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Travis announce new album

Travis released their new album 'The Boy With No Name' on May 7th 2007.


Singles
My Eyes - September 17th 2007
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Tracklistings is as follows:

My Eyes: CD Single
1. My Eyes
2. Chances
3. My Eyes Video

My Eyes: 7" Vinyl (Part 1). Gatefold with Inner Bag
A. My Eyes
B. My Last Chance

My Eyes 7" Coloured Vinyl (Part 2). To be inserted into the gatefold of 7" Vinyl Part 1
A. My Eyes
B. Up The Junction (Squeeze Cover)

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Selfish Jean - July 9th 2007

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Closer - April 23rd 2007

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3 Times And You Lose Video >>>


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Press Release
"I'm not going to sit here and say this is the best record of the past 20 years” says Fran Healy, "But I think we've made a really good album. It feels like we're back."

It does indeed. Travis's fifth album is a record that will remind people how the four friends from Glasgow came to be one of the UK's biggest and best loved bands. A band Chris Martin recently admitted "invented" Coldplay. A band that’s sold millions of albums and that headline festivals. A band that’s won the Brit for Best British Group twice and whose second album 'The Man Who', was bought by one in eight British households.

Simply put, 'The Boy With No Name' is a belting collection of bittersweet pop songs from the band who do bittersweet pop music better than anyone. It's no exaggeration to say that every song - including the velcro-catchy bonus track - is a potential single. Clearly, Healy's knack for crafting brilliant songs from life's highs and lows hasn't deserted him. "Song for song, I honestly think it's stronger than anything we've done," says the band's ever-amiable bassist Dougie Payne. "Frannie just seemed to be completely inspired."

It's been three and a half years since Travis's last studio album, '12 Memories', a record which Healy now describes as "a therapy session". As Payne adds "I really like that album but we were still recovering from all the madness of the previous few years."

Madness like going from selling 40,000 copies of your first album (1997's 'Good Feeling') to going multi-platinum with your next two (1999's 'The Man Who' and 2001's 'The Invisible Band'). Or madness like when the band's drummer, Neil Primrose, dived head first into the shallow end of a swimming pool in 2002, shattering his upper vertebrae and endangering his life. Or, indeed, madness like the fact the country the band grew up in had flung itself into a war which they didn't agree with. "That record was like a purge of the system," says Healy.

Once they'd finished promoting '12 Memories', the band decided to take their first proper break. "I just thought, 'I need to live'," explains Healy . "My best songs have always been drawn from experience and life. So I decided to take some time off, just to be with people I care about, go on holiday, hang out and get away from the intensity of the music business."

By the autumn of 2004, the band were refreshed enough to reconvene. To kick things off, Travis went into the studio with Brian Eno to bounce some ideas around. That got their creative juices flowing and the band fell into a process whereby Healy would write some songs, the band would record them and then they'd get producers Nigel Godrich or Mike Hedges to come in and offer their opinions. There would be intense bursts of activity, followed by a few weeks or months off. During the breaks, Healy kept himself busy by becoming a father, visiting the Sudan with Save The Children and playing the odd show (2005's live highlight was either playing Live 8, headlining the Isle of Wight festival or performing at the annual Crouch End carol concert).

Then, when it felt right, the band would go back into the studio. "We were just very, very relaxed about everything," says Healy. So much so that they invited various friends to join them for recording sessions, including Hollywood A-lister (and Travis fan) Ben Stiller, who played cowbell during one session. "I really enjoyed being in the studio this time," says Payne. "I think we all did. It sounds wanky, but some amazing things happened while we were just playing together. It really galvanised us as a band."

Before long, it became apparent that they had a lot of songs. A lot of good songs. "The volume of stuff we recorded was amazing," says Payne. "We ended up with 30 or 40 tracks. The fact that whittling it down to 11 was so difficult speaks volumes about the quality of the songwriting that was going on. We've never been in the position before where we've had too many songs. Even with 'The Man Who' we only had 8 or 9 right up until a very late stage."

