I've seen the closer vid on tv this morning - aaaaaawwwwwwwww, the cuteness!!! :blush:

 

I mean, come on... fran SO made me smile with those views, it's just adorable! :blush: :heart: *sigh* ;D

any new pics from Travis....:confused:

Big Chair must be single

Big Chair must be single

 

Agree. And maybe Battleships and My Eyes for the other 2

And selfish jeaaaaan! :D

 

I hard there's a new vid out there of 3 times and you lose :o

:o

Latest from Travis blends into the imitative crowd

 

 

Album review: Travis' "The Boy With No Name" (Epic)

 

Or, as I'm taking to calling it, "The Band With No Identity." Five albums and a decade on, these Scotsmen remain as reliably winsome and suitably faceless as ever – to American audiences, anyway. Yeah, Travis were doing this well before Coldplay and Snow Patrol came into their own, and Fran Healy's songwriting can be every bit as pretty, sweet and well-crafted as Chris Martin's. But where once Travis was a big fish in a small pond, it's now crowded by imitators, and its fine but far from exceptional songs sometimes suffer by comparison; they can seem interchangeable, never a good trait for even a quiet Britpop trailblazer like this one to have.

 

There's a handful here worth downloading – I'm especially fond of the chiming guitar and "Lust for Life"-lite bounce of "Selfish Jean," and as charmingly bittersweet piano ballads go, the dappled swoops of "My Eyes" bests most anything Keane has tossed up. "3 Times and You Lose" and "Colder" and the waltzing "One Night"have also stuck with me, in the way a pleasantly anthemic Star 98.7 hit might for a gray afternoon.

 

But there's little on the whole to set this set apart from a dozen others in the same vein. And when Healy overreaches lyrically, as he does most regrettably on "Battleships," the results can be inadvertently hilarious: "We're battleships / Taking hits / Sinking / It's now or never / Overboard / Drowning in a sea of love and hate / It's too late / Battleship down." Then there's this piece of wisdom, from the aptly titled "Out in Space": "We blame ourselves as much as we blame we.

 

Isn't that the same thing?

 

Grade: B-

 

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/music/albumreviews/article_1691085.php

And selfish jeaaaaan! :D

 

I hard there's a new vid out there of 3 times and you lose :o

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqTp1sj97I

Note: it's a promo for the album. It's not a video accompanying a single.

Check my account at Youtube for the band's performance at Later... with Jools Holland yesterday

 

http://www.youtube.com/RadioMad

Thanks RadioMad!

 

Do you have the original video? Can you upload it? :D

I really love their new album. I'm so into them again now... I forgot how much I missed them.

Thanks RadioMad!

 

Do you have the original video? Can you upload it? :D

 

Original video from Jools Holland?

 

Ermm... will this do?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EWF91YAB

Thanks so much!!!!!!!!! :)

 

Is that the whole performance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJqTp1sj97I

Note: it's a promo for the album. It's not a video accompanying a single.

 

NICE ONE!

Thanks for uploading that, Marc. :)

 

I suppose they didn't do an interview, did they?

I am loving the bonus track 'Say Hello' at the moment. Should be on the album instead of 'New Amsterdam' IMO.

Although 'New Amsterdam' isn't too strong, it's a great tune to singalong to at the top of your lungs.

 

"And it's a neeew day, it's a neeeew dawn in neeeeeew Aamsterdaaaaaaamm"

Yeah. I'm just suprised 'Say Hello' was only deemed good enough to be an Itunes bonus track, so it's not exactly going to be the one of the most widely known new songs.

Album arrived

More heartfelt, more human

 

 

Travis tell Craig McLean why their fifth album took so long – and why they won’t be eclipsed by Snow Patrol and Coldplay

 

In the strange setting of a Portakabin dressing room in the Californian desert, Travis are pondering their position as Britain’s favourite purveyors of sensitive, uplifting rock.

 

This, arguably, is the sound they invented. But latterly, in the three-and-half years since the release of their last album, it’s been pinched by Snow Patrol. And before that, it was taken, developed and redefined by Coldplay.

 

“Travis were the band that invented Coldplay,” Chris Martin said on Radio 1 the other month, “and lots of other bands.”

 

So, as Travis release their fifth album, The Boy With No Name – the first since the edgier but low-selling 12 Memories – I wondered, are they worried about their place?

 

“No,” replies singer Fran Healy instantly, ''because I think Travis do something that those bands don’t do. We’re far closer to the heart, there’s something more human. You know what it is? Our songs are smaller. Coldplay and Snow Patrol, they go for the big, massive stadium vibe, and that’s great. I’ve seen them live and when you’re in the audience you go, 'Wow, that’s mega.’ And it is awesome – that full stadium vibe.”

