Travis-More Than Us: Live in Glasgow (2001)

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General		Extras
Category	Music	Menu Animation & Audio Featurette Multiple Angles-Side (4); Sing (4); Why Does It Always Rain On Me? (3) Music Highlights Discography Web Links
Rating
Year Of Production	2001
Running Time	93:39
RSDL / Flipper	RSDL (54:20)	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	David Barnard
Studio Distributor	Sony Music	Starring	Francis Healy Andy Dunlop Neil Primrose Douglas Payne
Case	Soft Brackley-Transp
RPI	$29.95	Music	Travis

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s) English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	Unknown	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	English for the Hearing Impaired	Smoking	Yes
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Travis: More Than Us - Live In Glasgow is a live performance by the band in the summer of 2001 mixed with a collection of short documentary footage from the tour.

    From the 24th to 26th of August 2001 Glaswegian band Travis played a series of three large festival shows: the Reading festival, a festival in Leeds and the Gig On The Green festival in Glasgow. The disc includes footage from the bands performance at the Glasgow show and also includes documentary footage of the band taken during the tour between each of the shows.

    This is an extremely well presented live music disc. The feature by default provides a series of documentary snippets spread through the band's live performance. Options are also provided to view just the complete live performance, a series of preset playlists, or all of the documentary footage separately. This flexibility in playback, plus the use of multi-angle footage, complete subtitles, and an extensive discography, results in a well balanced package that will undoubtedly appeal to any fan of the band.

Video

    This transfer is presented at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 and it is 16x9 enhanced.

    The level of sharpness does vary considerably throughout the transfer. During some shots the image is very soft and often slightly out of focus and this is slight distracting. No low-level noise was detected at any time during the transfer. During the dark shots of the crowd and wide shots of the stage excellent levels of shadow detail may be seen.

    The colour palette seen during the transfer accurately captures the stage lighting design, displaying high levels of yellow, brown, blue and green. During a number of musical tracks the palette is intentionally reduced to near monochromatic.

    No MPEG artefacts were detected at any stage during the transfer.

    A number of small aliasing artefacts may be seen during the transfer. Some examples of these artefacts may be seen at 10:35, 43:27, 55:02, 57:58 and 73:10 and a single moiré artefact may be seen at 8:24. All of these artefacts are quite minor and are only slightly disturbing.

    There are a small number of film artefacts. Some examples may be seen at 2:07, 3:04, 8:04, 10:01 and 10:18. There's also some obvious film grain, but like the minor film artefacts, this is not annoying.

    A single white English SDH subtitle stream is included on the disc. These subtitles are provided for the lyrics of all tracks performed as well as the documentary footage.

    The layer change occurs at the start of chapter sixteen at 54:20 and while obvious is only slightly disruptive.

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Audio

    During all of the live performances the lyrics are always clear and easy to understand. The audio is slightly muffled during some of the documentary segments (the subtitles are useful) but due to the short duration of these sections this is only minimally annoying.

    There are no dropouts or problems with audio sync.

    The surround channels were used effectively for crowd noise to help create an enveloping soundfield. The subwoofer channel is used throughout but never draws attention to itself.

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Menu

    The animated menu is presented at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 and it is 16x9 enhanced.

Documentary (25:13)

    This is a collection of the documentary footage seen throughout the main program with a very small number of extended scenes. This footage is presented with a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 and it is 16x9 enhanced. English SDH, Spanish and French subtitle streams are provided.

Discography

    A well-designed and complete discography is provided including track listings and cover art for all singles and album releases up to Side.

Multi Angle segments

    The tracks Side and Sing include three additional camera angles with shots of the crowd and different stage views. The track Why Does It Always Rain On Me? provides two additional camera angles, with a shot of the crowd and a picture-in-picture view with a crowd shot and an insert of Fran on stage.

Playlists

    This section provides the viewer with the option to play the tracks from the performance that relate to each of the band's album releases or a collection of the shows highlights.

Weblink

    This is a basic link to the bands website travisonline.com.

    The Region 1 and Region 4 versions of this film appear to be identical and I therefore would have no preference for either version.

    Travis: More Than Us - Live In Glasgow is a well presented live performance and collection of documentary footage that will appeal to all fans of the band.

    The video transfer displays some minor artefacts but they are never distracting.

    The audio mixes are able to accurately capture the live performance.

    The well designed discography and multiple viewing angles will be appreciated by all fans.

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