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Travis: Raze the Bar tour

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 8:00 PM
  • The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Koreatown
FROM $53
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Travis band members Dougie Payne, Fran Healy and Neil Primrose perform on a small stage with a screen behind them during the day time. Frontman Fran Healy has bright orange hair.
Dougie Payne, Fran Healy and Neil Primrose of Travis perform during day one of the TRNSMT Festival 2024 at Glasgow Green in 2024.
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In the early 2000s, Glasgow natives Travis led a post-Oasis, pre-Coldplay Britpop era, with songs like "Side," "Sing," and "Why Does It Always Rain on Me?" getting major radio play. They’ve released 10 studio albums since 1997, and their latest, 2024’s L.A. Times (no relation to the paper!), marks nearly a decade of living in our fair city and their complicated relationship with the City of Angels. They play the Wiltern as part of their first U.S. tour in 14 years.

I spoke with lead singer Fran Healy about the fires, their new song "Avalon," and the band’s “live friendship” on stage.

Written by our Best Things To Do columnist, Laura Hertzfeld. See her full columns here.