Travis at the Palace
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Actor: TravisDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Movie Reviews of Travis at the Palace
Movie Review: Travis is great, but the editing is not
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, look. I love this band. If you don't own one of their last three albums, just get one of them. Trust me. Therse guys are great. Now, the DVD review...
This DVD presents their music live and and the band performs very well. I wish the band would have strayed more from the album versions, but the music is excellent. You'll like listening to this DVD. I said "listening" to this DVD. And having said that...
I also have to say this DVD is one of the most distracting editing jobs I've ever seen outside of a bad three minute MTV video.
It is not the band's fault, of course, but I have to be honest... I wanted to kick back and watch a Travis concert. For that purpose, this DVD is quite unsatisfying.
It seems like every single song is great in the audio sense, but visually every song is an annoying collection of one or two second clips... maybe more like half-second clips. It's like this (read the following as fast as you can and you'll get the idea)...
BANG, BANG, BANG... in focus, out of focus, somebody's ear, some kid in the crowd, a pick on a string, a shot from behind the band, another from over there, and over here... look! someone's leg in front of a face, sweat on someone's face! Hey, here comes the guitar solo, cool! I want to see... But what's that?! A hand! Whose han... I think that's the drummer's han... now there's the back of a... the front of... what the... is that... the crowd, some lights. Here's the part where... is that... where Healy... woah, what was that?! There's an eye, there's a guitar with... that's a cymbal and he's... a light! A face! A crowd, another ear! Is that a chin?! It IS a chi... someone's wrist! A face! More lights with some... is that... he... AAHHHHHHH!
I found myself saying, "Enough already! I see that you can splice a thousand camera shots into one song! Yes, it is pefectly synchronized! But can I please just watch someone in the band perform for 10 consecutive seconds?! How about three?! Just give me three consec... Oh, man! Stop! Stop!!!!"
A very impressive computer was used, I'm sure.
But I want to see the BAND perform in concert. Wasn't that the idea?
Anyway. I can't wait for a DVD that has as its priority showing a concert by this fantastic band and not just high tech editing with the band as the soundtrack. Someone dropped the ball on this one.
So I give the BAND 5 stars! I give the editors 0 stars.
Combine those scores and you get... 4 stars. How? Yup, the band is THAT good! Did I tell you I love this band?
Summary of Travis at the Palace
Recorded on December 20, 2003, this special sellout show before a crowd of 8,000 at London's Alexandra Palace captures Travis at their dynamic best-a full 22 songs, the soundtrack to an unforgettable evening. Along with live performances of their hits "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?," "Sing," and "Driftwood," TRAVIS AT THE PALACE also includes recent singles "Re Offender," "The Beautiful Occupation," and "Love Will Come Through." TRAVIS AT THE PALACE also features an exclusive behind- the-scenes film, Inside TRAVIS AT THE PALACE, that provides unique access to the band and the events that surrounded the concert. The film follows Travis from arrival to departure and includes exclusive sound-check performances and backstage footage.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
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