The Feeling

Known for their radio-friendly, lulling indie pop, the school friends-turned-session musicians first united as The Feeling when frontman Dan Gillespie Sells was recruited from Scottish indie hopefuls Speedway. Early gigs playing covers at an Alpine ski resort, and then as a house band on the Channel 4 chat show The Richard Blackwood Show, paved the way for the band's UK Number 2 debut album Twelve Steps From Home (2006). Full of the trademark fragile, lush harmonies and silky sweet pop hooks that the band would become known for, it produced the Top 10 singles "Sewn," "Never Be Lonely" and the BRIT-nominated "Fill My Little World." With the mainstream quickly becoming enamoured, the band became the most-played band on British radio in 2006, notching up an impressive 97,436 plays. Second album Join With Us (2008) shot straight to Number 1 in the UK followed by appearances at Glastonbury and V Festival and a support slot for Bon Jovi, but singles "I Thought It Was Over," "Without You" and "Turn It Up" failed to catch on in the same way. During the 2010s, the band picked up momentum across a slew of albums, from 2013 concept album Boy Cried Wolf and 2016 follow-up The Feeling to 2022's Loss. Hope. Love. Released in 2024, the band's seventh album, San Vito, was recorded in a studio in the Salento region of Puglia.