Quit Drinking And Cocaine: Seye Adelekan On Hitting Rock Bottom

Seye Adelekan is the bassist for Gorillaz. He's toured with Lana Del Rey, Emeli Sandé, KT Tunstall and Paloma Faith. By his early thirties, he'd also spent three months locked in his bedroom, drinking three bottles of cheap wine a day, scraping cocaine bags off the floor, with bottles piled to the height of his bed.

On April 1st 2019 he walked through the doors of Teen Challenge, a residential Christian rehab in the middle of a motorway. No phone. No internet. No guitar for the first 16 weeks.

What followed was an identity crisis, a confrontation with childhood trauma he'd packed away, and the slow rebuild of a person who could finally tell the difference between his playing being okay and him being okay.

In this conversation with Sober Dave, Seye talks about sober shaming, the music industry's relationship with drink, and the blast radius of good decisions.

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and contact links for Seye.

Instagram @seyemusic

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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Instagram - @TheDaniellaMartinez

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