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A darker side of
Johnny Borrell
FIVE DECADES 12 SUNDAYS
PROUD GALLERIES
RAZORLIGHT frontman Johnny Borrell made a short, sweet and slightly dark appearance at Proud bar on Sunday.
The lucky few who managed to secure a much-coveted wristband and get into the tiny room managed to catch a rare low-key appearance from Borrell, who was there to launch photographer Sophie Jarry’s exhibition of shots of himself on tour.
Unfortunately, with the free gig being widely publicised in advance, hundreds of eager fans were kept out of the tiny stage room, baying for a glimpse of the tight-trousered troubadour.
The numbers queuing to get from the much larger main bar into the performance were so high that all walls bearing Jarry’s photographs were obscured, slightly skewing the point of the whole thing.
But that didn’t matter for the chosen ones. Sans the rest of the band, Borrell played a satisfying repertoire of favourites, starting with Somewhere Else, then Golden Touch, before launching into his Bush/Cheney-hating anthem America.
That’s when things turned slightly sinister. Bringing on a violinist for Funeral Blues, he then introduced Florence, a haunted folk child with a possessed voice and presence that could almost rival Joplin.
Unexpected and surprisingly powerful, the unsigned singer, with her terrifying rendition of Girl with One Eye, raised almost as many cheers as the headliner.
Ending with In the City, before thanking his admirers, Borrell abruptly disappeared offstage.
Granted it was an exhibition launch, but for the hordes who had overcome the queues, the heat, the waiting and the crush, the mighty Borell’s appearance was all too brief.
More next time please Johnny.
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