Indie/dance pioneers The Farm return with ‘That Feeling’ – Out Now
That Feeling
Players in pop culture history since the 1980s, the band behind All Together Now and Groovy Train, feel the funk on just their second single of 2025
The Farm – That Feeling
OUT NOW
From the album Let The Music (Take Control)
Released Fri 20 June 2025 via Modern Sky
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Inspired in parts by Chic, following guitarist, Keith Mullin’s illuminating encounter with the funk magician, Nile Rodgers at Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, as well as singer and lyricist, Peter Hooton, wearily watching as the world kindles into flame, That Feeling’s beat-driven, chorus-orientated journey arrives at a place of hope in spite of disillusion.
“The idea behind this song is trying to get into the heart and mind of someone who things they are the future of the world,” says Hooton. “People are more easily duped by false narratives in this day and age, falling into the obvious traps. We need to better understand each other to work out why.”
Released on multiple formats including limited and standard edition vinyl, CD and digital formats, Let The Music (Take Control) is released via Modern Sky on Fri 20 June 2025. The Farm’s return to the studio was inspired by renewed creativity, a sense of lost time and the rapturous response to live versions of new material. Being added to BBC Radio 2’s playlist on the release of 2024’s self-released single, Feel The Love, the original ‘heyday’ line-up decided to attend to unfinished business.
Produced in the company of Mike Cave (The Charlatans, Bloc Party) in Liverpool, the future-facing album has been preceded by another, two previous singles, Forever And Ever and Moment In Time. The Farm’s last album was 1994’s US-only release of Hullabaloo, following up their career-to-date defining breakthrough and UK No.1 album, Spartacus, which wrote the enduring tracks, All Together Now and Groovy Train onto the list of unforgotten and unforgettable all-time classic singles.
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Completed by Steve Grimes (guitar/keys), The Farm hold a distinct place in British popular culture, exporting the North of England’s world famous dance-laced indie scene, alongside Stone Roses and Happy Mondays and showing how rooted they had become in Balearic dance culture via their appearance in the era-defining documentary A Short Film About Chilling.
Produced by Madness front man, Suggs, the release of their cover of The Monkees’ Stepping Stone in 1990 provided the momentum for the band’s rise to chart prominence in the months that followed.
Renowned campaigners for justice, not least in connection with the city of Liverpool’s search for truth and justice in connection with the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster, the band formed The Justice Tonight Band with Mick Jones of The Clash in 2011, going on to support Stone Roses at their huge reunion shows. Evolving under the weight of significant momentum to become The Justice Collective a year later, The Farm were the catalyst for the 2012 Christmas UK Singles Chart No 1 cover of He Ain’t Heavy, with collaborators as diverse as Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson, Paloma Faith, Paul Heaton, Robbie Williams and football legend, Kenny Dalglish.
In 2014 they teamed up with the Premier League to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the WWI Christmas Truce, raising money for the Red Cross/Shorncliffe Trust by recording a version of All Together Now with artists such as Clean Bandit, Gorgon City, Suggs, The Proclaimers, Mick Jones and Leo Sayer.
Written about the 1914 Christmas Day Armistice which saw British and German troops lay down weapons for a game of football, All Together Now stands as The Farm’s biggest hit to date, reaching No.4 on the UK Singles Chart. It has been covered on numerous occasions, remaining an enduring message of hope across generations.
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