[2] The band Travis got their break with the album The Man Who, named after a bestselling book.

For their sixth album, Ode to J. Smith, Dunlop contributed "Quite Free", which he co-wrote with Fran Healy and Dougie Payne.

Also on Travis' fifth album The Boy with No Name he co-wrote "3 Times and You Lose" and "Big Chair".

Together with Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay, Dunlop contributed to the first solo album of a-ha keyboardist Magne Furuholmen entitled Past Perfect Future Tense.

In December 2005 the couple's first child, a son, was born, and is named Dylan Green Dunlop.