The Passengers

Recorded 'Sometimes' and appeared on 1561574. When they the band was about to record Sometimes, Steven George had left the band. They advertised for an Andy Rourke-like bass player in Melody Maker. Andy himself responded, came down to London, liked the band and offered to produce them. He also offered to stand in on bass for the recordings. He didn’t need to. When Steve heard about Andy, he came back. They survived about another year after “Sometimes” was recorded. Their biggest success was in Germany and Spain. Mainly because an earlier song “Hell to Heaven” got a few plays on MTV in Europe. There was no MTV in England, so when they played there the audiences were scant. In Berlin, however, they were met at the airport with video cameras. At one occasion 1500 people came to see them at a club called BlockShock. Marcus Clements was their guitarist at the time. He never used pedals, just plugged his guitar and played. Robert Havis was their drummer. Steve went on to join Swervedriver. Marcus went back to Bristol. After the Passengers split up Robert Randall joined a band in New York City… the remnants of which formed into Nada Surf after he left.