Monday 27 June 2011

Rockers Razorlight a West London gym bid to save a gig performed in a boxing ring

Rockers Razorlight a West London gym that has produced a host of national champions bid to save a gig performed in a boxing ring.

Johnny Borrell is a band's singer and guitarist, who is a regular at the All Stars Boxing Gym in Ladbroke Grove, which faces closure unless it can raise £100,000.


Benefit concert for 250 fans for 90 minutes in last night's hits included In The Morning, Fall To Pieces and Somewhere Else.


Stars who trained there include Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe and Frank Bruno.


Akay, settled in 2000 for his work as an MBE, was transferred there in 1980 but the lease is set to expire and the landlord does not want to update it .


He said, "We are not going without a fight. When Johnny heard about this he organised his band to help. It's a terrific gesture."


Borrell, 31, from Muswell Hill, said: "A place like this is so important, to London as well as the local community. It'd be a tragedy to lose it."

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell said he thinks the current problems Libertine are sad

Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell said he thinks the current problems Libertine are sad.

He say that people Pete Doherty and Carl Barat of the problems by pointing to cheer try but does not help. Doherty and Barat mentioned problems cocaine possession for the band included recent jailing "no future."

Borrell said: "Some people will tell me how bad things are for Pete and Carlos, like that's going to make me feel good. It doesn't make me feel good. It's just depressing. It's just sad. We were really close friends a long time ago. The people I knew don't exist any more."

He also is the fact that Dunst kirsten room when the two were roaming through riding his motorcycle were mentioned: "It was a shared lounge and there were four people on the back. You could go quite fast. I could almost get into second gear."