The release of ‘Love-Bomb’ arrives following Johnny Borrell’s call for the creation of a Guild of Live Musicians in response to the proliferation of bands using backing tracks. “We should all join together and form a Guild,” said the Jealous Nostril and Razorlight front man on BBC Newsnight where he was interviewed by Kirsty Wark.
“If there’s 20% of people that are still playing live in a real way then we should get together. I've been out touring, not just with Razorlight, with my other band Jealous Nostril, where we have played small venues & I have seen loads of young bands, like super young kids coming through, and they’re doing that, they're playing it for real. I think those bands should take pride in what they’re doing.
"If you pay your money for a show and you don’t mind going to see a pre-recorded show, that’s cool. If you want to go, that’s cool. But I think a lot of the time people are going to see those shows and they don’t even know. And that really annoys me. You can go as an audience member to watch a rock band, and not know that half of what you’re listening to is stuff that has been pre-recorded. It used to be said that a live band was only as good as it's drummer, nowadays a live band is only as good as its pre-recorded backing track'.”
Jealous Nostril are an alternative art-rock band from London. They were formed by Johnny Borrell (Razorlight/Libertines/Florence and the Machine) and Jack Flanagan (Mystery Jets) in the summer of 2022, enlisting Ellis D (ELLiS D) on drums. ‘Love-bomb’ is their fourth single to date.
Jealous Nostril play:
26th May Bearded Theory Festival, DERBYSHIRE, CATTON HALL
22nd July Splendour In The Grass, NOTTINGHAM
5th August Bingley Music Live, BINGLEY
26th August CarFest South, OVERTON, HAMPSHIRE
