February 1, 200422 yr Two and a half hours until doors open! I'm starting to get excited. I've listen to 12 Memories at least 8 times today.
February 1, 200422 yr OK ... I'm off! I can see the line outside the theater. Just enough time to grab a couple of beer pre-show. Peace the fack out.
February 1, 200422 yr Gaby that is a cool avatar! Hey Richard, you gotta tell me the details of the concert when you get back! You can see the venue from your house?? :stunned:
February 1, 200422 yr Richard saw Travis!!!!!!!! Yes! Travis!!!!! I had to make a thread about it man! hehe ..u must be having a great time right now!! woo hooooo!! you better post ur review , setlist and pics. i mean everything!! :D The travis experience! :cool: Now i can go to sleep.. Peace the fuck out travis maniacs!
February 1, 200422 yr i went to the Travis concert friday night and took loads of pics, and I met the whole band and got a setlist. Click on the link here to see: http://coldplay.artscience.net/vbb/showthread.php?s=504036143e181f12d14f6a9779f85138&threadid=69891
February 1, 200422 yr ^^^Lovely pictures Jodi! thanks ;) You got autographs and pictures and everything, lucky girl! I wanted to see your face, but that's okay, those are some cool pictures! ;) :D :D :D
February 1, 200422 yr Gaby that is a cool avatar! Hey Richard' date=' you gotta tell me the details of the concert when you get back! You can see the venue from your house?? :stunned:[/quote'] The concert was cool. Got back about 30 minutes ago. Yeah, I can barely see the venu from my apartment, but I can. An easy walk. I'm SO glad I went. None of my crew likes Travis that much so I had to go alone, but it was worth it. I was disappointed there wasn't more of a reaction to Beautiful Occupation, but oh well.
February 1, 200422 yr ^^^Lovely pictures Jodi! thanks ;) You got autographs and pictures and everything' date=' lucky girl! I wanted to see your face, but that's okay, those are some cool pictures! ;) :D :D :D[/quote'] hehe thanks. I'm a little internet-camera shy so no posting of my picture ;) I'm glad you enjoyed them though. And check out my new avatar :D
February 1, 200422 yr ^^^Lovely pictures Jodi! thanks ;) You got autographs and pictures and everything' date=' lucky girl! I wanted to see your face, but that's okay, those are some cool pictures! ;) :D :D :D[/quote'] hehe thanks. I'm a little internet-camera shy so no posting of my picture ;) I'm glad you enjoyed them though. And check out my new avatar :D that's okay, 'cause I am also an internet-camera shy;) :D ;) Yes, I just noticed! :sneaky: :D :D ;)
February 1, 200422 yr Well, I didn't take picks or memorize the set list, although I'm sure I can recall it if I had to. Spreckels theatre is eight blocks from my house, no the previously reported six or "few". But it's an easy walk. It's a theatre house: about 100' from the stage to the back of the theatre but three decks high, seating about 2,000. I bought my ticket late, but me and somebody I met ended up sneaking into some low second level seats. We had a perfect view of everything. They opened the show with Happy to Hang Around and then went into Re-Offender. Early on Fran's voice we cracking on high notes, and it became clear as the night went on that he wasn't going to try and really stretch it. That's OK: the quality of the live performance usurped any possible disappointment I might have had that Fran's voice wasn't 100%. Every song they played was great. I don't say that just because. Each song really was well performed. I started thinking how far Travis has come into their career, that they can put on a 16 song main set where you immediately recognize each song, half of them being big hits. And then I realized how much of a Travis fan I was: I knew the words to every song. How could that be? I'd only bought my tickets three weeks before. For personal reasions, I didn't stick around for the encores (I don't believe in encores), so the may have played other songs. But in addition to the two songs mention, stand out songs (to me) were Mid-Life Krysis, Beautiful Occupation, Side and Sing, Writing to Reach You, and As You Are. They closed the show with Turn, preceded by The Humpty Dumpty Love Song. I'll always remember the performance of first verse of The Humpty Dumpty Love Song ... when the lyric "You got the glue" came through for the first time my appreciation for the song went through the roof. Listening to the song on the CD I never realized the tightrope Fran walks lyrically through the first verse: balancing quaintness and a potential disaster of triteness to the chorus where "You got the glue" makes the song (when I could have just broken it in half). There were a couple of disappointing parts to the night. Beautiful Occupation made me sad not only because it made me think of young people dying, but I was disappointed that an American audience treated it like any other song. That leads into the next point: There were a lot of people there treating the show like an N'SYNC concert. Screaming at a couple of points would have been OK. Screaming the whole night? I don't know. I didn't realize that Travis crowds were like that. But on the whole, this was one of the better shows I've ever been to. I can count the shows I would consider "clearly better" on one hand (maybe a couple of fingers of the second). Travis is safely in that group right below what I consider the spectacular shows I've been to (stuff like Radiohead, or White Stripes/Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the same bill). The best part: The band was cool. They interacted a ton with the crowd, and I could tell all of the personal stories people have told about them are true. Their tour bus was parked right outside, and I could see that, for the post-show celebration, the band prefers Foster's, Diet Coke and Sprite :)
February 1, 200422 yr OMG ... I just realized: I saw Travis. You know, the night I joined this board was after a Radiohead concert, when Iw as so psyched from the show that I didn't want to stop listening to music ... it was 2am and I drove to my office so I could listen to my AROBTTH CD ... and I just started posting. And then rest is periodically-absent-from-the-board history.
