At the time of this concert, Travis was massively popular, but mostly in Britain and the rest of Europe. They remain far less known in the U.S. They released their first album, "Good Feeling," in 1997. It went Platinum in Britain. In 1999, their second album was released, "The Man Who." It went Platinum nine times over in Britain. (Note that in Britain Platinum sales are achieved with 300,000 copies sold, not a million in the U.S., due to the country's much smaller population size.) Their next album would also sell big in Britain, but since then, their sales have declined considerably.
This episode contained two interesting covers: "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears, and "River" by Joni Mitchell. Both of them only came out as B-sides at the time. Naturally, the rest of the concert was dominated by songs from the band's big album "The Man Who."
As was usually the case for this series, most of the first song was not included. But I found a different version from the same year (at the Glastonbury Festival, actually), and used it to fill in the missing portion. Also, the lead vocals were low in the mix, so I boosted them using the UVR5 audio editing program.
Note this band is from Scotland, and the lead singer, Fran Healy, has a pretty thick Scottish accent. As an American myself, I found it pretty hard to understand his banter between songs. So beware.
This album is 46 minutes long.
01 Turn [Edit] (Travis)
02 talk (Travis)
03 Why Does It Always Rain on Me (Travis)
04 talk (Travis)
05 ...Baby One More Time (Travis)
06 talk (Travis)
07 Driftwood (Travis)
08 talk (Travis)
09 Coming Around (Travis)
10 talk (Travis)
11 As You Are (Travis)
12 talk (Travis)
13 Slideshow (Travis)
14 talk (Travis)
15 River (Travis)
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The cover image is a screenshot I took from the video of this exact concert. I used the program Krea AI to add detail.
Thanks. Love Travis. Very underrated band.
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