WeвЂ™ll see how we get on.вЂќДespite Fran living in Los Angeles, the group recently managed to get together to do a gig in Barcelona. вЂњWeвЂ™re going to spend the rest of this year writing and trying to put things together, and then when we get together вЂ“ probably to do The Invisible Band tour at the start of next year weвЂ™ll see what weвЂ™ve got,вЂќ says Dougie, вЂњand hopefully weвЂ™ll be in the studio recording some new stuff, maybe before we start the tour, or maybe after. This marks the first time the album will be played in full.

We did a lot of sessions because we had finished the record, 10 Songs, just before lockdown happened, and then put it out in October. вЂњSo it was quite a learning curve вЂ“ suddenly I had to become an expert in editing and filming things, and editing video and sending big files. That was nice I think maybe we actually started to miss each other a bit!вЂќДid the band make any music together via Zoom? вЂњWe did a lot of recording of sessions and stuff for radio and TV,вЂќ says Dougie, who also started making sculptures again for the first time since art school during lockdown, as well as home schooling his children and trying to improve his piano playing. вЂњSo that was quite a strange little by-product of the whole thing. This was all instigated by the fact that Zoom had become such a big thing over lockdown and it became more feasible. вЂњAnd actually we started having reasonably regular Zoom meetings, just the four of us, just to catch up, see what was going on. Speaking to the Cambridge Independent from a very rainy Glasgow, Dougie, 49, says: вЂњOne of the weird things thatвЂ™s kind of happened over the period that lockdown was really kicking in was that because Fran is living in LA now, and has been for a good few years, we were just off the road, never seeing each other.

This time around, of course, that break was enforced for Dougie, singer Fran Healy, guitarist Andy Dunlop and drummer Neil Primrose. When we last chatted in 2018, Travis bassist Dougie Payne suggested that one of the reasons the band has lasted so long is that its members tend to take a break from seeing each other in between projects.

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