Genre: Pop
Embrace are an English rock band from Bailiff Bridge, Brighouse, West Yorkshire. To date they have released five studio albums, one singles album and one b-sides compilation. The band consists of brothers singer Danny McNamara and guitarist Richard McNamara, bassist Steve Firth, keyboardist Mickey Dale, and drummer Mike Heaton. The group have released five studio albums – The Good Will Out (1998), Drawn from Memory (2000), If You've Never Been (2001), Out of Nothing (2004) and This New Day (2006) – with a sixth in the works, expected to be released sometime in 2010.
The band was begun in a small outbuilding at the bottom of a garden in Bailiff Bridge in 1990. A bass player joined the Mcnamara brothers, Richard playing guitar and Danny singing (into an upturned broomstick at the early stages.)The three of them started creating songs, with the aid of a cassettee recorder, and soon a drum machine was added and a pa . A viable set was soon created, and a 4 track version of a song recorded on cassette 4 track in a house in Leeds. Over the summer various songs were dropped and new ones written, and the decision was made to search for a drummer, and then move on to rehearsing in studios in Leeds. After various auditions, the current drummer was settled on. A period of consolidation of songs and writing of new ones followed, but no gigs until 2 years later. Once gigs did begin, the 4 member band recorded a three track cassette demo in a studio in Huddersfield which was sold at concerts and found that a following was building up. Another recording was attempted at a studio in Manchester, and though this session was abandoned, one of the songs was released in a rough mix state on cassette by a fanzine.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_(English_band)