Travis react as Tenacious D cover ‘Turn’ in Glasgow

11 May, 2024

Jack Black and Fran Healy

Tenacious D launched into a spontaneous cover of Travis’ ‘Turn’ on stage in Glasgow this week, and now the Scottish band have shared their reaction. 

Jack Black broke into the soaring chorus of the 1999 song at the intro of ‘Double Team’, the closing song in their main set at the OVO Hydro on Thursday (May 9). 

A day later, Travis posted the clip, alongside an old photograph of themselves alongside Black and his Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass. “The force is strong in this one… Love you forever Jack!”, the band wrote. 

Watch the clip below: 

Frontman Fran Healy also shared the moment, adding: “The D!! What an honor!” 

The Glasgow show was part of Tenacious D’s ‘Spicy Meatball’ UK and European tour. The band will play at Leeds’ First Direct Arena on Saturday (May 11), with Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on May 12 and the Brighton Centre on May 13, before they wrap at Paris’ Accor Arena on May 15. Get any remaining tickets here. 

Travis, meanwhile, have just shared their new single ‘Raze The Bar’, featuring Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers. 

It is the second track to be taken from their upcoming album ‘L.A. Times’, and it tells the story of the closure of New York’s much loved Black & White Bar. Listen below: 

Frontman Fran Healy told NME about how the collaboration came about: “I called up Chris, I was having a moment of ‘I fucking don’t know how to order the record’. I’d listened to it too much. I had a running order but I needed some fresh ears so I called Chris and we drove up the Pacific Coast highway and listened to it. 

“He had lots and lots of comments to make and he picked out that particular song,” Healy continued. “He was like ‘Oh My God it’s fucking amazing’. So we go back to the house and he goes to the piano and he starts playing it. I was like, ‘You should sing on it’. He was like, ‘Yeah I’ll sing but you should get more people to sing on it as well’. So I called up Brandon and he was like ‘sure’. So the both of them came in and sung on it.” 

‘L.A. Times’ is out on July 12 and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here. 

Meanwhile, Travis are due to support The Killers across their 16 date UK and Ireland arena tour later this summer. 

“It’s gonna be great. We’ve been friends for years and years now and Ronnie [Vannucci Jr.] and Brandon are the sweetest guys,” Healy told NME. 

“It’s nice to be a support band again too. I love being a support band. It reminds me of when we supported Oasis [on the ‘Be Here Now’ Tour in 1997]. We went on every single night to blow them off the stage which is what a good support band should be doing. You go on, the other band watch you from the wings going, ‘Fuck’. And then they come on and do a better show because of it.” 

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