Embrace!!!!!

[Mimixxx]

I really like it, I think Chris's voice suits it better, but I like hearing it with a full band. :D :idea2:

It's here if you wanna listen :)

http://www.embrace.co.uk/go/news/story/14/

[Gas_Man]

ah yeah, i have a recording of that...i was going to pm ian, to see if he wanted to host it.
I really like the song...i'll bet money on it doing really well. I wish i heard coldplay record it full band. I don't think it's good though, coz people needed a break from coldplay, coz they were everywhere...and now Embrace are kind of appearing FOR them.. :rolleyes:
still like it though

[Mimixxx]

I really like it!

All the Embrace fans are slagging it off saying it's a 'Coldplay reject song' (which I guess is technically right). I think Coldplay may have done a better full-band version (but I'm biased).

Embrace do it justice though :D

[Gas_Man]

yeah, i think they do do it justice....i'm a bit biased too. I think it's better than anything embrace have ever done (although, i don't mind Some of their stuff....and bought an album)...but the fans probably secretly like it....just too foolish. they must be foolish anyway....they're Embrace fans :sneaky: :P

[Mimixxx]

:lol: :lol: :sneaky:

[Professor Peedston]

It IS a Coldplay reject. And Coldplay WOULD have done it better. :P

Anyway, if I were in Embrace, I'd feel really weird about recording and releasing that. :confused:

[kalter zug]

:stunned: oh God it's nowhere near to chris' version :sick:

[psychedelic_clocks]

chris' version is far much better.....i agree with tom peed. it would be awkward to release it.

[Joyce]

Coldplay is way too better! :smug:

[Valleyboy]

Embrace's version is totally crappy, imho.

[Hicksy]

it's ok but i'm still GUTTED chris gave it away

WHAT WAS HE THINKING? :angry:

stupid babies see what they make men do?!? :embarrased:

[Mimixxx]

I'd have preferred to hear Coldplay do it....but I think it's better that Embrace did it than it being lost forever, like Harmless :idea2:

[Evori]

oh.. i prefer chris' voice :rolleyes: hehehe... well it's ok, but... it would be better with coldplay :P

[Mimixxx]

Puss.........in boots :idea2:

Love the avatar :P

[Evori]

yes! ;)

[Mimixxx]

:D

[Evori]

it's sooooo tender looking in that way :P hehe

[Mimixxx]

It's sooooo cute....I want one :idea2:

[labell]

Chris' voice is just so unique.. you really can't compare... :idea2:

[BlissfullyMuse]

Bah Humbum :rolleyes:

[noni]

The song doesn't sound bad... I should listen Chris' version to compare

*runs to find it*

[fifi]

thanking you mimi! :cool: :kiss:

[LiquidSky]

Thanks mim! I'll try to d/l it tomorrow ;)

[Mimixxx]

No probs :D

[::Hayley::]

I really like it!

Embrace do it justice though :D

Agreeeeeeeddddd!!!!!

i have been listening to it on the radio coz it's been played alot. i just downloaded my own version *illegal* and i can't stop listening to it... it's fantastic :)

[busybeeburns]

http://www.soundgenerator.com/videos/viewer.cfm?articleid=4037

more details here (http://www.coldplaying.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=208&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0)

[BlissfullyMuse]

*sings* Embrace are at V! :D

[labell]

Wow That's awsesomee! Yeah i found the videooo :blush:

[Gas_Man]

has anyone noticed that the way the video is shot!, it looks as if it's made out to be chris martin playing the piano, the guy has the beard etc...slightly different colour...plus, Mr J. Buckland lookalike, walks through the door, and then back out ;)
you read it here first, haha

[labell]

hahaha actually i didnt pay much attention to the vid really, but i'll have a look :D :idea2:

[bart]

What a tune I heard this at the V fest ands its already a athem !!

[noni]

I liked it a bit the 1st time I heard it but now I love it!!! :D :D
And it was fantastic listening it by surprise in the V fest, eh Daryl? :smug:

[shana]

sorry if this been discussed before ,, i'm a new here tho ,and curious to know that how many Embrace fans here ?? :P :D

[thonya26]

me!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

[The Noteburg]

Got the "Out of Nothing" album... pretty good although it's often a little bit ornated :)

[shana]

That's cool :D

[Indiepixie]

I lurrrvvee Embrace have done for years, classic band.
Sometimes they don't get the media hype they deserve
...but what band wants that anymore hehe

[gib786]

I LOVE embrace! Going to see them live on the 28th :D :D :D. They are good, but for some strange reason a lot of the hardcore embrace fans seem to hate coldplay, which pisses me off

[shana]

I'm a massive Embrace fan tho :P and i don't hate Coldplay :D

[Faust]

-Edits-

I just know the Gravity's version of them and I liked it.

