Artist: fran healy

"I'm going to die." This is what I was thinking as I drove, barely 40 mph, east on Interstate 94 from my home in the Twin Cities to the party capital of the world. It was last Friday afternoon, October 23rd, and I was on my way to hang out with my friend George. He had called me up two months ago to inform me that Fran Healy and Andy Dunlap , of the Scot band Travis , were playing an intimate acoustic show at the Majestic Theater in Madison, [...]

Los integrantes de Travis están planeando comenzar a escribir las canciones de su nuevo disco mientras estén en su gira a través de Norte América. Fran Healy , el cantante del grupo, comentó que las canciones volverán a ser acústicas y que junto a su amigo Andy Dunlop escribirán, con suerte, todo el próximo disco en el bus. "Me gusta la idea de escribir un disco mientras cruzo América. Yo puedo escribir en cualquier lado, sobre todo lo hago en hoteles o [...]

The Pixies: Four nighter - Boston rock act The Pixies have announced the support for their upcoming four night residency at the Brixton Academy. The shows, taking place between October 6th and 9th, are part of an upcoming tour of Europe, starting in Ireland on September 30th. The support acts named include The Big Pink, Art Brut, Bombay Bicycle Club and Dinosaur Pile-Up. - Kelly Rowland has shot down rumours of a Destiny's Child reunion. In an interview with The Mirror , she explained: "Michelle is playing Roxie in Chicago, I'm working on [...]

Come this November, two of the jam scene's rising stars - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Brett Dennen - will join forces for a cross-country co-headlining tour. The two acts will split closing duties over the course of the 21-date trek - with Dennen holding down that slot for most of the run, while Potter & Co. will close in Boston, NYC and Philly. Both acts have also been busy in the recording studio as Grace Potter & The Nocturnals will release their T-Bone Burnett produced album [...]

Live from Down Home: King Wilkie and The Jones Street Boys Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 8:00pm EDT Live From Down Home brings you an evening of Americana music, with King Wilkie and The Jones Street Boys. Live From Home: Fran Healy of Travis Friday, November 07, 2008 at 7:30pm EDT A special benefit concert with Fran Healy of Travis & and The Bowmans! Live From Home with Drew Daniel of Matmos Saturday, November 15, [...]

On one of the more effective songs on Travis' latest album Ode To J Smith , lead singer Fran Healy sings, "My heart's in my mouth instead of my sleeve." That's news to longtime fans of this Scottish band that has always been known for its wounded-romantic outlook as summed up on one of their more well-known laments, "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" But Healy and the boys have stopped navel-gazing long enough to notice a seriously messed up world all around them. While this social consciousness is both understandable and admirable in [...]

• Travis - Before You Were Young
• Travis - Get Up
• Travis - Last Words
• Travis - Long Way Down

From Travisonline.com : Housing Works Bookstore Café presents a concert with Fran Healy of Travis on Friday, November 7. Doors at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $20 at www.housingworksbookstore.org and include free beer, compliments of Whole Foods Bowery, the official beer sponsor of Live From Home. All proceeds [...]

• Travis - J. Smith

Han sido acusados de repetirse en cada disco (y cada canción si a esas vamos), de parecer esquizofrénicos por poner temas alegres en sus discos al lado de los tristes y, básicamente, de ser "chicos demasiado buenos". A pesar de su larga carrera y de haber abierto el camino para bandas como Coldplay o Keane, su fama nunca ha alcanzado la de los primeros y apenas sobrepasa la de los segundos y sin embargo, a once años de aquel memorable Good Feeling , todavía seguimos hablando de Travis . Y es [...]

<img src=" http://cucharasonica.com/wp-co ntent/uploads/2008/08/odetojsm ith_cov.jpg" class="izquierda-borde" A través de un mensaje en su página oficial , los chicos de Travis han develado la portada de su muy esperada nueva producción Ode To J. Smith , que saldrá a la venta el próximo 29 de septiembre a través de la disquera del grupo Red Telephone Box . Sobre este nuevo disco, el vocalista de la banda, Fran Healy , ha dicho que: "Usualmente escribo un puñado de canciones durante un [...]

Song Seabear ~ " Singing Arc " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =V-Eh8bm2S6k Cool band from Iceland. Video Travis ~ " Selfish Jean " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =G0sES3nzgsU I saw Travis play at the KCRW Sounds Eclectic Evening, and they had the misfortune of being the band [...]