After launching into a spontaneous cover of Travis’ ‘Turn’ on stage in Glasgow, Tenacious D received an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the Scottish band. Jack Black belted out the chorus of the 1999 hit and the moment was captured on video and shared on social media. The following day, Travis shared their thoughts on the performance, posting the clip along with an old photograph of themselves alongside Black and his Tenacious D bandmate, Kyle Gass. “The force is strong in this one… Love you forever Jack!”, the band wrote on Twitter.
Frontman Fran Healy also expressed his admiration for the rock duo, tweeting: “The D!! What an honor!” The Glasgow show was part of Tenacious D’s ‘Spicy Meatball’ UK and European tour. The band will play at Leeds’ First Direct Arena on Saturday (May 11), with Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on May 12 and the Brighton Centre on May 13, before wrapping up at Paris’ Accor Arena on May 15.
Travis, on the other hand, has just shared their new single, ‘Raze The Bar’, featuring Coldplay’s Chris Martin and The Killers frontman, Brandon Flowers. It is the second track to be taken from their upcoming album, ‘L.A Times’. Fran Healy spoke to NME about how the collaboration came about: “I called up Chris, I was having a moment of ‘I fucking don’t know how to order the record’. I’d listened to it too much. I had a running order but I needed some fresh ears so I called Chris and we drove up the Pacific Coast highway and listened to it.”
“L.A. Times” is set to release on July 12 and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved. Travis is also set to support The Killers across their 16-date UK and Ireland arena tour later this summer. Fran Healy is excited about the upcoming tour and even likened it to Travis’ experience supporting Oasis on their ‘Be Here Now’ Tour in 1997: “We went on every single night to blow them off the stage which is what a good support band should be doing. You go on, the other band watch you from the wings going, ‘Fuck’. And then they come on and do a better show because of it.”
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