Taken from an article Travis did with The Times:

 

It is, indeed, interesting to observe how different musicians internalise the pressure. In their latter years, Abba started writing songs about Russian dissidents losing their marbles while waiting for the KGB to knock on the door. The title track of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida concerns an ex-dictator looking back on the immeasurable power he enjoyed.

 

“Exactly,” smiles Payne affectionately. “It’s like, ‘What could you possibly be alluding to there?’ ”

 

“When you meet Chris Martin,” says Healy, “it all makes sense. The guy doesn’t sleep.” Is that because he wants to succeed so badly? “No. I don’t necessarily think he could sleep any better beforehand. That’s just what he’s like. If you plugged him in, you could power a small Scottish town with all of his energy.”

 

If that’s a quality Healy no longer sees in himself, it’s one he appreciates in Martin. Last year Healy and his family relocated from Crouch End, North London, to Berlin, the home town of his wife Nora Kryst, a city whose tenements and cobbled streets, says Healy, remind him of his Glasgow childhood. Before that, Healy and the Coldplay singer had become close, getting together to share childcare duties — their sons Clay and Moses were born at roughly the same time.

 

Naturally, the mind can’t help but sketch out a mental image of the sometime mild-mannered janitor of mainstream indie and his successor getting to grips with the joys of modern fatherhood. But whatever the mind sketches, the reality is far better. “He helped me to reconstruct my teepee,” says Healy.

Seeing my reaction, Healy realises he’s going to have to elaborate on this. “Myself and Nora bought one on a whim. We put it in our garden and it pretty much took up the whole space. Anyway, I had taken it all down and forgotten how to put it up, but Chris came over and we went on the internet and figured it out.”

 

It sounds like an episode of Stella Street. “It was!” smiles Healy. “We could have had the best YouTube moment ever — Chris Martin and Fran Healy constructing a teepee together.”

 

If Healy wanted to go on an indefinite teepee-building sabbatical, the continuing radio royalties accrued from the old hits could comfortably subsidise him. He might not have the drive of his chum in Coldplay, but Travis’s swift return — a year after their fifth album, The Boy With No Name – suggests that his own ambition is far from spent. As often happens with bands who part ways with their major label paymasters, the songs on Ode To J. Smith shudder with a newfound sense of urgency.

 

Full article here: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article4733264.ece

“Myself and Nora bought one on a whim. We put it in our garden and it pretty much took up the whole space. Anyway, I had taken it all down and forgotten how to put it up, but Chris came over and we went on the internet and figured it out.”

 

 

that's rather cute! :D

awwwww Chris and Fran.. two of my favorite musicians:blush:

Ahh that story about the teepee is quite funny, it would have been a youtube hit for sure :D

 

Its nice to hear two people from my favourite bands getting along... its getting a bit tiring hearing about the incidents of violence and the like between/towards bands these days.

 

I can't wait for the new Travis album! :dance:

Chris is friends with EVERYONE! :lol: He has so many famous friends it's crazy. :P

Cute story! :nice:

 

Perhaps Coldplay is going to visit Fran in his new house in Berlin? We will find them! :sneaky::D

“No. I don’t necessarily think he could sleep any better beforehand. That’s just what he’s like. If you plugged him in, you could power a small Scottish town with all of his energy.”

:D

funny story :) I like Travis.

i like both of them but more Chris!

ahhh my two favourite bands and singers.. how delightful! the teepee thing was hilarious :P

THIS IS SO CUTE. i love the shared daddies thing :nice:

 

and i would kill for a video of fran and chris trying to put up a teepee! :lol:

All together now: AWWW! :nice: :laugh3:

awwwwww :nice:

 

:P

Wow,that's very cool!!

Chris is not just impressing fans but also other bands and frontmen:)

I love Travis,they're very friendly:cool:

Teepee :wacky:

Coldplay and Travis = Best Bands in the world!!

Good story...

awww, t2o of my favorite guys on the world!!! A shame I didnt know Fran was living in Berlin otherwise I would go to for stalkerish when I was there last year... heheh... I just love Fran, he´s suuuper nice... :smug: