Razorlight - Live at Strange Brew, Bristol - 24th October 2024

For the uninitiated, Strange Brew in central Bristol is a medium-sized, newish venue with psychedelic imagery on the walls and lava-lamp lighting.

There are no big brand names to speak of served at the bar, the toilets are unisex, the whole atmosphere is geared towards a left-of-centre, outside the mainstream independent venue.

The biggest name performing before Christmas is The Horrors, followed by Billy Nomates. It’s very cool.

Or at least, it normally is. Tonight, the clientele is all middle-aged couples, the sort who go to a couple of gigs a year, talk very loudly during the music and generally don’t know the decorum.

It’s perhaps unsurprising given the headline act is more than twenty years old, but as the cool kids gave up on Razorlight some years ago (somewhat unfairly), most of tonight’s audience most likely bought their second, self-titled album in ASDA in 2007. Because Johnny Borrell and company were that mainstream, for a while.

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