We've long been under the assumption that the best way for Razorlight to become carbon neutral would be for all of them to stop breathing forever with immediate effect, but old Johnny Borrell's got different – and obviously less good – ideas.
Johnny Borrell has decided to help highlight the need to slow climate change by recording a new song for Friends Of The Earth. Nothing unusual there, even though the world needs a new Razorlight song like it needs to be obliterated by an asteroid, but Johnny Borrell has gone one step further by recording the song in a completely solar-powered way. Sadly this didn't involve Johnny Borrell trying to fly to the sun to do it, which is a shame because we made him a special set of wax wings especially for the occasion.
It's all the go at the moment for famous people to preach to us about climate change. Everyone has different approaches to tackling climate change, too – Sheryl Crow has the 'dirty bum' angle, Madonna has the 'write a terrible song' angle and everyone involved in the upcoming Live Earth concerts has the 'undermine Princess Diana' angle. And apparently the sun is so impressed with all of these high profile efforts that it has signed a treaty promising to be less hot everywhere around the world except the places that pop stars go on holiday.
But way out in front of the green pack is Johnny Borrell from hopeless pop numptygroup Razorlight. Johnny Borrell lives, breathes and eats environmental friendliness. For a start Johnny Borrell hardly ever wears a T-shirt, meaning that he has less clothes to clean with river-destroying detergents. Also Johnny Borrell was one of the first acts to sign up for Live Earth, ensuring that millions of TV sets will be turned off for 15 minutes around the world when he hops up onstage, thus saving no end of energy. And, although Johnny Borrell has a long-distance girlfriend, he was savvy enough to pick a funny-looking one that he'd want to visit on aeroplanes less than one who was pretty, sparing tonnes of carbon in the process.
But now Johnny Borrell has gone one step further by recording a song for Friends Of The Earth in a completely solar-powered way. The Times reports:
Titled Funeral Blues, the song was recorded … at London's first ever solar-powered music studio, The Premises in Hackney. The recording formed part of a busy day 'in the green life' of Mr Borrell arranged for the Friends of the Earth's climate change campaign, The Big Ask. The song took just under four hours to record and was then sent direct to Edith Bowman at Radio 1, who exclusively aired the track on her afternoon show.
Funeral Blues is available as a free download from the Friends Of The Earth website foe.co.uk for two weeks, and is a must for anyone who enjoys hearing garbled, politically ambiguous songs that the singer didn't think would be good enough to go on an actual album that people can pay for. According to reports Funeral Blues contains the line:
"Hey, why don't you and me go off to the mountains or make love in Florence".
Why? Because a) travelling to those places would require an enormously polluting jet engine which would only help to further destroy our fragile ecosystem and b) we'd rather dip our balls in acid than make love to Johnny Borrell anywhere, thank you very much.
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Shiver says
Oh how I love your Razorlight rants.
Gilbert Wham says
Solar powered music studio? Does that mean all the staff get the day off if it rains, like bricklayers or cricketers? This bodes ill for popular music. Of course, it also means we need volunteers to do a raindance every time Razorlight turn up.
Me says
how dare you
razorlight are very talented
and johnny borrell is mot!
Gaz Hat says
RAZORSHITE MORE LIKE…….