[shana]

Gravity is the good song :smug:

and Near Life and Out Of Nothing too :wink3:




Ps.. all of them :P

[Pai]

I LOVE EMBRACE!!! LOOK AT... sorry, ahem. Look at my siggy! Anyway, yeah. I love Looking As You Are, and I don't understand why Embrace fans would hate Coldplay... Thats just really silly, innit? :cool:

[gentleparachute]

Haven't heard a lot of their music... But I did manage to hear all their clips from "Out of Nothing"... Gotta say I like all that I've heard, so I guess I'm a fan. Does that qualify? :D

[shuttergal21]

I love embrace....I ordered their album from HMV a while ago because it had'nt been released here yet...Actually I think it's suppossed to be out by June..

I'm going to an SP show this Tues, and I know embrace are touring with them for half of their shows....hope this is one of them!

[jay88]

i didnt like Embraces version of Gravity, i perfer coldplays live version which is still on my MP3 player had it for a while now.

[Embrace]

Embrace

www.embrace-music.com

Having already attained critical acclaim and success in Europe, Embrace is about to bring their chart topping UK disc, Out of Nothing (Lava Records) to the US to be released June 14, 2005. The British quintet, formed by brothers Danny (lead vocals & guitar) and Richard McNamara (lead guitar) at the height of the Britpop craze, was poised for massive success in the U.S. when a major record label merger left them without a stateside home.

Now the band is back and generating considerable buzz with the profoundly personal songs on Out of Nothing. The album, including the track “Gravity,” written by the band’s longtime friend, Chris Martin of Coldplay, is characterized by anthemic hooks and sweeping choruses. Embrace’s impact on the music scene here in the US is, like their songs, destined to be of epic proportions.

I absolutely love this band, but in case you think I’m being biased…Check out what the press is already saying about Out of Nothing:
"Colossal" Evening Standard
"Monumental" Q Magazine
"Stirring and Affecting" Time Out
"Embrace have written their best songs to date." The Fly

In addition, VH1 has made Embrace a “You Oughta Know” VH1 artist and “Ashes” is featured in MTV’s Hot 5 Videos.

Pre-order your copy at Insound.com http://search.insound.com/search/showrelease.jsp?p=INS26827

Embrace Tour Dates

6/16 Seattle Crocodile Cafe
6/17 Portland Doug Fir Lounge
6/18 Reno, NV Satellite
6/19 Sacramento Harlows Nightclub
6/20 San Francisco The Independent
6/22 Los Angeles Troubadour
6/23 San Diego Epicentre
6/24 Phoenix Clubhouse
6/26 Denver Larimer
6/27 Lawrence, KS Bottleneck
6/28 Minneapolis Ascot Room
6/30 Chicago Double Door
7/1 Detroit Shelter
7/3 Nashville Exit / In
7/6 Atlanta The Loft

http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/mov/warnermusi1.download.akamai.com/12529/streams/atleeg/atlrec/embrace/video/ashes_450.mov (qt high) (MOV)

http://wm.atlrec.com/embrace/video/ashes_450.wmv (wmp high)
(WMP)

[cafc4eva]

thanks, but shouldnt this be in the lounge, or world of music?

[laura84]

I love Out of nothing too
It's a great album
My fav song is Ashes :D

[Jan]

This one should be moved :cool:

[Reilly]

If only I was an administrator :surprised:

No seriously I would've banned everyone by now.

[Embrace]

Sorry, Ill move it. I just wanted people to know how awesome these guys are!!!!!

[cafc4eva]

they aint that great :rolleyes:

[Ireentje]

Does anyone have Gravity by Embrace? Please use rapidshare if you do :)

[cafc4eva]

yeah i got it, ill do it now.

[Ireentje]

Thanks a bunch :)

[cafc4eva]

uploading now

[Ireentje]

*waiting patiently*

[cafc4eva]

almost there :lol:

[cafc4eva]

http://rapidshare.de/files/2217050/Embrace-_Gravity.mp3.html

there you go!

[timeo]

Haha, I like the constant progress-o-meter that you had there. :P

The new album's pretty good. It's an instant hook! I wish they would come by my woods though...

