Blood Red Shoes Announce 'Cold' Release Details & Tour Dates
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Brighton-based double act Blood Red Shoes have announced the release details of both their new album and single, as well as an April and May UK tour.
The band, a.k.a Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell, will return this year with their 3rd album ‘In Time to Voices’ - out on March 26th - and a new single ‘Cold’, released on March 19th via V2/Co-Operative Music.
Since the release of their debut almost 4 years ago, the duo had embarked on a gruelling, unrelenting tour schedule, seeing them travel the four corners of the globe and earning them an international fan-base. However, spending that much time on the road can only lead to some incredible stories and unbelievable situations:
“From getting arrested after spending a night drinking in a biker den,” recalls Steve, “Laura fighting bouncers – twice - to the two of us breaking up onstage or having a giant fight in Prague and me getting found in the street robbed by two prostitutes. Oh and there was that time where we were invited to a hotel demolition party in Paris where we broke into Keith Richards’ room and totalled it.
“These stories are all on the record. I guess being only two people spending more than 300 days a year together makes you kind of...volatile. Modern bands seem way too clean-cut and sensible to us anyway.”
The new album sees Blood Red Shoes come of age musically, building on their punk rock roots and moving into an ambitious, three-dimensional new sound that encapsulates heavy rock as much as it does as sweeping, melancholy soundscapes and classic songwriting drawn from the likes of Black Sabbath, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones.
‘Cold’, the first single to be taken from their forthcoming long-player, sees Blood Red Shoes unleash a their most bold and defiant track to date, with Laura-Mary's confident vocal delivery set alongside a hyperactive drum groove and a truly anthemic chorus.
Of the track, Laura-Mary says: “Steven started playing this weird drum beat in a soundcheck and I wanted to make it into a song, so I found this mean riff to play over it. It has this hip-hop groove which is something we'd never tried before.”
As well as a UK tour, the band will also be performing at this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals.
Apr 27th - Concorde 2 Brighton
Apr 28th - Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
Apr 29th - O2 Academy 2 Oxford
May 1st - Trinity Center Bristol, Avon
May 2nd - The Waterfront Norwich
May 3rd - Heaven London
May 4th - The Library at HMV Institute Birmingham
May 5th - Manchester Academy 2
May 7th - Zanzibar Liverpool
May 8th - The Cluny Newcastle
May 9th - The Tunnels Aberdeen
May 10th - King Tuts Glasgow
May 12th - Cockpit Leeds
May 13th - Rescue Rooms Nottingham
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