Fran Healy has revealed that his Travis bandmates fooled him on their North American tour - by claiming that a moustache he had grown looked good.

The group's frontman planned to shave off the moustache completely, but he received reassurance that it suited him from his fellow band members.

"I grew a big beard and I was shaving it off in sections. I was just about to do the Hitler which is always the last one - and when you do the Hitler you've got to take the whole thing off," Fran told the Daily Record. "And the guys said 'That's quite good', so I just left it."

Healy added that he changed his mind after growing suspicious about the sincerity of his bandmates' comments.