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Razorlight's Johnny Borrell to perform with Lembit Opik

The singer/guitarist will play live with a band made up of MPs

Razorlight's Johnny Borrell is set to share a stage with a band formed entirely of MPs.

On June 3, Borrell will perform solo at London's Science Museum for The Big Ask to highlight climate change issues, and will be supported by the five-piece.

The five politicians, including Lembit Opik, will perform a rendition of John Denver's 'Leaving On A Jet Plane' in the museum's Aviation Room to highlight the campaign's main point.

The Big Ask is urging legislators to include emissions from aviation and shipping, some of the highest from any UK industry, in the upcoming climate change bill restricting these releases.

As well as Opik, the band of cross-party MPs dubbing themselves The Aviators features the SNP's Peter Wishart, Conservative Anne Milton and Labour's Emily Thornberry and Ian Cawsey.

Wishart is the only currently-serving MP to have been on 'Top Of The Pops' - the keyboardist featured on the show with his former band Runrig, and was also a one-time member of Big Country.

Cawsey and Wishart are also members of the parliamentary rock group MP4.

Opik is engaged to Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia.

Razorlight tickets:

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Dec 16, 2009 18:30 Razorlight O2 Academy Brixton London

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May 27, 2008

a song containing lyrics about travel by both car AND jetplane is hardly the most appropriate soundtrack to an anti-climate change event. maybe johnny borrell is subverting the form. maybe he is a braindead cunt. its not my position to say. just to heavily imply.

aphexbin 

May 27, 2008

thats about right... they should get al gore to join in via video link...

baronsaladback 

May 27, 2008

I would rather watch The Cheeky Girls than Borrell. Lyrically, they are on the same level.

chrispaz 

May 28, 2008

Brilliant. The latest in a long line of significant and influential pairings that have helped to make our world a better place. We've had Hale & Pace, Cannon & Ball, The Chuckle Brothers; now pray silence for Opik & Borrell!

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Razorlight, Johnny Borrell             NME cover shoot June 2007,                Pic Andy Fallon

Razorlight, Johnny Borrell NME cover shoot June 2007, Pic...

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