Travis share new single ‘Raze The Bar’ featuring Coldplay’s Chris Martin and The Killers’ Brandon Flowers
nme.comTravis have shared a new single featuring Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers.The song ‘Raze The Bar’, which is the second track to be lifted from the band’s forthcoming album ‘L.A.
Times’, tells the story of the closure of New York’s much loved Black & White Bar. You can listen to it below.The Greenwich Village haunt attracted lots of famous bands and scores of local creatives over the years, from The Strokes to graffiti artist Richard Hambleton but it was shut down during the pandemic.Healy told NME: “Everyone went there, because it was near Irving Plaza and all the bands would always go there.
This bar was a hub for poetry, it was all so positive for artists. Then they had to shut it and the landlord went in one night and ripped every single bit of the bar out and whitewashed it so that nobody could ever have the bar again.
So the song is like an imaginary last night in the bar.”Speaking about how the collaboration came about, Healy added: “I called up Chris, I was having a moment of ‘I fucking don’t know how to order the record’.
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