breame:  7.30 pm – 8 pm
Part 1: 8.15 pm – 9 pm
Part 2: 9.15 pm – 10 pm

Don’t miss this intimate evening with Mercury Prize winner Badly Drawn Boy in conversation with Chris Hawkins (BBC 6 Music) – live songs and stories spanning an extraordinary and fascinating career.

Support: Jess Breame 

It was June 2000 when the Mercury Prize-winning, seminal The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, announced the arrival of the badly drawn genius of Damon Gough. It’s been a curious, wonderful, inimitable, unpredictable career so far of major prizes and minor incidents, all possibilities and magic in the air.

Since then he has released four subsequent studio albums – Have You Fed The Fish? (2002), One Plus One Is One (2004), Born In The UK (2006) and It’s What I’m Thinking Part 1: Photographing Snowflakes (2010) – and three film soundtracks, About A Boy (2002, from the film of the same name), Is There Nothing We Could Do? (2009, from the Caroline Aherne film The Fattest Man In The UK) and Being Flynn (from the 2012 film of the same name).

Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack to the 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant, remains one of Badly Drawn Boy’s most critically acclaimed and successful albums (certified Gold in the UK) and spawned two singles, Silent Sigh and Something To Talk About.

Discounts
A limited number of 50% discounted tickets are available for NTU staff. Use your NTU email address and promo code MET50 at the checkout.

Accessibility

Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue. Standing gigs offer accessibility for disabled patrons in our mezzanine. We will always do our best to accommodate individual requirements, and other viewing options may be available at standing gigs following a risk assessment of the event.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].

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Badly Drawn Boy live & in conversation

Stage Times
Doors: 7 pm
Jess Breame:  7.30 pm – 8 pm
Part 1: 8.15 pm – 9 pm
Part 2: 9.15 pm – 10 pm

Don’t miss this intimate evening with Mercury Prize winner Badly Drawn Boy in conversation with Chris Hawkins (BBC 6 Music) – live songs and stories spanning an extraordinary and fascinating career.

Support: Jess Breame 

It was June 2000 when the Mercury Prize-winning, seminal The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, announced the arrival of the badly drawn genius of Damon Gough. It’s been a curious, wonderful, inimitable, unpredictable career so far of major prizes and minor incidents, all possibilities and magic in the air.

Since then he has released four subsequent studio albums – Have You Fed The Fish? (2002), One Plus One Is One (2004), Born In The UK (2006) and It’s What I’m Thinking Part 1: Photographing Snowflakes (2010) – and three film soundtracks, About A Boy (2002, from the film of the same name), Is There Nothing We Could Do? (2009, from the Caroline Aherne film The Fattest Man In The UK) and Being Flynn (from the 2012 film of the same name).

Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack to the 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant, remains one of Badly Drawn Boy’s most critically acclaimed and successful albums (certified Gold in the UK) and spawned two singles, Silent Sigh and Something To Talk About.

Discounts
A limited number of 50% discounted tickets are available for NTU staff. Use your NTU email address and promo code MET50 at the checkout.

Accessibility

Seated gigs offer disabled access within the first three rows inside the venue. Standing gigs offer accessibility for disabled patrons in our mezzanine. We will always do our best to accommodate individual requirements, and other viewing options may be available at standing gigs following a risk assessment of the event.

Please click here for full accessibility information.

If you have any particular requirements or queries, please email us ahead of the event at [email protected].

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