7/27/2023 0 Comments Passenger band hot![]() I think at this point, it’s completely impossible to try and understand who the video’s billionth fan was. We get messages from Kenya and the Philippines and Tibet-name any country, and we’ve gotten messages from it. When a song gets that big … it really has reached the absolute corners of the earth now, that song. Describe to me what you think your 1 billionth Passenger fan is like. The video for “Let Her Go” has also been viewed by well over 1 billion people on YouTube. So again, it’s not very cool, but it’s something that changed my life, and I’m very grateful for. I was just staying in people’s front rooms and at friend’s places and hostels, so I’ve been able to buy myself a house in my hometown of Brighton, and that was always the dream, man: to be able to do that. I drive a Volkswagen Golf, so yeah, I don’t really go overboard with the bling and the style, unfortunately. ![]() You didn’t even buy a car or something extravagant when you got your first royalty check from the record company? It’s more the experiences that the song has given me. I never really think about it in “owning” things. I’ve been able to go to these festivals and get on Jimmy Fallon and do all this amazing stuff that wouldn’t have happened without that song. As you say, it has opened doors, but I feel like there are many things that I’ve done because of that song. I don’t really think about it along those lines. What are a few things you own thanks to that song? We can imagine the song has opened some incredible doors for you as a songwriter. Onstage at Osheaga, you apologized for having just the one tune, “Let Her Go,” on the radio in Canada. I was playing, and at the end, this kid came up to me and asked me why I played so many Passenger covers. There was this really funny time in Australia. What’s one of your favorite busking stories? Not a lot of detail seems to be out there, but I hope that helps.Busking must’ve helped calm your nerves a bit in terms of playing in front of throngs of people. Mike has continued Passenger as a solo act and Andrew is a composer in TV and film. ![]() It looks like everything just wound down as it as they didn't feel it was working- maybe too commercial and away from the roots they intended? As a result, it didn't really please anyone – it wasn't cool enough for the cool kids and it wasn't poppy enough for the pop kids."Īnd on HotPress, Mike said that Andrew leaving coincided with a relationship break up and his manager leaving too. "A lot of the eccentricity and what made it great had been kind of ironed out. "I was a lot younger then and didn't have such a strong vision for what I wanted it to be," he says. ![]() They wrote songs and toured, making what Rosenberg considered "a really great, raw and organic collaboration." But when they wound up putting out an album, 2007's Wicked Man's Rest, Rosenberg felt they compromised their vision in order to please other people. On Rolling Stone's website there is an article saying: "About six years ago, Rosenberg and Andrew Phillips, a more experienced friend who specialized in film and soundtrack composing, formed Passenger. But coming out of that I learnt so much, I learnt exactly what I didn't want to do and I learnt what was really important: great ideas, great songs, put over simply in an honest way." It's quite a painful experience watching something that you are so passionate about come out pretty badly. It was over thought and as a result it was wrong how it came out. I think the potential was there, there was some great songs and I love those guys, they're still some of my best mates, but people were tugging in different directions and it ended up being a compromise. "We ended up releasing an album and touring, but for so many reasons it wasn't quite right. An article, in which Mike from the band is interviewed, says:
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