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The Feeling are an English
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band from
Horsham Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...
,
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. Following a limited release of their first single "
Fill My Little World "Fill My Little World" is a song by English rock band the Feeling, originally released in the UK on 7 November 2005 as their debut single but was unable to chart due to chart rules. The following year, it was re-released as a digital single in t ...
" in late 2005, the band entered the UK Singles Chart at #7 with their first full release "
Sewn Sewing is the craft of fastening pieces of textiles together using a sewing needle and thread. Sewing is one of the oldest of the textile arts, arising in the Paleolithic era. Before the invention of spinning yarn or weaving fabric, archaeol ...
" 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 O'Leary (born 24 May 1973) is a British-Irish broadcaster. He presented the television talent show ''The X Factor'' on ITV from 2007 until its final series in 2018, with the exception of 2015. Since 2021, O'Leary has presented ITV' ...
Show on Radio 2, along with their first live radio session. Their debut album ''
Twelve Stops and Home ''Twelve Stops and Home'' is the debut studio album by English rock music, rock/pop music, pop band the Feeling, released on 5 June 2006. The album's title refers to the twelve stops on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground from Leiceste ...
'' 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 Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the O ...
, 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 band the Feeling The Feeling are an English rock/ pop band from Horsham, Sussex. Following a limited release of their first single " Fill My Little World" in late 2 ...
'', 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 music, 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, ''Twelv ...
'' 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

The majority of the band members are from
Horsham Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to ...
,
Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...
, with the exception of
lead vocalist The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...
Dan Gillespie Sells Daniel Giles Gillespie Sells ( ; born 20 September 1978) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock group the Feeling. Biography Sells and his brother James were co-parented, being brought up dividing t ...
, 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. In January 2023, it ranked as Britain’s 3rd poshest village. His ...
, in
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. 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 Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...
. Sells and Jones met as music students at the
BRIT School BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology is a British performing and creative arts school located in Selhurst, Croydon, England, with a mandate to provide education and vocational training for the performing arts, music, music technology, ...
in
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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 Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988), known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End musical '' Whistle Down the Wind ...
,
Adele Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter. Regarded as a British cultural icon, icon, she is known for her mezzo-soprano vocals and sentimental songwriting. List of awards and nominations received by Adele, ...
,
Tara McDonald Tara Jane McDonald (born 9 September 1976) is an English singer-songwriter and vocalist. She is signed to Play Two/Warner Music. McDonald achieved success working and co-writing with Armand van Helden and Axwell on the chart hits " My My My" ...
and
The Kooks The Kooks () are an English indie rock band formed in 2004 in Brighton. The current lineup consists of Luke Pritchard on vocals and guitar, and Hugh Harris on bass, guitar, and synthesiser. Their music is primarily influenced by the 1960s Br ...
. The band members worked as
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s for several years before coming together as a group.Loundras, Alexia (2006)
The Feeling: A band with a passion for pop
, ''
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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 ''
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''. They spent a lot of time performing as resident band at the
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ski resort in the
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before their début doing covers (such as "
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'' and ...
" by
The Buggles The Buggles are an English New wave music, 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 ...
and "
Raining Blood "Raining Blood" is a song by the American thrash metal band Slayer. Written by Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King for the 1986 studio album '' Reign in Blood'', the song's religious concept is about overthrowing Heaven. The song is four minutes and fo ...
" by
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), 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, ''
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'', Macrovision Corporation
It was later revealed in a
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for ''
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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 "Never Be Lonely" is a song by English rock band the Feeling. It is the third single from their 2006 debut album, ''Twelve Stops and Home'', and was released on 28 August 2006. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 24 on 27 August 2006 bas ...
" 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
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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 ''Twelve Stops and Home'' is the debut studio album by English rock music, rock/pop music, pop band the Feeling, released on 5 June 2006. The album's title refers to the twelve stops on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground from Leiceste ...
'', which reached #2 in the
UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the O ...
. To celebrate the release, the band's record company, Island Records, took 120 British music journalists on the
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to
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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, "
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" reached #7 on the UK charts in March 2006, followed by the top ten hit "
Fill My Little World "Fill My Little World" is a song by English rock band the Feeling, originally released in the UK on 7 November 2005 as their debut single but was unable to chart due to chart rules. The following year, it was re-released as a digital single in t ...
" 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 The Fray is an American rock band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2002 by schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King. Their debut studio album, '' How to Save a Life'' (2005) was released by Epic Records and received quadruple platinum certific ...
and strengthening their following across the
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. They sold an EP named '' Four Stops and Home'' along the way. It consisted of two album tracks "Sewn" and "Helicopter" and two future B-sides "When I Return" and "All You Need To Do". In November 2006, just days after returning from the US, the band headed off on their first major UK and Ireland tour, playing at
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and
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. "Fill My Little World" was used in the farewell montage on the last ''
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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 ''
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''. At the end of March 2007, the band went Stateside once again, taking part in
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's first ever "You Oughta Know" tour alongside
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and Rocco DeLuca and The Burden. The tour lasted approximately two months, and finished with The Feeling playing the 2007
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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
, ''
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'', 17 February 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009


