{{Short description|English rock/pop band}} {{other uses|Feeling (disambiguation)}} {{distinguish|The Feelies}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = The Feeling | image = TheFeelingLive.jpg | caption = Performing in London, 2007 | image_size = | landscape = yes | background = group_or_band | origin = Horsham, Sussex, England | genre = {{flatlist| *Soft rock<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/feeling-soft-machine-returns-8872241.html%3famp |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/feeling-soft-machine-returns-8872241.html%3famp |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=The Independent|title=The Feeling: the soft machine returns|first=Elisa|last=Bray|date=10 October 2013}}</ref> *power pop<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/join-with-us-mw0001184232|title=Join with Us - The Feeling - Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=AllMusic}}</ref> *yacht rock<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/singles-2006-2011-mw0002260313|title=Singles (2006-2011) - The Feeling - Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/together-we-were-made-mw0002154690|title=Together We Were Made - The Feeling | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}</ref> }} | years_active = 1995–present | label = MCA Music, Inc./Island | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|https://www.thefeeling.com/}} | current_members = Dan Gillespie Sells<br/>Richard Jones<br/>Kevin Jeremiah<br/>Ciaran Jeremiah<br/>Paul Stewart }}
'''The Feeling''' are an English rock/pop band from Horsham, Sussex.
Following a limited release of their first single "Fill My Little World" in late 2005, the band entered the UK Singles Chart at #7 with their first full release "Sewn" in February 2006. The single was one of the year's biggest radio hits, after being played first in the UK on the Dermot O'Leary Show on Radio 2, along with their first live radio session.
Their debut album ''Twelve Stops and Home'' was released in the UK on 5 June 2006 and on 27 February 2007 in the US. Their second album, ''Join with Us'', which reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, was released on 18 February 2008. Their third album, ''Together We Were Made'', was released on 20 June 2011, followed by the release of their greatest hits album ''Singles (2006–2011)'' on 5 December. Their fourth album ''Boy Cried Wolf'' was released in 2013. In March 2016 the band released their self-titled 5th studio album. Their sixth studio album, ''Loss. Hope. Love.'', was released in May 2022. Their name comes from a neon sign seen by bassist Richard on a bar (Le Feeling) in Paris.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-feeling-porchester-hall-london-775099.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-feeling-porchester-hall-london-775099.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Feeling, Porchester Hall, London |work=The Independent|date=29 January 2008|last=Perrone|first=Pierre|access-date=11 November 2008}}</ref>
==History== ===1995–2005: Formation and early years=== [[File:TheFeeling.jpg|thumb|240px|Dan Gillespie Sells with The Feeling at the Marquee Club, Leicester Square, London, February 2005]] The majority of the band members are from Horsham, Sussex, with the exception of lead vocalist Dan Gillespie Sells, who is from London, and bassist Richard Jones, who is from Forest Row, in Sussex. The Jeremiahs and Stewart met while attending St Wilfrid's Catholic School, Crawley, Sussex. Sells and Jones met as music students at the BRIT School in Croydon in 1995.
The band members worked as session musicians for several years before coming together as a group.<ref name="Loundras">Loundras, Alexia (2006) "[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104083101/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-feeling-a-band-with-a-passion-for-pop-525890.html The Feeling: A band with a passion for pop]", ''The Independent'', 17 February 2006, retrieved 6 September 2009</ref> The Feeling has its roots in a covers band called Superfly, which Paul Stewart and Ciaran and Kevin Jeremiah played in, and which also acted as the house band on ''The Richard Blackwood Show''. They spent a lot of time performing as resident band at the La Tania ski resort in the Alps before their début doing covers (such as "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles and "Raining Blood" by Slayer), and after the line-up of The Feeling had been completed, they continued to use the name Superfly, as it was easier to get bookings.<ref name="Leahy">Leahy, Andrew "[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p818964/biography|pure_url=yes}} The Feeling Biography]", ''Allmusic'', Macrovision Corporation</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefeeling.com/blog/index.php?id=509|access-date=11 November 2008|title=Blog entry|publisher=thefeeling.com}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>
It was later revealed in a podcast for ''The Times'' that the band had "blagged" their way into the La Tania residency, saying they could perform fifty songs when in fact they only knew six.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article720521.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617004606/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article720521.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2011|title=That loving Feeling|work=The Times|date=27 January 2006|access-date=11 November 2008|last=Paphides|first=Pete|location=London}}</ref> The last gigs in the Alps were in the winter of 2004. After these gigs they would sell demo CDs, which included the tracks "Funny Cigarette", "Sun Is Shining", "Still You Want More", "Never Be Lonely" and "Join with Us". Most of these tracks have since been released as singles, album tracks, or B-sides.
