Biography

Life-long fan of Glasgow Celtic football club

Singer and songwriter for Scottish band Travis.

Performed at the anti-war "One Big No" concert at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London.

Took part in the Band Aid 20 re-recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas?".

Fiancée Nora Kryst gave birth to their first child, a son, on March 10th, 2006.

[My favourite song on the album is Idlewild] because I'm not singing all of it.

We all lost it at different points. There were always three of us there to prop the other guy up. I would say for me personally it wasn't the most enjoyable time. I remember sitting on the sidewalk in Paris in the middle of this cyclone of press, having a cigarette and thinking, 'This is the first moment I've had alone in the last six months.' That was the moment where I reached Peak Travis, I think.

[So how does your Scottishness manifest itself?] Um, I think it's like modesty but not false modesty. It's this idea that everyone's equal. You treat everyone as an equal. You don't look up or look down. You're just eye to eye no matter who you're talking with, whether it's your bandmates or your dentist, whoever. I think that doesn't change.

No, I said the [music] industry is middle class [and not that it was more middle class than it ever was]. Full stop. I met that actor Clive Owen. He was at the Berlinale [Berlin International Film Festival]. He's working class, I'm working class and I said it feels like you're at these things and it feels like we shouldn't really be there. We got in through the back door because you are surrounded by people who had a different beginning.

When, Neil, you had that accident which I think to this day - although a moment that was incredibly unlucky for you - was incredibly lucky for us, because we had stopped looking at each other as friends and we had started looking at each other as work. We all went, 'Us first and the band second,' because we realised the success of the band wasn't all the No1s and the Brits. It was the fact we were mates at the core of it and that's what held the band together.