Some pics I took at the Amsterdam gig earlier this week:

 

omg!!! really nice pics Radiomad...nice work!

wow they're amazing! What kind of camera do you use?

the pictures are amazing

wooooooow...great pics...and I can see Klaus:blush:

Just bought Boy With No Name. About time eh?

Just bought Boy With No Name. About time eh?

 

Yup. What kept you?:P

I'm waiting for my CD...

I'll get the CD on sunday....:dance:

The Boy With No Name : they're not all good but most of them are. I like "Closer".

Amazing pics Radiomad. Think I already said that over at TravisOnline. :)

wow they're amazing! What kind of camera do you use?

 

Thanks.

I use a Konica Minolta Dimage Z3 4.0 mega pixels digital camera

Yup. What kept you?:P

 

I was going to buy it when it came out, but I bought 4 other cds on sale instead.

 

I'm glad to finally have it.

Julia also found a link to a chat with Travis where they announced that they will be coming to Germany in autumn!

 

I squeed rather loudly when I saw them writing that. :D

I mean, they didn't mention Austria, but a "European tour" and hell, there surely will be SOME PLACE I'll be able to go to xD

Isn't the new album actually kinda boring?... I think it is. I just listened to it once so that's my first impression, but... I don't know. The only song that was at least a little bit outstanding was Closer, but the reason is that I'd heard it before on the radio.

So maybe I'll change my mind later, but right now it seems booooring. Can't even compare it to The Man Who or The Invisible Band... Oh, why do earlier works usually sound so much better than later stuff?

I will give the new album a listen right now...but I guess I won't find it boring because I've seen them live....so now there is a difference...if I hadn't I wouldn't even own it right now (I guess...)

I guess the last few days are the perfect days to buy Travis new cd. :) I just bought one too on saturday. TBWNN is not as good as TMW and TIB imo, but they're not boring. You just need to listen to it a few times till you find the charm inside their melody and lyrics. That's what really get me into them.

 

I read a review of TBWNN on Rolling Stone magazine and they only gave 2 1/2 stars for it. I was like: WHAT? It said that (I hope I said this right) Travis needed to make an album that can 'move' them from Bends to OK Computer. I think Fran had made this clear when he said that Travis don't want to be the biggest band in the world, they just want to be the best band in the world.

 

And then I read the other reviews and found out that they gave 3 1/2 stars for Maroon 5 new album. Yeah, well...whatever. :(

Isn't the new album actually kinda boring?... I think it is. I just listened to it once so that's my first impression, but... I don't know. The only song that was at least a little bit outstanding was Closer, but the reason is that I'd heard it before on the radio.

So maybe I'll change my mind later, but right now it seems booooring. Can't even compare it to The Man Who or The Invisible Band... Oh, why do earlier works usually sound so much better than later stuff?

 

Absolutely like Radiohead:P

I will give the new album a listen right now...but I guess I won't find it boring because I've seen them live....so now there is a difference...if I hadn't I wouldn't even own it right now (I guess...)

 

Julia your lucky! i would love to see them live! btw i was watching DW news and australia came on-- about the floods in New South Wales a state of Australia.

 

Lera oh no ! i have most of their albums and i found 12 memories boring but i still liked some of the songs and didn't really sit down and listen to that album.

Is the new album like 12 memories?

i think i'll wait to hear more of thier singles on the radio before buying the album.

Julia your lucky! i would love to see them live! btw i was watching DW news and australia came on-- about the floods in New South Wales a state of Australia.

 

Lera oh no ! i have most of their albums and i found 12 memories boring but i still liked some of the songs and didn't really sit down and listen to that album.

Is the new album like 12 memories?

i think i'll wait to hear more of thier singles on the radio before buying the album.

 

If you'll ever get the chance then you should take it....;)

 

and I know this is off-topic, but did I tell you that I did an internship at DW?hehe...but I was in "Bonn" and there is only the radio section....the TV section is in Berlin....

Travis return from the dead

 

 

The spinal injury of Travis drummer Neil Primrose coincided with Travis' decline, but they now have a new album. Andrew Murfett reports.

 

When Neil Primrose, the drummer for Scottish rockers Travis, was lying on the bottom of a swimming pool clinically dead, the last thing on his mind was drumming.

