Travis’ Fran Healy On The New “10 Songs” Album, Life During COVID-19, Future Band Plans & More
It has been 25 years since the 4 members of the band Travis first set foot in a Glasgow, Scotland rehearsal room. At various points along the group’s trajectory, the band has sold millions of albums, they have been the subject of the award-winning feature length documentary Almost Fashionable and frontman Fran Healy has elicited praise from Paul McCartney, Elton John and Graham Nash.
10 Songs is the new album from Travis, as released via BMG on October 9th. Co-produced by Fran Healy and Robin Baynton (Coldplay, Florence & The Machine), and recorded at RAK Studio, 10 Songs reflects a band whose lineup has not changed in its entire collective lifetime. 10 Songs includes synth work from Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, lap steel from Greg Leisz (Beck, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Springsteen) and vocals from Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles. The music video for its first single, “A Ghost,” was created by Healy and his son while in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On December 14, 2020, I had the pleasure of interviewing Fran Healy via Skype, as partially embedded below; the full interview will air on a later edition of the Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz program. More on Healy, Travis — which also includes Andy Dunlop (guitar), Dougie Payne (bass) and Neil Primrose (drums) — and 10 Songs can be found online via www.travisonline.com.
