Razorlight

Sometimes questions have to be asked about certain bands headlining festivals, and Razorlight are certainly one of those bands. Yes I will admit that ‘America’ is a great tune and that ‘Golden Touch’ is certainly a guilty pleasure to listen to. However in my book that doesn’t mean a band qualifies for a headline slot.

Razorlight or more suitably Johnny Borrell and his associates, came to Leeds with Johnny's ego being well fed. Firstly there were the huge screens scattered around the stage to broadcast the egomaniacs frail frame, which could do with a bit of colour on it. Then there was the huge band name in lights - just in case you were standing near the main stage by accident and wasn’t quite sure who was actually playing.



So the ego maniac known as Johnny Borrell started warbling out songs such as ‘In The Morning’ and countless other songs which just seemed to sound exactly the same. After each song the crowd were diminishing to such a small number that I’m sure the lighting operator deliberately turned the spotlight that was aiming at Mr Borrell onto full power to blind him so that he wouldn’t have his ego battered by the fact he was making people leave early.

After about the fourth song Johnny in his traditional white stage costume removed his top to try and impress the girls, there's something just so sad about watching a grown man trying to impress girls in that manner.

After what seemed like an eternity Razorlight then eventually belted out their stadium anthem ‘America’ which was well received by the audience. As soon as the dying notes of that had faded, there were hundreds of people leaving the arena, which just goes to show that any band can get lucky with one superb hit.


A poor performance from a band who should have never made it from the cabaret circuit.

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