===2006–2007: ''Twelve Stops and Home''=== According to Island Records A&R Louis Bloom, a particularly underwhelming industry showcase gig prompted various record company representatives in attendance to pass on the band.<ref name="hitquarters.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_Bloom.html |title=Interview With Louis Bloom |publisher=HitQuarters|date=4 April 2011 |access-date=18 April 2011}}</ref> However, following the performance their manager, Adrian Jolly, phoned up Bloom and persuaded him to ignore the disastrous gig and instead listen to the band's demos. The demos - which featured all the eventual singles from the debut album - convinced the Island A&R to sign the band, who singled out the songwriting in particular as being "fantastic".<ref name="hitquarters.com"/>
On 5 June 2006, The Feeling released their debut album, ''Twelve Stops and Home'', which reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart.<ref name="CS" /> To celebrate the release, 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 first single, "Sewn" reached #7 on the UK charts in March 2006, followed by the top ten hit "Fill My Little World" in May 2006.<ref name="CS">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artists/|title=The Feeling|publisher=Official Charts Company|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref> The release spent four consecutive weeks at #16 and outsold the band's debut single. "Never Be Lonely" was released in August 2006 and became their third top ten hit, peaking at #9, where it stayed for two weeks.<ref name="CS" />
In 2006, The Feeling toured the United States, opening for The Fray and strengthening their following across the Atlantic. They sold an EP named ''Four Stops and Home'' along the way. It consisted of two album tracks "Sewn" and "Helicopter" and two future B-sides "When I Return" and "All You Need To Do". In November 2006, just days after returning from the US, the band headed off on their first major UK and Ireland tour, playing at Birmingham, London, Cambridge, Brighton, Oxford, Southampton, Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Hull, Glasgow, Leeds, Belfast and Dublin.<ref>{{cite web | author = Colothan, Scott | year = 2006 | title = The Feeling announce UK tour | url = https://www.gigwise.com/news/19584/The-Feeling-Announce-UK-Tour | publisher = Gigwise | access-date = 2021-01-29}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
"Fill My Little World" was used in the farewell montage on the last ''The Vicar of Dibley'' on New Year's Day 2007 and an edited version of "Love It When You Call" appeared in the 2007 film ''Good Luck Chuck''. At the end of March 2007, the band went Stateside once again, taking part in VH1's first ever "You Oughta Know" tour alongside Mat Kearney and Rocco DeLuca and The Burden. The tour lasted approximately two months, and finished with The Feeling playing the 2007 Coachella festival in Indio, California.
The band also headlined a mini-tour of the UK's forests around June 2007. They played at large clearings and forest activity sites, near their own homes, leading Gillespie-Sells to quip about playing to elves.<ref>"[http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-6y8kzq Forestry Commission - The Feeling live at Westonbirt Delamere and Cannock Chase]", Forestry Commission</ref>
In an e-mail newsletter released on 11 January 2007, it was announced that The Feeling was the 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.<ref name="Mulholland">Mulholland, Garry (2008) "[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/17/popandrock.shopping14 The Feeling, Join With Us]", ''The Guardian'', 17 February 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009</ref>
===2007–2008: ''Join with Us''=== thumb|240px|Kevin Jeremiah in 2008 Their second album, entitled ''Join with Us'' was released on 18 February 2008, with the first single "I Thought It Was Over" entering the UK charts at #12 on 10 February 2008 on the strength of downloads alone.<ref name="CS" /> The album debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart.<ref name="CS" />
The majority of the album was recorded at Bradley House,{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} a stately home in Maiden Bradley near Warminster, Wiltshire (home of the Duke of Somerset),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bradleyhouse.org/home|title=Bradley House|publisher=Bradleyhouse.org|access-date=27 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405153300/http://www.bradleyhouse.org/home|archive-date=5 April 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> whilst most mixing was carried out in Los Angeles, California.
