Borrell and the boys start at the Manchester Apollo on February 5, followed by Glasgow's Carling Academy on February 6 and finish up at posh old Alexandra Palace on the 11th.
Razorlight have recently been in Los Angeles recording new material with Ethan Johns, who has worked with Kings of Leon and Ryan Adams.
We have an exclusive interview with the band, from San Francisco last month, coming very soon. Exciting, non?
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golden touch = rubbish
stumble and fall= good
vice = rubbish
in the city = good
i'm confused.
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Why?
How?
And for how much longer?
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How? Cos NME loves em
how much longer? Until NME develops better taste in music?
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non?
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2) I'd love to kill them using a hacksaw. Or covering them in beetroot juice. See how many radio 2 listeners will listen to them still.
'They're so like Nirvana and stuff that they must be liked Deardry'
'Yeah, isn't it great that I can describe this as grunge whilst listening to Tony Hart. He used to mould morph by the way, Doris dear.'
'Where's my tea?' exclaims the husband and Frank sinatra fan.
3)As long as the people who listen to coldplay find NME cover bands interesting, Razorlight will continue to exist. But we should revolt because they are a bunch or corporate cunts, in the worst possible way. Seriously, I think Busted are fantastic, they don't pretend - Razorlight are the biggest fucking music liars of this century so far. TWATS.
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i really really powerfully dislike every song i've heard this band do (including the album), i powerfully dislike johnny borrell and what he stands for. and i powerfuly dislike there is little discernable talent
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Ally Pally is, like, my garden.
Leave it alone.
(but Razorlight, do what you like to them)
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good song no?
im not saying one song makes everything but they aint that bad.
people love em.
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In theory, I should utterly hate Razorlight, in much the same way I phenomously hate The Strxkxs and feel equally baffled by the successes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Shite Shites.
BUT...
And this really is a big BUT.
There's something endearing about Razorlight and something ridiculously infectious about their songs. Infact, it took seeing them at the Astoria and Reading this year to totally get it.
Don't get me wrong, the album isn't in my top 5 of the year, but it is in my top 20.
There's something really deserving about their success they've had and something warming about the fact yer average chavvy 5 records a year kinda muthas are listening to Razorlight instead of Will Lisp or Jasquealia. But yeah, the way Mercury have done it hasn't given the band much credibility, true. But what they have done is given the band a chance to hit up America, steal the hearts of Death Cab fans and have a full career, which I'm hopeful is going to get a lot more musically interesting.
Plus, it's one of the most unlikely things in the world for a big Bukowski fan to climb so far up the mainstream ladder.
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Razorlight irritate me. The singles have been prety good, there's no denying that Golden Touch is a great pop song, but it's essentially the kind of stuff most of the type of people who come here would like when they are 14, as a stepping stone to better bands.. Though I suppose that cant be such a bad thing.
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The Strokes, on the other hand, are right up there for me. Noone can deny the first time they heard, say, the modern age, and at the time they were maybe the most iconic bridging of the gaps in quite a while. People discussed the Strokes credibly. I'm talking first album here, though.
And Bukowski. Bridging on the back of Miller, he is a flailing example of much better work, his idioms an annoying habit of literary growth. He was too late, with immature ideals, and spawned generations of distincly unidiosyncratic idiosyncracies. I feel he is a waste, and made waste of hundreds, but that might just be me.
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Most of their b sides are brilliant, especially those to Rock and Roll Lies and CD 1 and 2 of Rip It Up.
However the album is a big steaming pile of dog turd with awful production and the the new versions of the pre Golden Touch singles are rubbish.
It also pisses me off how Jonny keeps telling everyone how amazing a songwriter he is when he doesn't deliver the goods. On the basis of all their songs thus far, Razorlight are just an O.K. band, nothing less, nothing more.
Now get me a pint of milk and a packet of pork scratchings, I'm off for a poo and a wee.
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Err...no, actually, it isn't. Sorry there...
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you dont really expect them to play the dublin castle do??????
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"i suppose borrell is arrogant but as said before it isnt really a handicap and it isnt really unexpected. their main strength/weakness is that they're a popular band who accept the fact that they are 'popular' and so they arent overly clever or lazy about making their music."
anyways: i like razorlight, i like their album, i think they're amazing live. that's pretty much a] set me in the corner of this thread and b] placed me in a group of borrell loving indie-girls, yeah i said it - what.
i swear, if one more person compares them to the killers i will hurt them.
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Johnny Borrel's a twit. If his band were capable of something worth a damn, then his ego'd be tolerable. As it is, I wouldn't hesitate to punch him out if I saw him.
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i dnt want to get into a slagging johnny and co contest...i like em....any1 can fuck it, lump it...leave it.whicheva 1 of these takes their fancy.........for tonite i bid u all farewell...
plz dnt be offended by any of my comments Mr Mike underscore Diver.(oh + i neva really hrd oasis or blur(nt that i dnt like them or anything)
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