After enduring the technically plagued set by Jenny and Johnny, the entire Culture Collide Festival moved indoors and into a house of worship for the rest of the evening. The pews filled up and it quickly became a standing room crowd for the singer and guitarist of the band Travis, Fran Healy.

While some may have caught Fran and Dougie doing an acoustic set featuring the history of Travis songs in the past, it would just be Healy tonight. Without his band members there it was fitting that he was in the comfort of a house of God. He could have felt safe. Instead, the charming Scot started rambling about how insecure he was without his mates and that he would have to open with one of the songs made famous by his band.

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Scottish rockers Travis are gearing up to release their sixth album in the US tomorrow, November 4. The album is titled Ode To J. Smith and you can stream the album in its entirety right now on the band’s MySpace page. The album was released in Europe in September.

The band’s only US show this year is on Tuesday, November 11 in Los Angeles at The Troubadour. If you don’t already have tickets for the show, you are out of luck because the show is completely sold out.

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