Set-list from last night

 

Intro

Chinese blues

J. smith

Something anything

Long way down

Broken mirror

Friends

Get up

Last word

Quite free

Song to self

Before you were here

 

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Sing

Eyes wide open

Last laugh of the Laughter

Love will come through

Sailing away

Side

The fear

Writing To Reach You

Falling down

Lola

Selfish gene

 

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Last train

All I Want To Do Is Rock

*Unknown*

Re-offender

Flowers in the window

Blue flashing light

god, 28 songs, that's so great... :)

i like travis...

I love dougie's haircut!!!!:blush:

I'm glad to hear you had a good time, Dave. :]

And thanks for sharing your excellent pics!

 

You didn't get to meet Fran, though? That's a shame...maybe he just took a bit longer? It happens, haha...

 

I cannot wait to hear the sound of all that new stuff...what I've read so far sounds extremely promising!

My friend went friday night.

 

Reckons their doing a concept album, about 45 minutes long, supposibly one long song not multi tracked. Darkest thing they've done yet he said, but he hasnt heard 12 memories. The tour was all about testing this concept album.

 

Of course its up to you wether to believe me or not but I trust my source.

You could tell the difference between the new tracks, and they lacked any real flow, although they said it would be recorded "live" as a band.

I really liked your pictures, David

I :heart: Fran!

Looks like an awesome show there Dave.

i was lucky enough to see all the new songs on youtube yesterday morning (unfortunately the person who uploaded them has set them to privat now, so don't ask ;) ) and i reeaally liked them! :)

well, no question they're way different from what you're used to as a travis fan, but i certainly like that "new style". it's a mixture between good feeling and 12 memories (well, sort of) but it's still different.

aww, i want that album now!! :rolleyes:

*bump*

 

new blog by dougie

 

 

Posted Feb 19 2008

12:50PM

 

Back in rak.

 

Album 6 Day 1

 

Feeling buoyant.

The album rehearsal shows have, i hope, left us nicely prepared to get the record down on tape pretty quickly. The songs feel just about ready to go into the oven.

It's a blindingly beautiful day.

My walk into the studio takes me past the maternity hospital and i am filled with all kinds of frissons of excitement.

Claes and I arrive at exactly the same time and we head inside to see our lovely nick and delicious dave setting up the gear in studio 1,

a studio where we have recorded at least part of every album except 12 memories. Not to mention countless b sides.

Great to see Emery our engineer, who arrived from new york only the day before, and assistant engineer raj.

Inspired by the rather brilliant experience of recording "lovely rita" with geoff emerick on the original equipment we have decided this time to use old school technology. This means a rather large 16 track machine (actually two 8 tracks stuck together) from 1968.

The joy of this kind of recording is that it's all about capturing a band performance rather than sitting round a computer shuffling little chunks of music around. Also it limits the number of overdubs we can do as we only have 16 tracks to play with, and means we can't really drop in to fix any mistakes. So have to get a great take from everyone. It's all very exciting.

There are narturally a few teething problems with the gear but by mid afternoon we are making noise and begin running through chinese blues.

We go back into the control room to check how everything sounds and to be frank it already sounds massive. 2 inch tape and 40 year old machines are good!

We do a total of around 10 takes and go in to listen. there is something very arresting about the second to last take and the consensus is that it is the one.I can't see it needing many overdubs to be honest. Which is of course a very good thing. Time has flown though, so we must have been having fun, and we decide to call it a night. a good first day. good night. xd

 

:)

Album 6 Studio Diaries

06/03/08

 

 

Travis have recently completed the recording of their sixth studio album.

 

The two week session at RAK studios in London has been fully documented by Dougie, day by day in the Band section of this site and includes photos from the studio.

 

Click here to view the diaries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:dance: :dance: :dance:

:dance: I can't wait! I heart Travis. And from what Dave said the new stuff sounds great.

Woooooo!!

 

TOUR!!!

A new album ALREADY? :shocked2:

Its true!

I just read all of Dougie's blog entries, and it sounds fantastic! Really great news.

:dance:

:dance: I can't wait! I heart Travis. And from what Dave said the new stuff sounds great.

 

The new songs in my mind are on a par if not better than The Man Who

The new songs in my mind are on a par if not better than The Man Who

You saw them in one of those intimate gigs in Feb then? If you got in thats really lucky ;)

 

If we're talking better than the Man Who, then we're possibly looking at them releasing (one of their) best albums yet.

You saw them in one of those intimate gigs in Feb then? If you got in thats really lucky ;)

 

If we're talking better than the Man Who, then we're possibly looking at them releasing (one of their) best albums yet.

 

*points to avatar*

^Ooh I see... I'm not really on the ball today :dozey:

 

Anyway, hope you had a good time.

I did, my report was a couple pages back.

so, dougie said the album will get mixed in april ... really can't wait! :dance: :dance:

i hope they'll tour again this summer, fingers crossed!

Yesterday and the day before yesterday were Travis days for me,so this is absolutely amazing news

 

The boy with no name is definitely the best album of the last year!

Fran was just on the radio talking about Sudan and how important it is that everyone should be aware about the poverty that exists there. Good on ya Fran, what a guy.