Added to Radio 2’s Playlist this week, ‘Hell Or High Water’ is the new single from Passenger impacting on July 13th. It is the lead single from ‘Runaway’, the Ivor Novello Award-winning singer-songwriter’s new album out August 31st

+ WORLD TOUR INCLUDES SOLD-OUT DATES IN LONDON, BRIGHTON, BIRMINGHAM, EDINBURGH & GLASGOW

“The song is a personal inquisition,” says Rosenberg of ‘Hell Or High Water’. “I came out of a relationship a few years ago, and I was just baffled by it. Was it something I’d done? Something she’d done? The video was shot in various national parks - Monument Valley, Valley Of Fire, Death Valley and Joshua Tree. These epic and vast landscapes really help to portray a feeling of being lost in a hopeless quest for answers.”

 Listen on Spotify here:  https://open.spotify.com/track/3UDYmpY5TwOQbe79nsjewD

Passenger, aka Brighton’s Mike Rosenberg, will support ‘Runaway’s release with an extensive world tour. The UK leg includes London’s Roundhouse on Sept 8th, which sold out in hours, and his dates in Brighton, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Edinburgh are also sold-out. Before then, Passenger will appear at prestigious Festivals across Europe and North America this summer.

Passenger is one of the most successful UK artists of this decade, a streaming phenomenon who has had well in excess of a billion streams on Spotify. The video for his Ivor Novello Award-winning single ‘Let Her Go’ has been viewed almost two billion times. The single reached No.1 in 19 countries, with the accompanying album ‘All The Little Lights’ achieving platinum or multi-platinum status in 11 countries. Passenger’s 2016 album, ‘Young As The Morning Old As The Sea’ entered the UK charts at No.1, ahead of Bruce Springsteen, and the subsequent tour saw Rosenberg play his largest headline tour to date with a total audience of over 1.4 million across 29 countries, including playing to over 13,500 people at Amsterdam’s ZiggoDome. 

‘Runaway’, Passenger’s tenth album in 11 years, was recorded between the UK and Australia with his co-producer, Chris Vallejo, but its aesthetic is North American. “My dad is American,” Rosenberg explains, “and we used to go over every other summer when we were kids. I always loved it. I guess I was seduced by it a little bit. It was such a culture shock coming from England.”

Sonically, too, ‘Runaway’ draws on Americana, for instance the early work of Ryan Adams. Rosenberg imagined these new songs as unfolding against a backdrop of American landscapes. And so, rather than the usual video process, he and video director Jarrad Seng spent three weeks making videos on a road trip across the US.

‘Runaway’ is released on CD, Vinyl LP and download with Deluxe 2CD, 2LP and Deluxe Digital formats available that include Live Acoustic versions of the album recorded across North America.

Passenger ‘Runaway’, track listing:

1. Hell Or High Water
2. Why Can’t I Change
3. Heart To Love
4. Let’s Go
5. Eagle Bear Buffalo
6. Ghost Town
7. Runaway
8. He Leaves You Cold
9. To Be Free
10. Survivors

Deluxe formats include original album plus bonus disc/tracks:

1. Survivors - Live from Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park, OR
2. To Be Free - Live from Dauphin Rd, Vineland, NJ
3. Eagle Bear Buffalo - Live from Canaan Mountain Wilderness Area, UT
4. Runaway - Live from Joshua Tree National Park, CA
5. Ghost Town - Live from Michigan Theatre, Detroit, MI
6. He Leaves You Cold - Live from Unityville, PA
7. Let's Go - Live from Trough Rd State Bridge, CO
8. Heart To Love - Live from a rooftop in Manhattan, NY
9. Why Can't I Change - Live from Tahkenitch Landing Campground, Gardiner, OR
10. Hell Or High Water - Live from Santa Monica Beach, Los Angeles, CA

Passenger live:

Festival dates:

July 5  BluesFest, Ottawa, Canada

July 6  Festival D'Été International, Quebec, Canada

July 8  Winnipeg Folk Festival, Winnipeg, Canada

July 14  Vancouver Island Folk Festival, Vancouver, Canada

July 26  Calgary Folk Music Festival, Calgary, Canada

July 28  LL Bean Summer Series, Freeport, ME, USA

July 29  Newport Folk Festival, Newport - RI, USA

Aug 2  A Summers Tale, Luhmühlen, Germany

Aug 4  Ronquières Festival, Ronquières, Belgium

Aug 5  Dranouter Festival, Belgium

Headline European Tour:

Aug 29  Edinburgh, Queens Hall (SOLD OUT)

Aug 30  Glasgow, ABC (SOLD OUT)

Sept 1  Dublin, Vicar Street

Sept 2  Belfast, Ulster Hall

Sept 4  Manchester, Albert Hall

Sept 5  Birmingham, O2 Institute (SOLD OUT)

Sept 8  London, Roundhouse (SOLD OUT)

Sept 9  Brighton, Dome (SOLD OUT)

Sept 15  Munich, Tonhalle

Sept 17  Zurich, Volkshaus

Sept 18  Milan, Alcatraz

Sept 21  Copenhagen, VEGA

Sep 22  Stockholm, Göta Lejon

Sept 24  Berlin, Astra

Sept 26  Amsterdam, AFAS Live

Sept 27  Koln, Live Music Hall

Sept 29  Antwerp, Trix (SOLD OUT)

Sept 30  Paris, YOYO

Headline North America Tour:

Oct 13  Nashville Cannery Ballroom

Oct 14  Atlanta Buckhead Theatre

Oct 16  Washington 9.30 Club

Oct 18  New York Brooklyn Steel

Oct 19  Boston Paradise Rock Club

Oct 21  Montreal Corona Theatre (SOLD OUT)

Oct 23  Toronto Phoenix Concert Theatre

Oct 25  Minneapolis First Avenue

Oct 27  Denver Gothic Theatre

Oct 30  Vancouver Vogue Theatre

Oct 31  Seattle Showbox @ The Market

Nov 2  Portland Crystal Ballroom

Nov 4  San Francisco The Fillmore

Nov 6  Los Angeles The Belaboo

Tickets: passengermusic.com/live/

Passenger online & social links:

https://passengermusic.com/

www.facebook.com/PassengerOfficial

www.instagram.com/passengermusic

https://twitter.com/passengermusic

https://www.youtube.com/user/passengermusic