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12 July 2000: A few notes:

16 June 2000: Travis tour their socks off with dates wedged in Down Under! (Someday, we're going to be sick of putting up tour dates, and it is probably going to be before Travis get sick of touring.)

24 July Auckland, NZ; Auckland Town Hall
25 July Brisbane, Aus; Arena Club
27 July Sydney, Aus; Enmore Theater
29 July Melbourne, Aus; Palais Theater
30 July Perth, Aus; Metropolis Night Club

7 June 2000: Errrr, a few steps behind the others, perhaps, but here are the tour dates for the West Coast shows:

13 July   Vancouver, BC; Commodore Ballroom
14 July   Seattle, WA; Showbox Theater
15 July   Portland, OR; Roseland Theater
17 July   San Francisco, CA; The Fillmore
18 July   Sacramento, CA; Crest Theatre
20 July   Los Angeles, CA; Wiltern Theater

12 May 2000: A little ditty from allstar news:

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=529773957/pagename=/RP/ALLSTAR/article.html/fid=201566

Playing before a packed Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia Wednesday (May 10), Travis frontman Fran Healy said that his band plans to hit the studio in September -- after another U.S. touring run -- with hopes to release a new album by early next year.

Healy was responding to a question from a particularly loud fan (who claimed her thunderous voice came from being born and bred in South Philly) about when the band would release a follow-up to The Man Who, which hit the States in early April. In Philly, Travis played two tracks likely to appear on their next release: "Coming Around," a mid-tempo shoegazer, and "Safe," a phenomenal ballad where Healy's vocals possess the sentimentality of James Taylor and the ferocity of Thom Yorke.

Now headlining a solo tour after opening for Oasis in the spring, Travis seems to be earning the adoration of an American public usually nonplussed about British rock outfits. During their performance of "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" Healy stepped aside from the mike, allowing the masses to sing an entire verse, and they nailed it. Of course, some were a bit annoyed that Travis brought the rain into town with them (as they poetically seem to do wherever they play), but the band would probably trade a thousand rainy nights for the admiration of a new fan base across the pond.

-- Peter Gaston

21 April 2000: A little tidbit I stole from allstar news:

Hoorah for Red Bull! Not on the Red Bull tip yet? Well, it's a non-alcoholic energy drink that gets you pretty wacked and Scotland's Travis was hitting the "bottle" pretty hard Tuesday (April 18) morning during an appearance on Chicago-based syndicated morning show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse. The latest Britpop darlings, currently making quite a splash opening up for Oasis (allstar, April 6), were knocking back the mind-warping energy drinks at 9 a.m. while performing their current single "Why Does It Always Rain on Me" as well as their now-famous Britney Spears cover, "Baby One More Time." The band, now performing with temporary drummer Bo Walsh (actual drummer Neil Primrose has flown back to the U.K. to meet his freshly born child), plays the Chicago Theater in Chicago on Tuesday (April 18).

19 April 2000: Let's summarize:

7 April 2000: Sound World Music Online is giving away free copies of an exclusive 35-minute video of Travis film clips for every copy of the "new" album The Man Who purchased from their online store. Not strictly news, but riveting nonetheless.

10 March 2000: Travis is playing its own club show in Los Angeles the day after the gig with Oasis. Tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. Pacific time, April 11.

Date: April 10, 2000
Venue: The El Rey

For more info, see the Goldenvoice page.

1 March 2000: The motherf***ers at American MTV didn't air 120 Minutes last weekend, but word on the street is that you should tune in this Sunday, March 5. Cross your fingers, children. Oh, and you lucky Canucks may have noticed that the video for "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" is getting some airplay on MuchMusic. To have a single-payer health care system and Travis videos--sigh.

