yes!!!! i adore turn! everytime i hava a shitty day, i play that song out loud! it's such a positive tune that just makes me smile and i've been playing it on guitar all day long since i read your post Julia :kiss:

awwwww....that's great that you can play it on the guitar Renny:blush:

When I was at work the other day I had this song on my mind for like erm 6 hours...:heart:

 

it's funny that I didn't like it at all at first....but it's always the same...I do love the songs even more after I didn't like them at the beginning...awww

 

 

oh and btw....the Rock am Ring gig is on youtube aswell now.....;)

 

oooh and before I forget it....Do you know what my favourite scene of the Rock am Ring gig is?At the beginnin of "good feeling" in the first stanza when Fran is "playing" with his guitar...when he is turning it around an stuff...that's so super cute I want to cuddle him for that...:blush:

 

 

edit: I can't find my "The Boy with no name" Cd anymore...:bigcry:

Now I'm using Selfish Jean as my ringtone on my cellphone. :smug2: :blush:

Can't get enough of the song, lol.

 

I can't find my "The Boy with no name" Cd anymore...:bigcry:

Have you looked for it everywhere?

http://www.selfishjean.com/

 

 

 

you can download the font :)

selfish jean video...ooooooooh

its so great:D

im listening to the boy with no name all day:dance:

Now I'm using Selfish Jean as my ringtone on my cellphone. :smug2: :blush:

Can't get enough of the song, lol.

 

 

Have you looked for it everywhere?

 

Duhh. No.

Apparently not everywhere, otherwise it wouldn't be lost anymore.

http://www.selfishjean.com/

 

 

 

you can download the font :)

Thank you, Lore! :)

 

Duhh. No.

Apparently not everywhere, otherwise it wouldn't be lost anymore.

:laugh3: Yes, I get your point. :)

new travis cd is AWESOME!

new travis cd is AWESOME!

 

Join zee club :D

The Life and Times of Travis

 

 

Brit-rock superstars always enjoy playing Toronto

 

If a band names itself after a character played by the wonderful actor Harry Dean Stanton (in the great Paris, Texas), then you get the sense they possess a good dose of intelligence and good taste.

 

That’s been confirmed over the course of a career that has seen Scottish group Travis become one of Britain’s most beloved bands. They haven’t had quite the same impact this side of the Atlantic, but they’ve earned a loyal following amongst those devoted to the kind of atmospheric and melodic Brit-rock sound spearheaded by the likes of Snow Patrol and Coldplay.

 

They’re no bandwagon jumpers, however, and Travis are rightfully being recognized as key pioneers of that sound. For instance, Coldplay mainman Chris Martin recently premiered a new Travis tune, “Big Chair,” on English radio, noting that “Travis is the band that invented my band and lots of others.”

 

Travis lead guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Andy Dunlop told Tandem recently that “Chris was being a bit generous then. I think Coldplay would have been a band without Travis. I think what we did was make that music popular, and maybe paved the way for a few people to be heard. A lot of bands make that sort of music but maybe the record labels and press weren’t listening. I think the success of The Man Who opened doors for people.”

 

Andy’s referring to Travis 1999 sophomore disc The Man Who, the one that launched them into the big time. Thanks to hit single (and Brit-rock classic) “Why Does It Always Rain On Me?,” it topped the charts and earned a BRIT Award for best album, while a 237 gig world tour helped broaden their audience.

Their new disc, The Boy With No Name is their fifth, and arguably their best since The Man Who. “The reaction has been pretty good,” says Andy. “There are people that just hate us and what we stand for. We’re not a cool band; we just do songs.”

 

The bulk of Travis’ songs are written by lead singer, Fran Healy, though Dunlop co-wrote two of the new tracks. “We’ve never really had a process in this band,” Andy says. “Everybody just writes bits all the time. Mostly Fran will come in with a song on acoustic guitar and we’ll work through it. He’s a great writer so you just let him go and do his thing.”

 

Dunlop has been there from the beginning, back to the days of an earlier Glasgow band, Glass Onion. Their original female singer was replaced by Fran Healy in 1991, and Glass Onion became Travis a couple of years later. “We were pretty ambitious even back then,” recalls Dunlop. “We always wanted to take it around the world and be a touring band. That is what keeps bands alive, going out and playing in front of people.”

 

While they headline festivals and big shows in Europe, their smaller North American audience means playing large clubs here. “As long as there are people there who’ll get the music, it’s all good. We’ve always had great times in Toronto. You’re afforded a bit of a fan base in Toronto from the get-go because they keep up with the British music scene. Even the first time there were people interested in what we were doing.”

 

Connecting with some of his musical idols has been a thrill for Dunlop. “Meeting people like Bowie and McCartney has been amazing. These are people whose pictures you used to have on the wall, they’re part of your musical DNA.”

Other highlights are in finishing their albums, he reflects. “Listening to the final mixes, thinking ‘we’ve got it.’ Every time you start a record you’re staring at a blank page again. It’s pretty f ***’en scary!” When you finish, there’s a real sense of accomplishment.”