[cafc4eva]

glad you did, but rapid share aint exactly rapid is it?

i hope Ireentje got it, becuase this topic was moved

[Ireentje]

I got it alright, don't worry.
It isn't rapid in downloading, just rapid as in instant access, no signing up to upload/download. ;)

[shana]

They are the great band on earth.

[bellynelly]

I was just wondering ( yes I know I do alot of wondering I do!), are there any other embrace fans out there? I have only just recently gotten into their stuff. I am so looking forward to going to see them in the summer at one of their forest concerts, and carn't wait for the new album in april!!!

Please tell me that I'm not the only one here loving embrace?

[Jpw48]

embrace are great. I got their album the other day (Out of Nothing), and it is amazing!!!

Apparently they did one a few years back called "Fireworks". It is a collection of all their early singles. That would be a great album. Any ideas where i could get it......... :o

[Innocent_Joy]

I only heard their songs two months ago, but I really like what I've heard so far. I should look in to them sometime...

[Mr-Brightside]

Has everyone heard this new song???

I love it ! that's great music and a new start for Embrace...

[Jpw48]

Its a great song. Can't wait for the new album as well!!!

I'm not so sure about the video though. A bit plain maybe? do you think so?

Otherwise, GREAT SONG!!! :D

[Mr-Brightside]

Well, the video is really boring...
And Danny should lose a little weight...

[LunarSolar]

I have the song. I uploaded it a while ago on other bands mp3s links.
Enjoy: :cool:
http://rapidshare.de/files/13098816/Nature_s_Law__Embrace_.wma.html

[LunarSolar]

I have the song. I uploaded it a while ago on other bands mp3s links.
Enjoy: :cool:
http://rapidshare.de/files/13098816/Nature_s_Law__Embrace_.wma.html

[Jpw48]

cheers for that. brilliant.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :)

[clockpolitiks]

when does their new cd come out?

[Mr-Brightside]

The band's forthcoming single "Nature's Law" is released on 20th March 2006. The physical formats and tracklistings are as follows:

CD
01. Nature's Law
02. Deliver Me
03. Collide

DVD
01. Nature's Law (Audio)
02. Nature's Law (Video)
03. Nature's Law (Live Video From The M.E.N. Arena Manchester)
04. Nature's Law (Behind The Scenes Video)

7"
01. Nature's Law
02. Soulmates



Album: "This New Day" released on 03/04/2006

01. No Use Crying
02. Nature's Law
03. You Will Hit The Target Every Time
04. Sainted
05. I Can't Come Down
06. Celebrate
07. Exploding Machines
08. Even Smaller Stones
09. The End Is Near
10. This New Day

[Pai]

HEY!!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!!! I put up the link to the vid on Cool Songs You should here thread... I FRICKIN LOVE EMBRACE!!! Hi LunarSolar, you're the only other Malaysian I've come across who's a fan of Embrace... :cool:

[Cold_Huntress]

Lunar thanks so much for uploading the song! :D I was curious about it when someone mentioned the song to me. Thanks! :cool:

[Jpw48]

can't wait for the new album. apparently the one of the songs has been changed.
'You Will Hit The Target Every Time' has been renamed as just 'Target'.

not sure why, but should still sound brilliant!!!!

Jacob

[bellynelly]

I haven't heard the song but seen a brief glimps of the video, carn't wait for the new cd and I'm going to see them this summer at one of their forest gigs!!

[LunarSolar]

Deliver Me is great! Here it is....
http://rapidshare.de/files/14728031/Embrace_-_Deliver_Me.wma.html

Hey, Pai. You know, it's strange... I love Starsailor, Embrace and Athlete too! Just like you!! :)

[Myint]

great great amazing great great amazing great ... song!!! yep, it's true that the video is a bit boring but i'm sure that it hides a deep msg inside of it :)
it's black and white, and when he look around, into horizon ... the picture coloures :) and the birds fly up :) yiiiiy :)
i cant wait to hear the album

this time ... again ... just 10 songs ... :/

[LunarSolar]

Hi all. Me here. I wanted to start a thread on Embrace since many other great bands have their own thread.
Let's start by discussing the band's new album, This New Day.
What do you think about it?

[Ondes Martenot]

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17332&highlight=embrace

[Pai]

So lets discuss the new album here, shall we?

LunarSolar, lets start.

Hmm. I don't like it much.


