I have never been extremely successful, nor am I likely to be. Whilst my wife is fond of me, I have no real idea what it is like to be hugely popular and adored. What it must be like to sell fistfuls of albums. Nor can I imagine what it must be like to come out the other side and find that you are no longer selling records by the shedload. Some bands react to this badly, but some remain stoic and just on with the job in hand. Travis fall into this category, making music not dramatically dissimilar to what they were producing at the height of their fame. And they were famous indeed - when their debut was released back in 1997, few could have predicted that they would go on to have one of the biggest albums of this decade. The ever-reliable Wikipedia claims that one in eight UK households contains a copy, citation needed. Well, mine does. Maybe yours does too. But now that fame has mostly gone, and since their amicable split with Independiente, they find themselves at album number six, released on their own label. Continue Reading