Thus Spoke Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy – "I should have been a Greek philosopher, but I didn’t have the brains."

Sod quote of the year, it’s one of the howlers which appeared in several end-of-year round ups. Gough likes to philosophise, albeit in his inimitable Badly Drawn Boy way – rambling away searching for some kind of truth, finding it in several divergent tangents and forgetting it all as soon as he launches into his next stream of consciousness. A bit like life itself really. Hour of the Bewilderbeast indeed!

While the philosophical jury may be still out, Damon did receive a very juicy compliment from a certain Mr. Nick Hornby, author of About A Boy, which Gough ended up soundtracking.