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Travis: Brixton Academy, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 22 December 2009

GLASGOW FOLK-POPSTERS Travis named themselves after the psychotic Robert De Niro character in Taxi Driver, but anyone chancing on them halfway through their sold-out Christmas tour would have assumed they'd borrowed it from the sensibly-shod accountant next door.

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