Moving (Travis song)

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"Moving"
Travis Moving.jpg
Single by Travis
from the album Where You Stand
Released 1 July 2013
Recorded November 2012
Genre Alternative rock, new wave [1]
Length4:32
Label Red Telephone Box
Songwriter(s) Dougie Payne
Producer(s) Michael Ilbert
Travis singles chronology
"Where You Stand"
(2013)		"Moving"
(2013)		"Mother"
(2013)
Music video
Travis – "Moving" on YouTube

"Moving" is a song by alternative rock band Travis. It was released on 1 July 2013 [2] as the second single to promote the band's seventh studio album, Where You Stand . "Moving" was written by the band's bassist Dougie Payne. [3] The song has charted in Japan.

Alternative rock is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. In this instance, the word "alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream rock music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style or simply the independent, DIY ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music. At times, "alternative" has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock.

Travis (band) Scottish band

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<i>Where You Stand</i> 2013 studio album by Travis

Where You Stand is the seventh studio album from Scottish rock band Travis, released on 19 August 2013, on their own record label, Red Telephone Box via Kobalt Label Services. The album was produced by Michael Ilbert, and promoted by three singles: "Where You Stand", "Moving" and "Mother". It is the first album released by the band after a five-year break.

Contents

Composition

The song was written by Travis bassist Dougie Payne. DOUGIE PAYNE.jpg
The song was written by Travis bassist Dougie Payne.

In an album commentary, Dougie Payne said the song was inspired by his frequent moves, and the feeling of moving house every six months: "It was kinda this notion of this perpetual motion." [4]

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph music critic Neil McCormick, Travis frontman Fran Healy said, "There was a moment, when my son Clay was two, and we were looking at the little globe in the house, and I was going, here's where Nana is, and here's Australia, and he said, 'Where do you live, Papa?' My heart broke. I was going, 'I live here with you', and he had this incredulous look on his face – 'no, you don't.' And he really meant it, because we spent so much time touring." [1] [5]

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Fran Healy (musician) British musician

Francis "Fran" Healy is a British musician. He is the lead singer and main songwriter of the band Travis, having written nearly all of the songs on their first six studio albums, with the 8th being more of a co-written work. He is based in Berlin. Healy released his debut solo album titled Wreckorder in October 2010, which featured Paul McCartney on bass.

Recording

The song was recorded in November 2012. [4] Payne said, "It was really all about the vocal, kind of getting up to that point, to make it, to kinda lift it, and make it not kinda linear and repetitive. Actually kind of create those peaks." The notes in the chorus were "really high" for vocalist Fran Healy, so during the first recording of the song he sang them in falsetto. When he listened to it the next morning, "it just sounded weak". However, Healy remembered being told about an effect that adrenaline can have on human voice, so he decided to run into the North Sea, which was just outside the recording studio, to get the shock that would make his body release the hormone. After spending a minute in cold water, he ran up the beach straight into the studio, and recorded the vocals. [4]

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Music video

A music video for the song was released onto YouTube on 1 July 2013. [6] It was directed by Tom "Wriggles" Wrigglesworth and Matt "Robins" Robinson. [7] The video is based on a concept from Wriggles & Robins' short film titled Love Is in the Air, released for Valentine's Day 2013. [8] [9] It shows Travis band members standing in cold air, with a series of animations projected into their breaths, telling a story of a character that runs, flies and swims, among others. In some of the scenes, the animation becomes a mirror image of Travis vocalist Fran Healy. [10] The video was filmed in real time, using no post production. [6] On 8 July 2013, a making-of video was released onto YouTube. [11]

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Track listing

Digital download [12] [13]
No.TitleLength
1."Moving"4:32

Personnel

Travis
Dougie Payne British musician

Douglas "Dougie" Payne is the bassist and backing vocalist of the Scottish band Travis.

Andy Dunlop British musician

Andy Dunlop is a Scottish musician, who is the lead guitarist of Scottish indie band, Travis.

Neil Primrose (musician) British musician

Neil Primrose is the drummer of the Scottish rock quartet Travis.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Japan (Japan Hot 100) [14] 30

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References

  1. 1 2 "Travis: Moving (Where You Stand album commentary) – part three". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Discography > Singles > Moving". TravisOnline.com. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Where You Stand - Travis". AllMusic . Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "Travis - Moving (Track by Track)". YouTube . Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Travis's Fran Healy: 'There's a trail of rock widows and orphans'". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Travis - Moving". YouTube. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  7. ↑ "Travis - Moving". Vimeo . Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  8. ↑ Fox, Michelle Higa. "Wriggles & Robins: Travis "Moving"". Motionographer. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  9. ↑ "Wriggles and Robins' Travis video a breath of fresh air". Creative Review. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  10. ↑ "Travis: Moving - Making of". Creativity Online. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  11. ↑ "Travis - Moving (Making Of)". YouTube. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  12. ↑ "Moving - Single by Travis". iTunes (GB). Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  13. ↑ "Moving: Travis: MP3 Downloads". Amazon.com . Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  14. ↑ "Travis Chart History (Japan Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
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