One of the leading Brit Pop bands of the 90s,
Travis proved that they could craft and play a down-to-earth, but heartfelt pop love song with enough verve and feeling to capture a huge audience. The group formed in Glasgow around 1990 as something of a hobby for its art school members, singer/songwriter Francis Healy, guitarist Andy Dunlop, drummer
Neil Primrose, and bassist Dougie Payne. After finishing their studies a few years later, the foursome became more serious about Travis' potential and moved to London in 1996. They soon self-released their first single, w
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hich caught the attention of an independent record producer, Andy MacDonald. Their second single, 1997's "U16 Girls," was released by Independiente Records, the new label headed by MacDonald.
Travis broke out with their 1997 debut album, ‘Good Feeling', which contained such hit Travis songs as “
Happy” and ‘”Tied to the 90s” and climbed into the UK top ten charts. The release of ‘The Man Who’ coincided with a turn as an opening act for
Oasis in 2000, providing great publicity for the band and the album, which went platinum six times in the UK. Nominated ‘Select Magazine's Album of the Year’, ‘The Man Who’ paved the way for ‘The Invisible Band’ released in June 2001, just prior to United States concerts with
Dido. Two years later, the band issued ‘12 Memories,’ which was followed in late 2004 with the singles collection Singles. Travis finally returned with an album of all-new material in the spring of 2007 entitled The Boy with No Name, It was introduced with the release of the single "Closer."By this time, It was abundantly clear that the band that had started as a lark were serious about making music that could be embraced by fans across
Europe and the United States.
