Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusion

What this video is

Released September 4, 2000 as a single from The Hour of Bewilderbeast — the album that won the 2000 Mercury Music Prize, cementing Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) as a central figure in UK indie songwriting. The video arrived during a transitional post-Britpop moment when UK indie was fragmenting into more personal, lo-fi, and singer-songwriter forms. Twisted Nerve Records, co-founded by Gough, embodied a DIY…

Why it matters

A key artefact of British chamber pop and leftfield indie at the cusp of the new millennium. Represents the marriage of Mercury Prize-winning critical credibility with Hammer & Tongs' visually inventive music video craft — a pairing that elevated both the song and the broader UK indie music video…

The director

Born 4 March 1972, Epping, Essex, England. Co-founded production company Hammer & Tongs in 1993 alongside Nick Goldsmith and Dominic Leung. Built reputation directing landmark music videos for Blur ('Coffee & TV'), Fatboy Slim, Supergrass, R.E.M., and…