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- 1 2 Transit Kings' official biography, passim (link) Archived 14 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Custerd entry at discogs.com (link)
- ↑ "Metropolis Tokyo :: CLUBS - Freedom Village" (link)
- ↑ Transit Kings entry at discogs.com, passim (link)
- ↑ Gill, Andy (17 June 2005). "Transit Kings - Token (Malicious Damage)". The Independent . p. 18.
- ↑ Greenwood, Phoebe (19 August 2006). "Transit Kings". The Times . p. 30.
- ↑ Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God entry at discogs.com (link)