Well I do, but... Out of Nothing was so much more better!! A bit dissappointed, I am, cuz the only good song on the album seems to be Natures Law and the No Use Crying... And maybe Target... But the rest just sound the same as each other!! Gah.

[Briggins]

Hehe, use the band index.

[LunarSolar]

Yes, it's not as good as Out Of Nothing.

My favourite track off This New Day is Target.
Other great songs:
Nature's Law (of course)
Exploding Machines
No Use Crying
The End Is Near

[LunarSolar]

Ooops... sorry...

[bonabon]

hey sorry if this is annoying and its probably posted in loads of places here, but im sick of that search button... can someone upload Gravity by them. i have listened to coldplays version and im trying to get this one. thanks :)

[LunarSolar]

Here ya go, enjoy.....
http://rapidshare.de/files/15960534/Embrace_-_Gravity.mp3.html

Personally, I think Embrace's version of Gravity is better than Coldplay.
I dunno about you; you be the judge!!!

[bonabon]

oooh, thankyou! :kiss: d/ling now :D

[MS-Ferrari]

Here ya go, enjoy.....
Personally, I think Embrace's version of Gravity is better than Coldplay.
I dunno about you; you be the judge!!!
Yup, I'll admit to that too.

[LunarSolar]

Coldplay's just builds up from piano and progresses to drums while Embrace's is a burst of melody from pinaos, drums and guitars too.

[Mr-Brightside]

I've listened to it and I dont find it very good...

Exploding Machines is certainly the best song of the album, it sounds like Coldplay... (Square One vs Talk vs Low)
Celebrate is quite good, No Use Crying sounds like a copy of Ashes...

[stemot1978]

New album is loads better than Out Of Nothing, I`m loving:-

No Use Crying
Natures Law
Target
Sainted
I Can`t Come Down
The End Is Near
This New Day

Whereas on Out Of Nothing, the only good ones were really Ashes, Gravity and Glorious Day.

[LunarSolar]

How about Looking As You Are?

[GazeboflossUK]

I can't believe they are going to be number one in the UK charts this sunday.

[stemot1978]

How about Looking As You Are?


Pants, too repetitive

I can't believe they are going to be number one in the UK charts this sunday[

Why Not? I hope they are, they deserve to be, far to underrated in my opinion.

[ugadawg5]

ya they've hung around, worked hard, and busted their asses. i'm glad for them.

[ugadawg5]

I think Exploding Machines is my favorite, followed by Target, Nature's Law, and I Can't Come Down.

[tilkingdomcome]

Embrace are a top band. Liked them for ages but they aren't as well known as they should be. Nature's Law is their best song yet and I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of This New Day from Amazon at the moment.

[supersonic1983]

Whereas on Out Of Nothing, the only good ones were really Ashes, Gravity and Glorious Day.
Someday, Spell It Out, Out Of Nothing?

It's a great album, but This New Day does top it.

[Medevac71]

hey, can someone upload "Gravity" (Embrace) ? 'cause the links are expired, and i can't find anymore of this song

[Medevac71]

No one ?

Edit: I'v found it ;)

[Ceckers]

Chris Moyles played it on Radio 1 this morning...it's pretty good...i can just imagine all the England fans singing along to it :cool:

[Ceckers]

http://www.nme.com/news/embrace/22858

[Marky]

It's not fast enough.....

[Ceckers]

The best ever was 3 Lions '98 :D

[busybeeburns]

http://www.thread.co.nz/images/articles/1944-2.jpg

Football and music are a volatile combination, in my opinion. Separately they bring out the best and worst of their loyal supporters; from the collective pride of a community seeing their team run rings around the opposing side, to the violent riots accompanying all-to-many international matches. From the excitement of a live gig, to controversial bands given demi-god status, usually with a so-called 'disenfranchised' youth following. Not that I'm mentioning any names, Mr Doherty.

So, where do we end up when both come together? A utopian nightclub where the beer freely flows and everyone is in a permanent state of adrenaline-fuelled elation? Or a war zone disguised as a dingy basement bar, where hand grenades are substituted for cans of Carling and wide-eyed inhabitants storm about in a state of drug-induced paranoia?

Whilst I imagine that both these settings would feature in the seven circles of Hell, it is this year left to Embrace, chosen by the Football Association to take our nation to one of these extremes courtesy of their official UK World Cup anthem 'World At Your Feet'. I use the term 'anthem' very loosely, mind, as after hearing its debut airing on London's Radio One, I’d replace 'world' with 'aforementioned Embrace track' and proceed with a hefty jump in the air with aforementioned feet. Let gravity do the rest.

