Reviews: Music - Travis and Art - Tony O’Malley
How ironic that one of Travis’ best-selling albums should have been called The Invisible Band. In the late ’90s the Scottish quartet could plausibly lay claim to the title of Britain’s biggest arena act.
However, their anthemic rock was eventually outflanked, critically and commercially, by acolytes Keane, Snow Patrol and, especially , Coldplay. Without a significant hit for nearly a decade and, just back from a four-year touring hiatus, if you didn’t know better you might think they had been victims of some indie pop Stalinist plot to scrub them from the annals.
