b'FEEAATTUURREEFCRHAILND HREEANL OYF ZEUSFThe Glaswegian frontman talks about piecing together their precipitative breakthrough hit single Photo_ Alterna2in the arid climes of the Middle East and Spain.Words_Aaron SlaterFormedThe other songs just came in Glasgow in 1990, Travis arealong youre just dropping things a Scottish rock band comprisingeverywhere, you put in your bag singer-songwriter Fran Healy,and dont think about it, and move bassist Dougie Payne, lead guitariston I remember going on holiday Andy Dunlop and drummer Neiland writing the verse Why Does It Primrose. The group is widelyAlways Rain On Me?, which ended claimed as having paved the wayup being the chorus but I didnt for other bands such as Keaneknow it at the time Then we came and Coldplay to go on to achieveto record the record and everyone worldwide success throughouthad a big reaction to Why Does It the 2000s, particularly through theAlways Rain On Me? People really bands second studio album, Theliked that immediatelythe demo Man Who. of it.Four tracks were released fromI got [to the Middle East] and it that influential record, but it waswas pissing with rain! Its supposed arguably Why Does It Alwaysto be sunny because I met our Rain On Me? that proved to beaccountant and said I wanted to their international breakthroughgo away on holiday and he said, single, fueled in part by aYouve got to go to Eilat, its going triumphant appearance at the 1999to be really sunny there. So I went Glastonbury Festival, where theand it was pissing with rain! I sat in song dramatically coincided with athe hotel room and sung that; just change in the weather. made it up to myself to be funny, or something, and cheer myself up. Almost two decades on fromAnd I thought, Oh thats good.its release, the groups affable frontman recalls when, where andThen, later on, about three months how the rhetorically titled song wasafter that, we were in MadridI made think it was a promo trip or we were doing a little gig or something. I was The first song that was written forin a hotel room and Good Feeling The Man Who was written half anhad come out, but it didnt really hour after I wrote The Line Is Finesell many records and everyone for [previous album] Good Feeling,was a bit dejected. Id just come and that was Writing To Reach You.off a phone call with my manager H O W I W R O T E . . . I cant think of two more differentwho was trying to cheer me up, and songs and yet they happened withinthen I wrote the verse. But I didnt 20 minutes of each other. It didnt fitconnect it with the other Why doesW H Y D O E S I T A LWAY S R A I N O N M E with all those other rocky songsit always rain on me thing. I wrote So I was writing songs for The Manthe I cant sleep tonight based B Y T R AV I SF R A N H E A LY Who and I didnt even know whaton that phone call and my state of The Man Who was! mind, and I remember finishing it 3 0 SE PTE MBE R2 0 19 H 33 0 SE PTE MBE R2 0 19 HEEYYMMUUSSIICCCCOOMM 23191'