Scotland's finest, Travis are tomorrow's Friday Flash(back). So getting in early, the Glasgow group formed in 1990.
Made up 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 (1984).
Travis released their debut album, Good Feeling in 1997, to moderate success where it debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart & was later awarded a silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in January 2000.
The band gained greater success with their second album in 1999, The Man Who, which spent nine weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart, totalling 134 weeks in the top 100 of the chart.
In 2003, The Man Who was certified 9× platinum by the BPI, representing sales of over 2.68 million in the UK alone.
Following this success, the band released their third effort, The Invisible Band (2001) album. The Invisible Band went on to match the success found with their previous album, where it debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and spent a total of four weeks at the top spot, fifteen weeks in the top ten, and a total of fifty-five weeks in the top 100 chart, as well as peaking at thirty-nine on the US Billboard 200 album chart, spending a duration of seven weeks in the Billboard 200 chart.
A year following the release of The Invisible Band, the BPI awarded Travis with a 4× platinum certification for the album.
The band's subsequent discography has included studio albums 12 Memories (2003), The Boy with No Name (2007), Ode to J. Smith (2008), Where You Stand (2013), Everything at Once (2016) and 10 Songs (2020). In 2004, the band released their first greatest hits album, Singles, which spent nineteen weeks in the top 100 of the UK albums chart.
Travis have twice been awarded best band at the Brit Awards and were awarded the NME Artist of the Year award at their 2000 ceremony, and in 2016 were honoured at the Scottish Music Awards for their outstanding contribution to music.
The band are widely said by the media to have paved the way for other bands such as Coldplay to go on to achieve worldwide success throughout the 2000s, particularly with the success of The Man Who.
Craft Recordings celebrated the 20th anniversary of Travis's breakthrough year with two simultaneous releases: Live at Glastonbury '99, plus expanded editions of The Man Who – both of which were released on 21 June 2019.
On 20 March 2024, Travis debuted the single, Gaslight, and announced their tenth studio album, L.A. Times, which was released last Friday.
The album was produced by Tony Hoffer and written by Fran Healy in his studio on the edge of Skid Row, Los Angeles.
The cover of the album is a photograph of the band in Los Angeles taken by Stefan Ruiz, who also took photographs for the covers of previous albums The Man Who, The Invisible Band and The Boy with No Name.
The band also announced they would be supporting the Killers on their seventeen date Ireland and UK tour in mid-2024.
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