Scottish band Travis have announced their Raze The Bar Tour which will take place throughout December. The tour will consist of 12 dates in England and Scotland Including shows in London, Manchester and Glasgow. The announcement of their December UK tour came just after the release of their latest single, ‘Bus’, off of their upcoming album.
They will kick off the tour in Leeds at the O2 Academy on the 5th of December, followed by performances in Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol, Sheffield and more, before a big homecoming gig for the Glasgow natives at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on the 21st of December.
This headline UK tour will follow a very busy summer for the Glasgow band, where they will be supporting the Killers on their UK arena tour in 16 dates throughout June and July, and they will then return to Europe in August to perform their first headline tour there since 2016 which will run into September. They are also headlining Sign Of The Times Festival in Hertfordshire in July and will perform a set at BBC Radio 2 In The Park in September in Preston. As well as this they have also announced that they will be doing 22 dates across the US and Canada in January 2025.
The upcoming UK tour dates are:
December 05 2024 – LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
December 06 2024 – MANCHESTER Albert Hall
December 08 2024 – LIVERPOOL Olympia
December 09 2024 – WOLVERHAMPTON Civic at the Halls
December 10 2024 – NOTTINGHAM Rock City
December 11 2024 – MARGATE Dreamland
December 13 2024 – LONDON O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
December 15 2024 – BRISTOL Beacon
December 17 2024 – EASTBOURNE Winter Gardens
December 18 2024 – SHEFFIELD Octagon
December 19 2024 – NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE City Hall
December 21 2024 – GLASGOW OVO Hydro
Tickets go on sale at 9am on the 14th of June and you can buy yours here.
Just Before this announcement of their upcoming UK tour Travis also released their latest single, ‘Bus’, off of their upcoming album ‘L.A. Times’ which is set to be released on the 12th of July and you can pre order a copy here. The new single is the third single released from ‘L.A. Times’ following ‘Raze the Bar’ which saw them joined by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and Killers’ Brandon Flowers.
Travis Frontman, Fran Healey, said about the idea behind the song “I was on holiday, staring out the window, watching all the boats bobbing on the sea. I was trying to write a song and nothing was coming. It reminded me of all the years I spent waiting on buses. You never think it’s going to come, but if you wait long enough it usually turns up.”
He added “In the middle of all these thoughts came a cool little melody and the song was written a few minutes later.”
The song was accompanied by a new music video which was filmed in Scotland, and directed by Healey himself and it features the band waiting for a bus in the Scottish Highlands for what seems to be a long time as well as the group performing the song by the road. It also has a short guest appearance from comedian and actor Adam Buxton. Check it out below.
