Episode 26: Danny McNamara, Embrace

In this episode, I speak with Danny McNamara, lead singer of Embrace, ahead of the release of Embrace's 8th studio album How to Be a Person Like Other People (out 26th August 2022), and upcoming tour. We talk through the psychology behind him becoming a rockstar, his search for meaning and purpose, falling in love, and his experiences with PTSD and Pure O variant of OCD. Intro: Ashes, Embrace 9.50 All You Good Good People, Embrace 13.30 Movin' On Up, Primal Scream 17.40 Retread, Embrace 18.10 We Are It, Embrace 1.25.50 Clip of Richard Ashcroft interview by Jon Doran on Noisey Outro: The Terms of My Surrender, Embrace Get in touch with Sound Affects Podcast at: @SoundAffectsPod on Twitter or Facebook @sound_affects_podcast on Insta   Send voice notes and messages to: [email protected]   Support Sound Affects Pod: www.ko-fi.com/soundaffectspod   All things Embrace: Embrace: @embrace on Twitter http://linktr.ee/embraceband Join Embrace's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/embracethesecretlist Follow Danny McNamara on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/dannymcnamara Get tickets for upcoming tour: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/embrace-tickets/artist/740832 Buy How to Be a Person Like Other People: https://embrace.tmstor.es/   Links to things mentioned by Danny in this episode: PURE by Rose Bretecher/Cartwright  Channel 4 series adaptation, Pure  https://www.channel4.com/press/press-pack/pure-press-pack   Get help and support Samaritans: 116 123, or https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/symptoms-of-ocd/#WhatIsPureO Black Dog: https://www.myblackdog.co/   To find a therapist in the UK: https://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/find-a-therapist/?Distance=10 https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/Therapists   UK   Addiction: https://www.actiononaddiction.org.uk/  Anxiety UK: https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/  Beat, eating disorders: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/  CALM, male suicide: https://www.thecalmzone.net/  Combat Stress: www.combatstress.org.uk  Homelessness: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/housing/  Mental Health Foundation, reducing stigma: www.mentalhealth.org.uk  MIND: www.mind.org.uk A-Z and guidance on any mental health issue  The Maytree sanctuary if you’re suicidal: https://www.maytree.org.uk/  OCD: www.ocduk.org  Samaritans: www.samaritans.org , 116 123, [email protected]  Solace Women’s Aid, domestic abuse: https://www.solacewomensaid.org/  Rape Crisis: https://rapecrisis.org.uk/  Rethink: www.rethink.org   If you’re sectioned: https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/treatments-and-wellbeing/being-sectioned?searchTerms=being%20sectioned  https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/living-with-mental-illness/treatment-and-support/going-into-hospital/    Self-referral through the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service: http://www.lets-talk-iapt.nhs.uk/make-a-referral/.    If you're outside the UK: https://www.thecalmzone.net/international-mental-health-charities  https://www.wheretotalk.org/charities/    Asociacion Argentina de Salud Mental: https://www.aasm.org.ar/eshttps://www.aasm.org.ar/es  Canadian Mental Health Association: https://cmha.ca/  CVV (Brazil): https://www.cvv.org.br/  Ibunda (Indonesia) https://www.ibunda.id/  Tell Japan: https://telljp.com/lifeline/  12 step programmes: https://www.addictioncenter.com/treatment/12-step-programs/  Addiction: https://atforum.com/related-websites/international-organizations/  Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/  Jed Foundation, teen and young adult suicide prevention: https://jedfoundation.org/  Rethink: https://www.rethink.org/  StrongMinds: Treating depression in Africa for women and young people https://strongminds.org/  TalkLife, 16-24 peer-to-peer support network: https://www.talklife.com/   The US  National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): https://nami.org To Write Love On Her Arms: Depression, Addiction, Self-injury and Suicide: https://twloha.com/