Cherry Red are reissuing The Feeling‘s 2006 debut album Twelve Stops And Home for its twelfth anniversary in June. It will be available as a four-disc box set and a limited edition coloured double vinyl.

The 3CD+DVD reissue comes as a ‘digi-book’ edition. The first CD features newly remastered audio of the album, while the second disc, dubbed ‘the ones that got away’, includes songs that were B-sides, some that would feature on future albums and some that were never released. The band consider some of these songs “among our best work”. Offiziellecharts.de – The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 20 July 2020. Since Twelve Stops and Home, The Feeling went on to release four more studio albums. The band is currently on hiatus, but this all-encompassing celebration of their debut is an enjoyable reminder of their sharp pop songcraft. Love It When You Call (Lo-Fi Funk Mix) (from Love It When You Call promo single, no cat. no, Island, 2006)

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Twelve Stops and Home is the debut studio album by 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 Leicester Square to Bounds Green. Lead singer Dan Gillespie Sells grew up in Bounds Green and lived a short walk from the tube station. In its first week on sale in the UK it sold 43,304 copies and in its second week it sold 39,000 copies. The album has been certified 3× Platinum in the UK, [11] selling almost 900,000 copies [12] and has sold around 1.5 million copies worldwide. Five of the album’s big-hearted and velcro-catchy songs became bona fide hit singles (Sewn, Fill My Little World, Never Be Lonely, Rose and Love It When You Call), helping the band to become the most-played act on British radio in 2006, and earning them the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriters of the Year.

Their debut album, TWELVE STOPS AND HOME, followed in June 2006, the title referring to the twelve stops on the Piccadilly line from Leicester Square to Bounds Green, where singer Dan Gillespie Sells lived. It was a huge success for The Feeling, selling a million and a half copies worldwide (with platinum sales of over 900,000 in Britain) and peaking at No. 2 on the UK album chart. Released on 29th June and newly mastered from the original tapes, TWELVE STOPS AND HOME will be reissued as a DELUXE 3-CD + DVD BOX SET (PAL) (as well as a limited edition yellow vinyl double album) to celebrate the album’s twelfth anniversary!The remastered album is also appearing as a double vinyl LP for the first time (originally it was pressed onto one record). This is actually a limited edition YELLOW 2LP. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Alongside three CDs of music, this expanded edition also boasts the documentary DVD, THE FEELING ON ICE, telling the early story of the band as narrated by fan Kiefer Sutherland and Including performances in the Alps of ‘Sewn’, ‘Never Be Lonely’ and ‘Love It When You Call’. Dutchcharts.nl – The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 July 2020. Twelve Stops And Home – named after the Piccadilly Line journey from Leicester Square to Gillespie Sells’ home stop of Bounds Green – was originally released on 5 June 2006. Despite being largely self-recorded in the garden shed of Ciaran and Kevin Jeremiah’s parents’ Sussex home, the album was a hit-the-ground-running masterpiece of fiercely infectious, life-affirming pop, pitched in the rainbow-coloured realm between Queen, the Scissor Sisters, ELO and Supertramp.

The Feeling have also announced the reissue of Twelve Stops And Home, to celebrate 12 years since the acclaimed album’s release. Having been newly mastered from the original tapes, Twelve Stops And Home will be reissued as a Deluxe 3CD + DVD digibook, and a limited edition double yellow vinyl. The Feeling have just announced shows at Cardiff’s Tramshed and O2 Academy Bristol to celebrate twelve years since the release of their incredible debut album. Along with ‘Sewn’, the album also included subsequent Top 10 hits ‘Fill My Little World’ and ‘Never Be Lonely’ and the additional singles ‘Love It When You Call’ and ‘Rosé’. Accompanying airplay made them the most played act on British radio, receiving a 97,436 spins (or 267 a day). In due course, the band won the Ivor Novello Award for songwriters of the year.

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a b Gourlay, Dom (5 June 2006). "The Feeling: Twelve Stops and Home". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015 . Retrieved 20 June 2013. Dan Gillespie Sells said: ““I’m so excited to be playing with the band again. To be performing an album that has always meant so much to me is going to be quite an experience! What a party it’s going to be!” The album has thus far sold almost a million copies in the UK and features three top ten hits: Sewn, Fill My Little World and Never Be Lonely.

Ultratop.be – The Feeling – Twelve Stops and Home" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 July 2020. Ivor Novello award-winning, Brit Award-nominated band THE FEELING burst onto the pop scene following a limited release of their first single ‘Fill My Little World’ in late 2005, having signed to Island Records, and shot to fame in early 2006 with the Top 10 UK hit ‘Sewn’.