Razorlight @ London’s Eventim Apollo on May 12, 2023 (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)
Razorlight have been touring their recent Best Of collection.
Razorlight completed their UK tour in London last Friday night after adding three additional shows for this month to the original dates which had run throughout April.
It’s the band’s ‘classic’ line-up of Johnny Borrell, Andy Burrows, Björn Ågren and Carl Dalemo which has been out on the road – the same one we caught emerging out of lockdown at Isle Of Wight Festival in 2021.
“Razorlight have taken a more circuitous route to their own Big Top headline appearance – a brief visit to the high seas of 18th century piracy in 2011 one of their more curious stop-off points,” our review reads.
“The ‘classic’ line-up reunited and armed with their debut album pretty much in full, Johnny Borrell is strangely turned down low from the off.”
Whether this is a more wide ranging stipulation written up by the other original members upon their return is unclear, but a taciturn mood to go along with the mix issues means the gig is not quite the celebration it could’ve been. Yet a crowd starved of live music for two summers, wanting plenty of closing night karaoke singalongs, get exactly that.