Fans love band with the Golden Touch
Fans of Razorlight had some time to wait to see their idols after their original appearance in November was cancelled when lead singer Johnny Borrell fell ill.
Razorlight Wolverhampton Civic Hall
By Helen Cartwright
Fans of Razorlight had some time to wait to see their idols after their original appearance in November was cancelled when lead singer Johnny Borrell fell ill.
But when they took to the stage at Wolverhampton's Civic Hall last night for their rescheduled performance nobody seemed to mind the wait too much.
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They were missing usual drummer Andy Burrows - he had been replaced with David Sullivan-Kaplan - but no-one minded that too much either.
Johnny Borrell was a popular draw for the audience, strutting around the stage in his trademark skinny jeans. He didn't say very much but appeared to lap up the attention from an adoring audience. He even performed a few tunes on his own, showing off his powerful voice and his guitar skills.
The London-based band, who released their first album Up All Night back in 2004, pleased the lively crowd with some of their biggest hits.
One of the biggest tunes of the evening was Golden Touch, from their debut offering.
In the Morning and America, both from Razorlight, their eponymous second album released in 2006, also proved popular with the capacity crowd, as did tracks from their latest offering, last year's Slipway Fires.
The band are always a regular on the summer festival scene so anyone who missed their show last night will surely be able to catch up with them later in the year, having already signed up for the Isle of Wight Festival and Scotland's T in the Park.
The band made best use of the stage spreading themselves and their instruments around. The frontman also spent plenty of time leaning over the front of stage and sitting on speakers bringing himself closer to the audience which brought cheers every time. It was a rowdy evening for those downstairs but more sedate for the balcony crowd.
No reason was given for the usual drummer's absence and it has led to the cancellation of two shows in France this week as the stand-in is not available. But the change made little difference to their usual sound with the substitute doing a more than adequate job.
And few in the audience last night seemed to be talking about it. Later this month the band are due to tour their latest album in America.
