I Killed Razorlight With My Big Fucking Dick

OH GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

The Razorshite and The Ordinary Boyz

Imogen Tilden
Tuesday February 1, 2005

Is this the beginning of the end for Razorlight? An interview in London listings magazine Time Out suggests today that more than laryngitis might be behind the band's cancelled UK dates and the abrupt end of their US tour.
Journalist Chris Salmon spent time with the group in the US and witnessed the Denver gig, during which singer Johnny Borrell walked out mid-way through the set.

Borrell, who has been upfront about his teenage drug addiction, had apparently been drinking heavily the previous day, and admitted subsequently that he was "very drunk." "If I start drinking I just fucking lose it completely," he added.

His behaviour and subsequent comments did little to still rumours of internal divisions in the band, which many have come to perceive as a talented frontman - Borrell - with three other hangers-on.

"I can't believe he [walked out]" said guitarist Bjorn Agren. "The gig is sacred."

Borrell still seems convinced that the band's problems are minor. "This band is fucking brilliant and is not in a state of peril," he insisted.

bwahahahahahahahaha.

"self-important runt," more like.

"It is with great regret that RAZORLIGHT announce the postponement of all
dates on their forthcoming UK tour.

Singer, Johnny Borrell, developed serious problems with his voice whilst on tour in the US. The band were forced to cut short their North American dates, canceling the final sold-out show at Los Angeles's El Rey Theatre, whilst Johnny saw a specialist in Los Angeles.
He was diagnosed as suffering from a laryngitis type infection, administered anti-inflammatories and banned from singing for at least two weeks. Johnny immediately flew home to London to consult a second vocal specialist who confirmed his condition, put him on a course of medication and ordered complete rest.

Johnny, Björn, Carl, and Andy apologise for the inconvenience caused to all those coming to the shows and are keen to reschedule the sold-out six night run at Manchester Apollo, Glasgow Academy, and London's Alexandra Palace with as little delay as possible.

While Johnny is frustrated by his enforced silence he is determined to
recover his vocal chords as fast as he can and promises to make the
re-scheduled shows the most memorable rock'n'roll nights of the year.
"

Razorlight - lurk - 03-Aug-06 11:48 AM
Normally I just ignore bands like these and let them get on with it but some of the utter tripe these guys have been saying about themselves recently makes them deserving of any and all criticism that can possibly be thrown their way. It's absolutely fine if you are in a brutal band - most are. Like all vocations in life some people have the talent others don't but what makes these guys infuriating is the fact that they obviously took a leaf out of the Oasis 'how to become famous' tips book and have equated mouthing off about your talent with actually posessing it. It has to be said this is a peculiarly English phenomenon (I appreciate there are also Swedish members) where there seems to an endless supply of bands telling you about how brilliant they are while their music is trite, formulaic, boring and empty. The typical lyrics of these bands including Razorlight are the sort you look back at from your early teens and cringe over. We live in an appallingly unjust world where humility is sadly missing from a lot of puffed up self absorbed people's personalities. Why oh why does it have to be missing the most from the people with the least amount to brag about? Vacuous and nauseatingly dull, the return of shallow coked up rock bands is not what the world needs right now as we face the fact that the turn of the century has heralded nothing but more wars and environmental destruction. You can say it's just another rock band. Yeah but everytime we validate these acts as our most popular cultural representatives we are individually in our own small way giving our vote to the cursory mindless selfishness entrenched deep in our societies that has to be eradicated before we can make any sort of inroads into improving our planet. Avoid this pack like the plague.

In your country, The Arctic Monkeys were born. You are as complicit as I, the Londoner.

In my town (Lewisham/Greenwich), Squeeze came to be, which is probably an improvement.

Razorlight are loved, yes, and someone's gonna have to take the hit. Amusingly enough, on a tangential note, Carl Barat is the 5th-greatest rock hero of all time, according to a certain music magazine...

My Monkeys secret: don't listen to vocals.

*JOKE*

-- Louis Jagger (papiermachealamphibia...), August 5th, 2006.
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what's the odds multimap was consulted before Louis' post ?

kinda surprised there's more than me to be honest but I'm sure the entire population of the Adelphi is lurking here somewhere.

Anyway, yep Razorlight. Never thought I'd see a wannabe Geldof (not musically/aesthetically at least ) but there he is. twat.

Got the debut - ****ING HORRIBLE.

Heard their single on the radio today, didn't I? Almost as bad as the Kasabian song that came on afterwards.

No, it was worse. Unbelievably so, but it was actually worse.

Culled from rockingvicar.com but worth repeating:

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
Parishioner Fraser:
Girl I know was being chatted up by a very boring man in the Garage.
"Blah blah blah...", he droned on at length about himself.
"What do you do for a living?" she asked out of desperation.
"Actually, I'm in Razorlight."
Her reply? "IF YOU'RE GOING TO LIE, AT LEAST PRETEND TO BE IN A
DECENT BAND"
Cue Razorlight drummer's goons insisting to security that she be
thrown out.
She is now barred from the Garage.

Nice.

it was obviously a while back since the garage has been closed for the whole of this year, but all the same i bloody wish i'd been there...

i miss the garage

It might be coming back - http://www.meanfiddler.com/ Mama Group plc, owners of the Barfly chain and Kentish Town Forum and Hammersmith Apollo, have bought it along with a few other things from Mean Fiddler.

Used to live down there, at Highbury Corner when I was 19 and I looked decent.

Razorlight
Rays are light
Ray's all light
Ray's alright
Raze all, right?
Raze or light?
Raise oar; light?
Raise awe, right?
Laser, right!
laserlight
Lays alright
Lays all, right?
Laze, alright?
Liase, alright?

Hey! this band are goooood!

UH UH UH TRUBBLE IN A-ME-RICUH

straw poll: has anyone ever met anyone who admitted to liking razorlight?

Yep. He was wearing a rugby shirt and drinking Diet Coke Zero. True fact.

The beginnings of Razorlight. And the biggest crock of terrible self-written band bio awfulness ever.

http://www.oocities.org/razorlight_inthecity/Biography.html

http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/29/johnny-borrell-i-dont-read-the-news-you-find-out-more-truth-by-walking-down-the-street-with-a-guitar-4712438/

http://www.karenphelps.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/consistency-is-key.png

honestly though, I kind of love that ridiculous bio

Borrell is the worst thing about this band by several light years a la Fred Durst, BUT I recently put on In the Morning, having never really cared for it but also after having not heard it in many years, and shit I really enjoy it now. Even when it launches into a ska version of U2's Lemon at the end. Vaguely 'reggae' landfill done much better and more spaciously than other bands I could name. It's really quite a good track. Fuck this band.

Always had quite the soft spot for 10:15 with a Golden Touch too.