Travis’s frontman Fran Healy was watching TV one afternoon in 1999, with the sound turned down. Something about swingbeat was on MTV. Healy reached for his guitar and began to hum along to the silent video, working his fingers around the chords of a new song. “When it naturally got to a sort of chorus-y part, I started singing, ‘Swing... If you swing, swing, swing, swing,’” Healy said.
The melody took shape and next day Healy took it to his bandmates in the studio. With Andy Dunlop on piano and banjo, bassist Dougie Payne and drummer Neil Primrose, Healy strummed his new song about a children’s swing. The band became engrossed, and cut a demo. Halfway through the chorus, Healy altered “swing” to “sing”. Listening to the playback, he heard a song about the recuperative powers of singing, rather than children in the playground.
The track was recorded some months later in Los Angeles,...
The melody took shape and next day Healy took it to his bandmates in the studio. With Andy Dunlop on piano and banjo, bassist Dougie Payne and drummer Neil Primrose, Healy strummed his new song about a children’s swing. The band became engrossed, and cut a demo. Halfway through the chorus, Healy altered “swing” to “sing”. Listening to the playback, he heard a song about the recuperative powers of singing, rather than children in the playground.
The track was recorded some months later in Los Angeles,...
- 10/8/2022
- by Robert Webb
- The Independent - Music
It's been a long five years since Travis - the band credited for paving the way for hit-makers Coldplay, Keane and others - were in the recording studio, but they're back, sounding as big as ever.
Watch Above: HuffPostUK is pleased to be the exclusive hosts of the first single 'Where You Stand' from their seventh album of the same name - which is released on 19 August on their own relaunched label.
The harmonic pop, piano solo and jangling guitars will be instantly recognisable to fans of the Scottish quartet - Fran Healy, Dougie Payne, Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose - who have recorded this album in London, Norway, New York as well as Berlin's legendary Hansa studios, where the sounds for their breakthrough hit 'The Man Who'.
The band named themselves after the Harry Dean Stanton character Travis Henderson from the film 'Paris, Texas'.
Before their self-imposed hiatus, Travis...
Watch Above: HuffPostUK is pleased to be the exclusive hosts of the first single 'Where You Stand' from their seventh album of the same name - which is released on 19 August on their own relaunched label.
The harmonic pop, piano solo and jangling guitars will be instantly recognisable to fans of the Scottish quartet - Fran Healy, Dougie Payne, Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose - who have recorded this album in London, Norway, New York as well as Berlin's legendary Hansa studios, where the sounds for their breakthrough hit 'The Man Who'.
The band named themselves after the Harry Dean Stanton character Travis Henderson from the film 'Paris, Texas'.
Before their self-imposed hiatus, Travis...
- 4/30/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Travis drummer Neil Primrose and guitarist Andy Dunlop are set to play a gig using an unusual set of musical instruments - made of old car parts.
The Scottish rockers will perform with a special drum kit and guitar, made from discarded pieces of a Ford Focus automobile, as part of a charity fundraiser for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust at London's Albert Hall on Friday.
Primrose says, "I've played drum kits made of all sorts of nonsense, from cardboard boxes to packing cases and plastic. So I thought, why not give this a try?
"It's all for a good cause and we never know what other celebrity names might join us up on stage tonight. Scotland needs something like this event to help children with cancer."...
The Scottish rockers will perform with a special drum kit and guitar, made from discarded pieces of a Ford Focus automobile, as part of a charity fundraiser for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust at London's Albert Hall on Friday.
Primrose says, "I've played drum kits made of all sorts of nonsense, from cardboard boxes to packing cases and plastic. So I thought, why not give this a try?
"It's all for a good cause and we never know what other celebrity names might join us up on stage tonight. Scotland needs something like this event to help children with cancer."...
- 4/11/2008
- WENN
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