Tuesday 19 August 2008

Travis' Fran Healy loses wedding ring at V Festival

Travis were forced to halt their set at Chelmsford's V Festival this evening (August 17) after frontman Fran Healy lost his wedding ring.


The closed chain was lost during the group's acoustic version of their hit 'Flowers In The Window'.


Partway through the song, Healy stopped singing and told the crowd: "Hold on, hold on, I just now dropped my wedding ring � it's like 'Lord Of The Rings'!"


However, he quickly plant the halo and continued with the track, to great applause from the audience in the JJB Arena.


As well as playacting their biggest hit singles, including 'Writing To Reach You' and 'Sing', Travis debuted trey new songs from soon-to-be released raw album 'Ode To J Smith', and two unknown tracks.


Before 2007 single 'Closer', Healy aforesaid: "We're going to kind of offset the rock with some acoustic balladeering."


The band all over their set with 'Turn' and 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?', two singles from their 1999 album 'The Man Who'.

Travis played:

'Selfish Jean'

'Writing To Reach You'

'Side'

'J. Smith'

'(Untitled New Song)'

'(Untitled New Song)'

'Closer'

'Sing'

'Flowers In The Window'

'All I Want To Do Is Rock'

'Turn'

'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?'



Keep checking NME.COM for the modish news, pictures, videos and blogs live from both V Festival Chelmsford and V Festival Staffordshire all weekend.



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