 

“In my mind it’s the difference between art and design,” chips in Dougie Payne, bass player with this four-piece who, like Franz Ferdinand a decade later, formed in Glasgow in the early 1990s in the social circles centring on the city’s world famous School of Art.

 

“Things can be designed for a grand scale – whereas we’re very much… Well, we’re art school.”

 

“Aye, we don’t know what the hell we’re doing!” laughs Healy.

 

“Basically, that’s what I’m trying to say!” says Payne with a grin.

 

Healy pauses for a glug of water; this afternoon at sun-baked Coachella, California’s answer to Glastonbury, temperatures are hitting 107ºF. Like his bandmates, he’s dressed as if for a rainy day in Glasgow (black jeans, boots, T-shirt, jacket).

 

“But Travis,” he continues, “has always been small. It’s a folk band that got big! And got big kinda by accident. With The Man Who, you could never have predicted that. It was such a quiet record.”

 

Travis started off as a second-tier Britpop band (Caledonian division), gigging buddies with Oasis who were given the seal of approval by Noel Gallagher. But The Man Who, their second album in 1999, was the mouse that roared.

 

Its brace of hit singles – Why Does It Always Rain on Me?, Driftwood, Writing to Reach You, Turn, plangent, crowd‑pleasing pop songs all – powered the band to phenomenal sales figures and two Brit Awards.

 

The foursome repeated the formula on The Invisible Band. But the concept behind that title – Travis aren’t important, the songs are – also became a burden. The band were too polite, too nice, too anonymous to stand out in the cut and thrust of the rock scene.

 

They tried to roughen their edges with 12 Memories in 2003, forswearing regular producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead’s “sixth man”) to take the reins themselves. Electronic blips underpinned songs about the war in Iraq and, in the first single, ReOffender, domestic abuse.

 

Healy remembers hearing Jo Whiley playing it for the first time on Radio 1. He adopts a Smashy and Nicey “DJ voice”.

 

“And this is Travis and their new single, all about being trapped in a brutal relationship!” Healy guffaws. “I was like, oh God, that’s really bad.”

 

Travis took their time with The Boy With No Name. There was no rush. They had sold (and made) millions. Their management was busy with Arctic Monkeys. Life got in the way – Healy and guitarist Andy Dunlop both had babies (drummer Neil Primrose already had two daughters).

 

And, in a good way, Brian Eno got in the way: before spending the better part of a year flitting from studio to studio across London, Travis spent a couple of days working with the polymathic producer.

 

Primrose: “His job was to motivate us.”

 

Payne: “We went to Brian with no songs, just to jam. We had a brilliant time it was very experimental, very living-out-your-David-Bowie-fantasies.”

 

For the sessions Eno fashioned a new pack of his legendary “Oblique Strategy” cards, each emblazoned with a motivational adjective. Travis found themselves tasked with playing musical ideas that were “other-worldly”, “aggressive”, “erratic”, “forceful”, “black” and “blue”.

 

Onstage at Coachella, Travis manage two or three of those. Closer, the tremendous lead single from The Boy With No Name, bursts into life, a good chunk of the audience already familiar with the words – a fact no doubt due in some part to the wide exposure of the video, which stars Ben Stiller, a good friend and major Travis fan.

 

And then Travis play Why Does It Always Rain On Me?. With the palm trees of California swaying gently in the background, it’s probably the least apposite setting ever for the band’s signature song. No matter: the whole crowd joins in the soaring chorus, challenging the skies with their lusty enthusiasm.

 

“We’re quite hard to characterise,” mused Healy, pursuing his own analogy of Travis as a folk band.

 

“We’re kind of an anti-band or something. We wouldn’t be out of place before record players had been invented. Where it was just about people sitting round, and everybody shares a song, and then they go off, spreading the song. And the music just filters about among the people.”

 

For Travis, the archetypal People’s Band, there can be no higher calling.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/17/bmtravis117.xml

I love Travis and am off to see them in Manchester next Tuesday. Thankfully it was the night BEFORE the Champions League final otherwise it'd be a tough decision - Travis or Liverpool v AC Milan!

ahh i love travis:heart: the end

I need the lyrics for

 

Perfect Heaven Space

Say Hello

This Love

The Great Unknown

The Day Today

I can't find them anywhere!

 

Please! :)

I don't think the men of Coldplay are losing sleep over this.

WooW... it seems Travis get turn into something really love for us over here.

jajaja

Cos' i really think i'm going to love them....:embarassed: