Travis frontman Fran Healy has told how he accidentally caused an entire hotel to be evacuated after burning toast in the early hours of the morning.
The singer says he was staying at the Kingsland Locke Hotel in East London when the incident unfolded on Wednesday.
The 51-year-old, who is gearing up for the Healy UK leg of Travis's tour starting in Manchester tonight, admitted that his early-morning craving for beans on toast had set off the fire alarm- forcing all guests to evacuate.
Healy described the mishap as “possibly my most embarrassing moment in recent memory.”
He wrote on X, formly known as Twitter: “ I was staying at Kingsland Locke Hotel in Dalston for the last five days before this UK leg of the Travis tour. The day I was checking out, jet lag woke me at 5am, so I thought I’d make some beans on toast. Burnt the toast and set all the fire alarms off. Everyone in the whole hotel had to be evacuated.”
He added: “In the packed lobby, filled with a hundred or so bleary-eyed, half-dressed guests, I told them all it was I who had burned my toast and that I was very sorry. People were nice about it, thankfully. It was mortifyingly embarrassing. Possibly my most embarrassing moment in recent memory.”
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Despite the mishap, Healy seems to have taken the incident in stride as he prepares to bring Travis back to their home city later this month. The band is set to play at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on December 21, a highlight of their much-anticipated tour.
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