The Feeling will release new album ‘San Vito' on 12th April 2024, with new single ‘The Right Wrong' out now.
2024 marks nearly 20 years since The Feeling started releasing records and ‘San Vito', available to pre-order now, is their seventh studio album. It was written and recorded by the band in Southern Italy. The title ‘San Vito’ is influenced by the name of the local town San Vito Dei Normanni where the band spent their time off from the studio soaking in the local culture, food and pizzica music. Fittingly, San Vito is also the patron saint of dancers and entertainment.
The band comments on the album, “2023 was a big year for us. Dan moved on from the Doghouse, our long-term base and studio, so in January we decided to try something different and headed to a studio in the Salento region of Puglia, southern Italy to write some songs and see what happened. Just like when we first recorded ‘Twelve Stops…’ in Kev and Ciaran’s parents’ shed, being locked away together and focused on our creativity as a band was a winning formula. After the first week we came back with five songs and a vibe on the recordings that felt exciting, fresh and very much ‘The Feeling’!
They continue, “We made the decision to write and record the whole album there, and over the course of the year we ventured back out, with the album coming together in no time. The sun, food and culture seeped through into the sounds we were making. We brought in local brass, strings and pizzica / tarantella percussion players. It’s very much an album by The Feeling but with a little Salento flavour mixed-in, and we’re very excited for you all to hear it.”
The first taster from the album is ‘The Right Wrong', which is out now' The song is about freeing yourself from judgement and frontman Dan Gillespie Sells comments, “Freedom is a subject that fascinates me. I grew up queer in a queer household so people’s idea of right and wrong were something we dealt with daily. This is just a pure pop song that playfully encourages the listener to make their own rules.”
Following the release of ‘San Vito', The Feeling will embark on a UK tour throughout May, including a show in London at the iconic venue, KOKO.
‘San Vito' track list:
- War’s Not Won
- The Right Wrong
- My Way Up
- Join In The Noise
- I Won’t Sleep Tonight
- Intermezzo
- Sun Won’t Shine
- Eyes Open
- Foul Weather Friend
- Call It Home
- Everyday And All Of The Night
- Beautiful Lies
Tour Dates:
May 03 2024 – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
May 04 2024 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
May 05 2024 – CARDIFF Tramshed
May 07 2024 – LIVERPOOL Eventim Olympia
May 09 2024 – GLASGOW Barrowlands
May 10 2024 – NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NX
May 11 2024 – MANCHESTER Albert Hall
May 13 2024 – SHEFFIELD Foundry
May 14 2024 – CAMBRIDGE Junction
May 16 2024 – BRIGHTON Concorde 2
May 17 2024 – LONDON KOKO
May 18 2024 – SOUTHAMPTON Engine Rooms
Tickets are on sale now at https://tourlink.to/TheFeelingUKTour.
