Having taken an extended break following their fifth album This New Day (their third to go to number one in the UK charts), the Yorkshire band disappeared from sight for a full eight years until this year's comeback with their sixth, self-titled album.
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Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up The Verve, Athlete, Doves … Those bands are all gone now, leaving Coldplay and Elbow to fly the flag - until this year.ĭaily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter From 1998 to 2006, they were synonymous with that post-Britpop period when blokey British bands made epic, arena-ready indie rock songs and sold cartloads of records in the process. Remarkably, they have had the same five-man line-up since 1995, well before they achieved any success. If it seems like a long time since Embrace were last around, that's because it is. He's one of my favourite people on the planet." So it just makes it more creative, that friction between us. We see things really differently - the way that he approaches music is very different from me. I guess that's what makes it so creative. "We do argue a lot but it's always about the music. He threw a full Coke can one time and it missed me and hit Steve (Firth, bass), which was quite funny. We've never actually come to blows but he's thrown stuff at me.
"We present a united front!" laughs frontman Danny (43) of his brother, who is a year younger. Rock history is littered with examples of brothers sharing bands in varying shades of concord, from the combustible Reids in the Jesus & Mary Chain ("After each tour we wanted to kill each other, and after the final tour we tried," said Jim of he and William) to the Gallaghers in Oasis (Noel: "Liam only has two problems - everything he f****** says and everything he f****** does").īut Danny and Richard McNamara of Embrace seem to be cut from a different, more harmonious cloth. As Embrace play Belfast this weekend, frontman Danny McNamara tells Chris Jones they should have had more sense (but, um, they are actually great). Back in the Nineties their raging egos saw them branded obnoxious prats.
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