Stars: Travis

Summary: A recording of Travis' sell-out performance at Alexandra Palace on the 20th of December 2003. Tracklist includes 'Happy To Hang Around', 'Re-Offender', 'Writing To Reach You', 'Pipe Dreams', 'Quicksand', 'Sing', 'Love Will Come Through', 'The Fear', 'The Beautiful Occupation', 'Side', 'Mid-Life Krysis', 'As You Are', 'Driftwood' and many more.

Past Brit Award-winners, Travis are one of the UK's most popular bands. This release captures the group live in concert at London's Alexandra Palace on December 20th 2003 during their world tour. Contains over twenty songs including the hits "Why does it always rain on me

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Leading a renaissance of earnestness is the Scottish band Travis, whose December 20, 2003 concert at London's Alexandra Palace finds the young band onstage and on fire before a polite yet enthusiastic crowd of 8,000. It's a huge hall, almost too big for the band's intimate, introspective music. But Travis pulls off a high-energy show built around its 2003 12 Memories album, lighting songwriter Fran Healy's pure-pop cadences with terse arrangements and bursts of overdriven sound. The band plays tight and clean, commendably resisting the tendency among bands to get noisy when they want to sound powerful. If only director Matt Askem better understood this concept. The cameras are always moving, giving us almost no stationary vantage. Still, the picture looks great, with terrific use of black and supersaturated hues emphasizing primary colors. Travis at the Palaceis an exciting record of a band in its prime.

A 22-minute documentary, "Inside Travis at the Palace," is heavy on irreverence and light on insight. Concert sound quality is exemplary in all formats (Dolby Digital 5.1/2.0, DTS 5.1): clear and punchy, uncluttered, and appropriately ambient in a venue stretching 384 feet front to back. Instruments and voices sound utterly natural, and the drums are quite forward in the mix, a welcome throwback to 1970s production values. --Michael Mikesell

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Documentary
Subtitles:	English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Year:	2003
Release Date:	May 17, 2004
Runtime:	150 minutes
Certification:	Exempt.
Catalogue Number:	2564 61565 2
Keywords:	Music, London, Live, Rock, Pop, Palace, Alexandra, Travis, Performing, Arts, Popular
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts