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The Good Is Out and still around *_^ Another good story from Embrace part II.
Jan 1990: Having drummed in a thrash metal band called Gross Misconduct, Richard McNamara switches to guitar and decides to form a band influenced more by the Smiths and the Stone Roses. They begin rehearsing in the shed in the garden of Richard's parents house in Brighouse, Yorks. Brother Danny joins as singer.
Jan 1991: Drummer Mike Heaton joins and they gig around Yorkshire pubs
Jan 1993: They play the Heineken Music Festival and get their first national review in Melody Maker - "like U2's performance at Live Aid without the laughs"
Jan 1995: Bassist Steve Frith joins after seeing an ad in the local paper. He was actually looking for a second-hand wardrobe at the time
Feb 1997: A limited edition single All You Good Good People is released on the Fierce Panda label. NME makes it single of the week and says "Embrace manage what only rock bands touched by true greatness can do...All Good People has a way of making you feel ten feet tall and looking down on creation"
Mar 1997: Embrace sign to the Hut label

May 1997: Fireworks, the first of a series of EPs, is released. NME describes one track, Now You're Nobody, as "another of Embrace's effortlessly sky-scraping laments" and the title track as "a piano and violin-laced beauty that is little short of breathtaking". It charts at # 34
Jul 1997: One Big Family EP is released. NME praises the "characteristic yearning melancholy". It charts at # 21
Oct 1997: A re-recorded version of All You Good Good People is released as an EP. The new version is "a rock opera in seven minutes", NME says. Referring to Danny's growing reputation as a mouthy northerner with too much too say, the reviewer goes on : "This is evidence that they do actually possess something beyond a supernatural sense of self-belief and mouths as wide as 20-inch flares" All You Good Good People .It charts at # 9
Nov 1997: First major British tour with Travis and the Longpigs
May 1998: The EP Come Back To What You Know is released. NME is unimpressed. "Barren of original thought", the review complains. The fans care not and the record enters at # 6, their highest chart placing to date
Jun 1998: The debut album The Good Will Out is released. NME jumps back on board after it's little disagreement with Come Back To What You Know. IN a 9/10 lead review under the headline 'clinch perfect', the paper declares "this is one of the great debut albums of the past decade". It enters the charts at # 1 and goes on to sell 500,000 copies
Jul 1998: An unimpressed Noel Gallagher tartly suggests Danny should "take singing lessons"
Aug 1998: My Weakness Is None Of Your Business is released as a single. NME thinks it "reminds you of the capacity Embrace have to astound and annoy at the same time" . It charts at # 7
Jan 1999: The group spends most of the year making the second album, first in Leeds and then decamping for several months to Batsford Manor, Gloucestershire
Nov 1999: Hooligan, the first song written by Richard, is released as a single as a trailer for the forthcoming second album. "It never quite happened for Embrace, did it?", says NME, apparently overlooking the fact that they had enjoyed a # 1 debut album. Neither does the paper like the song's kazoo solo: "Even buskers have too much class to use kazoos these days." But they find an unexpected fan in Neil McCormack at the Daily Telegraph. Having originally decided they were "a Britpop tribute band fronted by an egomaniac" on the strength of the single he announces he was wrong and they are, in fact, the future of rock'n'roll. Hooligan charts at #18
Mar 2000: Drawn From Memory is released. An impressed NME gives it 8/10 and says "Embrace have finally planted their flag firmly at the summit." It enters the charts at a slightly disappointing # 8
May 2000: Save Me is released as a single. "A huge , brightly coloured Muppet of a tune," says NME. It charts at #29
Jun 2000: Embrace are second on the bill to David Bowie on Glastonbury's main stage on the Sunday night
Aug 2000: Embrace headline the Radio One stage at the Leeds and Reading festivals

From NME.com


 


Thanks for the pic from Radio 1 online :)))