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Razorlight have revealed that the band will be put on hold whilst frontman Johnny Borrell works on his solo project.

Borell confirmed that the band's final show will be on 3 April, 2013 in Paris before he embarks on several solo shows.

The singer told French radio station Oui FM: "Razorlight are going to play The Olympia in Paris on April 3rd and after that it's Johnny Borrell, for the moment, and that's Freddy who plays in Razorlight, and Joao who comes from Brazil, who we met playing his saxophone in the street, and it's Darren who plays keyboards.

"We had gone to the south of France to a small house in the Pays Basque last year and the music just came very naturally. It's an album that was born in the spirit of a party, and the arrangements for the songs come from that atmosphere."

Johnny Borrell will be concentrating on a new solo project 

Borrell will release a four track cassette recording including 'Dahlia Allegro' and 'Pan - European Supermodel Song'which will be released as a Double A side and 7" vinyl on 8 April.

Speaking of the new venture, Borrell added: "When music works, it's like love, you can't force it and that's what happened with this.

"I'm so happy that it's come about this way, I'm just very removed from all the commerciality and the circus of rock 'n' roll, and I'm really happy that this record has come about in this way and happy to have made the record."

Razorlight shot to fame in 2003 and have since achieved three top five albums, but haven't released an LP since 2008's Slipway Fires which reached No.4 in the charts.

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