“Dating scares the shit out of me,” Isaac Holman says. “Physical activities when dating is a whole other story, terrifying. This is a tune about that.”
Isaac Holman has launched his new solo venture Baby Dave with a whimsical track entitled Too Shy For Tennis.
Produced by Damon Albarn, as the Slaves drummer describes this cut is the first taste of a project which emerged as he battled mental health problems and which proved to be a constant on the road to recovery.
“I was living with my parents after a serious mental health breakdown,” he reveals. “I was very unwell, I’d lost my mind and I was suicidal. Once I started feeling a bit better, I began to write.”
“Sitting in my childhood bedroom, on my bed, these tunes started coming out of me. Then lockdown happened and amongst the madness the writing continued. I moved into a flat just down the road because we were all still worried about my mental state.”
“I got a job as a gardener because I didn’t think I could do music again properly and I needed a bit of purpose. I was still writing though, I didn’t really know what for but it was just sorting my head out so I kept doing it. Then the project started coming together. I quit my job and decided to go for it.”
