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Razorlight - Biography
| 07-07-2006 20:44 | 0 reaction(s) | add reply |
Johnny Borrell (vocals, guitar)
Björn Ågren (guitar, backing vocals)
Carl Dalemo (bass, backing vocals)
Christian Smith-Pancorvo (drums)
Every once in a while a band emerges fully formed, that fulfils a dream no-one even realised they had. A band who are spookily, synchronically of the moment, but who also transcend it, slightly glazed eyes already on where they're going next. A band who simply strap on, plug in and give out but manage to do so with an uncanny pop universalism. A band whose musical Esperanto is, in this case, comprised of equal parts American, English and Swedish - a transatlantic/North Sea meeting of angular, electric wire guitars here, a voice as English as cricket there. A band whose tunes make grown men go weak at the knees, and yes, whose looks make young girls' knees tremble too. That band, right now, is Razorlight.
And it's all happened very, very fast. Formed in the Summer of 2002 by Londoner Johnny Borrell and Swedish ex-pat' Björn Ågren, rehearsals produced immediate sparks, and with the addition of drummer Christian Smith-Pancorvo and Ågren's old pal Carl Dalemo on bass, their first recordings were made by their manager on a video camera. This proved enough to pique label interest sufficiently to front some cash, so by October Razorlight were recording their demos at Hackney's Toerag Studios, hot on the heels of the White Stripes. So impressed was (London indie rock radio station) Xfm's John Kennedy that he took the unusual step of playing the demos - of 'Rock'n'Roll Lies', 'Rip It Up' and fast-becoming-anthemic set-closer 'In The City' on his show.
As fans started to devote head and web space to "Dreams of Razorlight", and trading bootleg versions of the Xfm sessions, Razorlight were recording a new batch of demos at Westside studios during the summer of 2003, sufficient to start a serious bidding war. Mercury Records won. On the basis of reputation - and some dodgy MP3s - alone, Razorlight were invited to Japan's Summer Sonic festival in August 2003, even before releasing one of the Toerag demos, 'Rock'n'Roll Lies' as their first single. A limited edition, 'Rock'n'Roll Lies' nevertheless only just missed the UK Top 40. An event celebrated by the completion of a UK tour with The Hiss and a triumphant London single launch party at the Kings Cross Pool Hall. A notable event due to the theft of the tickets, which were then found being sold on E-Bay for extortionate sums.
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