Passenger band video6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() SEE: Passenger performs at Brisbane’s Riverstage, January 20, $99-$201+bf, Ticketmaster It’s a sensational time of the year to tour,” he says. “I think I have spent January in Australia for the last six years. This tour will be the first time he has performed with his band in Australia, to help fill out his sound on the bigger stages he is playing in Brisbane and Melbourne. It’s a no-brainer for the man who regards the country as his second home, spending as much time busking and travelling its length and breadth as he does in the northern hemisphere. Rosenberg heads back to Australia in the New Year for his next tour. “I think everyone has a song called Home even if they haven’t released it it’s that simple thing of being away from it,” he said. Rosenberg says a song about where you live is more likely to be about absence than renovating. A quick search and you will find more than 70 songs called Home. ![]() “As much as I love music and that’s what I have dedicated my life to, there are other things I want to put energy into like people and relationships.” “Once you have done it for as many years as I have now, what’s your life without touring and I know I am not the first musician to face this conundrum. “It’s a great problem to have, writing so much, going on tour and coming back with another album written and doing it all over again,” he said. He admits he battles with the idea of swapping his wanderlust for “people and relationships”. sounds personal, a musician’s yearning for the other things life has to offer. ![]() Passenger has a knack of capturing his experiences or the people he meets while busking or travelling the world in song.īut much of Young As The Morning. “I wished it was my guitar: I think he may have noticed if I had kept it,” he says, chuckling. The gracious proprietor would pop in for a beer during the sessions and gave Rosenberg use of a 1950 Gibson guitar which the British singer and songwriter proclaims to be “the most amazing guitar I have ever played in my life.” Rosenberg made his eighth record in Sydney and Auckland where he enjoyed beers with the owner of Roundhead Studios, one Neil Finn. Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted is available to pre-order here. All physical packaging of CDs and Vinyl will be made of 100% recycled material, and one tree will be planted for every physical piece sold via the Passenger webstore thanks to a partnership with Ecologi and the Eden Project.Midweek Predictions: to land his first #1. But it’s a heady moment, losing love and being drunk. In some ways, you make it worse for yourself. And you get pissed and probably make some bad decisions. You’re so used to the safety of being with somebody and suddenly you’re out in the world on your own. “ You’re incredibly vulnerable for a few months. “ Coming out of a break-up creates such a fragile window,” he reflects. The majority of Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted was written when Rosenberg was newly single. Suzanne had it all in front of her and wasted it and now sits longing for something that can never happen again.” I think its a subject that I keep on returning to in my songs – The fleeting nature of youth and the inevitable passing of time. Rosenberg explains, “ This song tells the tale of an older lady, drinking alone in a bar and thinking back to a time when she was youthful and beautiful and had her whole life ahead of her. Today, Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) has released another new song from the album, “Suzanne.” The song’s release comes with an accompanying music video which picks up right where the aforementioned “ A Song for the Drunk and Broken Hearted” left off - in a half empty dive bar where the camera’s focus moves away from the sad clown band and switches to one particular drunk and broken-hearted patron named Suzanne who is reflecting on days gone by. ![]() Just last month, Passenger announced that he will be releasing his new album, Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted, on January 8th, 2021 and released the title-track off the album. ![]()
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