Despite lead singer Danny McNamara being "inspired by the nation's love of football when the team does well", the band have somehow failed to mention the name of the game in question, along with a catchy hoof for terrace chanting and any distinction from their back-catalogue of middle-of-the-road 'feel-good' power anthems.

The FA's reason for picking Embrace for this prestigious role, after much speculation around the Kaiser Chiefs, was that they were deemed to be currently one of the best guitar bands in Britain. No I'm not doubting the musicianship of McNamara and Co, especially as they gave Coldplay the support slot on their tour a few years back, thus giving them a foot in the industry door, it's just that they seem to lack Performing Energy. Despite their latest track 'Nature's Law' entering the chart at number 2 with uplifting piano tinkling and powerful lyrics, McNamara just doesn't sound like he believes what he's singing; rather like a gospel choir that's lost their faith in their Heavenly Father. Maybe someone should slip some anti-depressants into his mineral water before he steps into the recording studio next time.

When asked whether he thinks the England team would Embrace (aren't I clever?) the song, McNamara explain "We did it wholeheartedly so we hope they like it". Despite these high hopes, one can't help suspecting that it will result in another World Cup '98 scenario, where the official anthem by Mick Hutnall failed to steal the terraces' hearts and was instead hijacked by The Lightening Seeds' 'Three Lions', which seemed to encapsulate the essence of our nation's pride far better than a man who resembles a ginger-haired Rastafarian ever could. Rivalling anthems include 'The People's Anthem' by radio DJ Christian O' Connell and former footballer John Barnes, and the re-recording of a successful track from 1984 entitled 'That's Livin' Alright'.

Even with a lukewarm reception by the very people whose lips the song is meant to be chanted by, bookmakers are still making the track 1-9 to hit the number one spot when it is released on June 5, although I sense this prediction is a product of cynical optimism rather than devoted affection for the song in question.

Optimists would say that anything is possible if hope is kept alive. But I get the nagging feeling that England's World Cup dreams will end rather like the official song that's backing it: a predictable anti-climax that never took off in the first place.

http://www.thread.co.nz/article/1944

[mc_squared]

I agree - that's why I'm backing "Love it, love it, love it" (shortly to be unveiled on Soccer AM, which I'm watching at this very moment!!:)

[peter210]

could anybody upload Embrace' s B-Sides? (not album Dry Kids!)
thanks in advance

[bellynelly]

They are fab! I love them, went see them at Delamere forest here in cheshire last month and they were amazing, besides danny having a dodgy voice at the time so his brother Rik had to help out alot on backing vocals, but it didn't ruin a great night!! Going to see them again in Manchester in October, carn't wait!!!!

Their next single in the UK is 'Target', they shot the video this week, don't know when its out though.

[busybeeburns]

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/herts24/assets/images/dynamicFeedCambs/20060927123413.jpg

EMBRACE @ CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22

FOLLOWING the chart-topping success of their comeback album, aptly titled This New Day, indie legends Embrace took to the stage last Friday evening at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.

With a more than solid support set from Four Day Hombre and a fantastic set from Hastings band Mumm-Ra, who were so good I felt compelled to look them up as soon as I got home, Embrace made a trademark, low-key entrance to a pretty chilled-out crowd.

With an upbeat selection of tracks from the last two albums, and the inclusion of an obscure yet very moving B-side Feels like Glue from the album Dry Kids, Embrace looked confident and comfortable as they strolled their way through some of their biggest successes.

Come Back To What You Know and Looking As You Are were my personal highlights, although a mind-blowing, soul-lifting version of Ashes as the final song in the encore was more than worth the ticket price on its own.

What Embrace lack in rock 'n roll persona, they more than make up for in sparks of lyrical genius. There are soaring piano hooks which would not be out of place in a Coldplay album This New Day really seems to be flying the flag for British indie talent.

Danny McNamara's voice is fragile, every song fuelled with a heart-wrenching, bittersweet tenderness. The band themselves have quashed any rumours of a break-up, and after such a performance, and two number one albums, I believe that things can only get better for the re-born Embrace.

