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Blood Red Shoes are an English alternative rock duo from Brighton consisting of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. They have released six full-length albums, Box of Secrets (2008), Fire Like This (2010), In Time to Voices (2012), Blood Red Shoes (2014), Get Tragic (2019) and Ghosts on Tape (2022) as well as several EPs and a number of singles. In 2014, they founded their own label, Jazz Life.
Blood Red Shoes emerged in late 2004 following the disbandment of Steven Ansell's Cat on Form and Laura-Mary Carter's Lady Muck. In an interview, Carter revealed that the band's name was inspired by a Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire musical, in which Rogers famously bled into her white dancing shoes during intense rehearsals.
Blood Red Shoes released their debut single, “Victory for the Magpie”, on 18 July 2005. The following year in 2006, the duo released a string of 7" records through various independent labels. The singles included “Stitch Me Back / Meet Me at Eight”, released on 20 February 2006 via Try Harder Records, “A.D.H.D / Can't Find the Door”, released on 29 May 2006 via Try Harder Records, and “You Bring Me Down / Try Harder”, issued on 20 November 2006 by XL Recordings and Drowned in Sound. After performing more than 300 live shows across the United Kingdom, they signed with V2 Records where they released the singles “It’s Getting Boring by the Sea” on 11 June 2007, and “I Wish I Was Someone Better” on 29 October 2007. The duo also released a singles compilation album titled I’ll Be Your Eyes, issued on 22 June 2007 by Abeano/XL Recordings and Drowned in Sound.
The band featured on both days of the 2007 Camden Crawl, playing the Purple Turtle and the Earl of Camden respectively, and were one of four bands to play the NME New Music Tour 2007, with the Little Ones, Pull Tiger Tail and the Rumble Strips. The summer of 2007 saw the band playing several festival spots, including T in the Park, the inaugural Underage Festival, and the Electric Gardens festival. They also supported a wide range of bands, such as Biffy Clyro and Maxïmo Park.
Following the sale of V2 to Universal Music Group, the band's debut album Box of Secrets was released on Mercury Records/Universal on 14 April 2008. It was leaked to private torrent trackers in November 2007, several months before its retail release date. The band have commented that although they have no issue with file sharing and downloading free music, having their debut album become available outside of their control and without the intended artwork and lyric booklet was a disappointment. Laura-Mary Carter from the band has designed the record sleeve for every release by the band.[citation needed]
They played a nine-date tour of the UK, in support of the album, followed by dates across mainland Europe and Japan. They played major international festivals including Glastonbury festival, Reading and Leeds, Summer Sonic, Pukkelpop, Lowlands and Melt!.[citation needed]
After their autumn-winter tour of 2008, which covered over 12 countries, the band took a performance stop in the first months of 2009 to write songs for their next record. They began touring again in March 2009, introducing new songs at every gig, sometimes including unfinished songs or those without lyrics. They opened for Foals in Brighton in 2009 to road-test some new material by playing all new songs except for "It's Getting Boring by the Sea" and "This Is Not For You". On 17 May 2009, the band played All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP festival), having been invited to play by the Breeders. The band recorded their second album with Mike Crossey at the Motor Museum recording studio in Liverpool. They also contributed an instrumental track called "Carry Knots" on a compilation CD for Audioscope, in aid of the homeless charity Shelter, which was released in October 2009.
On 25 November 2009, the band made a new track, "Colours Fade", available to download from their website. Independent music webzine The Music Magazine commented that the band's sound had been boosted. Author Jamie Smith wrote: "It takes the tried and tested BRS formula and as they say, turns it up to eleven. It’s seven minutes long. It pretty much defines epic. It sounds HUGE."
Blood Red Shoes
Blood Red Shoes are an English alternative rock duo from Brighton consisting of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. They have released six full-length albums, Box of Secrets (2008), Fire Like This (2010), In Time to Voices (2012), Blood Red Shoes (2014), Get Tragic (2019) and Ghosts on Tape (2022) as well as several EPs and a number of singles. In 2014, they founded their own label, Jazz Life.
Blood Red Shoes emerged in late 2004 following the disbandment of Steven Ansell's Cat on Form and Laura-Mary Carter's Lady Muck. In an interview, Carter revealed that the band's name was inspired by a Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire musical, in which Rogers famously bled into her white dancing shoes during intense rehearsals.
Blood Red Shoes released their debut single, “Victory for the Magpie”, on 18 July 2005. The following year in 2006, the duo released a string of 7" records through various independent labels. The singles included “Stitch Me Back / Meet Me at Eight”, released on 20 February 2006 via Try Harder Records, “A.D.H.D / Can't Find the Door”, released on 29 May 2006 via Try Harder Records, and “You Bring Me Down / Try Harder”, issued on 20 November 2006 by XL Recordings and Drowned in Sound. After performing more than 300 live shows across the United Kingdom, they signed with V2 Records where they released the singles “It’s Getting Boring by the Sea” on 11 June 2007, and “I Wish I Was Someone Better” on 29 October 2007. The duo also released a singles compilation album titled I’ll Be Your Eyes, issued on 22 June 2007 by Abeano/XL Recordings and Drowned in Sound.
The band featured on both days of the 2007 Camden Crawl, playing the Purple Turtle and the Earl of Camden respectively, and were one of four bands to play the NME New Music Tour 2007, with the Little Ones, Pull Tiger Tail and the Rumble Strips. The summer of 2007 saw the band playing several festival spots, including T in the Park, the inaugural Underage Festival, and the Electric Gardens festival. They also supported a wide range of bands, such as Biffy Clyro and Maxïmo Park.
Following the sale of V2 to Universal Music Group, the band's debut album Box of Secrets was released on Mercury Records/Universal on 14 April 2008. It was leaked to private torrent trackers in November 2007, several months before its retail release date. The band have commented that although they have no issue with file sharing and downloading free music, having their debut album become available outside of their control and without the intended artwork and lyric booklet was a disappointment. Laura-Mary Carter from the band has designed the record sleeve for every release by the band.[citation needed]
They played a nine-date tour of the UK, in support of the album, followed by dates across mainland Europe and Japan. They played major international festivals including Glastonbury festival, Reading and Leeds, Summer Sonic, Pukkelpop, Lowlands and Melt!.[citation needed]
After their autumn-winter tour of 2008, which covered over 12 countries, the band took a performance stop in the first months of 2009 to write songs for their next record. They began touring again in March 2009, introducing new songs at every gig, sometimes including unfinished songs or those without lyrics. They opened for Foals in Brighton in 2009 to road-test some new material by playing all new songs except for "It's Getting Boring by the Sea" and "This Is Not For You". On 17 May 2009, the band played All Tomorrow's Parties (ATP festival), having been invited to play by the Breeders. The band recorded their second album with Mike Crossey at the Motor Museum recording studio in Liverpool. They also contributed an instrumental track called "Carry Knots" on a compilation CD for Audioscope, in aid of the homeless charity Shelter, which was released in October 2009.
On 25 November 2009, the band made a new track, "Colours Fade", available to download from their website. Independent music webzine The Music Magazine commented that the band's sound had been boosted. Author Jamie Smith wrote: "It takes the tried and tested BRS formula and as they say, turns it up to eleven. It’s seven minutes long. It pretty much defines epic. It sounds HUGE."
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