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I did mean to say a little more about seeing Travis live because they were awesome.
Like all of my best gig stories, I only got to go by accident. I'd forgotten to get tickets and the gig had sold out. Boyfriend of a friend unexpectedly couldn't go and she sent me a text asking "so, do you like Travis?" It took all of my restraint not to go "Yes!!!" Anyway, I ended up going with her instead of her boyfriend.
The support act, Thomas J Speight (http://thomasjspeight.bigcartel.com/) was pleasingly jangly*.
Then Travis came on and the place went mad. They basically played a best of with a couple of new songs. They even played "Blue Flashing Light" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCbErWNRv1g) which is my favourite song of theirs** and is a hidden track on The Man Who.
And, having regressed to being 14 again, I was all high pitched and squeaky because OMG!!! Dougie smiled at me and, yeah, no, that's another bass player crush I have not got over. Then I felt guilty for focussing on him since he was on the other side of the stage and Andy was right in front of me and the man can play. Which I always knew but now I have proof. (Also, P is the best person in the world to go to gigs with and managed to elbow us to having second row standing space.)
They were all so awesome.
P that I was with did have a minor fret because Fran has gone completely gray and we could both remember him before he had even the slightly bit of silver.
I also loved that they apologised for taking a break because, as Fran said, they hadn't split up, they'd just all had kids at the same time and that was more important. Of course, half the crowd were going "aww" and Fran was saying that he could hear the men in the audience going "stop making us look bad."
They just looked so happy to be playing together and we were so happy to see them and it was so :D
Before their last song Fran said "we want you to know we're still your band, we've always been your band". And, trust me, the Birmingham O2 would have stormed the Bastille for them at that point.
It was also so :D
Some photos were taken (see below). Any good ones were by P.
( Photos )
* I have not been bribed although I admit that Thomas J Speight's twitter did give me a free download for mentioning them on Twitter.
** Blue Flashing Light is the track where I knew that if Travis were less happy, jangly and Scottish, the music press would be all over them for being brilliant because, yes, that track hits hard.
It's also the founder member of the music category "that's good but I hope never to be in a position where I can write a track like that" see also Ocean Spray by the Manics.
Like all of my best gig stories, I only got to go by accident. I'd forgotten to get tickets and the gig had sold out. Boyfriend of a friend unexpectedly couldn't go and she sent me a text asking "so, do you like Travis?" It took all of my restraint not to go "Yes!!!" Anyway, I ended up going with her instead of her boyfriend.
The support act, Thomas J Speight (http://thomasjspeight.bigcartel.com/) was pleasingly jangly*.
Then Travis came on and the place went mad. They basically played a best of with a couple of new songs. They even played "Blue Flashing Light" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCbErWNRv1g) which is my favourite song of theirs** and is a hidden track on The Man Who.
And, having regressed to being 14 again, I was all high pitched and squeaky because OMG!!! Dougie smiled at me and, yeah, no, that's another bass player crush I have not got over. Then I felt guilty for focussing on him since he was on the other side of the stage and Andy was right in front of me and the man can play. Which I always knew but now I have proof. (Also, P is the best person in the world to go to gigs with and managed to elbow us to having second row standing space.)
They were all so awesome.
P that I was with did have a minor fret because Fran has gone completely gray and we could both remember him before he had even the slightly bit of silver.
I also loved that they apologised for taking a break because, as Fran said, they hadn't split up, they'd just all had kids at the same time and that was more important. Of course, half the crowd were going "aww" and Fran was saying that he could hear the men in the audience going "stop making us look bad."
They just looked so happy to be playing together and we were so happy to see them and it was so :D
Before their last song Fran said "we want you to know we're still your band, we've always been your band". And, trust me, the Birmingham O2 would have stormed the Bastille for them at that point.
It was also so :D
Some photos were taken (see below). Any good ones were by P.
( Photos )
* I have not been bribed although I admit that Thomas J Speight's twitter did give me a free download for mentioning them on Twitter.
** Blue Flashing Light is the track where I knew that if Travis were less happy, jangly and Scottish, the music press would be all over them for being brilliant because, yes, that track hits hard.
It's also the founder member of the music category "that's good but I hope never to be in a position where I can write a track like that" see also Ocean Spray by the Manics.
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