/Passenger. ♥ photo by vu
Tour Dates

08/09/08 Meadowlark Bar Denver, CO
08/11/08 Hotel Cafe Los Angeles, CA
08/12/08 House Of Blues San Diego, CA
08/13/08 Swedish American Hall SF CA
08/16/08 V-Festival, Weston Park, Staffordshire
08/17/08 V-Festival, Chelmsford
08/30/08 Hydro Connect Festival Scotland

/Passenger. – Night Vision Binoculars

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/Passenger. – Wicked Man’s Rest

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Set List ♥ Hollow at the Local, Minneapolis (08/07/08)
Discography

[Sep 2007] Wicked Man’s Rest (UK)

[Aug 2008] Wicked Man’s Rest (US)

I had a little trouble finding The Hollow venue. First of all, I’ve never heard of this venue, but apparently it’s a tiny little place inside an Irish bar called The Local. Once inside, you noticed that the venue is an elongated dining room – quite small and intimate.

Warming up for /Passenger. is miss Breanne Düren, a quiet girl with her Casio keyboard. Her songs sounds really introspective and very calming.

After a solo Mike Rosenberg on the first two songs, Andrew Phillips and Alon Cohen joins him on stage. They are normally a five-piece band (complete with bass and keys), but for these stripped down shows it’s all-acoustic-all-the-way.

It works well, especially for this tiny venue (I was told it was only 70 persons capacity), because the smallest sound can be carried across the room. Songs like “Do What You Like” and “Playstation” were especially effective as the songs are fast and frantic.

They had a nice break with their love song, “For You”, once again, solo-Mike, singing his heart out: “For you, dear, I would lose my legs to walk, dear.“. Kind of creepy and weird, if you ask me.

Although it’s listed “Stupid” as the encore, there were no encore given. It’s not a surprise because “Night Vision Binoculars” was such a powerful song that they couldn’t follow up on that song.

It looks like they’ll be hitting California’s coast for a week, so be sure to check them out if you’re on the West coast. I was very glad to have caught them this early in their career in such an intimate setting.

Update: Additional photographs at BRATT: