The Feeling

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The Feeling

Performing in London, 2007
Background information
Origin Horsham, Sussex, England
Genres pop
Years active 1995 - Present
Labels MCA Music, Inc./Island Records
Website www.thefeeling.co.uk
Members
Dan Gillespie Sells
Richard Jones
Kevin Jeremiah
Ciaran Jeremiah
Paul Stewart

The Feeling are a five-piece BRIT award-nominated British boyband from Sussex and London. The band categorise their music as "pop".[1]

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 BBC Radio 2, along with their first live radio session.

Their debut album Twelve Stops and Home was released in the UK on June 5, 2006 and on February 27, 2007 in the US. Their second album, Join With Us, which reached number-one on the UK Charts, was released on February 18, 2008.

Their name comes from a neon sign seen on a bar (Le Feeling) in Paris.[2]

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[edit] History

[edit] Formation and early years: 1995-2005

The majority of the band 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. Sells and 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.

The band members worked as session musicians for several years before coming together as a group.[3] The Feeling has its roots in a cover's band called Superfly, which Paul Stewart and Ciaran and Kevin Jeremiah played in, and which also acted 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 "Reign In 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.[4][5] It was 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.[6] 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.

[edit] Twelve Stops and Home, growing popularity and airplay: (2006-2007)

On 5 June 2006, The Feeling released their debut album, Twelve Stops and Home, which reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart.[7] 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 Feeling live onstage in Marlay Park, Dublin

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.[7] 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.[7]

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. During this time, the band maintained a blog on The Sun newspaper's website.[8] It continued intermittently until January 2007.

"Fill My Little World" was used in the farewell montage on the last ever 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, and several of their songs appeared in the 2007 film, Hostel Part II. 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, leading Gillespie Sells to quip about playing to elves.[9]

In an e-mail newsletter released on January 11, 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.[10]

[edit] Join With Us: (2007-2008)

Their second album, entitled Join With Us was released on February 18, 2008, with the first single "I Thought It Was Over" entering the UK charts at #12 on February 10, 2008 on the strength of downloads alone.[7] The album peaked at #1 on the UK Charts, making it the band's first album to reach the #1 spot.[7]

The majority of the album was recorded at the Bradley House - a stately home in Maiden Bradley near Warminster, Wiltshire (home of the Duke of Somerset),[11] 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 Bon Jovi's Lost Highway World Tour.[12]

On the 27th 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 different venues.

[edit] Third Album: (2009-2010)

The Feeling are currently recording their third studio album with producer Bob Ezrin, which is due to be released in the spring of 2010.[13]

[edit] Discography

Main article: The Feeling discography

[edit] Members

[edit] Awards and nominations

2006

2007

2008

[edit] References

  1. ^ Young, Ian (2006-01-06). "Sound of 2006: The Feeling". bbc.co.uk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4529764.stm. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
  2. ^ Perrone, Pierre (2008-01-29). "The Feeling, Porchester Hall, London". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/the-feeling-porchester-hall-london-775099.html. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
  3. ^ Loundras, Alexia (2006) "The Feeling: A band with a passion for pop", The Independent, 17 February 2006, retrieved 6 September 2009
  4. ^ Leahy, Andrew "The Feeling Biography", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation
  5. ^ "Blog entry". thefeeling.com. http://www.thefeeling.com/blog/index.php?id=509. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
  6. ^ Paphides, Pete (2006-01-27). "That loving Feeling". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article720521.ece. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
  7. ^ a b c d e The Feeling, ChartStats
  8. ^ "On tour with The Feeling". The Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006220002-2006220302,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
  9. ^ "Forestry Commission - The Feeling live at Westonbirt Delamere and Cannock Chase", Forestry Commission
  10. ^ Mulholland, Garry (2008) "The Feeling, Join With Us", The Guardian, 17 February 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009
  11. ^ Bradley House
  12. ^ The Feeling confirmed as Bon Jovi support (Music-News.com) April 1, 2008
  13. ^ http://www.thefeeling.com/news.php?item=244
  14. ^ Alexander, Hilary (2008) "Dan Gillespie Sells: 'Scruffy jeans are such a shame'", Daily Telegraph, 23 June 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009

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