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, Embrace9.50 All You Good Good People, Embrace13.30 Movin' On Up, Primal Scream17.40 Retread, Embrace18.10 We Are It, Embrace1.25.50 Clip of Richard Ashcroft interview by Jon Doran on NoiseyOutro: 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://na