![]() My favourite moment of the night was when Mike told the heart-breaking story behind ‘Travelling Alone’. He didn’t shy away from sharing intimate stories behind his emotional songs. Mike is truly about giving you the feels. I felt like I was a child who had stumbled on a screening of an R21 show and was now giggling because this is something my mother would have never allowed me to watch. The show was also heavily peppered with ‘F’-bombs, adding another dimension to his metaphor-filled songs. During ‘Fairytales and Firesides’, Mike shared that it was about a sad society who didn’t know their direction in life. While singing ‘I Hate’, Mike confessed about the things he loathed, which included “I hate pointless Facebook status updates”, and “People who use the bathroom for too long”. Unlike many other artists who only want to show their best side, performing songs about love and heartbreak in somewhat unrealistic lyrics, Passenger gave us hard truths, peppered with self-depreciating humour that the audience greatly appreciated. While Mike didn’t receive much song requests that night – because we only knew one song that is ‘Let Her Go’ – he got us to sing the easy repetitive parts, by jokingly saying: “If you don’t sing you’re a racist!” Performing without a band also allowed the folk artist to veer from a strict set list, asking the audience to request songs they wanted to hear. Passenger showed the audience you don’t always need banging drums and dancers for an amazing show.Įven though I was seated far away from the stage, I could still feel his stage presence after the first few notes of ‘Fairytales and Firesides’ as his voice rang throughout the theatre. Most of his older songs were inspired from his journeys around the world. Passenger originally started out as a band in 2003, named ‘Passenger.’ After the band broke up in 2009, Mike took the name ‘Passenger’ and started busking to make ends meet. Otherwise known as Passenger, Michael David Rosenberg, 32, promptly addressed the audience: “Hi, I’m Mike, and some of you may have been expecting a band of some sort, but it’s just me here tonight.” I also did not expect to discover these three things about British singer-songwriter Passenger.Īt 8PM, a lone man, armed with his guitar, stood in the middle of the bare stage, waiting to play a few tracks. I was expecting to see a stage full of musicians and trumpets, recreating the impressive sounds from Passenger’s albums. Instead, skillful plucking, a soulful voice and lyrics that might have been a little depressing greeted us. ![]() ![]() The intimate 90-minute concert, held at The Star Theatre, drew a packed house of concertgoers who probably only knew one song, ‘Let Her Go’, or thought he was an Ed Sheeran impersonator. Last Friday, I was lucky enough to have gone for Passenger’s one-night-only concert in Singapore.
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