The Feeling – Answers to all the variations of Pop
The Feeling for a Friday after New Years lunch – recorded in concert by BBC Radio 2 on June 2, 2011 at The Mermaid Theatre in London.
The Feeling got started in 1995. 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. They were members of one of the school’s most popular bands. Other past students of the BRIT school include Jessie J, Adele, Tara McDonald and The Kooks.
The band members worked as session musicians for several years before coming together as a group. 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.
On 5 June 2006, The Feeling released their debut album, Twelve Stops and Home, which reached #2 in the UK Albums Chart. 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.
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.
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