Inside the UK’s Best Chip Shops With Badly Drawn Boy

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  02.06.07 | 8:05 AM ET

imageI’ve got a soft spot for Badly Drawn Boy, aka Damon Gough, and it’s not only because my wife and I saw him perform in San Francisco during our first date. Badly Drawn Boy, like the subject of our latest Q-and-A, Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, is a musician with a healthy appreciation for food. But here’s the twist: Where Kapranos wrote a book about his gastronomic adventures while on tour, this month Badly Drawn Boy will be take his act on the road to some chip shops around the UK. How can you not love that?

Badly Drawn Boy tells the Guardian:

Chippies for me are Friday teatime. In the early Eighties, every Friday teatime was fish and chips and Monkey on the telly. It’s good to keep these traditions alive. It’s almost like the backbone of a culture—not just the fish and chip shops but all these things, collectively, form what a society is. I mean, the great chip shop is one of the last bastions of British yesteryear, alongside the record industry. It ties in with my album, Born in the UK, because it’s a uniquely British thing, so we ran this competition on my website which involved 10 chippies round the UK and whoever got the most votes we decided to do gigs in, so we’re playing in Grimsby, London and Bristol.

Badly Drawn Boy spoke to the Guardian as part of what appears to be a round-up of musicians talking about food and restaurants. Others featured include Wynton Marsalis on his favorite table in Britain and Malcolm McLaren on Vivienne Westwood’s dandelion salad.

Related on World Hum:
* Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos on Fresh Air
* Why Am I Searching the World for Mexican Food?



No comments for Inside the UK’s Best Chip Shops With Badly Drawn Boy.

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.