Razorlight

This article covers the band. For the music album see Razorlight (album) .

Razorlight
Razorlight
General information
Genre (s)	Indie rock , Britpop
founding	2002
Website	www.razorlight.co.uk
Current occupation
Singing , rhythm guitar	Johnny Borrell
guitar	David Ellis (since 2017)
bass	Harry Deacon (since 2018)
Drums	David Sullivan Chaplain (since 2009)
former members
Drums	Christian Smith-Pancorvo (2002-2004)
Drums	Andy Burrows (2004-2009)
guitar	Björn Ågren (2002-2011)
bass	Carl Dalemo (2002-2011)
bass	Freddie Stitz (2011-2014)
guitar	Gus Robertson (2011-2017)
bass	João Mello (2014-2018)

Razorlight is an English rock band around singer Johnny Borrell , the former bassist of the Libertines . With the songs America and Wire to Wire they celebrated their greatest successes worldwide.

history

Johnny Borrell, who wanted to start his own band after his experiences with the Libertines , first recruited the Swede Björn Ågren through an advertisement in 2002. A little later, Carl Dalemo was accepted as the next member. He was also Swede, played guitar in his home country for some time with the band "Spiral Stars" , where he also did the vocals. For Razorlight, however, he switched to bass . Christian Smith-Pancorvo, an Englishman with Peruvian roots, joined Razorlight as a drummer , completing the classic rock band line-up .

The public first found out about Razorlight when host John Kennedy included some of their demos on his program. In the summer of 2003, the band signed a contract with Mercury Records / Universal Music and began recording their first album, which Mercury boss Steve Lillywhite was supposed to produce. However, Lillywhite left the label after a while to produce for the band U2 . John Cornfield was hired as the new producer. After drummer Christian Smith-Pancorvo switched to his brother's band Serafin and was replaced by Andy Burrows , Razorlight released their debut album Up All Night in England in June 2004 , which was also released a little later in Germany. It placed second on the UK charts . The single Somewhere Else made it to number two in the British charts in early 2005. The album does not originally contain the song; after the success of the single it was added to the new edition.

In July 2006 the band released the first single In the Morning from their second album Razorlight, which was released shortly thereafter . The single was at number three in the UK single charts, the album at number one in the album charts for two weeks. The second single, entitled America , made it to number one on the British singles chart shortly after its release in October 2006. The third single Before I Fall to Pieces , released in December 2006, reached number 17.

In 2008 the album Slipway Fires was released , whose lead single Wire to Wire became an international success for the band. The album also made it into the top ten of the respective charts in Germany, Austria and Great Britain. At the beginning of March 2009 the drummer Andy Burrows left the band for personal reasons and released the album Sun Comes Up Again in 2010 with his new band I Am Arrows . Andy David Sullivan chaplain, called "Skully," replaced him. After Andy Burrows, Björn Agren and Carl Dalemo left the band in January 2011. The two founding members were replaced by Gus Robertson on guitar and Freddie Stitz on bass.

In 2014, Razorlight went on tour for the first time since 2011, but without bassist Stitz, who was replaced by 18-year-old Brazilian João Mello, a bandmate of Johnny Borrell's Zazou.

Concerts

Razorlight first appeared live in Germany in 2006 as the opening act for the Swedish band Mando Diao and the Rolling Stones in Cologne. From January 18 to February 9, 2007 they toured Germany as headliners with performances in Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Bochum and Heidelberg. Razorlight also took part in the double festival Rock am Ring / Rock im Park from June 1st to 3rd, 2007.

In 2008 they appeared in Germany at the Hurricane and the Southside Festival from June 20th to 22nd. They also played on June 27, 2008 at the 46664 - "The Mandela Concert" in London's Hyde Park .

In 2009, as in 2007, they performed at the double event Rock am Ring / Rock im Park from June 5th to 7th in Germany. Among other things, they also appeared on April 27th at the Zeche Bochum, also as headliners.

In Switzerland, they appeared on October 26th 2010 as the opening act for Ray Davies at the AVO session .

They also appeared on July 2, 2011 at the Rheinkultur Festival in Bonn and on July 23 at Das Fest (Karlsruhe) .

In 2014 Razorlight went on tour again due to the tenth anniversary of their debut album.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2004	Up all night	-	-	-	UK3 × 4 Quadruple platinum (70 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 28, 2004
2006	Razorlight	DE43 (2 weeks) DE	AT62 (3 weeks) AT	-	UK1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (63 weeks)UK	US180 (1 week) US	First published: July 17, 2006
2008	Slipway Fires	DE4th gold (33 weeks)DE	AT10 gold (19 weeks)AT	CH39 (19 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 3, 2008
2018	Olympus Sleeping	-	-	-	UK27 (1 week) UK	-	First published: October 26, 2018

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2003	Rock 'n' Roll Lies Up All Night	-	-	-	UK56 (1 week) UK	-	First published: August 18, 2003
	Rip It Up Up All Night	-	-	-	UK20 (6 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 10, 2003
2004	Stumble & Fall Up All Night	-	-	-	UK27 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: January 26, 2004
	Golden Touch Up All Night	-	-	-	UK9 gold (7 weeks)UK	-	First published: June 13, 2004
	Vice Up All Night	-	-	-	UK18 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 13, 2004
2005	Somewhere Else Up All Night	-	-	-	UK2 silver (22 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 11, 2005
2006	In the Morning Razorlight	-	-	-	UK3 gold (23 weeks)UK	-	First published: July 3, 2006
	America Razorlight	DE38 (16 weeks) DE	AT17 (17 weeks) AT	CH29 (25 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (27 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 2, 2006
	Before I Fall to Pieces Razorlight	-	-	-	UK17th silver (11 weeks)UK	-	First published: December 18, 2006
2007	I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got Razorlight	-	-	-	UK44 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: March 19, 2007
	Hold on Razorlight	-	-	-	-	-	First published: July 9, 2007
2008	Wire to Wire Slipway Fires	DE3 platinum (41 weeks)DE	AT3 (27 weeks) AT	CH8 (35 weeks) CH	UK5 (7 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 27, 2008
2009	Hostage of Love Slipway Fires	DE69 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: January 12, 2009

more publishments

• 2018: Sorry?
• 2018: Japan rock
• 2018: Got to Let the Good Times Back Into your Life
• 2018: Olympus Sleeping
• 2018: Carry Yourself
• 2019: Cops and Robbers
• 2020: Burn, Camden, Burn

Awards for music sales

Platinum record  Europe 2006: for the album Razorlight 2007: for the album Up All Night

3 × platinum record  Ireland 2006: for the album Razorlight

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	platinum1	400,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	(2,000,000)	ifpi.org
Ireland (IRMA)	-	-	3 × platinum3	45,000	irishcharts.ie
Austria (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	10,000	ifpi.at
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	3 × gold3	10 × platinum10	4,400,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	5 × gold5	16 × platinum16

Band members timeline

Web links

Commons : Razorlight  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Razorlight on www.universal-music.de
• Razorlight on Tumblr
• Razorlight on Myspace
• Razorlight at laut.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official website ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Razorlight to play London date on 10th anniversary of debut album on NME.com, April 10, 2014, accessed June 12, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US