The band performed at the 2008 V Festivals in Chelmsford and Staffordshire in August. On 7 March 2008, they embarked on a mini-tour of the UK, starting in Birmingham Academy and ending at London. On 1 April 2008, it was confirmed that they would support Bon Jovi at four of their seven dates on the UK leg of their Lost Highway Tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?nItemID=18520&bPrint=1|title=The Feeling confirmed as Bon Jovi support (Music-News.com) 1 April 2008|publisher=Music-news.com|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref>
On 27 June 2008, the band played the pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival, which was their first appearance at the legendary festival. During the performance, they covered The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" and A-ha's "Take On Me". In November 2008, the band embarked on one of their biggest UK and Irish tours to date, performing at 21 venues.
===2009–2011: ''Together We Were Made'' and greatest hits=== Their third studio album was released on 20 June 2011. The band played a short two-night series of intimate concerts at The Water Rats on 4 and 5 May 2010 to preview new tracks for the album.
Singer and wife of bassist Richard Jones Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed a duet with the band on their third album on the song "Leave Me Out of It".
During two small concerts at The Water Rats venue in London 4 and 5 May 2010, The Feeling showcased 10 new songs: "Set My World on Fire", "Leave Me Out of It", "Build a Home" (originally "Penny's Dropped"), "Love & Care", "Another Soldier", "Say No", "Seven Years", "Searched Every Corner", "Bullshit Rules the World" and "Undeniable" (the last track on their third album).
"Set My World on Fire" was confirmed as the new single on 6 February 2011 to be released on iTunes in March, however the date was pushed back in order to make way for a limited-edition CD release of the single. The song was released on 1 May. They performed "Set My World on Fire" on ITV1's ''Paul O'Grady Live'' on 6 May 2011. On 2 June 2011, The Feeling played a concert for Radio 2 at The Mermaid Theatre in Blackfriars, London. During this set they played numerous songs from the new album including "Set My World on Fire", "Say No", "Leave Me Out of It", "Another Soldier" and "A Hundred Sinners".
Due to the inclusion of a re-recorded version of the band's 2007 single "Rosé" on a worldwide TV commercial for Burberry Body perfume,<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Colleen Nika |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/thread-count/exclusive-the-feeling-soundtrack-burberry-body-campaign-20111011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012145310/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/thread-count/exclusive-the-feeling-soundtrack-burberry-body-campaign-20111011 |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 October 2011 |title=Exclusive: The Feeling Soundtrack Burberry Body Campaign | Colleen Nika |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=28 March 2012}}</ref> the band announced that their first greatest hits album ''Singles (2006–2011)'' would be released on 5 December 2011, featuring all of the band's singles to date.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefeeling.com/news/375 |title=Singles Collection out on December 5th! |publisher=The Feeling |date=7 November 2011 |access-date=28 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106055456/http://www.thefeeling.com/splash |archive-date=6 November 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In November 2011, in an interview on the band's website, drummer Paul Stewart revealed that they had begun work on their fourth studio album after a string of successful live dates with a stand in instrumentalist known as cosmic vibes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefeeling.com/news/376 |title=The catch-up #119: Paul |publisher=The Feeling |date=10 November 2011 |access-date=28 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120604113003/http://www.thefeeling.com/news/376 |archive-date=4 June 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
===2012–2016: ''Boy Cried Wolf'', The Feeling + hiatus === In 2012, the band performed as the headline act at Gonville & Caius' May Ball, playing a range of their greatest hits and some covers.
They were set to do a UK tour in April 2013 promoting their fourth studio album ''Boy Cried Wolf'', but had to delay it to October 2013 to synchronise with the release of the album. As an apology for rescheduling the tour, the band did a small show at The Doghouse (Dan's house) at which they played songs from the fourth album, including "Rescue" and "Boy Cried Wolf". This was also a live webcast and can be viewed at any time at www.thefeeling.com. The band topped the bill at the Rochdale Feel Good Festival, 31 August 2013, where they played tracks off the new album.
On 28 September 2015 the band released a lyric video for the single "Wicked Heart". Their fifth studio album ''The Feeling'' released on 4 March 2016.<ref name="The Feeling album">{{Cite web|title = The Feeling reveal new album live|url = http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/93237/The-Feeling-reveal-new-album-live|website = Music-News.com|access-date = 2021-01-29}}</ref>
The band played a final UK tour of sellout gigs towards the end of 2016, announcing that the last show of the tour would mark a hiatus until at least 2018.
===2017–2019: end of hiatus and ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie''=== The hiatus announced in 2016 only lasted until 2017 after a surprise return on Chris Evans' ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' and an announcement they would be playing CarFest 2018.
