{"id":757,"date":"2010-12-09T20:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2022-09-13T04:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T04:25:32","slug":"passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"PASSENGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Place is downtown Sydney&#8217;s central hub &#8211; a public square surrounded by gorgeous old buildings which house the city&#8217;s financial elite.<\/p>\n<p>On a weekday afternoon, Martin Place is generally packed &#8211; officeworkers in business attire, lunchtime athletes in sports uniforms, bike messengers, shoppers, tourists staring at the spots where The Matrix movies were filmed, hawkers, people collecting for charities &#8211; and buskers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17718715?h=a66a04cd77&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Passenger:  What You&amp;#039;re Thinking\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><br \/>\nPassenger &#8211; aka Mike Rosenberg &#8211; is originally from the UK, but he spends a lot of time in Australia, and he&#8217;d done a fair bit of busking in Martin Place.  So when he suggested filming there, we jumped at the chance &#8211; it&#8217;s about as public a spot as you can get in downtown Sydney, and we were excited to see how Passenger&#8217;s beautifully catchy melodies and heartfelt, vulnerable lyrics would play against the old buildings and the bustling midday crowds.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17723064?h=e0d8936bc1&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Passenger:  Golden Thread\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, it was a sunny day but chilly &#8211; at least by Sydney standards &#8211; so there weren&#8217;t as many people as usual.  Those who were there were treated to a lovely performance, and we&#8217;re sure Passenger found a few new fans &#8211; in addition to a couple of old fans who found him!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17725405?h=fec84f1dad&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Passenger:  Rivers\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Place is downtown Sydney&#8217;s central hub &#8211; a public square surrounded by gorgeous old buildings which house the city&#8217;s financial elite. On a weekday afternoon, Martin Place is generally packed &#8211; officeworkers in business attire, lunchtime athletes in sports uniforms, bike messengers, shoppers, tourists staring at the spots where The Matrix movies were filmed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}