Razorlight reveal how they ‘rebuilt total breakdown of trust’ after epic fallout

Razorlight are celebrating a milestone

Andy Burrows and Johnny Borrell sit side-by-side in a darkened tour bus rattling in the wind on the Northumberland coast. At 1.30am after their headline set at Lindisfarne Festival, they are due back on the bus to depart for London again. 

It’s just like old times – except it’s not. 

Come 2006, Razorlight had set the indie-rock scene on fire with their debut album Up All Night with breakout singles Golden Touch and Stumble and Fall, which thrust them from scuzzy, sticky-floored bars into the volatile embrace of critical and commercial success. 

‘I couldn’t comprehend the idea of getting bigger,’ says Andy, now 47, with grey beginning to pepper his shaggy drummer-appropriate beard. He puffs on a vape, the on...