Walking along Madeira Drive is often a nostalgic experience,
in particular when you are going to see a band that was just getting started
when you were going through your adolescence.
The support, The Gentlemen, was a sort of cross between The
Hoosiers and The Script, placed in a blender to remove any lumps of
originality, but occasionally holding the audience’s attention with smooth
patter in between the rather slushy songs.
The Feeling walked on stage for the last date of their UK
Tour into the darkness with clouds of white smoke. Theatrics aside, Dan
Gillespie’s festival vocals pierced through Concorde II all the way back to the
bar. The band was unafraid to play old favourites early on, with the big
singles from 12 Stops and Home all featuring in the first half of their set.
Interluding the performance, an acoustic rendition of Rose
for piano and vocals was tender yet powerful; a track that Dan admitted was his
favourite from the debut record.
The new material had a more rocky edge to it without losing
the melodic strength of the first two albums and it would suggest that there is
still plenty of life left in them yet!
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