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Scottish Sun
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Legendary Scots band reveals how festival favourite was almost ‘never written'
It the hit song was inspired by a legendary US sitcom SONG SHOCK Legendary Scots band reveals how festival favourite was almost 'never written' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) AN iconic rocker has revealed that one of his biggest hits was almost "never written". Travis frontman Fran Healy, 51, opened up on the origins of 1999 festival favourite Driftwood. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 2 Travis frontman Fran Healy performs at The Concert Hall in Toronto, Ontario Credit: Getty The red-headed singer told how the song was inspired by an episode of legendary US sitcom Cheers. However when he rushed upstairs to document the tune, the musician forgot to hit record on his device. He said online: "Driftwood almost didn't get written. I was washing the dishes, thinking about that TV show Cheers. "There was an episode where Norm was talking about overhearing the boss, talking about getting rid of all the driftwood. "I sung it out loud, just out of nowhere, while I was washing the dishes. "Ran upstairs to record it, but I actually accidentally pressed pause instead of record. "So when I came back to listen later on in the day, all I could hear was me walking away from the recorder. "And I sat for about an hour while this thing went through. "And you can hear me in the house, faffing around. And then eventually, just before the tape ends, I sing it as I'm walking up the stairs. "And had I not sung that tiny little, you know, driftwood little bit, it would be gone forever. And it's one of my favourite songs." Billy Joel Cancels Tour Amid Health Concerns: Fans React It comes weeks after Healy was rushed to hospital after suffering from a horror injury at a gig in the US. The singer was wheeled out of the venue on a stretcher after their show on Monday night. The iconic band were on their Raze The Bar North American Tour which kicked off in January. Travis were playing at the Showbox in Seattle, Washington, when Fran twisted his ankle stepping off stage while waving goodbye to the crowd.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Beautiful bank holiday blooms and open gardens
It's a bank holiday weekend providing plenty of opportunity for those not going away to get out in the garden. Let's hope the weather is in our favour, as we have a great track record of disappointing weather over bank holidays! I've been busy in the garden trying to ensure it looks its very best for a large group from Winchelsea, visiting on Thursday. The booking was made much earlier in the year, before I knew I was having my knee replacement surgery in April! It is part of a combined visit with another garden in Seaford so I decided to go ahead with the visit. It will be relatively easy, as the group are having tea and cake in the other garden so I just have to let them in and talk about Driftwood. You can see I've tried pruning using a seat to rest my knee in the process. It was quite a successful approach! Garden openings with the National Garden Scheme are beginning to increase in number as we approach June, historically the busiest open garden month of the year! There are 11 different openings to choose from across the county this bank holiday weekend. (Image: Geoff Stonebanks) Here are a couple you might like to visit. Hollymount in Burnt Oak Road, High Hurstwood, near Uckfield, opens tomorrow, Sunday, from midday to 5pm with entry £8. This beautiful, seven-acre garden is centred around water. Streams run down the hill through waterfalls into ponds flanked by luscious planting. A huge variety of plants create interest from May right through until October. Thick jungle borders flank the top garden while the beds further down are full of rhododendrons, acers, irises, day lilies and roses. There are pigs, alpacas, chickens and ducks to see too and the secret garden is a must. 96 Ashford Road in Hastings opens today, Saturday, from 1pm to 4.30pm with entry £4 This is a small (100ft x 52ft) Japanese inspired front and back garden which is full of interesting planting with many acer, azaleas and bamboos. Over 100 different hosta, many miniature ones. Don't miss the attractive Japanese Tea House and courtyard with fish pond along with the new Japanese bridge and pond in the lower garden too. You can find all the details at (Image: Geoff Stonebanks) In a corner of the garden, I have an ornamental angelica which produces large domed umbelliferous flowerheads followed by delicate seed pods. Its ribbed, hollow stems are flushed pink and are traditionally candied for use in baking. As a plant, angelica makes a strong architectural statement, and works at the back of a border or in a wild part of the garden, alongside grasses and flowering perennials. All parts of angelica are highly aromatic and it has traditionally been used for medicinal as well as culinary purposes. It's good for including in wildlife planting as the flowers are attractive to pollinators and the seeds are eaten by birds. Mine was a gift from a visitor several years ago now. (Image: Geoff Stonebanks) One of my all-time favourite plants in the garden is the fern. They are luxuriant foliage plants that come in diverse forms, leaf shapes and textures. There are evergreen and deciduous types (which lose their leaves in winter), ferns for damp soils or for dry soils such as those found under trees. In fact, there are so many different types that collecting them can become addictive. Many of those in my garden, like those pictured growing in a terracotta trough, came from my garden in North London, over 20 years ago now. They are so dramatic, dying away in the autumn and then producing fabulous new fronds