Neil Primrose Quotes

United Kingdom, Drummer
February 20, 1972

Neil Primrose is the drummer of the Scottish rock quartet Travis. Primrose's father was a power station engineer, so his family moved wherever the job took him. A posting to Middlesbrough was followed by a series of moves across the northeast of England that spanned the first ten years of Primrose's life. At age 15 in high school in Glasgow he was playing drums with friends in local bands. From the age of 17, the next step was going for as many auditions as possible and looking for like-minded players to form a group.

Sometimes, I think, with bands the record company is actually the guilty party with the way they set the record out.

Neil Primrose Travis
- Company
- Record
- Set
The problem with the world now is that there’s so much technology is that things move so fast. How people acquire music and how they digest it is very different. It’s a different world from even a few years ago.

Neil Primrose Travis
- World
- Music
- Technology

Technology is great, because you can edit and put things together from some of your demos. With this record, there’s a lot of elements of demos and recordings that we did that we managed to put in to the proper recordings that we’d done later.

Neil Primrose Travis
We’ve had to change our approach for how we do it all, but, ultimately, the one thing counts is being able to play live.

Neil Primrose Travis