The Feeling play Q The Music Club At The Hospital Club



It was as if The Feeling had been thumbing through the latest issue of Q to find material for their exclusive show last night. For to round off their set, the band went slightly off piste from their canon of soft rock hits to finish on Walk This Way, the Run DMC/Aerosmith version of which was ranked ninth in Q’s list of the all-time greatest duets in our August edition.

Of course the band gave it their own twist – in this case, playing the groundbreaking rap-rock crossover as what could only be described as a country hoe-down, with keyboard player Ciaran Jeremiah taking over vocal duties. “It doesn’t get any stranger than this,” reflected frontman Dan Gillespie Sells.

Introduced on stage at the latest Q The Music Club At The Hospital Club show as a band “it is impossible to dislike”, even the most hardened of cynics would have found it hard to escape without a grin on their face and a tap in the ball of their foot as the band played I Love It When You Call.

Their usual brand of soft rock became even mellower for this show as the band, in keeping with the Q The Music series opted for a semi-acoustic show, but that added a new level of complexity. After opener I Thought It Was Over from new album Join With Us, Sells admitted: It’s a strange thing when you get asked to do gigs with acoustic guitars. I thought we would relax and take it easy – that was harder work than usual!”

A swerve into Run DMC wasn’t the only cover of the night. A perfectly executed performance of Joe Jackson’s Different For Girls and the opening riff to A-Ha’s Take On Me (“That would be really rubbish, trust me.” Sells confesses) also featured in the show, performed with such gusto you would as though it the band were headlining a festival rather than playing to a select handful of people.

You can catch the show and an interview the band in the Q Sessions on Q Radio on Monday, August 4. You can hear Q Radio online here, or on DAB radio in London, as well as at Freeview channel 716, Virgin Media 878, Sky Digital Channel 0181.