The Feeling are an English
rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
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* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
/
pop band from
Horsham,
Sussex.
Following a limited release of their first single "
Fill My Little World" in late 2005, the band entered the
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...
at #7 with their first full release "
Sewn
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" in February 2006. The single was one of the year's biggest radio hits, after being played first in the UK on the
Dermot O'Leary
Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary Jr. (born 24 May 1973) is an English broadcaster who currently works for ITV and BBC Radio 2. His radio career began when he worked as a disc jockey at Essex Radio, but he is best known for being the presenter of ' ...
Show on
Radio 2, along with their first live radio session.
Their debut album ''
Twelve Stops and Home'' was released in the UK on 5 June 2006 and on 27 February 2007 in the
US. Their second album, ''
Join with Us'', which reached number one on the UK Charts, was released on 18 February 2008. Their third album, ''
Together We Were Made
''Together We Were Made'' is the third studio album by the British Rock music, rock band the Feeling, released on 20 June 2011.
Critical reception
The album received a mixed response from critics, garnering a rating of 4.5 out of 10 from revie ...
'', was released on 20 June 2011, followed by the release of their greatest hits album ''
Singles (2006–2011)
''Singles (2006–2011)'' is the first compilation by the British rock band The Feeling, released on 5 December 2011 through Universal Records.
The album collects all 11 singles from the band's three previous studio albums, '' Twelve Stops and ...
'' on 5 December. Their fourth album ''
Boy Cried Wolf
''Boy Cried Wolf'' is the fourth studio album by the British rock group the Feeling. It is available as a standard CD, a double CD featuring an extra disc of jam sessions and studio out-takes recorded "in the Doghouse", and a deluxe box set inc ...
'' was released in 2013. In March 2016 the band released their
self-titled 5th studio album. Their sixth studio album, ''Loss. Hope. Love.'', was released in May 2022. Their name comes from a neon sign seen by bassist Richard on a bar (''Le Feeling'') in Paris.
History
1995–2005: Formation and early years
![TheFeeling](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/TheFeeling.jpg)
The majority of the band members are from
Horsham,
Sussex, with the exception of
lead vocalist Dan Gillespie Sells
Daniel Giles Gillespie Sells (; born 20 September 1978) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as being the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock group The Feeling.
Biography
Sells and his brother James were co-parente ...
, who is from London, and bassist
Richard Jones, who is from
Forest Row
Forest Row is a village and a large civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. The village is located three miles (5 km) south-east of East Grinstead.
History
The village draws its name from its proximity to the Ashdow ...
, in
Sussex. The Jeremiahs and Stewart met while attending
St Wilfrid's Catholic School, Crawley
St Wilfrid's Catholic School is a voluntary aided comprehensive Catholic secondary school in Crawley, West Sussex, England for pupils aged 11 to 18. It caters for 936 pupils in years 7 to 13, including 181 in its sixth form.
History
St Wilfrid ...
,
Sussex. Sells and Jones met as music students at the
BRIT School
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in
Croydon
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in 1995. They were members of one of the school's most popular bands. Other past students of the BRIT school include
Jessie J,
Adele
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,
Tara McDonald
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McDonald achieved success working and co-writing with Armand van Helden and Axwell on the chart hits " My My My" and " Feel ...
and
The Kooks
The Kooks () are an English pop-rock band formed in 2004 in Brighton. The band consists of Luke Pritchard (vocals/rhythm guitar), Hugh Harris (lead guitar/synthesizer/bass) and Alexis Nunez (drums).
Their music is primarily influenced by th ...
.
The band members worked as
session musicians for several years before coming together as a group.
[Loundras, Alexia (2006)]
The Feeling: A band with a passion for pop
, ''The Independent
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'', 17 February 2006, retrieved 6 September 2009 The Feeling has its roots in a covers band called ''Superfly'', which Paul Stewart and Ciaran and Kevin Jeremiah played in, and which also acted as the house band on the
Richard Blackwood
Richard Clifford Blackwood (born 15 May 1972) is a British actor, presenter and rapper. Between 2015 and 2018, he played Vincent Hubbard in the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders''. In 2020, he began portraying the role of Felix Westwood in the Chan ...
show. They spent a lot of time performing as resident band at the
La Tania
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Overview
The ski resort is near num ...
ski resort in the
Alps
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before their début doing covers (such as "
Video Killed the Radio Star
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" by
The Buggles
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and "
Raining Blood
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The song is four minutes and fo ...
