I saw Travis at the Montreux Jazz Festival last night. In the front row :D It was so amazing and if felt kind of weird, it's hard to explain why (though I'll try anyway). I discovered Travis when I lived in Geneva (I knew of them before, but I didn't actively go out and look for their songs, I just enjoyed them whenever I heard them on the radio). ( Read more... )

OMG OK SO this year I am going to the Montreux Jazz Festival, which is like this huge, weeks-long festival in, well, Montreux (in the French speaking part of Switzerland, near Geneva). I've wanted to go there since I saw a classy poster advertising it a few years ago, but I always thought that it really was a JAZZ festival, with no other kinds of ( Read more... )

Aww, Dougie from Travis is a father! ♥ It's a boy!

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Meme, cos I'm bored and waiting for the washing to finish. Nicked from park_ave_pirate

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I'm still around 3000 words off my goal for today, so obviously I'm on LJ, not writing! Here are the videos I made at the Travis gig!

ETA: LJ won't let me embed them :(

Here they are: The Beautiful Occupation, Flowers in the Window, Pipe Dreams. I like how Andy looks like he's about to fall over at the end of Beautiful Occupation. :D ( Read more... )

So, last night I saw Travis for the first time ever...

Vaguely scary devil Dougie:

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I've complained a LOT in the past about how no good bands ever come to Switzerland... Well, they heard me :P This is just ridiculous ( Read more... )

Sgt. Pepper's 40th anniversary on Radio 2

Kaiser Chiefs! Travis! (They're so cute) The Fray! ♥

I mean, I knew KC's cover of Getting Better would be good, but I didn't know it would be this good. :P

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