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Stage Injury To Noel Gallagher Gave Us A Real Fright, Says Travis Singer Fran Healy












Travis singer Fran Healy says he won't be inviting any fans to join him on stage after Noel Gallagher's rib-breaking.

Fran said he was alarmed by the news that a fan invaded the stage during an Oasis gig in Canada.

He said: "It was odd to see Noel getting pushed over because, when you are in Oasis, you have about 20 bodyguards.

"How did that guy get through?"

Guitarist Andy Dunlop added: "It gave us a real fright. You usually feel safe on stage."

Fran said the incident reminded him of 1999. He was threatened with a knife in New York after making a joke about the size of an autograph hunter's manhood.

Fran said: "I told him I didn't think I could fit all the letters of Fran on there."

He was also threatened with a syringe when he busked in Glasgow in 2004 and, more recently, he says he was almost strangled by an enthusiastic fan.

He said: "I got strangled on stage. A guy came up behind me and put his arm around my neck. He was excited, but I was going blue."

Fran, who met lots of fans at FOPP record store in Glasgow yesterday before the band's gig at the city's ABC, says he and the band are having the time of their lives with album Ode To J Smith.

Travis played Edinburgh's latest venue The Picture House earlier this week, but almost left their mark in more ways than one.

Fran said: "The people who ran it were a bit worried the balcony might collapse with all the stomping."

Source: Glasgow Daily Record

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