Embrace "not splitting"

So why did you say you were, then?

22 Sept 06 - Less than 24 hours after going on the record to announce their next album would be their last, Embrace singer Danny McNamara has changed his tune. 

On Thursday night, just a couple of hours before he and the band were due to take the stage on the first date of their UK tour at Hull City Hall  - Danny told 6 Music:

"I think our next album will be our last ever album. If we get as far as making it and finishing it, I want it to be a masterpiece and I want to take as long as it takes."

"You implied you were jacking it in."
Chris Moyles, BBC
"That's not the intention."
Danny, Embrace singer

Speaking from his tourbus on Friday morning, the singer told the Chris Moyles Show on Radio 1:

"We're going to make our next album as if it's our last, but we always do that anyway, because that's how we go into these things, you've got to be wholehearted, you know."

Moyles said:

"You implied that you were jacking it all in."

Danny replied:

"That definitely not the intention. This tour that we're on might be the last for a while as there's some stuff that I want to do. But our next album's got to be amazing and it needs a lot from me to do that. 

"It's just kind of a psychological process more than anything, really."

Embrace released new single Target last week, which reached 29 in the charts.

Full tour dates:
Norwich, WEA - 22
Cambridge, Corn Exchange - 23
Cardiff, University Great Hall - 24
Exeter, Great Hall - 26
Bristol, Colston Hall - 27
London, Hammersmith Apollo - 29
Folkestone, Leas Cliff Hall - 2 Oct
Brighton, Dome - 3
Portsmouth, Guildhall - 4
Reading, Hexagon - 6
Derby, Assembly Rooms -8
Carlisle, Sands Centre - 9
Glasgow, Academy - 10
Manchester, Apollo - 13/14
Blackburn, King George's - 15
Leicester, De Montford Hall - 16
Birmingham, Academy - 18
Newcastel, Academy - 19
Middlesbrough, Town Hall - 20
Liverpool, University - 22
Doncaster, Dome - 23


Nick Wallis