Travis are a post-Britpop alternative rock band formed in Glasgow in 1990. Since 1994, it comprises Fran Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Dougie Payne (bass guitar, backing vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals) and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion).
The band has released 6 studio albums: Good Feeling (1997), The Man Who (1999), The Invisible Band (2001), 12 Memories (2003), The Boy With No Name (2007) and Ode To J. Smith (2008), that all entered Top 20, with their seventh Where You Stand to be released in August 2013. They also have released one compilation Singles (2004), several videos and numerous singles.
Travis have twice been awarded best band at the BRIT Awards, and are often credited for having paved the way for bands such as Coldplay and Keane (Coldplay's Chris Martin has called himself "a poor man's Fran Healy", while saying that Travis "invented" Coldplay "and lots of others"[1]). The band named themselves after the Harry Dean Stanton character Travis Henderson from the film Paris, Texas.
