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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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/
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
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/
