Tuesday, 7 July 2009

The Feeling Research

I decided to do some background research on The Feeling as they are the band that i am making a music video for. The Feeling are made up of:
> Dan Gillepie Sells - Vocals and guitar
> Richard Jones - Bass guitar and backing vocals
> Kevin Jeremiah - Guitar and backing vocals
>Ciaran Jeremiah - Keyboards and backing vocals
>Paul Stewart - Drums

Three studio albums:
  • Twelve Stops and Home(2006)
  • Join With Us(2008)
  • Yes Please (2009/10)



'12 Stops and Home'
The Feeling have released two albums and are currently working on their third which is going to be called 'Yes Please'. 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 London Underground journey Dan (vocals) used to take from central London to Bounds Green on the Piccadilly Line. It also refers to the number of tracks on the album. The album included four of their well know top ten singles, 'Sewn', 'Fill My Little World', Never Be Lonely and 'Love It When You Call'. During the year of their first album release, The Feeling played more than 200 shows and sold over a million copies of their amazing debut album, all together their songs were played on average around 250 on British radio in 2006.

'Join With US'
Shortly after returning from their tour in America they started on album number 2, 'Join With Us', 'Joint With us' was released early in 2008 and was the band's first number 1. The first single from this album, 'I Thought It Was All Over', entered the UK charts at number 12 on downloads alone, the week after the single reached number nine.
The album was mostly recorded at Bradley House (a stately home in Maiden Bradley) whilst most of the mixing and editing was done in Los Angeles, California.
Later that year it was announced on the band's website that there would be performing on the main stage at the 2008 V Festivals in Chelmsford and Staffordshire
The Feeling then went on to play the pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, during their performance at the mighty festival they performed covers of 'Video Killed The Radio Star' by the Buggles and A-ha's 'Take On Me'.
'join With Us', which was the title track from the album was used in the Toyota Auris TV advertisements, the advert was shown in the United Kingdom and Austria.
Towards the end of 2008 the band set sale on their biggest UK and Irish tour, they performed at 21 different venues.

'Yes Please'
The band's third studio album is set to be released 2009 early 2010.

Tour
Twelve Stops and Home Tour: This was the band's proper headline tour, it lasted just under a month, from mid Febuary to early March. The Feeling toured through the UK and played gigs suppurted by The Fray. The tour started in Norwich, then went to Wolverhampton, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Doncaster, Derby and Manchester, the tour finished at Londons Hammersmith Apollo on the 3rd of March 2007.
Join With Us Tour: Their second UK and Ireland tour started on the 21st October in Europe and later finished in December. They were supported by Das Pop and Gary Go. The Feeling played a variety of their own songs and also playedcovers including:
'Popcorn' origionally by Hot Butter
'Take On Me' origionally by A-Ha
'Walk This Way'
origionally by Aerosmith and Run DMC
'Fight For Your Right To Party'
origionally by Beastie Boys
'You Really Got Me'
origionally by The Kinks
'Loose Yourself'
origionally by Eminem
'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
origionally by The Proclaimers
'Fairytale Of New York'
origionally by The Progues and Kirsty MacColl

Awards
2006
- Q awarded best track to - Never Be Lonely (Nominated)
2007
- BRIT Awards - Best Song - Fill My Little World
- Ivor Novello Awards - Songwriters of the year
- NME Awards - Best Band (Nominated)
2008
- Elle Style Awards - Band of the year

Website
The Feeling also have a website, on this website you can access news, gigs, information about The Feeling, blogs done by the band, videos, forum, pictures and a shop. These are all standard links that you would find on any other artist's website.

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