FIVE-piece The Feeling are back with a new album and tour, which stops on the south coast this week. Your Entertainment catches up with bassist Richard Jones HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE COMING BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM?

We’re very excited. And we had a great time last year making the record, it was very free and creative, and we made it totally independently.

It wasn’t until after the album was finished that we shopped it around to different labels to put it out.

IT DOES SOUND LIKE A RELAXED ALBUM Good, we feel that too. It’s like when we made our first album and no one knew us and we were just making music. Eventually we got a record deal and had some success. When making our second – and third album particularly – there were a lot of people trying to have an influence. There was a lot of pressure coming at us from the label to deliver something.

While we like those albums, we feel they’re not as consistent as our first. There was too much involvement from other people in the creative process. This time, it’s just us again and it's true to what we wanted it to be.

WHAT WILL YOU BE PLAYING ON THE TOUR?

It won’t just be the new album, as it’ll only have been out a couple of weeks. I don’t think that’s fair on the audience, so there’ll be lots of old stuff as well. We’re going to tour again next year so I imagine those shows will be more of the new album, when people have had a chance to get to know it better.

  • The Feeling’s new album Boy Cried Wolf is out now. They play Bournemouth’s 02 Academy on Thursday.