Starting out under the moniker Glass Onion in the early 1990s, Scottish rock
band Travis took their name from Harry Dean Stanton's character in the Wim
Wenders film Paris. After several transformations and setbacks, the band moved
to London in 1995 and had their first gig in the Dublin Castle in Camden. Andy
Macdonald, of Go! Disc Records and Independiente Records, heard a demo and
reportedly signed the band up with an undisclosed amount of his own money – the
band is signed up to Andy Macdonald, not to any label. Their 1997 debut album
Good Feeling (recorded at Bearsville Studio...