CPI Archive 2008: After capturing our hearts with their unique brand of Scot-Pop, Travis are about to bare their teeth. Andrew Hamilton talks through the rebirth of the invisible band with stickman Neil Primrose.
YEARS before Hendrix stole his flaming guitar trick from Pete Townshend’s bag of musical tricks, the scene had already been well set. Whether recording overdubs in toilet cubicles or ritually sacrificing your instruments at the end of each show – a band’s first instinct has always been to gather near the chaos at the edge of reality. No guitar player begins life wanting to write songs about broken love with happy endings. Similarly no young drummer ever imagines a future playing slow foxtrot beats while his lead singer drones on ad nauseam about one thing or another. Put simply, the first inclination of any band member is always to rock. It is perhaps this primal musical instinct which has led Travis to take their new album Ode to J Smith in a totally new direction. “It’s definitely a more raw album. Totally. I think it’s been a reaction to spending two years making the last album with that melodic pop thing that we do very well. I think we wanted to do the same as we have always done except to do it a lot quicker,” said Neil.
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