Traceyanne Campbell opens up on her new music project with Danny Coughlan two years after losing bes

Traceyanne Campbell opens up on her new music project with Danny Coughlan two years after losing best pal Carey Lander to cancer.: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/enterta.... Thanks for watching, subscribe for more videos:    / @busibbisobs9072   Musicians Traceyanne ­Campbell and Danny Coughlan are the kind of people it would be easy to lose hours with. Their friendship is effortless, the laughter is easy, the egos negligible. It’s just over two years since ­Tracyanne’s best friend, and Camera Obscura bandmate, Carey Lander died from cancer. She left behind a desolate space in Tracyanne’s life, which Danny is helping occupy. Now for the first time since Carey’s death, Tracyanne has recorded again – in a collaboration with Danny, who previously recorded as Crybaby. Their “melodic, murdery” album, Tracyanne and Danny, contains a tribute to Carey in the track Alabama. “When I’m an old lady I’ll still miss you like crazy,” sings Tracyanne. She said: “Losing Carey was massive. It still really has an impact. “My whole life was completely changed. One day Carey was there, every day I saw her, and then she was gone. That was mind blowing. It was losing my identity in a sense because my identity was wrapped up in her. “She was part of my job, she helped with my child, we went shopping, she came for Sunday dinner. Then she was gone and I am wandering down the street and everything reminds me of her.” Tracyanne is from Glasgow, while London-born Danny is based in Bristol. They were introduced by mutual friends in the business in 2013. He opened some Camera Obscura shows in the UK and the pair shared admiration and song ideas. But tentative plans to work together were set aside while Camera Obscura wrote, recorded, released and promoted their fifth album Desire Lines. Carey died form a rare form of bone cancer, in October 2015, aged 33, four years after diagnosis. She had guts and fire, refusing to leave the world quietly, enduring chemotherapy and an operation which, but for the surgeon’s skills, could have cost her a leg. Traceyanne says the keyboard player and vocalist is one of the highlights of Desire Lines, an album Carey insisted they finish, despite the band ­struggling to find the stomach for it. Tracyanne added: “I was ­trying to write and some songs took ages because it just wasn’t my priority, Carey was. There were hospital trips. “It was hard. There were times when she seemed a bit better. There was a light at the end of the tunnel but then the hope went.” Camera Obscura were popular here but even bigger in the United States and when Carey died, tributes came from the likes of Hollywood director Judd Apatow and actor Zooey Deschanel. Since then, Camera Obscura just haven’t had the heart to record, with an unspoken need to press pause. Tracyanne said: “We are still processing such a big thing. We still keep in touch, see each other and talk but it is still painful.” But Tracyanne knows Carey would have been proud of how they have slowly pulled themselves together. Having son Gene, four, with her musician husband Tim Davidson, also “made wallowing ­impossible”. And Tracyanne has found solace in this “amazing outlet” with Danny, which also provided a chance to stand on her own t #TraceyanneCampbell, #opens, #music, #project, #with, #DannyCoughlan, #years, #after, #losing, #best, #CareyLander #CancerGlasgow