 

Primrose was holidaying with his bandmates and their long-term road crew in France when he suffered a life- threatening spinal injury after diving into a shallow hotel swimming pool.

 

"I could feel myself dying," Primrose recalls of the 2002 accident. "Laying there, it was like, 'That's it, I'm dead'."

 

After Primrose was administered a heavy dose of morphine and the paralysis eventually subsided, he swiftly went into shock. When the emergency crew attempted to place him in the ambulance, he tried to kick the doors of the emergency van open and jump off.

 

"Apparently that's quite a common reaction for people in trauma. They get very aggressive," he says with a slightly embarrassed chuckle. "I can laugh about it now, but it was no laughing matter."

 

Primrose's accident coincided with Travis, once one of Scotland's biggest exports, enduring a heavy descent in sales and recognition.

 

The band met at a Glasgow arts school in 1990. Primrose was the only non-student in the band, but he worked in the area, and would regularly drink and play pool there. It was not long before they began playing music together. The band's first singer was replaced within a year by vocalist Fran Healy.

 

The earliest Travis album, Good Feeling, sold a modest 40,000 copies on its 1997 release. But it was their second album, The Man Who, featuring singles Why Does it Always Rain on Me? and Driftwood, that broke out commercially. Another strong album, The Invisible Band, followed a couple of years later, and from 1999 to 2002, Travis music regularly topped pop charts around the world.

 

So well regarded was Travis in Britain, that Chris Martin recently acknowledged that were it not for them, Coldplay would not exist.

 

"That's very magnanimous of him to say that," Primrose says. "But that's what bands do. They take something from another band, modify it and make it their own."

 

Travis's fortunes started to falter after their poorly received 2003 album, 12 Memories. The record barely registered in the charts. "We were stunned. We thought we'd made a great, classic album, but maybe it was just a bit too socio-political or too deep an album for some people," says Primrose.

 

"I think people expect Travis to be a happy-go-lucky, bittersweet band, and that's what we do best, but with 12 Memories we wanted to go down a darker avenue."

 

A contract-obliging best-of album came next. It also fell flat. Primrose says the band was apprehensive about releasing it, and because it was perceived as a stopgap between albums, it flew under most fans' radars.

 

Their newly released The Boy With No Name comes after a four-year recording hiatus. Primrose acknowledges that four years is a long time between releases, but believes the quartet needed to "be able to live a little bit to be able to say anything".

 

About 40 songs were recorded for the project in what was a difficult gestation. Much of the early sessions were scrapped altogether. With session after session producing two or three new songs at a time, the band felt they were writing music that was more concise, more "pop".

 

Primrose says that when Healy, their chief lyricist, became a father, a new emotional well opened for him.

 

Most of the album was self- produced in various studios around London. Former producer Nigel Godrich assisted on several sessions. The band also did a five-day stint with Brian Eno, creating experimental music. Unfortunately, most of it will probably not see the light of day.

 

"It was very cathartic, and we'd love to do it again, but it was one of those things that when you listen back, we just sounded really pretentious."

 

Primrose says that his injury has made him "even more forthright than I was".

 

"If you get a second chance, you try to live life even harder."

 

Travis' The Boy With No Name is out now through Sony BMG.

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4091499a4500.html

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Julia your lucky! i would love to see them live!

 

You should get a chance. I read in an interview a few weeks ago they said they definitely want to go to Australia again soon.

So sometime after their upcoming North America tour, they will hopefully tour Asia/Australia etc.

Hopefully they will come to NZ after Australia, but if they don't then I will try to get to Australia if the timing is OK for me.

So sometime after their upcoming North America tour, they will hopefully tour Asia/Australia etc.

Hopefully they will come to NZ after Australia, but if they don't then I will try to get to Australia if the timing is OK for me.

This is a great news. I hope they will tour to South East Asia and come to Indonesia. Or Singapore at least. I will definitely go there. Australia is too expensive for me. :(

You should get a chance. I read in an interview a few weeks ago they said they definitely want to go to Australia again soon.

So sometime after their upcoming North America tour, they will hopefully tour Asia/Australia etc.

Hopefully they will come to NZ after Australia, but if they don't then I will try to get to Australia if the timing is OK for me.

 

What are you thinking of?? You must go anyhow because its your favourite band