Amy Hodkinson

RE-BORN: Right, Danny and Richard McNamara from Embrace.

http://www.huntspost.co.uk/content/hunts/whatson/almostfamous/story.aspx?brand=HPTOnline&category=AlmostFamous&tBrand=cambs24&tCategory=AlmostFamousHPT&itemid=WEED27%20Sep%202006%2010%3A31%3A51%3A090

[AlexTHFC]

I think Out of Nothing is much better than This New Day, but they're both great. All their albums are great really. Great band in general lol.

Give "Keeping" another listen too, very underrated song. One of their best I think.

[busybeeburns]

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/aug2004/1/2/0001110D-11B1-112F-95D380C328EC0000.jpg

THERE can few more unexpected headline tours than that of Embrace when they come back to Liverpool early next month.

Once promoted by their record company at the height of Britpop as Yorkshire's answer to Oasis - two bickering brothers of Irish descent playing guitar pop - the British record buying public believed the marketing shtick and they were momentarily the market leaders of that scene. But, despite an attendant number one album, The Good Will Out, in 1998, Richard and Danny McNamara and their band mates sank without a trace shortly after, dropped by their previous record company due to poor sales.

Then at the turn of the century Coldplay came along and became one of the biggest bands on the planet playing the kind of emotionally wrought, stadium-friendly pop with which Embrace had made their name.

Having had to take proper jobs painting and decorating and giving music lessons to pay the bills, they were fortunate enough to be given a second chance, thanks to the boss of their current record label, Independiente.

And thanks to a song donated by Coldplay's Chris Martin and a mixture of kismet and pure good luck, Embrace had the kind of second coming that mini Messiah Bono can but dream of.

Their fourth album, Out of Nothing, which included the hit single Gravity (penned by Mr Gwyneth Paltrow), went multi-platinum and saw them do headlining shows of the major festivals when everyone had written them off.

As if it couldn't get much better, they had the coup de grace delivered to them on a plate - they were asked to write the England World cup song for this summer's campaign in Germany.

WHILE their FA endorsed offering, World at Your Feet, may not have captured the zeitgeist like New Order's World in Motion or The Lightning Seeds' now ubiquitous Three Lions, it sealed Embrace's deliverance from the world of proper work.

That they have succeeded again is a source of great pride says drummer Mike Heaton on the phone from his Yorkshire home.

"When we were dropped we had to assess what we were about. But through all the time of not having a deal we kept at it because we always knew that this is what we wanted to do.

"We had a dogged determination to keep going and would have probably just carried on until someone else signed us anyway.

"But Mark Richardson at Independiente thought we had underachieved and gave us another go and for that we were very grateful."

Perhaps the marketing the first time around did Embrace no favours by lumping them in with the Britpop movement, but it could also be observed that in one way they were a band with which the music industry in Britain eventually rediscovered thanks to big selling acts which borrowed from their template.

Heaton ironically says: "We were a band ahead of our time, everyone had to catch up with us," but not before magnanimously concluding, "Coldplay came after us as did Keane and they played music like ours and in a way we were lucky that we got a second chance.

"I am really proud of what we have done. A lot of more successful bands than us split up but we are still here after 10 years."

Now the 10th anniversary tour takes them away from the festival stages and headlining big shows like their recent summer date in Delamere Forest in Cheshire, and sees them go back to their roots in the theatres and universities of Britain.

It was a conscious move to get back to their early days says Heaton.

"If we hadn't done those big shows we mightn't have done this, but we wanted to play the great gigs we grew up doing," he says.

"I love the Manchester Apollo, it's one of my favourite venues and we were only saying the other day that it's a shame the Royal Court in Liverpool isn't a music venue any more - that was one of the best."

On top of the festivals, summer also saw Embrace follow the England team to Germany to showcase Word at Your Feet, a song which did not meet with universal approval from a general public which has grown accustomed to terrace sing-alongs like Three Lions.

Heaton however is sanguine about the whole episode. He says: "It was a very strange experience. When we were offered it we knew well that it could be very bad or very good and I think that we came out of it pretty well.

"We wanted to do an Embrace song rather than a football song like Three Lions because that will probably never be bettered. So we went out and had a good time and our profile was raised because of it and it got to Number 3 so we have no regrets about doing it.

"At the end of the day, it is what it is. We emerged with our credibility and we saw a few of the matches and had a good time doing it."

Now reunited with legendary producer Youth, the man behind their first record as well as the Verve's Urban Hymns and Liverpool heroes Shack's HMS Fable, their latest, A New Day has seen them top the album charts again. This tour sees them say goodbye to that record and see them start in a new direction.

