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Brighton indie duo claim that The Vaccines and You Me At Six are terrible role models for young bands.

The indie band, who release new single 'Cold' this week told Gigwise that 'career-ist' bands can only inspire bands to follow suit and shun individuality.

"There's load of terrible music at the moment. What bothers me is stuff like The Vaccines and You Me At Six - really safe, really clean-cut bands that seem very career-ist to me and its a decision to be what they are," said Steven Ansell of the band. "The thing that bothers me about that is that both those bands are pretty successful, so that's going to inspire other people to do that, to follow a trend and just do something that's very manageable and very middle of the road, because it looks appealing and it succeeds.

"People will follow those trends and that sucks, people should be encouraged to do something more individual and bands should do different stuff and do more different things and be more themselves - and less careerist - and then we'll have a more interesting scope of music out there."

The band also lay responsibilty on record labels for signing 'safe' bands instead of seeking more alternative sounds. Check out the snippet of the interview below. Stay tuned to Gigwise for the full video, which will be on Gigwise next week. Meanwhile, check out the duo's brilliant performance of 'In Time To Voices', also recorded exclusively for Gigwise.

Blood Red Shoes are on tour across the UK from April 2012. For more details and to buy Blood Red Shoes tickets, check out Gigwise Gig Tickets.

APRIL

27 Brighton Concorde 2
28 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
29 Oxford O2 Academy2

MAY
01 Bristol Trinity
02 Norwich Waterfront
03 London Heaven
04 Birmingham HMV Library
05 Manchester Academy 2
07 Liverpool Zanzibar
08 Newcastle Cluny
09 Aberdeen Tunnels
10 Glasgow King Tuts
12 Leeds Cockpit
13 Nottingham Rescue Rooms

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