But at the same time, Borrell’s dick-ish boasts (“Bob Dylan’s making chips and I’m drinking champagne”) along with his increasingly fraught relationship with drummer Burrows, which once saw the pair trading blows at Camden boozer The Hawley Arms in the mid-noughties, shows that implosion was almost inevitable. If you’re thinking all this was well-documented at the time, you’d be right. Yet Lowe’s documentary, named after 2006 single ‘Before I Fall To Pieces’ recounts the ‘untold story’ via new interviews cut together with archive footage. Awkward clips of Dalemo mumbling that Borrell was “very nice at the beginning” only confirm what we already knew.
Borrell and Burrows’ love-hate relationship sits at the centre of the film. In many ways it’s not dissimilar from Matt and Luke Goss’ rocky bromance in 2019 Bros documentary After The Screaming Stops and at times it’s almost as cringe-worthy and David Brent-like. Borrell reeling off zingers such as “this is the weed room, very important”; or embarrassingly showing off his boxing skills for the camera before comically consulting a seagull on Brighton Pier are all moments when the often-mocked Razorlight frontman really doesn’t help himself. However, when Borrell and Burrows do eventually reunite after 11 years of not talking, it’s a genuinely touching moment. Each confesses past insecurities and they finally clear the air.
In the second half of the film, Lowe focuses on the band’s rehearsals for a big reunion gig at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 2021. It’s less explosive, but as Borrell admits that he needs to take his ego out of the equation, he displays a warm sense of self-awareness that has hitherto been absent. Could Razorlight finally be back on even ground once more?
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