2007–2008: ''Join with Us''

Their second album, entitled '' Join with Us'' was released on 18 February 2008, with the first single "
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" 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
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near
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, Wiltshire (home of the
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), whilst most mixing was carried out in
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, California. The band performed at the 2008
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s in
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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
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at four of their seven dates on the UK leg of their
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. On 27 June 2008, the band played the pyramid stage at the
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, which was their first appearance at the legendary festival. During the performance, they covered The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" and
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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
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on 4 and 5 May 2010 to preview new tracks for the album. Singer and wife of bassist Richard Jones
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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: "
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", "Leave Me Out of It", "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
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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
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's ''
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'' on 6 May 2011. On 2 June 2011, The Feeling played a concert for Radio 2 at The
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in Blackfriars,
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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 "
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" on a worldwide TV commercial for
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Body perfume, the band announced that their first greatest hits album ''
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'' 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.


2012–2016: ''Boy Cried Wolf'', The Feeling + hiatus

In 2012, the band performed as the headline act at
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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 ''
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'', 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. On 28 September 2015 the band released a lyric video for the single "Wicked Heart". Their fifth studio album ''
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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' ''
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'' and an announcement they would be playing
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2018. As part of the hiatus, Dan Gillespie Sells collaborated with writer and lyricist
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to create the music for the musical ''
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'', which premiered in
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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 Outstanding Achievement in Music at the
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. A
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was announced in May 2018 and released in September 2021, with Gillespie Sells collaborating again with MacRae on the
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.


2020–present: ''Loss. Love. Hope.'' and ''San Vito''

In an interview with
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on
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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
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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 wrote for the film adaptation of the West End musical ''Everybody's Talking About Jamie''. The Feeling also recorded the title track for the soundtrack. They also announced a major UK tour for October 2022. On 31 January 2023 the band announced they started working on their upcoming 7th album. The album's title would be later revealed as "San Vito", released on 12 April 2024, on digital download, CD and vinyl, in association with a UK/Europe tour throughout 2024.


Musical style and influences

The Feeling have cited
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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as influences. The group's guitar-and piano-driven
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sound has been described as
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,
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,
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,
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and
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.


Members

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Dan Gillespie Sells Daniel Giles Gillespie Sells ( ; born 20 September 1978) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock group the Feeling. Biography Sells and his brother James were co-parented, being brought up dividing t ...
– lead vocals, guitars * Richard Jones – bass guitar, vocals *Kevin Jeremiah – guitars, vocals *Ciaran Jeremiah – keyboards, vocals *Paul Stewart – drums


Discography

*''
Twelve Stops and Home ''Twelve Stops and Home'' is the debut studio album by English rock music, rock/pop music, pop band the Feeling, released on 5 June 2006. The album's title refers to the twelve stops on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground from Leiceste ...
'' (2006) *'' Join with Us'' (2008) *''
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'' (2011) *''
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'' (2013) *''
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'' (2016) *''Loss. Hope. Love.'' (2022) * ''San Vito'' (2024)


Awards and nominations

2006 *
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– Best Track – "
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" (Nominated) 2007 * BRIT AwardsBritish Single of the Year – "
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" (Nominated) *
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– Songwriters of the Year (Won)Alexander, Hilary (2008)
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, ''
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'', 23 June 2008, retrieved 6 September 2009
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– Best Band (Nominated) 2008 *
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– Band of the Year (Won)


References


External links

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