The Feeling are a five-piece BRIT
award-nominated English
band
from Sussex
and London.
The guitar-based
"soft
rock" band categorise their music as "pop". Their "middle-of-the-road" sound has
been compared to a range of acts including Supertramp,
10cc,
The
Bluetones, Electric Light Orchestra,
Andrew
Gold, Keane, and Elton
John.
Following a limited release of their debut "Fill
My Little World" in late 2005, the band entered the UK Top 10 with their
first full release "Sewn" in March
2006. The single was one of the year's biggest radio hits.
Their debut album Twelve
Stops and Home was released in the UK
on June
5, 2006 and
on February
27, 2007 in
the US.
The album title refers to the frequent journey Dan used to take on the
underground home from central London to Bounds
Green on the Piccadilly Line on the London Underground. It also refers
to the number of tracks on the album.
In early 2007, Planet Sound announced that The Feeling
were the most played band of 2006 on UK radio.
On July 1, 2007, the Feeling performed at the Concert
for Diana at Wembley Stadium. The group performed
"Fill My Little World" and "Love
It When You Call" as the concert's 6th performers.
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Contents
- 1 Members
- 2 Further
information
- 3 Upcoming
- 4 Discography
- 4.1 Albums
- 4.2 EPs
- 4.3 Singles
- 5 Awards
- 6 References
- 7 External
links
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Members
The majority of the band are from Horsham, Sussex, with the
exception of lead vocalist Sells, who is from London, and
bassist Jones, who is from Forest Row, which is also in Sussex.
Their name comes from a small bar in Paris, which they
thought fitting for a band but not for a bar.
They spent a lot of time in the Alps before their début doing covers (such as
"Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles) and live gigs. It
was revealed in a podcast
for The
Times that the band had "blagged" their way into this, saying they
could perform fifty songs when in fact they only knew six.
Further information
Dermot O'Leary was the first national
radio presenter to play The Feeling on his BBC
Radio 2 show early in 2006. After championing The Feeling's "Sewn", BBC
Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles went on to use the group's
second release, "Fill My Little World", as the
theme tune to his Breakfast Show. To celebrate the release of Twelve
Stops and Home, the band's record company, Island
Records, took 120 British music journalists on the Eurostar to Paris for the day,
where the band performed live in a restaurant. This was in recognition
of the fact the band took their name from a Parisian bar.
The Feeling live onstage in Marlay Park, Dublin
The single "Sewn" reached #7 on the UK
Singles Chart in March 2006, followed by the #10 hit "Fill
My Little World" in May 2006. This release spent 4 consecutive
weeks at #16 and outsold the band's debut. "Never
Be Lonely" was released in August 2006 and became their third top
ten hit, peaking at #9, where it stayed for 2 weeks.
The band maintains a blog on The Sun website: On tour with The Feeling while on
UK tour.
They were featured at many of the summer music festivals,
including Coachella,
T
In The Park, V Festival and Oxegen Festival.
They also played at the Jesus May Ball on June 19, 2006.
They appeared on the opening episode of "The Charlotte Church
Show" on September
1, 2006,
performing their hit song "Never Be Lonely" with Charlotte
Church providing background vocals.
They appeared on Children in Need 2006 performing "Love
It When You Call".
They appeared on Live From Abbey Road following
a recording session at Abbey Road Studios in August 2006.
They also appeared on "Al Murray's Happy Hour" on January
20, 2007
performing "Love It When You Call".
Bassist Richard Jones is married to pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor
and they have a child, Sonny, who was born in April 2004.
Dan Gillespie Sells and Richard Jones met as music students at
the BRIT
School in Croydon, Surrey in 1995. They were members of one of the school's
most popular bands, "Horn".
"Fill My Little World" was the
music used in the farewell montage on the last ever The
Vicar of Dibley on New Year's Day 2007.
In an e-mail newsletter released on January
11, 2007, it
was announced that The Feeling were the number one most played band on
UK radio in 2006. Their four singles received a total of 97,436 plays,
which meant that, on average, a song by The Feeling was played 267
times every day, or once every 5 minutes.