'The Boy With No Name' was finally finished in December 2006. "That was when I stopped getting the voices in my head at night telling me it wasn't ready yet," grins Healy. "Now I'm really content that we've done a great thing and that it's time to get it out there."

The album begins with the enchanting 'Three Times And You Lose', a classic Travis song about "feeling trapped and anonymous in the big city". Things then take a turn for the sprightly, with 'Selfish Jean', a track whose rollicking introduction was inspired by Iggy Pop and Motown, yet disguises a barbed song about broken friendships. That gives way to the so-in-love warmth of first single 'Closer' and the positively groovesome 'Big Chair', which marries Healy's tale of loneliness and rejection with the funkiest performance ever given by Travis's rhythm section.

Next is 'Battleships', a wonderfully lilting tune which pinpoints those times when two people who love each other find themselves at war over "the stupid, niggly things, like directions when you're in the car". Then it's onto the stomping hymn to insomnia that is 'Eyes Wide Open' and the absurdly hooky 'My Eyes', which Healy wrote the day he discovered he was going to be a dad (the album also takes its title from Healy's son, Clay, whose name took several weeks to decide). That leads nicely onto the widescreen emotions of 'One Night', a gorgeous, heartfelt song about those brief moments that change your life forever.

The delicate 'Out In Space' – “out in space, a million miners work upon the nights coal face” - is another song looking at friendships as they go through good times and bad, before the stirring Payne/Healy collaboration 'Colder' offers both Travis's finest weather-related song since 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' and proof that Healy is a cracking harmonica player. The album draws to a close with 'New Amsterdam', a hymn to New York, the city Healy has fallen so in love with that he's bought a flat there. Last, but not certainly not least, is that insanely catchy bonus track, 'Sailing Away', "a daft little ditty" which Healy wrote one day while sitting in his back garden mourning the death of his giant goldfish, Mr Pink.

The album certainly has its emotional ups and downs, but, throughout, it glows with a newfound confidence and a softly expressed hopefulness. "I've been calling it 'guarded optimism'," says Payne. "This record is definitely more upbeat and positive than the last one. When you've got great songs, you feel more confident, that means you start playing great and then everything starts to feel more positive. I think that definitely bled through to the record."

Travis are back, and ready to resume their place on the airwaves, on stages and in people's affections.

"After a time of feeling stuck, we feel like we can do anything," agrees Healy. "We went through some dark places. But we've found our muse again."

And then some.

Quotes from http://www.necgroup.co.uk/visitor/whatson/displayeventcopy.asp?i=travis

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The official tracklisting for the UK album is:

1 = '3 Times And You Lose'
2 = 'Selfish Jean'
3 = 'Closer'
4 = 'Big Chair'
5 = 'Battleships'
6 = 'Eyes Wide Open'
7 = 'My Eyes'
8 = 'One Night'
9 = 'Under The Moonlight (Feat. KT Tunstall'
10 = 'Out In Space'
11 = 'Colder'
12 = 'New Amsterdam'
13 = 'Sailing Away' (Bonus Track)
14 = 'Perfect Heaven Space' (Bonus Track)
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LYRICS SECTION - (With thanks to Shapiro

3 Times And You Lose
I had a nightmare
I lived in a little town
where little dreams were broken
and words were seldom spoken

I tried to reach you
but all the lines were down
Summer rain began to fall
on this little town
...on this little town

The little people
have very little left to say
their words had all been shortened
they didn't really seem important

And I had a feeling
that you were very far away
but a little voice inside me said
you'll never get away from here

And it's 1, 2,
3 Times and you lose
of course it doesn't matter how you say it
I'm out of love
so there's nothing really more to say
I'm throwing it all away

And we had a peeling
but now we all faked to see
we never look at one another
only when another suffered

And if I saw you
then it was just another face
but I still don't blank horizon
lining on the human race

And it's 1, 2,
3 Times and you lose
of course it doesn't matter how you say it
I'm out of luck
so there's nothing really more to say
I'm throwing it all away

