Blood Red Shoes
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| Origin | Brighton, England |
| Genres | Alternative rock, indie rock, garage rock, noise pop |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | V2 Cooperative Music, Jazz Life |
| Associated acts | Pulled Apart By Horses, Drenge, DZ Deathrays, The Wytches, Slaves, Wallace Vanborn, 1984, Rolo Tomassi, Maximo Park, Biffy Clyro, The Gaslight Anthem, Foals |
| Members | Laura-Mary Carter Steven Ansell |
Blood Red Shoes are an alternative rock duo from Brighton, England consisting of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. They have released four full-length albums, Box of Secrets (2008), Fire Like This (2010), In Time to Voices (2012), and Blood Red Shoes (2014) as well as several EPs and a number of singles. In 2014, they founded their own label, Jazz Life.
Blood Red Shoes formed in late 2004, after Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter's previous bands (Cat on Form and Lady Muck respectively) broke up and they decided to "have a jam". In an interview in Berlin, Carter explained that the band's name was taken from a Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire musical, in which Ginger Rogers had turned a pair of white dancing shoes red with blood due to the amount of dancing she had done practicing for the role.
The band openly support anti-fascist campaigns such as Love Music Hate Racism, contributing on the second CD of the 2007 LMHR compilation album with the track "Can't Find the Door", and have also played the feminist festival Ladyfest in the past.
They released their debut single "Victory for the Magpie" on 18 July 2005, followed by the double A-side "Stitch Me Back / Meet Me at Eight" then "A.D.H.D", both released on Try Harder, and "You Bring Me Down" on Drowned in Sound / Abeano/XL in 2006. After playing over 300 live shows around the UK, they were signed to V2 in April 2007 with whom they released the singles "It's Getting Boring by the Sea" (11 June 2007) and "I Wish I Was Someone Better" (29 October 2007), as well as the singles compilation album I'll Be Your Eyes on 25 June 2007.
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