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I’m always amazed to see fights break out in a Travis audience. Always alcohol related. Always to do with one person telling someone else to shut up or put their phone away. I was at the Belle and Sebastian show on Friday and Saturday this week in LA at the Hollywood Palladium. On the Saturday we were standing and 2 couples came in and shouted loudly at each other throughout the first half of the set. I eventually turned around and told them I knew the band and if they wanted, I could go and ask the sound guy to turn it down a bit so they could hear themselves better. One of them got fighty but his girlfriend tamped it out and they went elsewhere.
Anyways
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There are no plans to do that album live as yet. It’s interesting, because for a long time I couldn’t listen to the record… not that I listen to our records after we finish them. By the time we finish them they have been listened to death. It’s more maybe that it left a foul taste in my mouth. I was whipped hard for more singles and more singles, so much so that I was left feeling the album was never good enough. Afew of years ago I listened to it again and was overwhelmed. It was really good. My Eyes, Closer, Selfish Jean, Big Chair. I HATE Eyes Wide Open…. oh god it’s awful. My favorite part of the recording was double tracking the baseline with timpani drums to get the desired “Lust for Life” feel we were after. That was one of the first covers we played when we rehearsed above The Horseshoe Bar in Glasgow in 1996. I think it was because it was on the Trainspoting soundtrack.
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Hey Elfy
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The re-issued albums on vinyl were the albums we recorded on Independiente. They sold their catalogue of songs to Concord. Andy Mac, who was my A&R man and who owned Independiente stipulated to them that they re-issue the back catalogue. So those 5 albums made the re-issue. Ode was released on PIAS (Play It Again Sam), Where You Stand was released on another and Everything at once was released on yet another. I am pretty sure these will get a re-issue on vinyl. Ode is an interesting record. It was a project album, recorded to a brief. Write an album in 2 weeks, tour it for 2 weeks to eke out the creases, then record on 8 track multitrack and mix it in 2 weeks. The resulting songs were patchy. There are still some very good moments. J. Smith being one of my favorites. Neils drumming is sensational and we recruited the Crouch End Festival choir to sing the latin part at the end, which was translated from English to Latin by the person who “Writing to Reach You” was written about’s dad, who was an Italian scholar at Strathclyde University. He was fluent in latin.
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Hey Caz. What a hard thing for a young person to lose their mum. That moment in the show felt like the room doubled in size with all the people we were thinking of joining us. We will return to NZ one day soon. We couldn’t this time because of timings and available venues or some other non band reason. Take care and thanks for posting X

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Hey Peggy-Sierra. That’s a lovely story. Thanks for doing that for that kid. We are so lucky to have this short lease on life. Some are shorter than others. Lovely to have you back on the board.

On a technical note, Re. Pictures, I think you can post pictures but you need to do it in a code way. I asked an ai what to do. It seems that it is a little bit complicated but once you get used to it, it’s easy. Here is what it said

“Since the forum allows unrestricted HTML, you can embed an image using a standard HTML tag:

html< img src="https : / /your-image-url.com/image.jpg" alt="description of image ">

To get a URL for your image, you’d first need to host it somewhere publicly accessible, such as:

Imgur (imgur.com) — free, easy image hosting
Google Photos — share a public link
Flickr, Postimg, or similar — free image hosts

Then just paste the direct image URL into the src attribute. For example:

html< img src="https : //i.imgur.com /abc123.j pg" alt="my photo">

You can also control the size:

html< img src="https : //i. imgur.com /abc123. jpg" alt="my photo" width=" 500">

Just type or paste that directly into the message box and hit Submit.

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Hey Sirius. What was your old board name? Yeah it’s so cool. For me it will always be connected to the late 90’s when the website got started. Of course it picked up significantly in the 00’s and then sort of died off when the tsunami of new social media arrived. The tide has rolled out again though and the board lives.
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Hey deebee, how’s it going? Hope you are well where ‘er ye be.
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Hey saraspain. Lovely to see your name again. Hope you are well.
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Goodness me. Hey Ziggy. Hope you are well. It feels comforting to have the board back, right?
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Hey Edel!
We’re BACK!!!
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Hey gethappy. Cool eh?
Nice to see you
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Woop woop!! God I’m not going to get any work done at this rate! Long time no see jenny2
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Hey Frandly, nice to see you again. Sorry about the dropped hyphen. Apparently hyphens are extinct in the future. I’m still getting to grips with spell correct on the iPhone. I always wrote “Thankyou” my whole life as that is how I was taught how to write it (I think) as it’s one word. Now it gets corrected to “Thank you” with a space every time. Your hyphen is there in spirit.
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Hey Andy!! Woo-hoo! It’s BACK!!!

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