About The Passenger

There are two bands called The Passenger; (1) The Passenger are a hardcore band from Brisbane, Australia. http://www.thepassengerhc.tumblr.com (2) 1999 was the year Andrew and James first put the band together under the name 2000 A.D. along with original bass player Nathan Eaton and drummer Alan Proud. After recording their four track E.P. 'Experimenting With The Truth' and playing one show, Alan jumped ship! What a great start... Over the years, Andrew, James and Nathan continued to write and record together even though none of them lived in the same city. The academic year was spent doing what ever they did - Nath and Andrew were studying and James was teaching. In the summer months, they'd get together when at home in Fishguard, pool all their ideas, finish writing songs and record them at Dreamworld Studios in Letterston - a converted barn in the middle of no-where in Pembrokeshire. During the summer of 2005, Nathan decided to move onto other things. So, Andrew and James moved to Cardiff to rebuild their band. After two or three months of meeting people who were nothing much more than bullshitters and posers... they finally met brothers Mat and Jon Griffiths. Mat (bass) and Jon (drums) have been playing together for 6 years and it certainly shows! Andrew - "We met with them at an open mic night somewhere. I was sceptical because they are quite a bit younger than us, I wanted prospective members to commit to the band and not give us some bollocks about homework and exams! James and I got up to play a song we had been working on and to show what we were about, it went down really well and the boys liked it. They then got up to play some drum and bass instrumental they wrote. The whole place was in silence while they played. I've been around musicians every single day for the last 5 or 6 years and I have never heard anyone play like these two!!" Rehearsals started at the Griffiths' household and after three rehearsals we were back at the open mic night to play three songs. That little performance solidified the band and got them excited about new material and future shows. The band have now finalised material to take to the studio and a demo is available on request. They will also be gigging very, very soon...