 

Travis made use of such ace producers/mixers as Nigel Godrich (Radiohead), Mike Hedges and Michael Brauer on the new disc. “I think you’ve got to have someone else there. Your face is right up against it the whole time, so you can’t really tell what you’ve got. You need someone to stand 10 feet back and go, ‘Well, the painting’s a bit wonky.’”

 

On their 2003 CD, 12 Memories, Travis veered into more political territory, as on the anti-war “The Beautiful Occupation.” “We’ve never considered ourselves as a band to be anything but personal,” insists Andy. “What we write about is what personally affects us. Everyone was out marching against the war then, but no one was being heard. I went in the march in Glasgow. It felt like the government didn’t listen, so that was a personal issue for us. Politics can affect you personally.”

 

The Boy With No Name is out on SONY/BMG. Travis play Kool Haus on July 19.

 

http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=7481&page=3

Duhh. No.

Apparently not everywhere, otherwise it wouldn't be lost anymore.

Hah, but what if it was stolen? :P

 

 

I'm still waiting for them to announce some new tour dates, every daaay...

Travis @ 9:30 Club

 

When the band first broke onto the scene in the mid to late 1990s, Glasgow's Travis was at the forefront of the British trad rock revival. Like its counterpart, Oasis, Travis is a descendant of established bands, such as The Beatles, U2, and Radiohead, as well as a progenitor of Coldplay, the more recent arena kings. The band never attained the success of either Oasis or Coldplay, partly because it rarely attempted to be larger than life while those groups openly admit to a certain amount of megalomania.

 

On its latest recording, The Boy With No Name, its first in four years, the band is not reaching for great heights and the result is an album that showcases a mature act that is comfortable in its normalcy while maintaining a dedication to well-crafted material. In a sense, this willingness to just be Travis is a step forward for the boys, because their weakest moments on record have been where they abandon a low key aesthetic in favor of grandeur. Last night at a sold out 9:30 Club, the band could do no wrong. Travis delivered two hours of polished melodic rock where even the more reaching material worked because of a well paced set list and the sheer enthusiasm of band and crowd alike.

 

Photos by Kyle Gustafson

 

Alabama native John Paul White's duo began the proceedings with White on acoustic guitar and vocals along with a band mate on electric guitar. While the performance was by no means bad, there was nothing memorable about it. His sound seemed inspired by Jeff Buckley, but he lacked Buckley’s talent and stage presence to hold the audience’s interest. By the end of the set, very few people in the audience seemed to be paying any attention. White might consider hiring a rhythm section to add some energy to his performance.

 

Travis’ set began with a flourish as the P.A. blared a medley of the 20th Century Fox Theme, the theme from Rocky, and "Livin’ in America" by James Brown, all while the band marched through the crowd wearing boxing robes. The stage design was simple with only the addition of three lighting banks and a couple of spotlights added to the existing setup. Once the band reached the stage, they launched into the shuffling “Selfish Jean” and the stomping "Eyes Wide Open," both off of their most recent release.

 

Frontman Francis Healy’s voice was in fine form throughout the night and he played an excellent rockstar Everyman while holding the crowd in the palm of his hand. At ease on stage and generous with witty banter, and the occasional bottle of water (a valued commodity in the sweltering club) Healy connected with the audience from the first downbeat. While introducing the song, "Good Feeling," he launched into a shtick that may have been pre-meditated, but anyone who can make a joke involving Swedish keyboard players, Limp Bizkit, and anal sex gets bonus points in our book. Of course, Healy’s performance would have amounted to little without the able backing of drummer Neil Primrose, bassist Dougie Payne, guitarist Andy Dunlop, who literally climbed the rafters during "All I Wanna Do Is Rock," and the aforementioned Swedish keyboard player, Claes Bjorklund.

 

Written the day Healy found out he was going to be a parent, "My Eyes" was one of the most emotive vocal performances of the evening. "Closer," one of the better songs off the new album, translated very well to the stage. The band also delved into its catalog with strong performances of "Turn," "Sing," "Driftwood," and "Side." The five song encore began with a solo acoustic performance of "20" followed by the band of brothers standing shoulder to shoulder, behind a single mic, singing "Flowers In The Window." The show seemed to end with their signature tune, "Why Does It Always Rain On Me," where Healy invited an all too obliging audience to do the pogo during the final refrain, but the group did not stop there -- closing with none other than AC/DC’s "Back in Black."

 

http://dcist.com/2007/07/17/travis_930_club.php

Travis moving forward

 

Not every U.K. band would take a two-year break just as they had achieved more than a moderate amount of success across the pond.

 

But then Scottish melodic pop band Travis, who paved the way for other emotive acts like Coldplay, Keane and Snow Patrol, with such hits as Why Does It Always Rain on Me?, knew it was for their own long-term survival.

 

"We needed to refuel and get our hunger back for doing what we do and rediscover what it was that made Travis kind of special in the first place," said frontman Fran Healy down the line from Boston recently in his thick Glaswegian accent prior to tonight's Kool Haus show.

 

"And we realized, after a year of just chilling out and having a little bit of space, that is simply that we're really, really close to each other. We're friends esentially. That's the core of this band and I think when that started to go a little bit south, when that happens, when you lose the essence of the band, you lose everything. So I think we've gotten it all back again, which is cool. I really do think that we've taken three steps back in order to take more steps forward."