As part of the hiatus, Dan Gillespie Sells collaborated with writer and lyricist Tom MacRae to create the music for the musical ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie'', which premiered in Sheffield in February 2017 and moved to the West End in November 2017. The musical was very successful, and in 2018 Gillespie Sells received a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music at the 2018 Laurence Olivier Awards. A film adaptation was announced in May 2018 and released in September 2021, with Gillespie Sells collaborating again with MacRae on the soundtrack.
===2020–present: ''Loss. Love. Hope.'' and ''San Vito''=== In an interview with Vicki Michelle on Phoenix FM in February 2019, Gillespie Sells stated that the band were writing a new album, due for release in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|author=Paul Golder |url=https://www.phoenixfm.com/2019/02/24/vicki-michelles-music-mix-show-45-dan-gillespie-sells/ |title=Vicki Michelle's Music Mix show 45 with Dan Gillespie Sells |date=24 February 2019 |publisher=Phoenix FM |access-date=24 February 2019}}</ref> And on 2 December 2020, the band posted a picture on social media of the progress of fourteen songs off their sixth studio album.<ref>{{cite web |author1=The Feeling |title=Oh yes! This is happening... |url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=215625423268046&set=p.215625423268046 |access-date=8 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508060039/https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=215625423268046&set=p.215625423268046 |archive-date=8 May 2023 |language=en |date=December 2, 2020 |url-status=live |via=Facebook}}</ref> With the COVID-19 lockdown in London, they spent more time to record and self-produce the album entitled ''Loss. Hope. Love'' with a release date set for early May 2022. In September 2021, as a taster for the new album, they released their version of "This Was Me", which Dan Gillespie Sells wrote for the film adaptation of the West End musical ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie''.<ref name="xsnoize">{{cite web |last1=Millar |first1=Mark |title=THE FEELING open up a new chapter with brand new album 'Loss. Hope. Love' |url=https://www.xsnoize.com/the-feeling-open-up-a-new-chapter-with-brand-new-album-loss-hope-love-out-may-6th-2022/ |website=XS Noize |date=3 September 2021 |publisher=xsnoize.com |access-date=23 September 2021}}</ref> The Feeling also recorded the title track for the soundtrack. They also announced a major UK tour for October 2022.
On 31 January 2023 the band announced they started working on their upcoming 7th album. The album's title would be later revealed as "San Vito", released on 12 April 2024, on digital download, CD and vinyl, in association with a UK/Europe tour throughout 2024.
==Musical style and influences== The Feeling have cited Elton John, Supertramp, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, and 10cc as influences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-feeling-mn0000414116|title=The Feeling - Music Biography, Credits and Discography - AllMusic|work=AllMusic|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref> The group's guitar-and piano-driven pop/rock sound has been described as power pop, soft rock, melodic rock, pop rock and progressive pop.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/boy-cried-wolf-mw0002561714|title=Boy Cried Wolf - The Feeling - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic|work=AllMusic|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/join-with-us-mw0001184232|title=Join With Us - The Feeling - Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards - AllMusic|work=AllMusic|access-date=27 September 2014}}</ref>
==Members== *Dan Gillespie Sells – lead vocals, guitars *Richard Jones – bass guitar, vocals *Kevin Jeremiah – guitars, vocals *Ciaran Jeremiah – keyboards, vocals *Paul Stewart – drums
== Discography == {{Main|The Feeling discography}}
*''Twelve Stops and Home'' (2006) *''Join with Us'' (2008) *''Together We Were Made'' (2011) *''Boy Cried Wolf'' (2013) *''The Feeling'' (2016) *''Loss. Hope. Love.'' (2022) * ''San Vito'' (2024)
==Awards and nominations== '''2006''' *Q Awards – Best Track – "Never Be Lonely" (Nominated)
'''2007''' *BRIT Awards – British Single of the Year – "Fill My Little World" (Nominated) *Ivor Novello Awards – Songwriters of the Year (Won)<ref name="Alexander">Alexander, Hilary (2008) "[https://archive.today/20130505091541/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/hilaryalexander/3364987/Dan-Gillespie-Sells-Scruffy-jeans-are-such-a-shame.html Dan Gillespie Sells: 'Scruffy jeans are such a shame']", ''Daily Telegraph'', 23 June 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009</ref> *NME Awards – Best Band (Nominated)
'''2008''' *Elle Style Awards – Band of the Year (Won)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} *{{official website|http://www.thefeelingofficial.com}} *[https://instagram.com/feelinginsta/ Instagram] *{{allMusic}}
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