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Razorlight’s Andy Burrows Reconciles After 11-Year Split

8/11/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Johnny Borrell (Razorlight) says their number-one single and second album sold over 1.6 million UK copies twenty years ago.
Razorlight headlined the 2007 Reading and Leeds Festival and spent £3,000 on backstage booze.
Their 2008 Slipway Fires album sold half a million copies and reached the top five.
Andy Burrows left the band in 2009 and reconciled in southern France after 11 years, documented in the 2022 film Fall to Pieces.

History

Historical Context

When Oasis released (What's the Story) Morning Glory? in October 1995, its single “Wonderwall” quickly reached #2 on the UK chart and earned nine-times platinum certification, cementing Britpop’s mainstream breakthrough. The band’s televised Glastonbury performance that June and their Brit Awards win the following year amplified album sales, establishing a festival-driven model later copied by indie acts such as Razorlight.

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Story summary

Johnny Borrell (Razorlight) says their number-one single and second album sold over 1.6 million UK copies twenty years ago.
Razorlight headlined the 2007 Reading and Leeds Festival and spent £3,000 on backstage booze.
Their 2008 Slipway Fires album sold half a million copies and reached the top five.
Andy Burrows left the band in 2009 and reconciled in southern France after 11 years, documented in the 2022 film Fall to Pieces.

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