" by
Slayer), and after the line-up of The Feeling had been completed, they continued to use the name ''Superfly'', as it was easier to get bookings.
[Leahy, Andrew " The Feeling Biography, '']Allmusic
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'', Macrovision Corporation
It was later revealed in a
podcast
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for ''
The Times
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'' that the band had "blagged" their way into the La Tania residency, saying they could perform fifty songs when in fact they only knew six. The last gigs in the Alps were in the winter of 2004. After these gigs they would sell demo CDs, which included the tracks "Funny Cigarette", "Sun Is Shining", "Still You Want More", "
Never Be Lonely" and "
Join with Us". Most of these tracks have since been released as singles, album tracks, or B-sides.
2006–2007: ''Twelve Stops and Home''
According to Island A&R, Louis Bloom, a particularly underwhelming industry showcase gig prompted various record company representatives in attendance to pass on the band.
However, following the performance their manager Adrian Jolly phoned up Bloom and persuaded him to ignore the disastrous gig and instead listen to the band's demos. The demos - which featured all the eventual singles from the debut album - convinced the Island A&R to sign the band, who singled out the songwriting in particular as being "fantastic".
On 5 June 2006, The Feeling released their debut album, ''
Twelve Stops and Home'', which reached #2 in the
UK Albums Chart
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.
To celebrate the release, the band's record company,
Island Records, took 120 British music journalists on the
Eurostar
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to
Paris
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for the day, where the band performed live in a restaurant. This was in recognition of the fact the band took their name from a Parisian bar.
The first single, "
Sewn
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" reached #7 on the UK charts in March 2006, followed by the top ten hit "
Fill My Little World" in May 2006.
The release spent four consecutive weeks at #16 and outsold the band's debut single. "
Never Be Lonely" was released in August 2006 and became their third top ten hit, peaking at #9, where it stayed for two weeks.
In 2006, The Feeling toured the United States, opening for
The Fray
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and strengthening their following across the
Atlantic
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. They sold an
EP named ''
Four Stops and Home
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,
London
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,
Cambridge
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,
Brighton,
Oxford
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,
Southampton
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,
Cardiff
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,
Bristol
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,
Manchester
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,
Nottingham
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,
Liverpool
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,
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,
Hull,
Glasgow
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,
Leeds
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,
Belfast
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and
Dublin
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.
"
Fill My Little World" was used in the farewell montage on the last ''
The Vicar of Dibley
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'' on New Year's Day 2007 and an edited version of "Love It When You Call" appeared in the 2007 film ''
Good Luck Chuck''. At the end of March 2007, the band went Stateside once again, taking part in
VH1's first ever "You Oughta Know" tour alongside
Mat Kearney
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'' Just Kids'' was released on February 2 ...
and
Rocco DeLuca and The Burden
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. The tour lasted approximately two months, and finished with The Feeling playing the 2007
Coachella Coachella may refer to:
* Coachella, California
* Coachella Canal, in California
* Coachella (festival), an annual music and arts festival in California
* "Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind", a 2017 song by Lana del Rey
See also
* Coachell ...
festival in Indio, California.
The band also headlined a mini-tour of the UK's forests around June 2007. They played at large clearings and forest activity sites, near their own homes, leading Gillespie-Sells to quip about playing to elves.
In an e-mail newsletter released on 11 January 2007, it was announced that The Feeling was the most played band on UK radio in 2006. Their four singles received a total of 97,436 plays, which meant that, on average, a song by The Feeling was played 267 times every day, or once every 5 minutes.
[Mulholland, Garry (2008)]
The Feeling, Join With Us
, ''The Guardian
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'', 17 February 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009
2007–2008: ''Join with Us''
![Kevin Jeremiah](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kevin_Jeremiah.jpg)
Their second album, entitled ''
Join with Us'' was released on 18 February 2008, with the first single "
I Thought It Was Over" entering the UK charts at #12 on 10 February 2008 on the strength of downloads alone.
The album debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart.
The majority of the album was recorded at
Bradley House, a stately home in
Maiden Bradley
Maiden Bradley is a village in south-west Wiltshire, England, about south-west of Warminster and bordering the county of Somerset. The B3092 road between Frome and Mere forms the village street. Bradley House, the seat of the Duke of Somerse ...
near
Warminster
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, Wiltshire (home of the
Duke of Somerset
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), whilst most mixing was carried out in
Los Angeles
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, California.
