FEEL by Hope and Social

FEEL is the 5th original studio album by Hope and Social. Written and recorded over a two year period, we stole an 808 handclap and anything else we could get our hands on, chucked it in a bag and shook it all up. The album is covered in analog synths, brass, backing vocals. And coffee mugs. And ukuleles. Numerous home keyboards. A concert xylophone we found in a garden. Plastic trombones. A swanee whistle... And 6 different kids brass bands. And an elephant… flying a helicopter.

It sounds very much like Hope and Social… but Hope and Social *now* we guess! We hope you like…

As a companion to the album we’ve commissioned a video for each song on the album. (Read about it all here http://www.hopeandsocial.co.uk/2016/06/16/9-videos-for-9-songs/). Taking absolutely no control of the creative process of the video stuff, has been a great experience. We’ve been surprised and delighted by the results! And feel very lucky that it all remained mainly family friendly. We’ll be releasing all the videos one by one and you can see the results so far here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRUvV6l8w3GkO-Qn9-65a3ebwLRydldvo

We’ll be touring the album through October and November 2016, and into 2017

Thursday 20th Oct – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Saturday 22nd Oct – VIDEO SCREENING, Hyde Park Picture House
Friday 28th Oct – Town Hall Theatre, Hartlepool
Thursday 3rd Nov – The Bedford, London
Friday 4th Nov – The Tin at The Coal Vaults, Coventry
Saturday 5th Nov – Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham By Sea
Tuesday 8th Nov – Gullivers, Manchester
Thursday 10th Nov – The Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge
Friday 11th Nov – Bilton Working Men’s Club, Harrogate
Saturday 12th Nov – Fibbers, York

Tickets and info - http://www.hopeandsocial.co.uk/2016/10/05/feel-album-tour/

Love ya!
H&S x

Tracklist

1.	FEEL	3:29

2.	Sunrise Laughing	3:45

3.	Tommy Gun	3:15

4.	Heavy Startup	5:30

5.	Come What May	2:57

6.	London	4:12

7.	South Facing	3:37

8.	The View From Above	4:32

9.	Dig Hard	4:03

Credits

released October 7, 2016

All songs written by Hope and Social and Simon Goff (retired)

Mixed by Ed Waring

Mastered by Tom Woodhead, Hippocratic Mastering

All songs performed by Hope and Social: Simon Fletcher, James Hamilton, Richard Huxley, Gary Stewart, Ed Waring and Simon Wainwright

Additional horns: Simon Dennis, Russell Henderson, Stuart Garside, Tom I'Anson

Recorded at The Crypt, West Yorkshire 2015/16

Huge thanks to everyone who supports us and keeps us going. You are appreciated more than you will ever know.

FEEL by Hope and Social is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This album is dedicated to the memory of John Wheeler. Friend, mentor and inspiration

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.