Johnny Borrell has insisted he is unconcerned by the modest success achieved by his debut solo album.
The release of ‘Borrell 1‘ earlier this year made its own headlines when the album shifted a paltry 594 copies during the first week of sales, a figure not even enough to trouble the UK Album Chart’s Top 100.
“It is being heard and appreciated by as many people as possible,” Borrell has told Drowned In Sound of his solo career. “It is! If that’s 500 people, that’s 500 people. If those are the 500 people that are open enough at this point in time to hear this record, fucking fantastic man.”
“On a personal level, I feel like I connected with songwriting again. I would rather play to 80 people who are switched on enough, and unprejudiced enough, to get what’s going on with this band right now, than to play to 80,000 people who are there because that’s the CD that’s out this year or whatever.”
Johnny Borrell began his solo venture after a planned comeback for Razorlight in the first part of 2011 was apparently curtailed by their record company, whom he said lacked any desire to support a new album from the band.