Blood Red Shoes Screams!
This Monday UK indie-rock duo Blood Red Shoes return with new tour dates and the single ‘Screams’, their first new music since 2023. Plus new EU/UK tour dates!
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The Brighton band consisting of Laura-Mary Carter (guitar, vocals) and Steven Ansell (drums, vocals) celebrated their 20 years of activity with 20 Years Of Blood Red Shoes: Live In Paris and four event concerts in 2024, after which Laura-Mary focussed on her solo endeavours including a new studio album and a tour as support for QOTSA. (queens Of The Stoneage)
Now they are ready to fully focus on each other’s musical company again. In their own words:
“When you’re just two people in a band for over two decades, you develop psychic powers. You understand each other in a way that nobody else can access. When we play live we never count in songs “1,2,3,4”, we just lock eyes and we know when to start the song together. Writing songs is the same: there is a feeling, a look in the eye, an unspoken understanding that tells us when a song is right or wrong. We don’t discuss it, or plan it, or work with concepts. We just make and let our shared intuition guide us.”
That’s the place where this song Screams, their first new music since 2023, was born. From the strange and deep connection between two people who have been doing this so long they don’t know how to work any other way, people out on their own island who are so at ease with each other they can be truly honest and unguarded and expressive. Some people say you should get out of your comfort zone. For Laura-Mary and Steven its’ the exact opposite: it’s a lot easier to simply be yourself, which is something that is valued a lot in Blood Red Shoes.
“Screams is a reflective, messy, unpretentious rock n roll song, a reflection of who we are right now, 22 years into our partnership, inspired by an old photo, and by our own history together. We wanted it to feel like a home video we’re sharing with the world and it was made entirely by us, written, recorded, engineered, mixed - nobody else was involved at any stage. Just us, in our own studio, in our own world, being ourselves.”
With the new single also comes a new tour that will take them all across the EU and the UK in October 2026 under the motto “The shows will be as loud as your country’s laws allow us to be!” NL/Be dates below
16-10-2026 - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
17-10-2026 - Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
19-10-2026 - Doornroosje, Nijmegen
20-10-2026 - Effenaar, Eindhoven
21-10-2026 - Kavka, Antwerpen
