The Feeling album was recorded in a Sussex shed

The Feeling's triple-platinum debut album was recorded in a shed in Horsham, according to frontman Dan Gillespie Sells.

Speaking to BBC Radio Sussex as the record marks its 20th anniversary, Gillespie Sells said it came from "a very different world" when music fans bought CDs and "nobody had an iPhone".

The singer said much of Twelve Stops and Home was made at the Sussex home of brothers and bandmates Kevin and Ciaran Jeremiah.

The Feeling will perform the album in full when a 20th anniversary tour visits Eastbourne and Margate in November.

Gillespie Sells, the only member of the band not originally from Sussex, said he spent many of his teenage years in the county after meeting his future bandmates at the Brit School.

He said the group began spending time together in Ashdown Forest before starting to record music in Sussex.

Asked whether he had visited the studio again since making the album, he said: "It wasn't a studio, it was a shed."

"It was an outhouse. There were brick walls but it was essentially a shed," he added.

Gillespie Sells said the recordings took place in the Horsham garden building owned by the Jeremiah brothers' parents.

"We borrowed some microphones, Kevin had built a small computer and we recorded the first album like that, basically just hanging out together," he said.

Released in June 2006, Twelve Stops and Home reached number two in the UK charts and eventually achieved triple-platinum status.

The album produced hits including Sewn, Fill My Little World, Never Be Lonely and I Love It When You Call.

Reflecting on its 20th anniversary, Gillespie Sells said: "It's extraordinary. I think about what a different world it was then. All those albums we sold were physical copies and nobody had an iPhone."

He said the industry had changed significantly since the album's release but its songs had continued to attract new listeners.

"I see people in their 20s who seem to know every word and I think 'you must have been a toddler when this came out, how on earth are you singing along?' but they do," he said.

The band's anniversary tour visits Eastbourne's Winter Garden on 11 November and Margate's Drill Hall on 12 November.

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