In 1996, Fran Healy borrowed £600 from his mum to pay for the recording of Travis's very fi rst single. That track, the rousingly self-descriptive All I Want To Do Is Rock, was released on the band's own label, Red Telephone Box, with a sleeve designed by Healy. Only 750 copies weremade, but that was enough to kick-start a career for the four Glaswegian pals which has since reaped numerous hit singles, awards, platinum-selling albums and festival headline slots. Famous Now, twelve years on, the band have made 'Ode To J Smith', their loudest, edgiest and most arresting record since that formative track. Fittingly, they're revived Red Telephone Box to release it, with Healy once again handling artwork duties. The big difference this time is that, having shifted ten million albums in the intervening period, Mrs Healy's funding was not required.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Chinese Blues
2. J. Smith
3. Something Anything
4. Long Way Down
5. Broken Mirror
6. Last Words
7. Quite Free
8. Get Up
9. Friends
10. Song To Self
11. Before You Were Young