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Travis tour in September; new album forthcoming
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Travis are still going!
And to prove it, the once-massive Scots (in terms of profile, not waistline) are to release a new single 'Something Anything' and set off on tour in September.
The single - which precedes the release of a new album Ode To J Smith, their first to be written on electric guitars since their debut Good Feeling - is available from September 15 via Red Telephone Box Records.
Ode To J Smith is released on September 29. See the band live as follows (tickets on sale now):
September
22 Inverness Ironworks
23 Aberdeen Music Hall
25 Edinburgh Picture House
28 Manchester Ritz
29 Liverpool Academy
30 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
October
2 Newcastle University
3 Norwich UEA
4 Portsmouth Pyramids
6 Bath Pavilion
7 Sheffield Leadmill
8 London Astoria
Okay, they're still pretty big, then. Says bassist Dougie Payne of the new album:
"We wanted this record to have some rough edges. In the past we might have been guilty of making really beautiful things that were so smooth you almost slipped off them. You can’t say that about this one. We really pushed ourselves. It’s like prog-pop: lots happening in about three minutes."
From the archive
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they are also
playing in Shrewsbury, in case anyone cares.
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actually
the new song sounds pretty mad. Full on hard core choral arrangements. Get on the myspace, I quite like it.
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'Love Will Come Through' = great tune
Yes. Check that mandolin line
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Edinburgh Picture House?
Is this a new venue?
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Aye, it's where the ill-fated Gig was.
This Travis show is opening it, but I've heard one of the guys behind it say that this will be Edinburgh's answer to the ABC. Let's hope so.
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I see
This is good news - seemed every venue in the city was closing down!
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This new song, J Smith, is pretty good.
Surprisingly.
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I hope it really is a return to the Good Feeling sound
That was a cracking album.
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yeah they deserve a bit of credit for it
at least they're trying to do something different.
first band i ever saw live so will always have a soft spot for them anyway!
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not wanting to be to downbeat
but have you seen who is scheduled to play there? Dirty Pretty Things and Travis are fucking "highlights". Whoever is running the show would do well to actually use their finger and find a pulse or i give the Picture House a few months tops.
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all i want to do is rock
now there was a tune
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Despite myself
I have to agree.
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1999 called.
I told them we still don't care.
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These guys just seem too nice
Be a bit mean Fran and co.!
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you know
I used to think that was a good album, looking back . . . not so much.
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