Musician Ejected From South West Train Over Oasis, Killers Songs

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A musician was ejected from a train for listing songs by Oasis and The Killers on a piece of paper.

Tom Shaw was travelling on a South West Trains service towards Fareham when he was approached by staff and asked to leave the train.

Shaw, 25, had been writing songs that his band The Magic Mushrooms could play at a forthcoming gig.

But staff mistook his actions, which included writing The Killers' track 'All These Things That I've Done' as “killers”, as suspicious.

He told the Portsmouth News: "They said I'd been behaving suspiciously. I couldn't understand it. It seemed very strange as it was only a list of songs.

"We had a gig coming up so I was writing out what we could play.”

Shaw was met by officers when he left the train at Fareham and asked to explain the significance of what he had written.

The musician, who works with young people with learning disabilities, was later allowed to continue on his journey.