The Marches - Feel It All
Single • Standalone (2025). Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Glasgow Four-Piece Turn the Fear of Vulnerability into Melodic Rock
Based in Glasgow, Scotland, The Marches are Katie Palmer (vocals/rhythm guitar), Jane Jenkins (lead guitar), Nicola Singleton (bass), and Kate Morrow (drums), a four-piece combining emotionally direct songwriting with melodic, guitar-driven rock. Formed in 2024, the band quickly gained support from BBC Radio Scotland before building momentum through sold-out Glasgow shows and festival appearances including Belladrum, Pavilion Festival, and Prestfest. “Feel It All,” released in February 2025, represents an important moment in their development: it was the first song written specifically with The Marches as a full band in mind.
Feel It All: The Risk of Giving Everything to Someone
“Feel It All” began as a simple acoustic demo written by guitarist Jane Jenkins, who drew lyrical inspiration from Carole King’s “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” At its heart is a deeply relatable uncertainty: the fear of allowing yourself to become vulnerable in a relationship without knowing whether the other person will give you the same emotional commitment in return. Once Jenkins brought the song to the band, the four members collectively transformed that intimate starting point into the fuller arrangement heard on the finished recording.
Warm guitars, steady percussion and layered harmonies give the track a nostalgic quality that sits somewhere between classic melodic rock and ’90s alternative pop. Yet beneath that brightness is emotional tension—the exhilaration of connection existing alongside doubt, insecurity and the possibility of rejection. It captures precisely the territory The Marches increasingly make their own: fragility delivered with enough melodic force to become cathartic rather than fragile.
Why It Matters: Vulnerability Is Becoming a Strength in Modern Guitar Music
A growing strand of contemporary guitar music is moving away from emotional detachment and toward songs that openly acknowledge insecurity, complicated relationships and the uncomfortable experience of feeling everything at once. The power comes from the contrast: emotionally exposed writing delivered through guitars, drums and melodies capable of turning private uncertainty into something communal.
“Feel It All” captures that tension at an early stage in The Marches’ evolution. More than a year later, their forthcoming Faultline EP takes those ideas considerably further, tracing an emotional journey through attraction, destructive patterns, self-realisation and eventual release. Seen in that context, “Feel It All” feels like an early blueprint for what is becoming the Glasgow band's defining strength: finding force in vulnerability and turning emotional fractures into expansive rock songs.
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