Heaton says: "This album was so easy to do because we just got in the studio with Youth, with nothing written and we just plugged in and played. Youth directed everything and sometimes we were getting through a track a day. It was so easy and a brilliant experience which energised the whole band."

This amazingly productive rate has been put on the back burner just recently as the band has been focusing on reviving classic songs not played for a while.

"We have been learning some songs we haven't played for eight or nine years, so it has been great doing that in rehearsal. We are doing songs which a lot of fans haven't heard live before or since the very first tours. But after the tour we will be going straight back into the studio to write and record again.

Heaton adds, "We are grateful for the second chance and we are enjoying it a whole lot more."

When pushed on gossip on the WAGS in Germany, Heaton pertinently concludes, "We weren't that important."

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/previewsandreviews/tm_objectid=17842323%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26page=3%26headline=second%2dhelpings-name_page.html

[[Coldplay]Andi]

in my opinion it's a great band. the music is beautiful, especially "I can't come down" and "Fireworks"

[AlexTHFC]

Yeah I can't come down is amazing

[LunarSolar]

I Can't Come Down is due to be their fourth single off This New Day.

Wait for it. :)

[Lamposts]

Have they ever toured Ireland?

[busybeeburns]

http://www.musicomh.com/singles6/embrace-7.jpg

More MOR heaven for anyone out there who needs to fill up their wishlist in time for Christmas.

Embrace had a new album out earlier this year. Full of mope-rock piano ballads, it was the usual heartfelt goop for potential Westlife fans who by a sad accident of birth had been born male. Just in case you missed it and have exhausted the Coldplay section of the local HMV, I Can't Come Down is here to save the day, nudging you back in the direction of music that should make you want to slit your wrists just in time for the Christmas rush.

Look, here's a bit of advice: if you like this, you don't really like music. You like candlelit suppers and washing the car at the weekend in between trips to B&Q. It's all very nice that you like to take the missus out for night at Wembley Arena once a year for her birthday but be honest - you'd both rather be at an Andrew Lloyd Webber, wouldn't you?

http://www.musicomh.com/singles6/embrace-7_1206.htm

[LunarSolar]

Yay! I Can't Come Down!

[Fixed]

Why did Hut drop Embrace? Drawn From Memory and If You've Never Been are awesome.

[Kite]

The sales for Drawn from Memory and If You've Never Been were "disappointing", and when Virgin Records got eaten up by the Evil Music Industry, who dropped them in a mass kill.

[Mimixxx]

I was genuinely shocked when I saw I'd made this thread! I really don't remember it, what's with all the punctuation in the title! :P

[Fixed]

Danny recently said that the new Embrace album won't be out until 2009 now. I have a horrible feeling the next one (if there is one) will be the last.

[chillinrevev]

Do not know whether this has been debated before but I was wondering which version people thinks is the definative version, Embrace or Coldplay? I have to say that after hearing the version by Embrace the version by Coldplay sounds boring. :o Sorry and all that but that is how I feel. What do others think?

[winigwl]

as much as i'd love to say coldplay's is better, they're about even in my book. embrace's i feel is lesss boring as you said but i feel there is more emotion in coldplay's version, maybe because chris wrote it

[murphy]

Personnaly, I think the best version is the very first one, by coldplay, that wasn't released, that can be found on some bootleg.

[chillinrevev]

That would be interesting to hear because the B-side version definately lacks something.

[ugadawg5]

the b-side version feels forced and over-produced - the live version from Valby Hallen, Denmark in 2002 is sincere, simplistic, and beautiful.

[Fixed]

The Embrace version wins hands down.

[Space Cadet]

I have cds of both. Still listen to the Coldplay version now and again, really love it. I think I lost my Embrace cd behind my bookshelf and never cared enough to fish it out again. Sorry to any fans, but I don't really like Embrace. I did for a little bit, but it didn't last long.

And they play it too fast for the song.

[Marisa]

I totally agree with saying the CP's live version is better. I remember it as one of the first recordings I downloaded and oh wow how I played it over and over again.

[chillinrevev]

Anyone have this live version or is it on this site already? Cheers.

[Space Cadet]

Anyone have this live version or is it on this site already? Cheers.

It's probably in multimedia in a few places. This one still seems to work. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2185708&postcount=3

For future reference, the search function is your friend. :cool:

[thinker]

the live version from Coldplay is the best one.

[Kite]

Seth Lakeman's live cover is miles better than both studio versions.

[chillinrevev]

Thanks for the link.

