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New Year - new album. Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes are back in 2014 with their self-titled fouth record. And it's quite possibly their best yet...
The new album is due for release on 3 March 2014, and this time around has an international flavour, having been produced and recorded by the band in Berlin, and mixed by iconic producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur JR and more). The band recently revealed the first track to be taken from the album, The Perfect Mess. Listen below. It's pretty damn epic.
With a new album, of course, comes new live shows, and Blood Red Shoes have built a reputation as an awesome live experience. Ahead of the album's release, and inevitable craziness as the band hit the road, Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell of the band have revealed the best shows of their career, ever, exclusively on Gigwise. Find out what they picked below. Were you there?
Amsterdam Paradiso, 2010
"This was the biggest headline show we'd ever done at this point, and the Paradiso is such a legendary venue so it was a total high point. We had Pulled Apart By Horses open for us as well which never fails to get you in the mood to play. I think the crowd set some kind of record for the most amount of stage divers the venue had ever seen."
Electric Ballroom, 2010
"Man I loved this show! I don't know what it is but Electric Ballroom is such a good fit for us, it's loud as fuck and a good size but still dirty enough to have a proper rock n roll gig. I remember the audience seeming crazy loud when we came back for an encore and ending with possibly the noisiest version of Colours Fade we've ever played, just full MBV-style PA overload."
Reading Mainstage, 2012
"When you're a teenager and you start playing in your first bands you look up to playing something like this as a totally unattainable goal. Took us 8 years of being a band to work our way up to playing on the Main Stage and it felt really good even though it was like 2pm which is pretty early for us. I spent the whole time just thinking to myself, 'fuck me we're actually doing this'."
Melt, 2010
"We'd played Melt festival a year or so previously and had a bit of a disaster, so we were intent on it being a blast for our 2nd time around... and it worked. From the minute we went on we just went full pelt with no restraint. It's a great festival setting too, in an old quarry with loads of crazy old industrial machinery everywhere, unlike any other festival we've played."
Los Angeles First Unitarian Church, 2013
"This was a strange thing because our original show got moved and nobody would tell us why... turns out the Rolling Stones had decided to do a surprise show there so we got bumped to this venue which was a seated church. Really not our scene. The other bands playing all seemed really uncomfortable with the setting, which was just making the audience not very involved and we realized the only way to make something good out of it was to stop giving a fuck about the weird setup and just turn it up, get out there and rock the fuck out... it was just a really fun, kinda liberating show because we didn't worry at all about playing exactly right we just wanted to make as much noise as possible and get people out of their seats. I wanna play every show like that."
Blood Red Shoes by Blood Red Shoes is release 3 March 2014. Click here to pre-order it now.
