Smallman Records Gets on Board with
PASSENGER ACTION

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2008

Smallman Records is excited to announce the addition of Passenger Action to the label’s roster.  Passenger Action is currently preparing to release their first full-length album in early 2009. Smallman will also be re-issuing Passenger Action’s independently released EP Acoustic Blueprints (2007) digitally and on vinyl.

You know the old adage: When God closes a practice-space door, he opens a cargo van window. And so it was with Passenger Action. Members Shaun Moncreiff and Clay Shea recently wrapped up a 13-year run in Choke, a band that helped create and define the term tech-rock. Playing faster and more complexly than anyone at the time, these boys trail-blazed a sound for many acts that followed. Ryan Podlubny (Pud) played most recently in Toronto's The Fullblast. Playing on the Short Controlled Bursts record, touring with Rise Against, Alexisonfire, Boys Night Out, and shooting a video for the record filled up most his time with them. Prior to that he was playing bass in Detroit's fordirelifesake. Allan Harding was born into a family/wedding band in his hometown of Wadena, SK. He went on to play a variety of instruments in some 41 acts (!) and is most noted for Edmonton's now defunct Thirty Nights of Violence.

“Even at the end of Choke, Shaun and I were motivated to keep playing,” Shea explains.  “We feel lucky we clicked with the first guys we played with.  Joining up with Smallman seemed logical given we’d had a relationship with them through Choke for the last decade plus.  It was familiar and it felt like the right home for us.  Tried and true as they say!”

Passenger Action came together in September 2006. A natural chemistry fueled the writing of their debut EP Acoustic Blueprints, which was independently released in the summer of 2007. Recorded with Braden Sustrik, Acoustics Blueprints was mixed and mastered by Greg Dawson (Moneen, The End).  Dawson is also presently working with Passenger Action on their upcoming album.

www.myspace.com/passengeractionrock

TOUR DATES
June 15 - Regina, SK @ The Club
June 16 - Winnipeg, MB @ Royal Albert
June 17 - Thunder Bay, ON @ Black Pirates
June 19 - Toronto, ON @ Wrong Bar
June 29 - St. Catharines, ON @ SCENE Music Fest

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