![]() ![]() It was leaked to private torrent trackers in November 2007, several months before its retail release date. Box of Secrets įollowing 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. They also supported a wide range of bands, such as Biffy Clyro and Maxïmo Park. 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. 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. 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. Early singles īlood Red Shoes 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 Records, and " You Bring Me Down" on Drowned in Sound / Abeano/XL in 2006. In an interview in Berlin, Carter explained that the band's name was taken from a Ginger Rogers/ Fred Astaire musical, in which Rogers had turned a pair of white dancing shoes red with blood due to the amount of dancing she had done practising for the role. Overview Formation īlood 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 2014, they founded their own label, Jazz Life. 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. Blood Red Shoes are an English alternative rock duo from Brighton consisting of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. ![]()
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