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.

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.

Get your ass outta here!

Go richard!!!!!! have a great time man!!!!!!!!! :D :cool:

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:

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!

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

^^^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

well let us hear it man! ;) :D :D :D :D

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.

^^^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

^^^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 ;)

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 :)

and i'll never give into your heart

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.

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.

You know, y'all ...

Withi his new hair cut, you can really see Franny's MPB.

I guess it isn't PMB as much as it's just a receding hairline.

Hey dude! what did you like the best?

"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

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

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

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 :)

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:

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....