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Artist News
Johnny Borrell looks back on Borrell 1
By Aly Barchi | Published on Thursday 14 November 2013
Johnny Borrell has been gobbing off to Drowned In Sound about his not-as-bad-as-it-sounds (in fact actually quite alright) solo LP ‘Borrell 1’, which had a rather rough landing sales-figures-wise on its release earlier this year. I say ‘gobbing off’, but Johnny’s actually quite civil and articulate (and, dare I day, ‘humbled’ in places) so all just lay off him for a minute and buy ‘Borrell 1’, won’t you? No? Oh, alright.
Anyway, he says a lot about what it was like being on a major label (not nice, apparently), and what it’s like now to have more autonomy (much nicer, thanks), stating: “On a personal level, I feel like I connected with songwriting again. I feel free in terms of songwriting, I feel like this is definitely the strongest stuff I’ve done for a very, very long time in terms of songs – that is the very definition of satisfaction”.
And: “We played to what, 80 people in Paris last night? I would rather play to 80 people who are switched on enough, and unprejudiced enough, to get what’s going on with this band right now, than to play to 80,000 people who are there because that’s the CD that’s out this year or whatever. Of course I would, it’s what it’s about”.
Look at the full Q&A, a good chunk of which is about Johnny’s love for riding his motorbike indoors, here.
