Brighton-based duo Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell will return this year with new album ‘In Time To Voices’ out on March 26th and a new single ‘Cold’, released on March 19th via V2/Co-Operative Music. The band will also be hitting the road throughout the UK for an April and May tour.
Since the release of their debut almost 4 years ago, the duo have embarked on a gruelling, unrelenting tour schedule, seeing them travel the four corners of the globe and earning them an international fanbase. However the life on the road can have its side-effects as Steven speaks of some of their more troublesome moments :
‘”From getting arrested after spending a night drinking in a biker den, 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 ‘In Time To Voices’, released March 26th was recorded at The Motor Museum in Liverpool, continuing their successful partnership with Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys/Foals/Tribes) who co-produced the album with them.
The record 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.
FULL TRACKLISTING
• In Time To Voices
• Lost Kids
• Cold
• Two Dead Minutes
• The Silence And The Drones
• Night Light
• Je Me Perds
• Stop Kicking
• Slip Into Blue
• Down Here In The Dark
• 7 Years
Touring heavily throughout 2011, this year sees the band back on the road with no signs of slowing down with a full worldwide tour planned and UK dates confirmed, detailed below:
FULL UK DATES
APRIL
27th Concorde 2, Brighton, UK Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk / Box office - 01273 673311
28th Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, UK Tickets: www.seetickets.com / Box office - 02392 863911
29th 02 Academy 2, Oxford, UK Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474
MAY
1st Trinity, Bristol, UK Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474
2nd Waterfront, Norwich, UK Tickets: www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk / Box office - 01603 508050
3rd Heaven, London, UK Tickets: www.gigandtours.com / Box office - 0207 4033331
4th HMV Library, Birmingham, UK Tickets: www.gigandtours.com / Box office - 08442 485037
5th Academy 2, Manchester, UK Tickets: www.gigandtours.com / Box office - 01618 321111
7th Zanzibar, Liverpool, UK Tickets: www.ticketline.co.uk / Box office - 01517 070633
8th Cluny, Newcastle, UK Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474
9th Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK Tickets: www.gigsinscotland.com / Box office - 08444 999990
10th King Tuts, Glasgow, UK Tickets: www.gigsinscotland.com / Box office - 08444 999990
12th The Cockpit, Leeds, UK Tickets: www.lunatickets.co.uk / Box office - 01132 436743
13th Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK Tickets: www.alt-tickets.co.uk / Box office - 01912 304474
Pre-sale tickets go on sale from www.crowdsurge.com on Wednesday 25th January at 9am
Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday 27th January.
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