Previous touring members include Chris Hillman (electric guitar, pedal steel), Tanah Stevens (viola) and Hannah Nicholson (violin).
Two hand-crafted, cloth-packaged EPs helped to create a local buzz in the run up to the album's release, while acclaim came from further afield when the band won the Glastonbury Festival 2008 New Talent award.
In April 2011, the band performed at two fundraisers for the charity compilation Ten which was curated by lead singer Jo Dudderidge.
Further fundraisers took place at the Eden Project in Cornwall where the band performed alongside Fleet Foxes, The Flaming Lips and The Bees on two separate occasions.
They ran a successful crowd funded Pledge Music campaign which they raised the money to record with producer Iestyn Polson (Patti Smith, David Gray) at The Church Studios in Crouch End, London.
In late 2015 the band founded Pinhole Sound Studios [8] in Manchester and began writing and recording what would become their fourth album Sails.
[12] In August 2023 the band announced a return to the stage with a comeback performance at the legendary Trades Club in Hebden Bridge.
[13] In December 2014, The Travelling Band made headlines in the national press after their van containing £30,000 of equipment was stolen from a street in Levenshulme, Manchester.