“When Chris heard it he was like, That tune is the very best factor you’ve ever written!“ Coldplay’s Chris Martin and The Killers’ Brandon Flowers assist Travis pay their respects to their favorite NYC bar

Travis have known as upon a pair of well-known mates for an elegy to their favorite, now shuttered, New York bar.

The Scottish indie rock stars are joined by Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers on Raze The Bar, their second single previewing their forthcoming album L.A Occasions, which is about for launch on July 12 by way of BMG.

Discussing his inspiration for the tune, Travis frontman Fran Healy says: “There was a fantastic bar in New York Metropolis. It didn’t have a reputation however everybody known as it Black and White on account of the black and white striped awning that hung over the doorway. That they had poetry nights, nice DJs, open mic nights. In the event you performed a present at Irving Plaza or Webster Corridor, chances are high you ended up at Black and White until the wee small hours. One of many house owners, Johnny T, taken care of so many artists and bands through the years. If that bar might discuss, what a narrative it could inform.