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Table Talk: Danny McNamara
Adam Moss
17/ 4/2008

HE MAY be a Yorkshireman but Danny McNamara, singer with chart-topping rock band Embrace, has done more than anyone to champion the cause of Manchester's music scene in the last year.

"I love Manchester and the music scene here is like nowhere else in the country," he says as we sit in the lofty environs of The Modern restaurant, at the top of the huge designer greenhouse that is Urbis, for a bit of posh nosh.

Danny opts for sorrel, watercress and spinach soup to start while I plumped for a plate of juicy hand-dived scallops. The food looks amazing and, indeed, delivers on the taste front also.

Danny is full of surprises too. We all know he's been bringing new Manchester rock and pop bands to the attention of the London-centric music business by putting them on at his Aftershow events at Moho Live in the Northern Quarter.

But he's writing songs again, for the first time in two years. And he's also writing a novel, which he hopes to have published once it's finished.

Danny McNamara is a man revitalised. And spending so much time in the creative hub that is Manchester has much to do with the rebirth of his own creativity.

"In the last few weeks me and the band have been slowly starting to write new songs again. We've had a two-year break, which we needed, but we feel ready to start again now.

"We are putting together material for a new album and it will be the best one we have ever done - it has to be otherwise we won't release it," Danny tells me as he starts to tuck into a main course of deliciously rare lamb rib.

"I've been influenced by much of the music I've been hearing from bands coming through The Aftershow," he tells me. "Some of the bands we have had on have been amazing so it's hard not to be inspired by what they do."

So successful has The Aftershow been that Danny is on the verge of doubling the dosage of the hugely-popular unsigned bands night from monthly to bi-monthly.

I don't know how he finds the time to write his own material, too, but he does.

"I've written a new song in the last two weeks called Della - its about a girl. I really like it. It's very different to the Embrace stuff we've done in the past," he says.

But it's his new novel which really gets the singer excited.

"I've been writing about 6,000 words a day and I'm about 250,000 words into the book so far.

"It's about a man who believes everything he reads, sees and hears. He has been had over by everybody but every day he gets up and feels a new sense of hope. It's not based on me or anyone else I know. It's just something I've had inside my head for a while now," he explains.

"It feels more natural writing books than being in a band, to be honest. I hope when its finished I can get it published. I'd love to be a writer alongside my music career."

Lofty ambitions revealed in Manchester's loftiest restaurant. Let's hope the new Embrace album reaches such dizzy heights.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/food_and_drink/s/1045699_table_talk_danny_mcnamara

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Phoenix FM is running an Embrace top 20 show on Saturday 14 June, and they're looking for people to vote. It's one of a series of top 20 shows they're running, and it would be great to get as many of you taking part as possible. More details here:

http://www.phoenixfm.com/top20-embrace.php

Please vote and help make this a great show :D

[[Coldplay]Andi]

Any news? I didn't hear anything from them for quite a while :(

[Fixed]

Danny's still doing his Aftershow night in Manchester, Mickey's playing keyboards for Talk To Angels, Mike's playing drums for Hope And Social, Rik's producing various bands and helping Danny at the Aftershow, and Steve is.... hmm, no idea where Steve is.

I wouldn't expect another album until 2010.

[[Coldplay]Andi]

Thank you for the information. I didn't know what they are doing right now. Hopefully we mustn't wait for the new album such a long time as you expect ;)

[howyousawtheworld]

Does anyone know any info on Embrace's new album, or whether they are releasing a next album. I've heard nothing since they released This New Day, 3 years ago now! (I think that album is brilliant. Buy it if you get the chance.) Any info on them?

[ariadnasquire]

may be checking their thread here (http://coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17332) helps.

[Kite]

Website hasn't been updated since April 2007, wikipedia says they are recording album 6.

Although they might have been dropped by EMI

[Briggins]

Mr. Kite has his glue stick out and has been putting lots of threads together tonight :P

[howyousawtheworld]

Mr. Kite has his glue stick out and has been putting lots of threads together tonight :P

Do you like Embrace? Maybe you ain't as bad as I thought you were.

[Kite]

Mr. Kite has his glue stick out and has been putting lots of threads together tonight :P

Why have 7 or so threads about "Oh my god, have you heard the new song by embrace"

[[Coldplay]Andi]

http://www.embrace.co.uk/

It seems that they are back in the studio!!! :dance:

[[Coldplay]Andi]

Any news? :cry:

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http://www.embrace.co.uk/