Biography
Blood Red Shoes is an English alternative rock duo from Brighton consisting of Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter, formed in 2004 after their previous bands (Cat on Form and Lady Muck respectively) broke up and they decided to "have a jam". Over the following 22 years the band have released 7 full-length studio albums, multiple live records as well as several EPs and a number of singles.
In an interview in Berlin, Carter explained that the band's name was taken from a Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire musical, in which Rogers had turned a pair of white dancing shoes red with blood due to the amount of dancing she had done practising for the role.
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Their debut album Box Of Secrets was finally released in April 2008 on Mercury Records, where they were transferred to following the sale of V2 to Universal. The single It's Getting Boring By The Sea is featured on the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Further major label albums Fire Like This (2010) and In Time to Voices (2012) were released to critical acclaim.
In 2014, they founded Jazz Life, their own record label. Jazz Life subsequently released the self titled Blood Red Shoes (2014), Get Tragic (2019), Ghosts on Tape (2022) and Stay Lonely (2026), along with solo material from Carter in 2022 and 2025.
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