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Razorlight on 'Slipway Fires'

added 03 November 2008 at 09.13

Not only do Johnny and Andy come in to give John Kennedy the low-down on the new Razorlight, but Carl and Bjorn come in as well. You wait for one bus...

Razorlight aren't a band who forget. We gave them their first session, played their demos and got behind them when they were merely a twinkle in record shops' cash registers. Now that they're globe-straddling rock behemoths, racking up sales quicker than they can slay sold-out arenas, it's heartening to know they still remember who their friends are.

So not only do we get J. Bo and Andy waxing lyrical on all their new tracks, but we get Carl and Bjorn, too. That's two perspectives on one the biggest albums of the year. You won't get that anywhere else, folks.

So sit back and enjoy the full take on 'Slipway Fires'. It's a bit of a corker if we do say so ourselves...

'Wire To Wire'
Johnny and Andy: "I had no idea it was going to be a single. Originally it was a minute and a half long..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "I can't really remember when we started playing it... Wire To Wire was recorded before all the other songs..." [Listen To Full Answer]

'Hostage Of Love'
Johnny and Andy: "Can we play you how it happened? Andy had this little song that started out as a riff..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "We played this in South Africa. It was played by Johnny, Andy and a violin player. It was a very sorrowful lament at that point..." [Listen To Full Answer]

'You And The Rest'
Johnny and Andy: "The drums is the arrangement of the song. It was one of the most amazing performances I've ever been  close to" [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "That was one of those songs that was worked up pretty early". [Listen To Full Answer]

'Tabloid Lover'
Johnny and Andy: "In my contract I think it says I'm allowed one solo per album..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "That's Johnny's guitar odyssey. I basically just add a bit of texture, basically..." [Listen To Full Answer]

'North London Trash'
Johnny and Andy: "I'm pure North London trash. That was a song to where I grew up..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "Johnny Borrel is Lou Reed!... It's about all of us, and it's about having a bit of a laugh with your own image" [Listen To Full Answer]

'60 Thompson'
Johnny and Andy: "I really like what we've done with the sequencing here. This was the seventh version..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "It's very much a studio song, it came about very late..." [Listen To Full Answer] 

'Stinger'
Johnny and Andy: "I'm quite proud of it because it's the only time I've ever written lyrics. I'll usually write a line which Johnny could do something with..." [Listen To Full Answer] 
Carl and Bjorn:  "This was pretty much finished, lyrics and everything. We heard it on a flight somewhere..." [Listen To Full Answer]

'Burberry Blue Eyes'
Johnny and Andy: "For me, it was like revisiting 'Rock'n'Roll Lies' but with a little more nuance..." [Listen To Full Answer] 

' Blood For Wild Blood'
Johnny and Andy: "It references a lot of the songs on the record..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "It has a Beatles-esque outro. It was the only time I've ever tried to sound like something on the bass..." [Listen To Full Answer]

'Monster Boots'
Johnny and Andy: "Monster Boots was something I wrote on piano. Literally in the middle of breaking up with somebody..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "A Slipway is a sloped wooden jetty where you put boots into the water... A slip road is when you turn off the motorway." [Listen To Full Answer]

'The House'
Johnny and Andy: "I went up to Scotland and it was the first thing I started writing. I spent a  lot of time on it..." [Listen To Full Answer]
Carl and Bjorn: "If I go to a movie theatre, I stay and listen to the outro..." [Listen To Full Answer]

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