And it's 1, 2,
3 Times and you lose
I'm out of love
so there's nothing really more to say
I'm throwing it all away
throwing it all away
throwing it all away

Selfish Jean
Cheers
Thanks for everything
You hung me out by my heart
You're just so selfish jean
Yes you are

Hey you
Threw it all away
Holding everything in
Hey Jean don't rock the boat
When you can't swim

With a perfect understanding of the finer things in life
A quite alarming knack of knowing when to twist the knife
Oooooooooh
Selfish Jean

Here's to you
Who ate everything
Left it out on the shelf
There's no one else to blame
Except yourself

Well a perfect combination of good educate and charm
You keep the chocolate biscuits wired to a car alarm
Oooooooooh
Selfish Jean

Well i'm standing on my own
And this house is not a home
It's so sad to see you go
Things are high, things are low
And it's good to know you know
If you've got nowhere to go
Well you could spend the night with me
There will be no guarantee that I'll be here

In the morning
Or any time that you call
I hear you snoring Jean
Through the wall

So hey
Here's to everything
To peace and love in our time
Ah Jean the slate is clean
I guess we're fine

Well I don't expect a miracle
Not asking you to change
If you can see my happy
Well just look the other way
Oooooooooh
Selfish Jean

Heeeaaaaaah
Selfish Jean

Jean
Oh yeah
Jean

Closer
I've had enough
Of this parade
I'm thinking of
The words to say
We open up
Unfinished parts
Broken up
It's so mellow

And when I see you then i know it will be next to me
And when I need you then I know you will be there with me
I'll never leave you

Just need to get closer, closer
Lean on me now
Lean on me now
Closer, closer
Lean on me now
Lean on me now

Keep waking up (waking up)
Without you here (without you here)
Another day (another day)
Another year (another year)
I seek the truth (seek the truth)
We set apart (we set apart)
Thinking of
A second chance (a second chance)

And when I see you then i know it will be next to me
And when I need you I know you will be there with me
I'll never leave you

Just need to get closer, closer
Lean on me now
Lean on me now
Closer, closer
Lean on me now
Lean on me now
Lean on me now

And when I see you then i know it will be next to me
And when I need you I know you will be there with me
I'll never leave you

Just need to get closer, closer
Lean on me now
Lean on me now
Closer, closer
Lean on me now
Lean on me now
Lean on me now

Closer, closer
Closer, closer

Big Chair
Now you know that I heart everything about you
And that's why it's quite hard to get through this alone

You're the only one I can talk to about it
In my darkest night I will be on my own

These walls that we climb are hard to recognize
They fall when I say your name

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Don't you know it's hard, quite, in the time of confusion
To tell you that I love you

You see it could have been me instead of you
It could have been me if I wanted to
But it wasn't
So we'll have to face the truth

These walls that we climb are hard to recognize
They fall when I say your name

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Time to pull the shutters down
Breakin' clouds don't make a sound?

Here we go
Fast and slow
On the big chair

But we don't know
Where we're going
On the big chair

Battleships
When will you carry me home like the wounded star in the movie
When will you carry me home take it back to the start when you knew me
Cause’ when you talk to me that way, I’ll be a million miles away
I guess it’s just another day in love

We’re battleships, driftin’ in an alley river
Takin’ hits, sinking it’s now or never
Overboard, drownin’ in a sea of love and hate but it’s too late
Battleship down

When will you figure it out that you aren’t always right little darlin’
When will you figure out that it’s not worth the fight little darlin’
Cause’ when you can’t think what to say, you go and throw it all away
I guess it’s just another day in love

We’re battleships, driftin’ in an alley river
Takin’ hits, sinking it’s now or never
Overboard, drownin’ in a sea of love and hate but it’s too late
Battleship down

But your too smarter and I’m too dumb
With no heart in the middle

We’re battleships, driftin’ in an alley river
Takin’ hits, sinking it’s now or never
Overboard, falling into the ocean
Ship to shore, drownin’ in a sea of love and hate but it’s too late
Battleship down