The band performed at the 2008 ''V Festivals'' in Chelmsford and Staffordshire in August. On 7 March 2008, they embarked on a mini-tour of the UK, starting in Birmingham Academy and ending at London. On 1 April 2008, it was confirmed that they would support
Bon Jovi at four of their seven dates on the UK leg of ''Bon Jovi's Lost Highway World Tour''.
On 27 June 2008, the band played the pyramid stage at the
Glastonbury Festival, which was their first appearance at the legendary festival. During the performance, they covered
The Buggles
The Buggles were an English new wave band formed in London in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes. They are best known for their 1979 debut single " Video Killed the Radio Star", which topped the UK Singles Cha ...
' "
Video Killed the Radio Star
"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979. It was recorded concurrently by Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album '' English Garden'' an ...
" and
A-ha's "
Take On Me
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". In November 2008, the band embarked on one of their biggest UK and Irish tours to date, performing at 21 venues.
2009–2011: ''Together We Were Made'' and greatest hits
Their third studio album was released on 20 June 2011. The band played a short two-night series of intimate concerts at the Monto Water Rats Theatre on 4 and 5 May 2010 to preview new tracks for the album.
Singer and wife of bassist Richard Jones
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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performed a duet with the band on their third album on the song "Leave Me Out Of It".
During two small concerts at The Water Rats venue in London 4 and 5 May 2010 The Feeling showcased 10 new songs. Set My World On Fire, Leave Me Out, Build A Home (originally Penny's Dropped), Love & Care, Another Soldier, Say No, Seven Years, Searched Every Corner, Bullshit Rules the World and Undeniable (the last track on their third album).
"Set My World on Fire" was confirmed as the new single on 6 February 2011 to be released on
iTunes in March, however the date was pushed back in order to make way for a limited-edition CD release of the single. The song was released on 1 May. They performed "Set My World on Fire" on ITV1's ''
Paul O'Grady Live'' on 6 May 2011. On 2 June 2011, The Feeling played a concert for Radio 2 at The Mermaid Theatre in
Blackfriars,
London
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. During this set they played numerous songs from the new album including "Set My World On Fire", "Say No", "Leave Me Out of It", "Another Soldier" and "A Hundred Sinners".
Due to the inclusion of a re-recorded version of the band's 2007 single "Rosé" on a worldwide TV commercial for Burberry Body perfume, the band announced that their first greatest hits album ''
Singles (2006–2011)
''Singles (2006–2011)'' is the first compilation by the British rock band The Feeling, released on 5 December 2011 through Universal Records.
The album collects all 11 singles from the band's three previous studio albums, '' Twelve Stops and ...
'' would be released on 5 December 2011, featuring all of the band's singles to date. In November 2011, in an interview on the band's website, drummer Paul Stewart revealed that they had begun work on their fourth studio album after a string of successful live dates with a stand in instrumentalist known as cosmic vibes.
2012–2013: ''Boy Cried Wolf''
In 2012, the band performed as the headline act at
Gonville & Caius
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May Ball
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, playing a range of their greatest hits and some covers.
They were set to do a UK tour in April 2013 promoting their fourth studio album ''
Boy Cried Wolf
''Boy Cried Wolf'' is the fourth studio album by the British rock group the Feeling. It is available as a standard CD, a double CD featuring an extra disc of jam sessions and studio out-takes recorded "in the Doghouse", and a deluxe box set inc ...
'', but had to delay it to October 2013 to synchronise with the release of the album. As an apology for rescheduling the tour, the band did a small show at The Doghouse (Dan's house) at which they played songs from the fourth album, including "Rescue" and "Boy Cried Wolf". This was also a live webcast and can be viewed at any time at www.thefeeling.com. The band topped the bill at the Rochdale Feel Good Festival, 31 August 2013, where they played tracks off the new album.
2014–2016: ''The Feeling'' + hiatus
On 28 September 2015 the band released a lyric video for the single "Wicked Heart". Their fifth studio album
The Feeling
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released on 4 March 2016.
The band played a final UK tour of sellout gigs towards the end of 2016, announcing that the last show of the tour would mark a hiatus until at least 2018.
2017–2019: end of hiatus and ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie''
The hiatus announced in 2016 only lasted until 2017 after a surprise return on Chris Evans' Radio 2 Breakfast Show and an announcement they would be playing Carfest 2018.
As part of the hiatus, Dan Gillespie Sells collaborated with writer and lyricist
Tom MacRae to create the music for the musical ''
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
''Everybody's Talking About Jamie'' is a coming-of-age stage musical with music by Dan Gillespie Sells and book and lyrics by Tom MacRae. The musical is inspired by the 2011 British television documentary ''Jamie: Drag Queen at 16'' directed ...
