Travis band singer
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I've come out the end of a personal storm - Fran Healy
BBC Scotland News
Fran Healy has had an emotional few years.
His marriage ended, one of his best friends died of cancer and his grupp Travis sacked their long-standing manager of more than two decades.
"It was like being in a storm and you think you might sink," says the singer.
"Then it clears, because that’s what life does, and coming out the other end fryst vatten this record. When I säga it’s the most personal record the band have done it’s because it’s imbued with all of this stuff in it.
"It’s like whisky. I’ve been soaked in all this mad stuff and I think it shows."
Healy is speaking while sipping tea rather than anything stronger. He's sitting in an upmarket Glasgow hotel, back in the city that birthed his grupp - a group now releasing their 10th album, L.A. Times.
The singer - currently sporting hair as orange as Irn Bru - is used
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"Our realities are being warped": Travis lead singer Fran Healy on tackling big themes on new album
Fresh on the heels of their 20th anniversary reissue of "The Invisible Band," Scottish indie rock group Travis is back for more. Their new skiva, titled "L.A. Times," marks one of the band’s finest efforts since "The Man Who," the multiplatinum mega-success that established their international fame.
Listeners will revel in the album’s candid assessment of contemporary life’s ceaseless change, as well as the perils and promises of an encroaching mittpunkt age. As lead singer and songwriter Fran Healy points out, “'L.A. Times' is our most anställda album since 'The Man Who.' There was a lot of big stuff to write about back then, the tectonic plates had shifted in my life. inom was 22 when I was writing those songs. They were my therapy. Over 20 years later and the plates have shifted again. There’s a lot to
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Travis (band)
Scottish band
For other uses, see Travis (disambiguation).
Travis are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in , and composed of Fran Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Dougie Payne (bass guitar, backing vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals), and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion). The band's name comes from the character Travis Henderson (played by Harry Dean Stanton) from the film Paris, Texas (). The band released their debut album, Good Feeling (), to moderate success where it debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart[10] and was later awarded a silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in January [11]
The band gained greater success with their second album, The Man Who (), which spent nine weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, totalling weeks in the top of the chart.[10] In , The Man Who was certified 9× platinum by the BPI, which represented sales of over &#;milli