{"id":239,"date":"2013-10-21T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=239"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:46:27","slug":"travis-webster-hall-new-york-september-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/travis-webster-hall-new-york-september-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis <br>Webster Hall, New York, September 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/travis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/travis.jpg\" alt=\"Travis live at Webster Hall\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/travis.jpg 600w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/travis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/travis-590x393.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If Travis\u2019 show at Webster Hall seemed like more of an event than merely another night of live music, it is perhaps with good reason. As Fran Healy explained during the Scottish band\u2019s set spanning the entirety of their career, raising families had kept them from traveling to this part of the world for awhile. It was evident that their fans, many of whom greeted the group in front of the club when they pulled up in a British cab from A Salt and Battery, had missed the band, as they packed the venerable village venue to capacity.<\/p>\n<p>I personally hadn\u2019t seen the band play live since they knocked my socks off opening for Oasis some 13 years ago, when they were a more ragged live act than the band that led off their show with \u201cMother\u201d tonight. Indeed, as evidenced by the subsequent rendition of \u201cSing\u201d from their breakthrough <i>The Man Who<\/i> album, these days the band more capably conveys the nuances of its recordings. As such, the bittersweet reveries of \u201cPipe Dreams\u201d were as stirring as the sonic escalations of a song like \u201cMoving\u201d from the band\u2019s latest release, <i>Where You Stand<\/i>. And each time one thought that the band couldn\u2019t best itself, they found room to go to another haughty level. With it ringing guitars, \u201cLove Will Come Through\u201d was spellbinding, while the sweep of \u201cRe-Offender\u201d was absolutely sublime.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the band played a good portion of <i>Where You Stand<\/i>, and the strength of that record was exposed, with cuts like \u201cWarning Sign\u201d and \u201cReminder\u201d on par with anything else on the setlist. The latter, in particular, possessed that special mix of pop hooks and melancholy undercurrents for which Healy has a knack; he explained that the song was meant as a message to his kids for when he\u2019s not around. Of course, the older cuts were appreciated, especially the trio of <i>The Man Who<\/i> tracks that closed the set proper:\u00a0 \u201cSlide Show,\u201d \u201cBlue Flashing Light,\u201d and \u201cTurn,\u201d which was positively majestic.<\/p>\n<p>But one good turn deserves another, and Travis returned for an encore that included a couple songs from the band\u2019s debut, <i>Good Feeling<\/i>, as well as an acoustic run through \u201cFlowers in the Window.\u201d But it was \u201cWhy Does It Always Rain on Me?\u201d that brought down the house. Travis took advantage of the crowd\u2019s fervor to film a video for \u201cMother,\u201d ending the show the way they began just as strongly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Travis\u2019 show at Webster Hall seemed like more of an event than merely another night of live music, it is perhaps with good reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,45,1443],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-the-rumpus","tag-travis","tag-webster-hall","tag-whats-the-rumpus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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