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The Invisible Band At 20: Travis On The Album That Almost Finished Them

At the point when they recall twenty years to the collection that made them one of the greatest British groups on the planet, a big part of Travis have discrete however similarly sensitive memories of their "Pinnacle Travis" minutes. For guitarist and vocalist Fran Healy it very well may be getting A-lister pee on his feet at the "compulsory" Los Angeles party in 2000. 토토사이트 검증

"It was in festival of Alanis Morissette at some spot in the Hollywood Hills and it resembled a moving Madame Tussaud's of VIP," recollects the Scottish four piece's frontman. "My abrogating memory is as a rule totally frantic for a pee and there was a major line for the three latrines. So I peed in the nursery. Furthermore, Moby comes up and begins peeing adjacent to me, and having a talk, as men do, while we're sprinkling on our feet."

Or on the other hand it was the artist's every day reminder from the pet dog of the Hollywood lifer who was his neighbor in his Sunset Boulevard inn. "I had Drew Barrymore living nearby to me, with her small canine. Each day he'd be sitting external my doorstep, hanging tight for me to play with him."

For bass player Dougie Payne, the greatest squeeze me minutes were meeting his venerated image David Bowie not once, not twice, but rather multiple times: at the 2002 GQ Awards, where they won Band of the Year; at JFK air terminal in New York, where he nearly missed an all-wearing beige Bowie; and behind the stage at a Bowie show at Wembley Arena in 2003, where the Dame examined playing "The Laughing Gnome" at his fast approaching Glasgow show. "They'd like that, the Glassblowers," emulates Payne in a thigh-slappingly magnificent Thin White Duke pantomime. "Is that what they call you part, Glassblowers? No, Glasgowers?"

Fun occasions, without a doubt, for the Glaswegians. Which is even more unexpected given that they were going on to a gathering who, by plan and title, announced their lack of engagement in the popularity fuss that grouped around guitar groups of each stripe at the turn of the thousand years. This was summer 20 years prior, when the Britpop party clack had blurred, New York's thin tie-and-thin pants gun fighters were limbering up for a limited scale carport rock transformation, and the arena estimated lasers of Coldplay and their advancement second collection A Rush of Blood to the Head were 14 months away.

In all that, on 11 June 2001, Travis delivered The Invisible Band. Talk about a tranquil tempest. The development to 1999's inadvertent blockbuster The Man Who (which sold 3.5 million actual duplicates and won them British Group and British Album of the Year at the 2000 Brit Awards), their third collection was one more assortment of thundering, super melodic, semi acoustic pop – though deceived out for certain intriguing sonic twists politeness of maker Nigel Godrich, then, at that point, new (ie knackered) from the tiresome 16-month recording meetings with Radiohead that would create both Kid An and Amnesiac.

You may say the collection's title yelled Travis' hold, and Payne wouldn't really contradict you.

"I comprehended the reason why individuals got tired of that, because that 'undetectable band' demeanor is somewhat sincere," recognizes the performer over tea in the kitchen of his home in Glasgow's verdant West End. "Be that as it may, it was truly how we felt. We weren't superstar or newspaper types. We were simply doing our own easily overlooked detail, chipping away at our tunes. That is the thing that we were acceptable at. We weren't acceptable at being VIPs."

We weren't acceptable at being VIPs

Dougie Payne

Unfortunately for them, then, at that point, The Invisible Band entered the UK collection graphs at Number One. It stayed there for quite a long time, selling a bigger number of duplicates in that time than The Man Who – home to the deathless "For what reason Does It Always Rain On Me?" – did in a large portion of a year. In 2002 Travis again won a Brit Award for British Group of the Year.

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Ten years after Healy, Payne, Andy Dunlop (guitars) and Neil Primrose (drums) had got together in Glasgow, Travis were currently immense. Be that as it may, it accompanied an expense. In the wake of pursuing the runaway, sudden accomplishment of The Man Who over exactly year and a half's worldwide visiting, the band had one entire day away from work. Then, at that point, they promptly started recording with Godrich in LA's Ocean Way studios, depending on adrenaline and youth to keep them making and playing music for another strong year.

"What's more, that was where Fran began to feel the strain of this upheld superstar. The Invisible Band, incidentally, was what made him entirely apparent. With the Hoxton Fin what not," Payne says, referring to Healy's highly duplicated bijou mohawk haircut, "unexpectedly he was all over. He turned into a face. Individuals breaking into his home and taking his chimneys when we were away on visit what not."

Then, at that point, in July 2002, a record that started with a bang finished with a break. Unwinding before one more celebration appearance, Neil Primrose – singed by, around then, six years of collection visit collection visit cycle – jumped into a pool in France. He thumped himself oblivious. Unbeknownst to the Travis street group who hauled him out and applied mouth-to-mouth revival – and to Payne, who went with the drummer in the emergency vehicle to medical clinic – he'd likewise broken his neck.

Marvelously he recuperated, with practically no loss of motion as well as to drum one more day. However, a street exhausted Travis really tried to understand and returned home. They could never be as large again. Inside one more year, Coldplay had taken the Travis layout and supersized it. Indeed, even as the Scotsmen commend an extravagant accessories twentieth commemoration repackage of The Invisible Band this month, Healy demands he was unable to have been less annoyed at the spotlight moving somewhere else. For a his man analogies, his companion's brush with death was an admonition klaxon.

Travis at the Brit Awards in 2007

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"A few planes can fly super high since they're worked for high height," the musician reflects as he Zooms in from the driver's seat of his vehicle, left external the Los Angeles home that is inside peeing distance of that Morissette party. "Also, a few planes, s*** begins to take off them and you begin to pass out in light of the fact that the strain's excessively high. Also, what befell Neil saved us, really. It cut us down."

Sparse 24-hour miniature break or not, going into the creation of The Invisible Band in November 2000, Travis were siphoned up and prepared to delicate stone. All things considered, they'd been visiting decidedly for quite some time, since a long time before the arrival of 1997 introduction Good Feeling.

"We went through two years supporting everyone," recalls Payne, 49, of the period after the four companions, who got together in the groups of friends encompassing Glasgow School of Art, moved to London in 1996. "Mansun, Cast, Longpigs, Paul Weller, Oasis. Simply going all around the nation, here and there and all over."