each spring that seem to not to be there one minute and next, sprung up in height. A lovely rose my mother bought me a couple of years ago is the King Charles Coronation rose. It is a truly regal looking bloom to celebrate his Coronation and is a fitting choice to represent King Charles's rise to the British throne. Its pink double blooms with ruffled petals create a beautiful effect and will last all summer long. Better still, it is repeat flowering, vigorous, very easy to grow and low maintenance. As a floribunda rose, it produces wave upon wave of gorgeous clusters of medium-sized, double, baby pink blooms that contrast effortlessly against the bushy dark-green, glossy foliage. Mine is in a large container at the back of the house. (Image: Geoff Stonebanks) In the front porch is a good houseplant, also named one of the most popular of all houseplants. It is the peace lily which has elegant white flower-like spathes that stand on tall stems above the glossy tropical foliage. Easy to grow, serene and calming, they even help to purify the air, so no home should be without one. (Image: Geoff Stonebanks) Read more of Geoff's garden at or book a visit between 16th June and 3rd August by emailing visitdriftwood@
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Australian company commits to $17.5B LNG export terminal in Louisiana
Woodside Energy's Pluto liquified natural gas facility in Western Australia. (Woodside Energy Ltd. photo) An Australian fossil fuel company committed Tuesday to build a $17.5 billion liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana, following up on plans first announced 10 years ago. Woodside Energy Group said it has reached a final investment decision to proceed with the project in Calcasieu Parish formerly known as the Driftwood LNG Terminal. Woodside purchased Driftwood less than a year ago, betting on a project that has encountered several stops and starts since 2017, partly the result of volatility in the fossil fuels market. Plans include new production and processing facilities in Lake Charles that will create an estimated 16.5 million metric tons of LNG for the global fuels market. Woodside announced later in the day it had reached a deal with BP to provide natural gas for its Louisiana facility, Reuters reported. Terms of the deal were not made public. Gov. Jeff Landry touted the Woodside commitment as the largest single foreign investment and greenfield project in Louisiana history. In doing so, the Republican governor invoked a slogan his Democratic predecessor, John Bel Edwards, frequently used. 'Our 'all of the above' approach to energy is working,' Landry said in a statement. 'We have four active LNG terminals in Louisiana – more than any other state. With more than 30,000 miles of natural gas pipelines, it is clear that when it comes to LNG, Louisiana is the place to be. We are not only promising President Trump's agenda, we are delivering it!' Construction began at the Driftwood site in 2022, and the company said its first batch of liquified natural gas is expected to be produced in 2029.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Australia's Woodside Energy signs LNG supply deal with BP for Louisiana project
(Reuters) -Australian oil and gas major Woodside Energy said on Wednesday it had signed a supply deal with BP, under which the British energy giant would supply natural gas to its Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. Under the deal, the Louisiana project would buy up to 640 billion cubic feet of gas from the integrated energy major, on a long-term basis, Woodside said in a statement, but it did not disclose any financial details of the agreement. Woodside bought Tellurian for $1.2 billion last year to develop the 27.6 million metric tons a year Louisiana LNG project, formerly called Driftwood, in four phases to meet growing demand for gas. Louisiana LNG would help Woodside produce around 24 million tons per annum (Mtpa) from its worldwide LNG portfolio in the next decade, making up for more than 5% of its global supply, to service demand in Europe and Asia. The project is expected to generate $2 billion in annual net operating cash in the 2030s, offering an internal rate of return of 13% and a payback period of seven years. Earlier this month, Woodside, Australia's top gas producer, agreed to sell a 40% stake in its Louisiana LNG plant to U.S. infrastructure investor Stonepeak for $5.7 billion.
Reuters
30-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Australia's Woodside Energy signs LNG supply deal with BP for Louisiana project
April 30 (Reuters) - Australian oil and gas major Woodside Energy ( opens new tab said on Wednesday it had signed a supply deal with BP (BP.L), opens new tab, under which the British energy giant would supply natural gas to its Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. Under the deal, the Louisiana project would buy up to 640 billion cubic feet of gas from the integrated energy major, on a long-term basis, Woodside said in a statement, but it did not disclose any financial details of the agreement. Woodside bought Tellurian for $1.2 billion last year to develop the 27.6 million metric tons a year Louisiana LNG project, formerly called Driftwood, in four phases to meet growing demand for gas. Louisiana LNG would help Woodside produce around 24 million tons per annum (Mtpa) from its worldwide LNG portfolio in the next decade, making up for more than 5% of its global supply, to service demand in Europe and Asia. The project is expected to generate $2 billion in annual net operating cash in the 2030s, offering an internal rate of return of 13% and a payback period of seven years. Earlier this month, Woodside, Australia's top gas producer, agreed to sell a 40% stake in its Louisiana LNG plant to U.S. infrastructure investor Stonepeak for $5.7 billion.
