Adam Nutter

The Proper Mental Podcast

Welcome to episode 133 with Adam Nutter who is a guitarist, musician and songwriter.

Adam formed The Music with some friends (Robert Harvey, Stuart Coleman, Phil Jordan) while still at high school and the band were quickly called the best unsigned band in Britain by the NME.

When the group turned 18, they released their debut album which went in to the charts at number 4 and they set off on tour with the likes of U2, Oasis and Coldplay.

After two years of relentless touring, there was suddenly a lot of record label pressure to make a follow up record and the next few years would be complicated by the stresses of touring, music industry politics, burn out and the impact of streaming music.

The band called it a day whilst working on what would have been album number 4 and Adam found himself back at home and estranged from the rest of the band and without the only job that he knew how to do. He was still only in his late twenties at this point and all of this combined took a massive toll on his mental health and his sense of identity.

He turned his back on music, put his guitars in storage and wouldn’t play again for a decade. He would also be diagnosed with ADHD and Bipolar and had to try and work out who he was and what he was going to do with the rest of his life. He spiralled in to a really dark and angry place.

An unexpected but lovely series of events, linked to lockdown and the pandemic and a Tim Burgess Twitter Listening Party, would allow Adam to reconnect with this band mates and the fans of the music they made together.

He started playing guitar again and made peace with everything that happened by writing his new solo album ‘Badlands on Fire’.

It’s an incredible story and it was hard to hear at times but it does come with a really beautiful ending and I can’t thank Adam enough for sharing it with me!

His new record is available here: Adam Nutter | "Badlands on Fire" - OUT NOW

Adam has his own podcast ‘The Music and More’ which is available everywhere.

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