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From the new album Whispers II in association with Unicef UK
Pre – Order now from http://www.passengermusic.com
100% of the profits from this purchase will go to Unicef and their campaign to help and eventually prevent children suffering from chronic malnutrition in Liberia.

hello everyone , hope this finds you well !!
thank you all so much for the incredible response to Whispers II and last weeks video ! i think it got more shares than any other video that we’ve released and i really do appreciate it . its so amazing to see you all get behind the charity aspect of the project so passionately and makes me really excited about what we can achieve together
here is the second little taster from the album . the song is called “David” – i used to play it live all the time so some of you might remember it …. its about a guy that i met outside a hostel that i was staying at in Glasgow a few years ago and its definitely one of my favourites from the new record .
once again a huge thank you to Bryan Dos Reis for his remarkable film making talent and patience .
really hope you like it and (sorry , i know I’m a broken record ….. ) please share it around if you can – it makes such a huge difference .
loads of love . mike x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=88&v=mf0SxwkJOyc

From the new album Whispers II in association with Unicef UK
100% of the profits from this purchase will go to Unicef and their campaign to help and eventually prevent children suffering from chronic malnutrition in Liberia.

so the big news is that in just under a month’s time i will be releasing my new record whispers 2 !!
I’m so excited to get it out in to the world and for you guys to hear it !
the truth is i’ve been sitting on this album for ages as all of the songs were written and recorded at the same time as Whispers which is the reason why it feels right to make it a follow up rather than a separate entity all together .

there are ten songs on the album (plus 6 bonus tracks if you get the deluxe edition and as i said , these songs have been around for a while so some of you might know a few of them already . i’ll post a full track list up and go in to more detail about all of this over the next few days ….the most exciting thing that i need to tell you about is that i’ve teamed up with unicef uk and i’m delighted to say that all of the profits , from every physical and digital sale of whispers II goes directly to helping malnourished kids in Liberia. (please check out this link if you want to find out more http://www.unicef.org.uk )

hopefully this is a win win situation where you guys get a new Passenger album and the money you spend on it goes to helping people who really need it !!

i’ll be releasing this record on my own label (black crow records) which is really exciting as it means that every penny of profit can go to where it is most needed .  if you’d like to you can preorder physical and digital copies from http://www.passengermusic.com

i was lucky enough to have the exceptionally talented bryan dos reis on the road with me for the european tour at the end of last year . in our spare time we went about making a few really simple videos for some of these new songs .
i’ll be posting one up every week from now until the release of the album to give you guys an idea of what to expect …..
this first one is called traveling alone . i hope you enjoy it / don’t cry too much .
there is no marketing team or big record label behind this project so please , if you like the video and want to spread the word about what we’re doing , feel free to share this with as many people as possible !!

thank you all so much for reading , watching and listening .
loads of love .
mike xx

From the new album Whispers II in association with Unicef UK ,

This is the third video in the Whispers II series . the song is called “Fear of Fear” and is actually the opening track on the album its different to the previous two in that it isn’t character based and doesn’t tell a story about somebody else . Mike describes the premise ,written a few years ago one morning with a terrible hangover . out the night before and for some reason i hadn’t enjoyed it . i don’t know if anyone else ever feels like this but i sometimes think those kinds of social situations can be some of the loneliest times . surrounded by people but feeling completely disconnected ?! dunno , probably me just being a moody singer songwriter ….

the video was all very last minute – we filmed this in my mates pub in Brighton ( massive thanks to john and everyone at Good Companions for having us ) and all of the fantastic extras that you will see were very kind passenger fans that turned up to help out with about 3 hours notice – it was such a fun couple of hours and i can’t believe how accommodating everybody was ( special thanks to the ones that actually got drunk in real life to get in to character …. at 9am …. thats true commitment ;-))
i was in the middle of a very long tour so i think i look a bit knackered but i guess it adds to the general sentiment

100% of the profits from this purchase will go to Unicef and their campaign to help and eventually prevent children suffering from chronic malnutrition in Liberia. Album Out April 20th 2015

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