Also, you know how it is when you hear tidbits and snippets of info for a long time and you just assume that everyone else knows, as well? Here are two items that fall into that category but that we've finally decided to include on the site because we have "journalistic" confirmations now. First off, news of the U.S. release of The Man Who (taken from Sonicnet):

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/scans.jhtml;$sessionid$UTZ0XFYAABBNOCQBIAFSFEQ

Extra Songs On Travis Disc
Fans of Scottish pop and rock outfit Travis will find two UK B-sides added to the initial U.S. pressing of their second album, The Man Who, due on April 4, an Epic Records spokesperson said. The B-sides "Twenty" and "Only Molly Knows" will be included on the disc as hidden tracks, as will another cut, "Blue Flashing Light." Meanwhile, in Britain, where the album has already been a hit for several months, the band will release the nonalbum single "Coming Around" later this spring. Travis will open for Oasis on their upcoming U.S. tour, which will kick off on April 5 in Seattle.
[Tues., Feb 29, 2000 11:01 PM EST]

And news of the release of "Coming Around" from NME.com:

http://www.nme.com/newsdesk/20000301111301.html

TRAVIS NEW SINGLE 'COMING AROUND'!
TRAVIS release a brand-new single "Coming Around" on June 5 through Independiente. The song is previously unreleased and is taken from the band's forthcoming, as-yet-untitled third album, due for release early next year.

Travis frontman Fran Healey told nme.com: "We were in a b-side session and we recorded it in half an hour and then we just went away. I got a phone call from our A&R man and he's like 'You c---! This is not a b-side! This is a hit!'"

"It's brilliant. It's three minutes long and it's a really lovely pop song. It's quite upbeat and I've been told it's very different."

Travis start working on the follow-up to last year's chart-topping The Man Who album in July with the same producer, Nigel Godrich.

Godrich produced the last record and is working with Radiohead on their new effort.

Another song that's due to appear on the new album is titled "Flowers In The Window."

Fran said: "It's all about relationships. The common denominator that affects us all. Whether it be the relationship between this note and that note or between me and you or between a cat and a dog. I think that's something we all have in common."

Travis headline the Saturday at this year's Glastonbury Festival at Pilton, Somerset on June 23-25. It's also rumoured they're to play the two V2000 Festivals on August 19-20 at Chelmsford and Staffordshire as well as T In The Park.

15 February 2000: More reasons to be excited in North America:

Apr/05/00   Seattle, WA; Paramount Theatre
Apr/06/00   Portland, OR; Schnitzer Auditorium
Apr/08/00   Berkeley, CA; Berkeley Community Theatre   sold out
Apr/09/00   Los Angeles, CA; Universal Amphitheatre   sold out
Apr/11/00   Las Vegas, NV; Hard Rock Theater
Apr/15/00   Minneapolis, MN; State Theatre
Apr/16/00   Milwaukee, WI; Riverside Theatre
Apr/18/00   Chicago, IL; Chicago Theatre   sold out
Apr/20/00   Detroit, MI; State Theatre
Apr/21/00   Cleveland/Akron, OH; E. J. Thomas Hall, University of Akron
Apr/22/00   Indianapolis, IN; Murat Center
Apr/25/00   Pittsburgh, PA; A. J. Palumbo Center
Apr/26/00   Philadelphia/Upper Darby, PA; Tower Theater   sold out
Apr/27/00   Boston, MA; Orpheum Theater   sold out
Apr/29/00   Toronto, ON; Maple Leaf Gardens
May/01/00   New York, NY; Radio City Music Hall   sold out
May/03/00   Fairfax, VA; Patriot Center
May/04/00   Charlotte, NC; Ovens Auditorium
May/05/00   Atlanta, GA; Music Midtown Festival
May/08/00   Mexico City, MX; Sports Palace

4 January 2000: We managed to recover the old News page! Here's the American tour info again. As far as we know, these are the dates for the American tour. Tickets for all venues are currently on sale:

25 Jan   Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
27 Jan   Troubador, Hollywood, CA
31 Jan   Double Door, Chicago, IL
2 Feb   Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
3 Feb   Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY

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