Badly Drawn Boy is offering fans the chance to write him a song via his "Have You Found the Golden Fish?" contest. Valid purchasers of his latest album Have You Fed the Fish? can enter the contest at www.xl-recordings.com, and the winner will get to have either a song, poetry or other writing set to music and recorded by Badly Drawn Boy.

Meanwhile, the Web site is offering two videos: the first is from Badly Drawn Boys' show at Shepherds Bush Empire in London from October 2000; the second is a performance of "Pissing in the Wind" at an unnamed forest. There are also some audio files available on the site: BDB performing the first single from Have You Fed the Fish?, "You Were Right," at this year's Glastonbury festival and "Something to Talk About," off the soundtrack to About a Boy.

CHRISTINA SARACENO
(November 13, 2002)