The Feeling

Gillespie-Sells: Hey, show some love

Join With Us

The Feeling get a rough deal, some would say rightly so, perhaps because of their ubiquitous nature and err, success.

Their first album, Twelve Stops and Home sold by the bucket load, it was a commercial smash, dominating the airwaves, not only on Radio 1 but also on Radio 2.

So this is how the album found its way onto the supermarket shelves where it gets casually thrown into packed trolleys as a treat for mum.

Whether they like it or not The Feeling have become bedfellows with the likes of Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua.

So they are middle class, but not in a way that requires a Will Self essay, just nice middle class boys that made no bones about producing music that leafed through the back catalogues of seventies MOR.

Haven’t we spent the last thirty years trying to forget that period?

Lead singer Dan Gillespie-Sells modelled for M&S, bass player Richard Jones was married to an equally nice middle class girl from Chiswick called Sophie Ellis Bextor.

They rode the MOR revival – which was slighty fashionable 18 months ago, but now it’s a different prospect as the likes of Waitrose are lining up Adele and Duffy. Will people still ‘feel’ The Feeling – in the sense of fondling the physical product before dropping it in alongside the organic chicken breasts?

New album Join With Us certainly has it’s good moments, tracks such as ‘I Thought It Was Over’ and ‘Turn It Up’ you will just plain, err, like.

The Question is, will you still like them after they’ve ruined your summer, The Feeling are set to dominate every commercial radio station in the land – be prepared to get your excuses in early for why you don’t like them. Even if you secretly do.

We say: Time to redeem those clubcard points.

They say: ‘Any band would murder for this number of viciously bouncy hooks,’ The Times

Best Track: ‘Greatest Show on Earth,’ great balladry from the feel-merchants.

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