ts: johnny borrell vs la roux

La Roux, because she is merely sneerly in a vaguely unpleasant way. Meanwhile Johnny is a stone cold twonk cast in marble for the ages.

are we voting biggest div or who is preferable?

borrell is a twit but he never angered me like la roux does

ts = taking sides, so I assumed it would be the person whose side you'd rather take, ie, the person you like the most out of the two

I can understand why La Roux is unhappy - she's constantly at risk of being mistaken for Bonnie Langford playing Peter Pan.

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It was reported that Borrell would star in an Irvine Welsh scripted film alongside Colin Firth and Robert Carlyle called 'The Meat Trade',[6] however the film did not make it into production. He has been approached with further film roles but has yet to commit to one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/poll/2013/jun/03/razorlight-johnny-borrell-solo-song-title

We don't even need a poll thread, there's a poll set up for us.

disappointed he didn't call the album "Brown Borrell"

see the landfill indie thread I revived earlier, but yeah Borrell is a very silly man.

STIFF RECORDS
If It's Dead, We'll Sign Them

JOHNNY BORRELL ALBUM SALES OFF TO FLYING START!

Stiff Records is proud to announce first week sales figures for its latest album - Johnny Borrell's 'Borrell 1' - of 594.

'Borrell 1' is the debut solo LP from the former Razorlight vocalist and is the first new album on the highly prolific Stiff Records since 2007.

That last album was the multi million-selling two-volume set, '30 Years Of

Stiff Records' (although admittedly that was a free cover-mount with 'The "First week sales of 594 makes 'Borrell 1' the 15,678th best selling album of the year to date," comments a Stiff spokesperson. "So far we've achieved 0.00015% sales of Adele's '21' - and 0.03% sales of this week's No. 1 album from Jahmene Douglas - so we feel like it's all to play for as we move into the all-important week two."

"We might even break the Top 100."

'Borrell 1' is out now on Stiff Records, where the fun never sets.

"Ludicrously enjoyable" - Q
"Absurdly entertaining" - The Telegraph
"Well they can't say it's s**t" - Trevor Horn

Hehehehehehe, that's priceless! :D

He's back!

https://soundcloud.com/gearbox-records/johnny-borrell-my-world-your-life

It sucks.

And the PR copy, good LORD:

Following up on the critically acclaimed ‘Atlantic Culture’ album ‘My World, Your Life’ is the latest single from the unexpected, challenging, iconoclastic solo career of Johnny Borrell.

Recorded during the latter phase of sessions with the Zazou group of musicians, the song mixes diverse influences, including West African, South American, Celtic, Basque and British, to create what Borrell calls Atlantic music, influenced by both Atlantic coasts.

In the early part of the decade Johnny had dropped out of the cycle of Razorlight albums and was spending much of his time in a small village in the Basque country of southern France. Free from expectations he explored a more open way to create with a cabal of multi-instrumentalists playing everything from African percussion to violin.

The saxophone player Joao Mello was discovered by Johnny as an 18-year-old busking on the street and went on to play stadiums with David Gilmour. Zazou toured the world putting on wild shows out of their trance jazz (Zazou is 1940s French slang for an underground jazz subculture) and went on to record two maverick albums.

While the gradual process of gaining respect for the eclectic musicality moved forward, Johnny kept on recording and by 2017 was looking for a home for a new albums worth of songs. In a meeting of minds Johnny was introduced to Gearbox records and found that they shared a love of vinyl, exploratory jazz, deep groove and analogue equipment. Swiftly a plan was hatched to release the first of a series of solo Johnny Borrell 7 inches as part of their Vinyl Mastered 7s Single Club.

While ‘My World, Your Life’ leans towards the rock music that Johnny made in Razorlight, the full album due to follow later in the year will again be highly exploratory, as is the B-side of the 7 inch ‘The Rain It Raineth Every Day’, Johnny’s interpretation of a song from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, with a melody adapted from Ingmar Bergman's interpretation of the song, but here played in a Tudor Be Bop format.

With his next solo album exhibiting one facet of his musical curiosity Johnny is also due to compare and contrast, with a highly charged new Razorlight album later this year (their first in ten years) - just to make sure there’s something for everyone.

look it’s not that I want someone to smash johnny borrell’s kneecaps with a ball-peen hammer

i’m just saying that if it happened it’d probably be pretty funny

put your feet up mate. Johnny Bovril.