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

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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, jo@samaritans.org 

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/