Blind Passengers

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Blind Passengers
General information
Genre (s) Synth Pop , Alternative Metal , Electronica , Big Beat , Trip-Hop
founding 1987
resolution 2005
Website www.blindhabenger.de
Founding members
Rayner Schirner
Nik Page
Last occupation
Rayner Schirner
Nik Page
former members
Marc Range (1993–1997)
Lars Rudell (1996-2001)
Andy Laaf (1998-2001)
André Jorgens (1999-2002)

The Blind Passengers were a band that was founded in 1987 in East Berlin .

history

Rayner Schirner and Nik Page met in East Berlin in 1987 and founded Blind Passengers . It took two years until they got the license they needed in the GDR and were allowed to officially play live performances. Their first release they had with the song Do not Turn Around in the GDR electric sampler Mega Maxi mix in 1990. After reunification they were in youth radio 4 U known. At the time, they had produced synth-pop songs for an album that wasn't released as The Forgotten Times EP until 6 years later . In 1992 the Passengers brought out their first own publication: the Small-Town Night -Maxi. A year later, their first album, The Glamor of Darkness, was released on Strange Ways Records . A video was shot for the single Walking to Heaven and shown on music television. The title was number one on the listener charts of the youth radio Fritz for weeks . This was the breakthrough for the band and the beginning as a professional musician.

A professional guitarist was needed for the song Absurdistan , and Lars Rudell of the Skeptics was invited. A video was also made, but it was not shown on music television. At the end of 1995 the Passengers toured as supporting act for Anne Clark , and in early 1996 the second album Destroyka was released , with which the band left their synth-pop phase behind and turned to dance floor -oriented rock music. A year later the band was playing at major national festivals and in Sweden. In 1997 the next studio album followed with The Trash Inside My Brain . With Andy Laaf for the drums, the second ex-skeptic was brought on board in 1998 and the already very successful live presentation was further professionalized with the involvement of the lighting designer QNO KUNO (Andreas Kunowsky).

The fourth album Bastard hit the German album charts in 1999. With this work, the Blind Passengers had transformed into a pure alternative metal combo and now also played at various large festivals such as B. Wacken , Rock am Ring and Rock im Park . The Gunman video was in the heavy rotation on music television. It was toured together with Kid Rock , and concerts outside of Europe were also held for the first time. In Mexico, Christoph Zimmermann, who played bass support, was killed in a plane crash. The appearance of the Blind Passengers at the now legendary memorial concert for Christoph in Berlin was featured in the documentary Attention we are coming. And we get all of you, a kind of whispering and screaming - part 3 used.

In 2001 the last studio album was released with Neosapiens , and Nik Page published his novel of the same name. The former Skeptiker members Rudell and Laaf left the band in the same year. After Rayner also needed a break, Nik Page released two solo albums with Sacrifight and Sin Machine . Rayner Schirner has been making music with Alexander Goldman in the band Lola since 2004 and has since released 3 albums.

In 2005 Nik recorded six more songs with Rayner and released them together with classics in the Timemachine compilation . After that, the band officially broke up. Nik Page founded the Songs of Lemuria project together with Michaela Laubach . In 2010 he released the solo album Next Flight to Planet Earth under the name Blind Passenger .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
bastard
  DE 91 05/10/1999 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 1993: The Glamor of Darkness
  • 1996: Destroyka
  • 1996: The Forgotten Times
  • 1997: The Trash Inside My Brain
  • 1999: bastard
  • 2001: Neosapiens
  • 2005: Timemachine (2 CD with new and old songs)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Longplay chart tracking ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Charts DE