Travis To Celebrate 20 Years With 'Glastonbury '99' Live Album And 'The Man Who' Reissue
Wednesday, 01 May 2019
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Nora Kryst
Travis will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough year with two releases this summer: 'Live at Glastonbury '99' and a reissue of 'The Man Who'.
The Scottish band's 16-song breakout set from the 1999 Glastonbury Festival will be available on CD, as a two-LP set, as well as digitally and includes singles Driftwood, Turn, and Why Does It Always Rain On Me?, with the latter performed just as the heavens opened over Worthy Farm. The sight of thousands of people dancing in the rain went down as one of the all-time most memorable shows in the festival's 50-year history. Looking back, vocalist Fran Healy said:
"We just enjoyed it—for as long as it lasted. We didn’t force it. We rode the roller coaster for as long as we could, but we didn’t hang on for dear life. At the end of 'The Man Who', I was just totally energized. We didn’t take the chance to stop and smell the roses—we didn’t want to—we just kept going, right through to 'The Invisible Band'."
Discussing their Glastonbury performance, he added:
"We all thought it was a really below-par performance and a literal washout. When I got home that night, I switched the TV on and the presenters on the Glastonbury highlights were hailing us as the performance of the festival. I watched it years later on YouTube. It was a great performance. A band teetering on the pivot and then tipping all in one gig."
Alongside the live album, Travis will put out an expanded edition of 'The Man Who' featuring 19 b-sides hand-picked by the band.
'Live At Glastonbury '99' and 'The Man Who' are out on June 21. Head below to check out the artwork, tracklists and a teaser video.
Travis, meanwhile, released their eighth studio album, 'Everything At Once', in 2016.
'Live At Glastonbury '99':
1. Blue Flashing Light
2. The Fear
3. Writing To Reach You
4. Good Feeling
5. U16 Girls
6. As You Are
7. Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
8. Coming Around
9. All I Want To Do Is Rock
10. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
11. Good Day To Die
12. More Than Us
13. Driftwood
14. Slide Show
15. Turn
16. Happy
'The Man Who' (deluxe box set 2CD):
CD1: The Man Who:
1. Writing To Reach You
2. The Fear
3. As You Are
4. Driftwood
5. The Last Laugh Of The Laughter
6. Turn
7. Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
8. Luv
9. She’s So Strange
10. Slide Show/Blue Flashing Light
CD2: b-sides:
1. Green Behind The Ears
2. Only Molly Knows
3. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
4. High As A Kite
5. Be My Baby
6. Where Is The Love
7. Village Man
8. Driftwood (live at the Link Café, Glasgow, 1999)
9. The Urge For Going
10. Slide Show (live at the Link Café, Glasgow, 1999)
11. River
12. Days Of Our Lives
13. We Are Monkeys
14. Baby One More Time (in session)
15. Coming Around
16. Just The Faces Change
17. The Connection
18. Rock ’N’ (Salad) Roll
19. The Weight
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