The Fly - He Bangs The Drums - June '04
		In the space of a month, the world of Andy Burrows has been turned upside down. Having spent six years in a band and got nowhere, Burrows was feeling disheartened, disillusioned and down on his luck. Then, at his girlfriend’s request, he attended an audition for a band he knew little or nothing about. Five weeks later, he’s been on sold-out UK tour and banged his drums for Cat Deeley on CD:UK as his new band have strutted their way into the Top Ten.  The sticksman saviour of Razorlight explains how it all happened… How Razorlight found Andy / Andy found Razorlight “A month ago was quite depressing; the nearest thing I had to a job was teaching my brother’s mates how to play drums. I was doing some session work and, instead of payment, the guy sent an email out to his industry buddies about me. Someone forwarded it on to Roger (Morton – Razorlight manager). The only thing I knew about Razorlight was when I went into WH Smith, picked up an NME and opened on it a page where the headline was Johnny saying ‘I think I’m the greatest songwriter of my generation’! I don’t think I’ve had done that audition had someone not said ‘go and do the fucking audition’. I can’t believe all this has happened…” The Audition “I went to the audition on the Saturday, still not having heard any Razorlight songs.  ‘Golden Touch’ came on the radio and I remember thinking what a good song it was.  I got there and it was cool, playing a song I’d just heard on the radio.  They said they wanted me to come back the next day which I did.  Johnny actually stopped a song at one point and said to me, ‘I wish we had you on the album.’ I though ‘Oh, don’t say stuff like that to me!’” The Next Day “I was in a real state. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve ever had in my life, coming into a band who are on their biggest single and about to do a sold-out headline tour. It got to about 3pm and I though I hadn’t got it, then Roger called and he was very relaxed and cool, and it wasn’t until five minutes into the conversation that I realised I was in the band. He just presumed I already knew! I’d been waiting all day for him to ring! I couldn’t believe they left it that long!” The Tour “The tour was great. I’ve never walked onstage to more than a bit of clapping before. Actually, I’ve never got to walk onstage before cause I’ve had to go on and set my drums up! Now I walk on and they’re all there!  That was the first big difference, having all these people round you helping.  The whole thing was unbelievable for me, it was overwhelming. The first night, in Nottingham, we sat outside, and there was people standing outside. It took me a few minutes to work out they were in a queue for the gig! I’ve never been in a band that…had a queue! It dawned on me then how big this band are gonna be.”