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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Harriet Gibsone

The Feeling look back at a GAY homecoming: ‘We did Spice Up Your Life. It blew the roof off’

Dan Gillespie Sells, Richard Jones, Paul Stewart and brothers Kevin and Ciaran Jeremiah are teen friends turned commercial rock and pop band the Feeling. Former Brit school students, they cut their teeth as successful covers group Superfly and as session musicians, and were propelled from the pub circuit to the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury thanks to the success of their debut Twelve Stops and Home. The group went on to win an Ivor Novello, and Sells composed the music for the musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Their sixth album, Loss. Hope. Love., is out now.


Richard (black dress)
This is backstage at the Astoria after performing at [clubnight] GAY. We changed into our Spice Girls’ outfits and came back on to do a cover of Spice Up Your Life. It blew the roof off. I’m in a dress and pair of heels that belonged to Sophie [Ellis-Bextor, Jones’s wife]. Sophie had a chart battle with Victoria Beckham [in 2000], so I had to be Posh Spice, really.

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