'', which premiered in Sheffield in February 2017 and moved to the
West End in November 2017. The musical was very successful, and in 2018 Gillespie Sells received a nomination for a
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Original Score or New Orchestrations. A film version was announced in May 2018, with Gillespie Sells collaborating again with MacRae on the soundtrack.
2020–present: ''Loss. Love. Hope.'' and 2022 tour
In an interview with
Vicki Michelle
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on
Phoenix FM
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History
The station was formed in 1996 and has been broadcasting full-time on FM since ...
in February 2019, Gillespie Sells stated that the band were writing a new album, due for release in 2020. And on 2 December 2020, the band posted a picture on social media of the progress of fourteen songs off their sixth studio album. With the
COVID-19
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lockdown in London, they spent more time to record and self-produce the album entitled ''Loss. Hope. Love'' with a release date set for early May 2022. In September 2021, as a taster for the new album, they released their version of "This Was Me", which
Dan Gillespie Sells
Daniel Giles Gillespie Sells (; born 20 September 1978) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as being the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock group The Feeling.
Biography
Sells and his brother James were co-parente ...
wrote for the film adaptation of the West End musical ''
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
''Everybody's Talking About Jamie'' is a coming-of-age stage musical with music by Dan Gillespie Sells and book and lyrics by Tom MacRae. The musical is inspired by the 2011 British television documentary ''Jamie: Drag Queen at 16'' directed ...
''.
The Feeling also recorded the title track for the soundtrack. They also announced a major UK tour for October 2022.
On January 31, 2023 the band announced they started working on their upcoming 7th album.
Musical style and influences
The Feeling have cited
Elton John,
Supertramp
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,
the Beatles
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,
Fleetwood Mac,
Metallica, and
10cc as influences. The group's guitar-and piano-driven
pop/
rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
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sound has been described as
power pop
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,
soft rock,
melodic rock
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,
pop rock
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and
progressive pop
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.
Members
*
Dan Gillespie Sells
Daniel Giles Gillespie Sells (; born 20 September 1978) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as being the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock group The Feeling.
Biography
Sells and his brother James were co-parente ...
– lead vocals, guitars
*
Richard Jones – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Kevin Jeremiah – guitars, vocals
*Ciaran Jeremiah – keyboards, vocals
*Paul Stewart – drums
Discography
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Twelve Stops and Home'' (2006)
*''
Join with Us'' (2008)
*''
Together We Were Made
''Together We Were Made'' is the third studio album by the British Rock music, rock band the Feeling, released on 20 June 2011.
Critical reception
The album received a mixed response from critics, garnering a rating of 4.5 out of 10 from revie ...
'' (2011)
*''
Boy Cried Wolf
''Boy Cried Wolf'' is the fourth studio album by the British rock group the Feeling. It is available as a standard CD, a double CD featuring an extra disc of jam sessions and studio out-takes recorded "in the Doghouse", and a deluxe box set inc ...
'' (2013)
*''
The Feeling
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
'' (2016)
*''Loss. Hope. Love.'' (2022)
Awards and nominations
2006
*Q Award – Best Track – "
Never Be Lonely" (Nominated)
2007
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BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards (often simply called the BRITs) are the British Phonographic Industry's annual popular music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain", or "Britannia" (in the early days the awards were sponsored ...
– Best Song – "
Fill My Little World" (Nominated)
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Ivor Novello Awards
The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They have been presented annually in London by the Ivors Academy (formerly the BASCA) since 1956, and over 1,000 statuettes have been a ...
– Songwriters of the Year (Won)
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Dan Gillespie Sells: 'Scruffy jeans are such a shame'
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NME Awards
The ''NME'' Awards is an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine '' NME'' (''New Musical Express''). The first awards show was held in 1953 as the ''NME'' Poll Winners Concerts, shortly after the founding ...
– Best Band (Nominated)
2008
*
Elle Style Awards The Elle Style Awards are an awards ceremony hosted annually by ''Elle'' magazine.
List of award winners
2017
The 2017 edition of the Elle Style Awards took place on 13 February 2017.
* Style Influencer of the Year: Debbie Harry
* TV Actress of t ...
– Band of the Year (Won)
References
External links
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Instagram*
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English rock music groups
British soft rock music groups
Post-Britpop groups
English power pop groups
Musical groups from West Sussex
Ivor Novello Award winners
Island Records artists