The Sick Passengers - Cut Outs

This album compiles live versions of songs The Sick Passengers never properly documented in the studio. The sound quality isn't great and the performances are occasionally ramshackle, but sometimes imperfect memories are better than nothing.

Tracks 1-5 were recorded on November 17, 2001 at the Local Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tracks 6-12 were recorded at Uncle Joe's in Jersey City. Coincidentally, Lungs of a Giant chipped in mighty sets on both of these nights as well.

The Sick Passengers: The Last Show

The Sick Passengers: Christopher Meeder, Chris Williams, Bill Kennedy, Jason Das

Uncle Joe’s Pub
Jersey City, NJ
April 30, 2005

In the spring of 2005 we had plans to go into the studio to document our new crop of songs before Bill moved to Chicago. Alas, it was not to be. Fortunately, we ran a recorder in the back of the room on what turned out to be the last evening we’d all spend in the same room together. If we hadn’t, most of these songs would have been lost forever.

It was a difficult, emotional night and everyone’s nerves were on edge. The recording is way up in the red, but that was just our way of getting the job done. Listen to the death throes of the Passengers in all our ragged glory.

(Don’t miss “Your Patience Bores Me” and “Thaw” below the scroll in the player. They were real burners.)