Finally, electronic duo The Orb could score their ninth Official Albums Chart Top 40 entry (and first in 13 years) with 17 th studio album Prism (36). Related artists When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes… try some Anxiety Replacement Therapy. The new album by The Lottery Winners isn’t available on prescription; you do have to buy it, but as self-care goes, you’ll be doing yourself a huge service if you make the investment. Ware has done it again and, if you know her for her podcasts, get to know her for her tunes. Seriously, they are bangers. Will Portsmouth's firework displays be going ahead on Southsea Common and Alexandra Park despite flooding and weather warnings?

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Shaun is from just up the road to me, in Little Hulton. The lads from my estate where I grew up in Leigh were enemies with the Little Hulton lads. We’d meet at a park to fight, so when Shaun came to the studio, I wasn’t sure whether to give him a hug or a right hook. I went for the hug.”a b "The Lottery Winners – Anxiety Replacement Therapy". Retro Pop Magazine. 23 April 2023 . Retrieved 3 May 2023. Writing songs really is my anxiety replacement therapy. Once I realised the acronym of ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ is ART, I thought: ‘That’s genius, and it’ll look great on a T-shirt. Let’s have it!’” Each of the albums in my collection are a self-help tape for me,” explains singer Thom Rylance. “If I listen to Paul Simon’s Graceland, it’s because I know it’ll put me in a good mood. If I play The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths, it’s because I want to embrace feeling sad. We wanted to present ‘Anxiety Replacement Therapy’ as a self-help tape for anyone playing it.”

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We know how much our band means to people,” bassist Kate Lloyd adds. “If this album gives support to anyone and helps keep them going, that’d mean more than anything.”It was because I had ADHD, growing up when the awareness of it wasn’t as good as it hopefully is now. For me, school was: ‘He’s a bad egg, get him out’. I grew up feeling I didn’t fit in, because adults told me I didn’t. ‘Letter To Myself’ is me saying: ‘Actually, you’re going to do good things. Don’t worry, keep being you, because it’s OK to be you. You’ll become proud of yourself’. I’m in the process of getting that diagnosis. It’s so glaringly obvious I’ve got it that I’ve never thought I needed it confirmed.” The term’ hard-working band’ is thrown about quite often. It’s become quite the cliché. The Lottery Winners frequently get this label attached to them as they are no strangers to touring and playing live at every opportunity. For example, they came straight from supporting Frank Turner on his UK tour and swiftly set out on their own sojourn around this sceptred isle. However, most bands don’t become shopkeepers. Punk survivors The Damned are riding the crest of a wave nearly half a century on, gigging at the top of their game and unleashing one of their best albums. Yeah! His ADHD is massive too, so I see myself in Shaun there. That makes it comforting, as Shaun is so successful and a poetic genius. He even looks a bit like me. When Shaun came to the studio, I thought: ‘This is future me, isn’t it?’