Eyes Wide Open
All these visions in my head
shoot the gunner baby for the watershed
some are live and some are dead
makes no diferrence when they're in your head...head

Keep the door open a crack
so I can see then when they attack
some are white and some are black
makes no difference when they're on your back

And I can't stop crying
And I can't stop trying
'Cause the day is dying...dying...dying
With my eyes wide open

Kept the sheep jumping the fence
so I can see teepers (?) when I'm feeling tense
disbelieve hung in suspense
I die down with my own defence

And I can't stop crying
And I can't stop trying
'Cause the day is dying...dying...dying
With my eyes wide open

All these visions in my head
shoot the gunner baby for the watershed
some are live and some are dead
makes no diferrence when they're in your head

And I can't stop crying
And I can't stop trying
'Cause the day is dying...dying...dying
With my eyes wide open

My Eyes
Deep in my heart, there's no room for crying,
but I'm trying to see your point of view
Deep in my heart, I'm afraid of dying,
I'd be lying if I said I'm not

Welcome in, welcome in,
Shame about the weather
Welcome in, welcome in,
It will come
It's a sin, it's a sin,
Where birds of a feather, are welcome to, land on you

[CHORUS]
Ya Ya Ya *2
You've got my eyes
We can see, what you'll be, you can't disguise
And either way, I will pray, you will be wise
Pretty soon you will see the tears in my eyes..

As each day goes by, it makes way for another,
We discover that we're not alone
And each day we try, the best we can to recover,
All the feelings that we left below

Welcome in, welcome in,
Shame about the weather
Welcome in, welcome in,
You will come
It's a sin, it's a sin,
Where birds of a feather, are welcome to, land on you

[CHORUS]
Ya Ya Ya *2
You've got my eyes
We can see, what you'll be, you can't disguise
And either way, I will pray, you will be wise
Pretty soon you will see the tears in my eyes..

Welcome in, welcome in,
Shame about the weather
Welcome in, welcome in,
You will come
It's a sin, it's a sin,
Where birds of a feather, are welcome to, land on you...

[CHORUS]
Ya Ya Ya *2
You've got my eyes
We can see, what you'll be, you can't disguise
And either way, I will pray, you will be wise
Pretty soon you will see the tears in my eyes.. *3

One Night
I wake up to find you laying awake
with your hands in your head
You cannot run, can't escape from the things
that you say-ay-ay

And you can tell anybody
anybody who comes
you can tell anybody
but the damage's done
the new day's begun.

One night can change everything in your life
One night can make everything alright
One night can turn all your colors to white
One night - it's easier said than done

Turning and turning but never returning
to what you once had
Learning to care for the ones you hold dear
but it's too...it's too bad

One night can change everything in your life
One night can make everything alright
One night can turn all your colors to white
One night - it's easier said than done

All that I am
All that I am
All that I am

Laying beside you as cold as a statue
your hands are still warm
trying to wake you as daylight brakes through
the eye of the storm.

So you can tell everybody
everybody who comes
you can tell everybody
but the damage's done
the new day's begun.

One night can change everything in your life
One night can make everything alright
One night can turn all your colors to white
One night - it's easier said than done

One night..one...one night...one...
One night - it's easier said than done

Under The Moonlight (Feat. KT Tunstall)
Can you see the moon be
in the colors of the lights
they're like flowers
blooming in motion

Watching in vain
unless fireworks of the night (tonight)

I begin to wake
to relive this memory
the answer is clear
and beyond believe

There's a gift of love
that awaits the final day
but tonight...tonight...

