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Fran Healy and his band Travis have this longevity thing down. Firstly, you must have a love and addiction to music, as something magical. Secondly, that magic is for you to create - making music to nobody’s expectations but your own. But thirdly, you get lucky. As Fran says in episode 3, Season 9: “The chances of a shit kicker from Glasgow going on to win the best band in the world is a billion to one. How can you be proud to be lucky?” Well okay, but as all bands that ever got a break know, you have to be in it to win it. And for 35 years now, Fran has been in it - always mining for that song gold. “Most songwriting is digging, until you find that nugget, and you extract it from the rock. You keep digging because you know you will find something”. New song Gaslight is one such nugget - a fabulous pop-rock stomp, with a brass arrangement and burst of dirty guitar to boot. It feels confident. And, Travis has a new album - L.A. Times - written by Fran Healy from his studio on the edge of Skid Row, Los Angeles, where he has lived for 10 years. He describes L.A. Times as Travis’ “most personal album since The Man Who” . That album went 9X Platinum in the UK alone and shot the band into superstardom, and while no such expectations exist for L.A. Times, that’s just as it should be. The band that rose to fame during the peak CD era in the 90s is releasing their 10th album into a world where vinyl sells more than CDs, but streaming still rules. Does Travis have a place in this space? It’s just not something that will concern Healy or his bandmates that much. “ The problem is when you think you are the shit, you are the diamond. But I’m still a lowly miner, and always will be. Joy and success you can define any way you want, but it’s about you, the person, not outside things”. The writer of a song called Gaslight will never be gaslighted it seems. Support the show Get more related content at: https://www.songsommelier.com/

On the podcast this week, King of the Shaggers - proper Scottish royalty, one of Scotland's greatest ever songwriters, Fran Healy joins Gordon and Martin. They chat living in LA, when tin foiling King Tut's wasn't the best idea, David Beckham owing perhaps his most famous haircut to Fran, an unfortunate trip to the doctors AND Travis' brilliant new single Gaslight and up and coming new album. Make sure you subscribe and leave a 5 star review! If you'd like to share the times you've been a resourceful rascal, or want to get in touch, send an email to Hello@RestlessNativesPodcast.com Please review Global's Privacy Policy: https://global.com/legal/privacy-policy

On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast we’ve got the Scottish singer and songwriter behind some of the catchiest songs of the past two decades along with the super producer who helped bring those songs into the world: Fran Healy and Nigel Godrich. Healy is the singer, guitarist, and chief songwriter of the band Travis, which really broke big with 1999’s The Man Who , scoring mainstream hits with songs like “Why Does it Always Rain on Me” and “Turn.” They’ve since created a deep catalog that numbers nine albums. But for today’s purposes we’re going to concentrate on 2001’s The Invisible Band , which Travis is giving a belated 20th birthday celebration for at the moment, including a US tour that starts this week . It can be difficult to follow up a massive success like The Man Who , and Travis turned once again to Godrich to help them chart the proper course. It wasn’t the beginning, but rather the continuation of a long and fruitful relationship. Check out “Sing” from The Invisible Band . Godrich, by the time Invisible Band came around, had found massive success as the producer of Radiohead’s OK Computer, and of course he would go on to be the sort of unofficial sixth member of that band—recording all of their albums and even playing music with Thom Yorke in Atoms for Peace. As you’ll hear in this conversation, Godrich had some solid advice for Healy heading into The Invisible Band, though it’s not necessarily advice he would give anymore. Beyond his work with Radiohead and Travis, Godrich has also produced classics by Beck—including Mutations and Sea Change—and Air and Arcade Fire and Roger Waters. The list goes on. In this conversation, the two old friends talk about their state of mind and state of life back when they commenced recording The Invisible Band in Los Angeles. They talk about Godrich’s recent revelatory experience seeing the Pavement reunion tour—he also produced that band’s swan song, Terror Twilight . There’s even a story about a baby goat peeing in a very expensive guitar case. Enjoy. Thanks for listening to the Talkhouse Podcast and thanks to Fran Healy and Nigel Godrich for chatting. If you liked what you heard, please follow Talkhouse on your favorite podcasting and social media platforms. This episode was produced by Myron Kaplan, and the Talkhouse theme is composed and performed by the Range. See you next time!

One of the biggest albums of the 2000's features on this episode of the XS Long Player as Jim Salveson talks Travis' 'The Invisible Band' with Fran Healy and Dougie Payne. On the 20th anniversary of this classic album, the boys discuss their memories of making the album, working with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and also what it was like re-visiting some of those tracks for the anniversary re-release. You can find more on the 20th Anniversary Special Edition of 'The Invisible Band' on the Travis website: https://travisonline.com Plus listen back to the while album (to remind yourself how great it is) via Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7hktYMjRekLPK3BZRr4sIQ?si=0syYaNGqTICrOQpDm4_fgw The XS Long player Podcast is taken from the XS Long player radio show on XS Manchester: A classic album played in full every Thursday night at 8pm (GMT) listen live via www.xsmanch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Podcast by Katie Melua and Polly Scattergood Featuring special guest Travis Frontman, Singer-Songwriter, Fran Healy. In this episode, we explore intuition whilst songwriting, how to access your own creative space, being industrious, the change in writing traditions, and emotions around releasing records.

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We enter the final weekend of our Edinburgh Film Festival coverage and we've got a bumper weekend of interviews and coverage to come. Lee Hutchison is joined by Travis frontman, Fran Healy who has brought his documentary, 'Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis' to the festival for it's world premiere. 'Almost Fashionable' follows music journalist Wyndham Wallace who has always been clear that he is not a big fan of Scottish band Travis. When lead singer Fran Healy invites Wallace to join Travis on tour in Mexico, the journalist is intrigued and bemused. After soliciting the opinion of other writers, he heads off on tour, filming fans to get their views. A delightful, warm-hearted and tuneful look at Travis, examining why their fans love them, while offering a chance to see if a critic can change his views.

For this podcast, Steve (eventually) talked to ran Healy of Travis fame. Find out what the band have been up to over the last few years, and all the goss on their new album. Plus there's a glimmer of a top new film!