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I Am Arrows: 100 Club, London W1

Pete Paphides, The Sunday Times, 26 September 2010

EVEN FOR A DRUMMER, Andy Burrows's timing really cannot be faulted. In 2009 he announced his departure from Razorlight just as their stock seemed to enter freefall. It must have seemed like a risk at the time, but 18 months on there cannot be too much to separate the group fronted by Johnny Borrell from Burrows's new band. Furthermore, Burrows can rely on a certain amount of goodwill from a world in which many impartial onlookers have stopped to wonder just how long any mortal being could survive Borrell's airs and graces.

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