Under the moonlight
with the one you love
under the big sky
for the one you love
Bathing under the moonlight
with the one you love
going places together
tonight

In the far distance
as a dream nears the end
and summer lovers pass the time
holding on to what they can't keep

Into that horizon
where the ocean meets the sky
so gather up your voice
'cause tonight's the night (tonight)

Under the moonlight
with the one you love
under the big sky
for the one you love
Laying under the moonlight
with the one you love
going places together
tonight (tonight) (tonight)

Stars light up with coast light
and we'll feel this way for today
and for all time

Under the moonlight
with the one you love
under the big sky
for the one you love
Laying under the moonlight
with the one you love
under the moonlight
Oh we're going places together
tonight (tonight)

tonight (tonight)
tonight (tonight)
tonight (tonight)
Under the moonlight

Out In Space
Oh my friend
We have spent
So much time looking for someone to blame
Cause were the same
The jealous games
Take up time we could spend on other things
Oh my friend
If it ends
Let us go and then not look back again
We can’t be
You and me
Taken' ourselves much too seriously

But out in space
A million miners work upon
The night’s cold face
But all I see is black
And all the stars look back
At me

Oh my friend
What a friend
I’d have thought you’d have stayed here till the end
I take a bow
Draw the crowd
We’re just words in the sand at high tide

But out in space
A million miners work upon
The night’s cold face
But all I see is black
And all the stars look back

And I’m leaving

Oh my friend
We should spend
Some more time looking from the other end
Cause we would see
So clearly
We’d blame ourselves as much as we’d blame weed
We’d blame ourselves as much as we’d blame weed
We’d blame ourselves

Colder
I'm in love with everything
with every face I've ever seen
and every place I've ever been
has left its mark upon my worries

I color in the world I see
I pick apart the melody
'cause maybe there's a symphony
caught inside but there's no way out

and the sky is falling down
and there's an angel on the ground
it's getting colder
I'm standing looking down
there's not a sound around the town
it's getting colder
colder

I would show everything
but everything is too extreme
we'll wait and see the entropy
at the end when we all stop lying but the sky is falling down
and there's an angel on the ground
it's getting colder
I'm standing looking down
there's not a sound around the town
it's getting colder

the sky is falling down
and there's an angel on the ground
it's getting colder
I'm standing looking down
there's not a sound around the town
it's getting colder

the sky is falling down
and all the people on the ground
are getting colder
I'm standing looking down again
but you can't help me now
I'm getting colder

New Amsterdam
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francois Truffaut,
Robert Zimmerman and de Niro
Paris, Texas - end of the world

New York, New York,
good bye girl

And they meet
on Blaker Street
or the Park that is Central
oh no
I watched the sun go down
down down beneath the ground
and it's a new day,
it's a new dawn,
in New Amsterdam.

The stranger in the moonlight,
looks stranger in the moonlight

And they meet
on Blaker Street
or the Park that is Central
oh no
I watched the sun go down
down down beneath the ground
and it's a new day,
it's a new dawn,
in New Amsterdam.

And we meet
on Blaker Street
or the Park that is Central
oh no
I watched the sun go down
down down beneath the ground
and it's a new day,
it's a new dawn,
in New Amsterdam.

Travis

The Boy With No Name
3 Times And You Lose
Selfish Jean
Closer
Big Chair
Battleships
Eyes Wide Open
My Eyes
One Night
Out In Space
Colder
New Amsterdam
Sailing Away
Under The Moonlight (Feat. KT Tunstall)
Under The Moonlight
The Day to Day
The Day Today
The Day Today?
The Great Unknown
Perfect Heaven Space
This Love
You Bring Me Down
Is That Love
Is That Love?
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
Pulling Mussels (From A Shell)
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (Squeeze cover)
Pulling Mussels (From A Shell) (Squeeze cover)
Is That Love (Squeeze Cover)
Is That Love? (Squeeze Cover)
Chances
My Last Chance
Up The Junction
Up the Junction (Squeeze cover)
Lovely Rita
Eye Of The Needle
7 Candles
Sophie
Closer (Acoustic Version)
Closer (muzak version)
Closer (Musak Version)
Closer (Ringtone)
Say Hello
Trapped In The Eighties
Doctor
Friends
My Life
KT Tunstall
Ben Stiller
Nigel Godrich
Brian Eno
Fran Healy
Dougie Payne
Andy Dunlop
Neil Primrose
Good Feeling
The Man Who
The Invisible Band
12 Memories
Singles

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