 

Travis' latest and fifth studio album, The Boy With No Name -- the title comes from Healy's year-and-four-month-old son who was nameless for a time but now goes by Clay -- came out in May and it's the group's first disc of original material since 2003's 12 Memories. (That was followed by a greatest hits record in 2004 called Singles.)

 

Healy, who has homes in New York City and London, and his three bandmates found themselves in the enviable position of going back to work with studio genius Brian Eno before they eventually regrouped with producers Nigel Godrich and Mike Hedges.

 

"We went in with a plan to maybe do the whole album with Brian, but because we didn't have any songs to go in with, we just jammed for three days. I realized at the end of this time I had to write songs the old fashioned way -- which was just with an acoustic guitar at the end of my bed (and write) about things that mean something to me. It's a very old cliche -- you need three chords and the truth in order to write a decent song. So that's kind of what I had to do."

 

Healy said he hasn't ruled out trying to work with Eno again at some point.

 

"Our session with him was fabulous. He's just a very inspiring character and he's got a lot of really cool ideas. And I get texts every now and then from Brian telling me to look out the window, there's an eclipse, or telling me he's in Turkey and they're thinking of me. He also gave me one of his keyboards, which was cool. I think we took quite a shine to each other. It was really nice."

 

As for Travis being eclipsed by bands that followed in their footsteps -- like arena headliners Coldplay -- Healy is nonplussed.

 

"We're friends with all these bands. It's the best thing ever when you see your friends doing well so I was really glad they were all keeping the ball rolling," says Healy. "We make similar types of music but I think Travis are different in a way. We did (1999's breakthrough) The Man Who and it opened up a massive playing field for a lot of bands to play on. But we're very eclectic. We're an art school band, so we're not really careerists.We don't just do one thing. We're much more like The Beatles as a band where songs that are quite dark rest beside songs that are quite light and heartfelt."

 

http://torontosun.com/Entertainment/Music/2007/07/19/4351168-sun.html

Thank you Ian

Finally got the album today :)

nice... did you like it?

 

I really like this album.. I bought it like 3 weeks ago..

Yep

 

I was waiting for it to come down in price before buying it. Which I did, and walked out of Woolies with the CD with 5 pound coins and a penny, I only walked in there with a quid, which I purchased a lotto scratch card.

here you can't find cheap albums.. even years after the release :sick:

 

it's a good album anyway.. I really like Travis now... hope they come someday

You find cheap albums around here a few months afterwards

Travis focuses on life's 'in-betweens'

 

 

There are sensitive rock groups and then there is Travis.

 

The members of this Scottish quartet have built a sturdy, below-the-radar career out of wearing their hearts on their sleeves, and paved the way for such emotionally charged European bands as Coldplay and Keane. Travis' latest album, The Boy With No Name, finds the foursome rebounding from 2003's moody, political 12 Memories, reveling in incandescent melodies and soaring choruses that hark back to the band's American breakthrough, 1999's The Man Who.

 

In advance of Travis' Dallas show this week, lead guitarist Andy Dunlop checked in from a Michigan tour stop to talk about the band's penchant for honesty and the art of creating a good set list.

 

How's the tour coming along?

 

It's been great so far -- we're having a ball, and it's just getting better and better. There's been nothing in the set list covers-wise, because we have so much to get to at the moment with the new album and all the old stuff. It's getting harder and harder to do a set list because there's so many things you want to put in, but you can't play for too long.

 

Does it even seem possible that it's been a decade since your first record [1997's Good Feeling] came out?

 

No -- and I don't want to think about it, thank you [laughs]. I'm kidding -- it's kind of cool. Towards the end of the last record [12 Memories], to be honest, we were done in and at the time, we didn't feel like we had anything left. So we had to go away and become a band again. ... [but now] the enthusiasm is higher than it's ever been.

 

Are you ever surprised by the band's willingness to open yourselves up to the audience?

 

We just write honestly how we feel at the time. Every record is just a snapshot of where we are. I think that's what music should be, I think that's the greatest music. ... That's where great art comes from, reaching inside yourself and thinking people can recognize that, people can relate to that.

 

What do you hope people take away from The Boy With No Name?

 

What we write about is the in-betweens of life. Too much music is "Yay! Love is beautiful." There's very little [written about] the middle part, where you can be in a loving relationship and still have bad days.

 

Travis

 

7 p.m. Wednesday

 

House of Blues, Dallas

 

$35-$45

 

http://www.star-telegram.com/music/story/176427.html

You find cheap albums around here a few months afterwards

 

And online immediately.:cool:

Yep

 

I was waiting for it to come down in price before buying it. Which I did, and walked out of Woolies with the CD with 5 pound coins and a penny, I only walked in there with a quid, which I purchased a lotto scratch card.

 

Does Woolies still exist??:stunned:

I thought they were extinct!:rolleyes:

And online immediately.:cool:

 

For 4.99?

Seeing them in 5 days! Whoohoo!

awwww...I envy you:wacko: