Johnny Borrell - Other Work

Other Work

Borrell has appeared twice on The Mighty Boosh, once alone as a giant rapist rabbit in the 2006 stage show and once with Razorlight in the episode "The Priest and the Beast". Noel Fielding also opened for Razorlight at their two sold out Alexandra Palace shows in 2005 and appeared in the Razorlight video for the song 'In the Morning' and 'Up All Night'. Borrell appeared on the front cover of the May 2007 issue of Vogue magazine, alongside supermodel Natalia Vodianova, in his trademark skinny white jeans and topless. Borrell is one of only seven men who have appeared on the cover of the UK version of Vogue. In 2008 Borrell and bandmate Andy Burrows appeared at the Teenage Cancer Trust comedy night at the Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Borrell's friend Noel Fielding. The two played a short acoustic set.

Late in 2007 Borrell played keyboards in a band he helped put together for Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. The pair had met through Florence’s manager Mairead Nash. Borrell went on to co-write and produced two songs with Welch, ‘The Hanging Song’ and ‘Building Bricks’ although these did not end up on Florence’s debut album.

It was reported that Borrell would star in an Irvine Welsh scripted film alongside Colin Firth and Robert Carlyle called 'The Meat Trade', however the film did not make it into production. He has been approached with further film roles but has yet to commit to one.