After his recent Mobo appearance Travis McCoy graces our front cover this month. This is not the first time he has graced our front page, as back in Feb ‘09 we had good fun meeting the whole of Gym Class Heroes as they were riding high newly found mainstream success. Now he is back, we think stronger than ever, with an album full of catchy hits. As he touches down for his UK tour we take a look at the album and what it means to him.


Everybody knows the Biblical story of Lazarus. And Travis McCoy knows it better than most; he has known it, practically since birth. It is, after all, his middle name! But while Lazarus, raised from the dead by Jesus, has become synonymous with rebirth, we often forget that he first had to die to make his resurrection possible. So what


had to perish for McCoy to create Lazarus, his solo debut? Almost an entire album’s worth of material that would never see the light of day. To appreciate the finished version of Lazarus, bubbling over with optimism and stay-out-all-night spirit, it’s al- most as important to


understand the record it could have been, and almost was--a dark and cynical album that seems a million miles away now. “When we were like, 80 percent done with the record -- at least, I thought we were 80 percent done,” he says with a laugh, “I just said, ‘I can’t put this out.’ “Basically, I didn’t wanna make another 808s and Heartbreaks,” McCoy explains, refering to Kanye West’s lovelorn album, before add- ing with a chuckle, “I wanted something upbeat and fun; more like a 909s and I’m Fine.”


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