Bass-player Dougie Payne was expecting his first child in March 2008 and the band had committed to giving him several months paternity leave. All the bands we speak to about it are slightly jealous.'īut the question of how to release their music wasn't the only big decision facing Travis at the end of 2007.

'Red Telephone Box is very much a cottage industry compared to a big label, but it's given us anĮnormous amount of freedom and control. 'We decided to gather together all the best people we've worked with and do everything ourselves,' says Healy. The band had offers on the table, but opted to go their own way. But then we got back home and we'd come to the end of our record deal and our publishing deal.

'It definitely felt like we reconnected with our fans after not touring properly for a few years. Towards the end of 2007, Travis found themselves back home in London, having spent much of the year performing their sparklingly tuneful fifth album, The Boy With No Name, to thousands of fans across the globe. 'Twelve years on and we've been let loose again.' His bandmate, bassist Dougie Payne, agrees: 'This whole process has just felt so exciting and rejuvenating.' 'It's like the clock has done one full rotation,' says Healy, the band's ever-affable frontman. The big difference this time is that, having shifted ten million albums in the intervening period, Mrs Healy's funding was not required. Fittingly, they're revived Red Telephone Box to release it, with Healy once again handling artwork duties. Now, twelve years on, the band have made Ode To J Smith, their loudest, edgiest and most arresting record since that formative track. Only 750 copies were made, but that was enough to kick-start a career for the four Glaswegian pals which has since reaped numerous hit singles, awards, platinum-selling albums and festival headline slots. That track, the rousingly self-descriptive 'All I Want To Do Is Rock,' was released on the band's own label, Red Telephone Box, with a sleeve designed by Healy. In 1996, Fran Healy borrowed £600 from his mum to pay for the recording of Travis's very first single.

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