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Travis : 12 Memories
Occasionally you're reminded of how Travis were initially dismissed as a less morbid Radiohead...
- Oct 13, 2003
London Hyde Park
The weather, has nothing to do with anyone having lied when they were 17. Most people here are 11.
- Jul 13, 2000
Roskilde Festival 2002 : Roskilde, Denmark
Denmark's four-day rock jamboree tickles the pleasure zones that other outdoor rock events can barely even spell...
- Jul 9, 2002
Boston Berklee Performance Center
They could probably fart through the whole night and the crowd would whoop for more...
- May 17, 2000
Travis/Ryan Adams/Starsailor : London Astoria
The eagerly awaited War Child benefit kicks off this year's NME Carling Shows...
- Feb 5, 2002
Charlottesville Trax
[a]Travis[/a] and their crew work this relatively small club like it's [b]Wembley[/b]...
- May 11, 2000
New York Radio City Music Hall
[b]Liam Gallagher[/b] roams the stage like a man lounging at home in his bathrobe...
- May 2, 2000
Travis : New York Radio City Music Hall
So for nearly two hours, no-one thinks about anthrax or ambulances or lost lives. Instead, we laugh at Fran's fake American accent.
- Oct 16, 2001
Hamburg Docks
For most music critics, the rise of Travis might be a mystery on a par with who built Stonehenge, but the reason's simple...
- Dec 23, 1999
Glasgow Barrowlands
They start low-slung and hungry, whooping and hollering through [B]'Writing To Reach You'[/B] like demented five-year-olds with the key to the Jaffa Cakes cupboard...
- Oct 18, 1999
Travis : Why does it always rain on me
[a]Travis[/a] are not the heroes we need. They do write lovely soft and sad songs. This single is such a song, it's one about being rained on.
- Aug 7, 1999
Travis : Sing
A characterless mandolin dirge that twangles away in the background like the drone of a vaguely tuneful dishwasher
- May 23, 2001
Glasgow Garage
With [B]'All I Want To Do Is Rock'[/B], they appeared to be a blandly straightforward indie band more in touch with the dull-witted sensations of boozy euphoria than with their emotions - a band wh
- May 10, 1999
Travis : Stockholm Gota Kallare
Travis kick off their European tour with a low-key gig in Sweden...
- May 22, 2001
London WC2 King's College
Jst as it looks like we've lost another of our brave foot-soldiers to the AOR cannons, the corpse twitches, The Chords descend, [B]'The Line Is Fine'[/B] totters out as savage and sleazy as ever...
- Feb 5, 1999
San Francisco Golden Gate Park
There is no queue for the beer tent. A perfect crowd for [a]Travis[/a], then...
- Sep 26, 2000
