Travis On Travis ; It's a Story That Everyone Knows: Travis, the Band Who Rehearsed Above Glasgow's Horseshoe Bar, the Band Who Moved to London and Shared a Flat, Like a Scottish Version of the Monkees, the Band Who Always Get Caught in the Rain. But What's the Real Story Behind Scotland's Biggest Band? Ahead of Their Homecoming Gigs This Week, Leon Mcdermott Gets the Lowdown On What Fran Healy, Dougie Payne, Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose Really Think ... About Each Other

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FRAN ON DOUGIE I left school at 17, not wanting to do the studying thing, but I ended up doing this foundation art course, in order to get into art school, and one day, I was in a life class. There was this guy sat next to me and I turned, like you do, checking what the person next to you is up to. I was looking at his painting, and he says, in a Rolf Harris accent, "Can you tell what it is yet?" That was it, that's where it started. And it's been like that ever since.

I always knew Dougie was rock-star material. On the way out to his house, on the train, we always used to play Lenny Kravitz's Let Love Rule on the guitar, and when I met him he was very into Bowie, especially the thin white duke thing. He was always this kind of lanky romantic; I suppose the word dandy fits. He's actually quite chameleon-like: he hangs out with Douglas Gordon and all these artists, but he's also hanging around with Kelly [McDonald, Payne's actress wife], and then he's with us, and his mum and his family and about 100 nephews and nieces, doing the uncle thing.

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Travis On Travis ; It's a Story That Everyone Knows: Travis, the Band Who Rehearsed Above Glasgow's Horseshoe Bar, the Band Who Moved to London and Shared a Flat, Like a Scottish Version of the Monkees, the Band Who Always Get Caught in the Rain. But What's the Real Story Behind Scotland's Biggest Band? Ahead of Their Homecoming Gigs This Week, Leon Mcdermott Gets the Lowdown On What Fran Healy, Dougie Payne, Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose Really Think ... About Each Other

He and Kelly don't really have that Ben and Jen thing going on; they're quite chilled out. Before they got married, Dougie said something to a paper, and the next thing, the papers printed that he was getting married, and his mum and Kelly's mum thought, "What? When did you decide this?" That's one of the things that the tabloids can do; it's par for the course, but they've managed to maintain something. He deals with all that stuff far better than I do; I'm different, I'm not really into that kind of thing, and Dougie isn't either, but he knows h...

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