February 1, 200422 yr Post Your Favorite Travis Lyrics!!! I don't wanna go first! So many better and more devoted Travis fans then me! You guys should have the honours! I'm just happy to Happy to Hang Around.
February 1, 200422 yr "The grass is always greener on the other side The neighbour's got a new car that you wanna drive When your time is running out you wanna stay alive We all live under the same sky We all will live we all will die There is no wrong there is no right A circle only has one side" --Side "So you'd better hold on cos it's Saturday night And your friends are all out and you feel like shit Cos they never call you, no they never call you No they never call, never bloody ever Call me a name and I'll hit you again You're a slut, you're a bitch, you're a whore Talk to your daddy in that tone of voice There's a belt hanging over the door So you run to your room and you hide in your room Thinking how you can settle the score" --The Blue Flashing Light
February 1, 200422 yr So many great songs to choose from but here are just two favourites :) Driftwood - everything is open nothing is set in stone rivers turn to ocean oceans tide you home home is where the heart is but your heart had to roam drifting over bridges never to return Turn - We'll never know unless we grow There's so much world outside the door I want to sing To sing my song I want to live in a world where I'll be strong I want to live I will survive And I believe that it won't be very long If we turn, (x8 :D) Then we might learn
February 1, 200422 yr That´s my fave Travis song... The Humpty Dumpty Love Song All of the king's horses And all of the kings men Couldn't put my heart back together again All of the physicians and mathematicians too Failed to stop my heart from breaking in two Cos all I need is you I just need you Yeah, you got the glue So I'm going to give my heart to you I had a premonition A movie in my mind Confirming my suspicions about what I would fine You followed me to LA, down to Mexico Came in through the back door At the start of the show Chorus Oh was a perfect day Oh in a perfect way You know, something had to go You left me high, you left me low Now as I lie in pieces, await for your return The sun upon my forehead It burns, baby, burns, baby, burns An eye on all my horses You slept with all my men I'm never going to get it together again
February 1, 200422 yr Que onda?!?!?! There's nothing like that moment when the music playing between acts stops, the stage goes dark, and you can see the outline of the band walking on stage. Having never seen Travis before, this was probably the highlight: The first moment of their live performance. There was a point were Fran let somebody from the audience drink from the cup he had on stage. Later he said the contents were a lemon/ginger mixture (again, the throat). I thought I would have been great if the girl who drank from the cup did a spit-take :)
February 1, 200422 yr Indefinitely Time exists just on your wrist so don’t panic Moments last and lifetimes are lost in a day So wind your watches down please ’cos there is no time to lose The Fear Hottest summer in a hundred years But summer didn’t bother Getting up this morning Safe When I was young things didn’t last My only care stemmed to the price of sweets Now I am older I can laugh A dolly mixed up man with rotten teeth :lol:
February 1, 200422 yr My favourite song of all times :D I just have to post the entire song: Travis / Why Does It Always Rain On Me? I can't sleep tonight Everybody saying everything's alright Still I can't close my eyes I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lights Sunny days Where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning I can't stand myself I'm being held up by an invisible man Still life on a shelf when I got my mind on something else Sunny days Where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning Oh, where did the blue skies go? And why is it raining so? It's so cold I can't sleep tonight Everybody's saying everything's all right Still I can't close my eyes I'm seeing a tunnel at the end of the lights Sunny days Where have you gone? I get the strangest feeling you belong Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Even when the sun is shining I can't avoid the lightning Oh, where did the blue skies go? And why is it raining so? It's so cold Why does it always rain on me? Why does it always rain on....
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