In 2006, The Feeling toured the USA,
opening for The Fray and strengthening their
ever-growing following across the Atlantic. They are selling an EP
called Four Stops and Home
along the way. It consists of "Sewn", "Helicopter", "When I Return" and
"All You Need To Do".
During Razorlight's spring 2006 tour,
The Feeling was the support band for Razorlight. In March
2006, The Feeling opened for Nada Surf on their only UK tour date in
2006. [2]
In late 2006
to early 2007,
The Feeling toured the UK
on their biggest native tour to date, performing in Brighton, Bournemouth,
Glasgow,
Cambridge,
Newcastle upon Tyne, Cardiff, Belfast, Bristol, Birmingham,
Nottingham,
Manchester
and London
amongst other cities, with The Fray opening. The tour ended at
the Hammersmith Apollo in London on March 3, 2007.
The Feeling headlined the Kent Music Festival on June 29. On this
occasion, The
Ghosts, a band which they have been touring with recently withdrew due
to unknown reasons. The band also headlined a mini-tour of the UK's
forests with Ghosts, playing at large clearings and forest activity
sites, leading Gillespie Sells to quip about playing to elves. [3]
On July 1st, 2007 The Feeling played at the Concert for Diana,
commemorating the Princess' 46th Birthday and the 10th Anniversary of
her death.
Upcoming
In March
2007, The
Feeling began a tour in the USA.
"Never Be Lonely" has been nominated
for Best Track in this years Q Awards, along with Arctic
Monkeys' "I Bet You Look
Good on the Dancefloor", Snow Patrol's "Chasing
Cars", Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Scissor
Sisters' "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'".
In another e-mail newsletter released January
25, 2007,
Kevin revealed that recording for the band's second album had started.
The only confirmed track on this album is "Join With Us", which the
band are currently playing on tour. The majority of the recording for
the album is to take place in a country house/cottage.
The Feeling performed at the Isle of Wight Festival
2007, playing on the opening day, June 8, along with Snow
Patrol. They played at Hyde Park on June 23 along
with Peter Gabriel, Crowded House and the Ghosts.
In an interview with the music blog Chart Rigger dated April 20, 2007, Dan said The
Feeling will be working on a track for their second album with Trevor
Horn: "I'm a big fan of his, and he's not doing the album
with us, but he's doing a track with us. I don't want to commit to a
producer for an album, but I do certainly want to do a track with
Trevor."
When asked about new material, Sophie Ellis-Bextor
said "the new demos are fabulous".
Discography
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Main article: The Feeling discography
Albums
- Twelve Stops and Home
(2006) — #2 (UK)
EPs
- Four Stops and Home
(2006)
Singles
| Year |
Single |
Chart positions |
UK
Singles
Chart |
Ireland |
Holland |
[[Canary
Islands]] |
UK
Download
Chart |
| 2005 |
"Fill My Little World" |
|
|
|
|
|
| 2006 |
"Sewn" |
7 |
|
23 |
|
6 |
| 2006 |
"Fill My Little World" (reissue) |
10 |
31 |
29 |
9 |
7 |
| 2006 |
"Never Be Lonely" |
9 |
31 |
|
|
6 |
| 2006 |
"Love It When You Call" |
18 |
32 |
|
|
16 |
| 2007 |
"Rosé" |
38 |
|
|
|
153 |
Awards
2006
- Q Award - Best Track - Never
Be Lonely (nominated)
2007
- BRIT Awards -
Best Song - Fill My Little World (nominated)
(got to the final 5)
- Ivor Novello Awards
- Songwriters of the Year
References
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[1]
External links
Dan Gillespie Sells |
Richard Jones |
Kevin Jeremiah |
Ciaran Jeremiah |
Paul Stewart
Discography
Studio albums and EPs: Twelve Stops and Home |
Four Stops and Home
Singles: "Fill My Little World" |
"Sewn" |
"Never Be Lonely" |
"Love It When You Call" |
"Rosé"
