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 Blood Red Shoes Announce U.S. Fall Tour, Play CMJ 
Fire Like This Out October 5th On V2 Records/Nice Music Group
 
 
 
 
The NME 8/10 : "we’ll have to be content with Blood Red Shoes quietly becoming one of the most thrillingly loud bands we’ve got – and the promising hope that there’ll be plenty more fire exactly like this from them for years to come."  http://www.nme.com/reviews/blood-red-shoes/11087

Drowned In Sound 9/10: "As noisy as Blood Red Shoes are, they still know their way around a pop hook, and there are plenty here, possibly even more than there are on Box of Secrets." http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15145/reviews/4139202

The BBC : " this is a raw, unfussy rock record that forsakes gloss or studio tricks for instinct and urgency." http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/qx28

ArtRocker : http://live.artrocker.com/rrpedia/Fire_Like_This

The Music Magazine UK : "The band's sound had been boosted. Author Jamie Smith wrote: "It takes the tried and tested BRS formula and as they say, turns it up to eleven. It’s seven minutes long. It pretty much defines epic. It sounds HUGE."

UNCUT Magazine UK (4 Stars ****)  : "Visceral yet Melodic, A welcome winter warmer"

The Clash Magazine UK 8/10 : "Taught and Lean, bold and mean, Blood Red Shoes are fighting fit and "Fire Like This" might just be their knock-out punch"
 
 
Blood Red Shoes are Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. They are a rock band from Brighton, UK. They know there is a power and intensity in simplicity. And they have a new album. It’s called Fire Like This.
 
Intensity is the word. Fire Like This is simply exceptional rock music, steeped in a knowledge of your alt-rock staples – Nirvana, Babes In Toyland, Drive Like Jehu – but with its own fingerprint. ‘Don’t Ask’ and ‘Count Me Out’ harness scything guitars and loud-quiet dynamics like they never went out of fashion. But there’s more ambitious fare here, too. Take dramatic seven-minute closer ‘Colours Fade’, originally released as a free download from their website– or the tender, fraught ‘When We Wake’, a sombre mediation on mortality that nonetheless burns with hot emotional force. “In the end is this all we can ask for?” breathes Laura-Mary, as Steven’s drums patter with a quiet intensity.
 
This is not your typical rock fare, but Blood Red Shoes thrive on such paradox. This, remember, is a band just as comfortable supporting Rage Against The Machine in front of 30,000 Parisians as they are rocking up at a benefit gig for Shelter or Love Music Hate Racism just because, you know, it matters.
 
“It’s a difficult tightrope,” says Steven. “You know, we’ve come from a punk rock, underground scene – everyone has pretty strict ethical rules, about selling out and that. We want to make music that matters, that’s credible, and artistic. But we’re also really ambitious. We definitely want to be a big band.”
 
And is it still possible to do both?
 
Steven shares a glance with Laura-Mary. They smile. They think so. “It’s hard, of course,” says Steven. “But we’ve learnt so much  in the last few years. I know we’ll be alright if we’re completely ourselves.”
 
 
 US Tour Dates
 
October 12 - Vancouver, BC - Media Club     
October 13 - Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern  
October 15 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop    
October 16 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters 
October 18 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theatre
October 19 - San Diego, CA - Casbah     
October 20 - New York, NY - CMJ     
October 21 - New York, NY - CMJ     
October 22 - Washington, DC - Red Palace 
October 24 - Boston, MA - Great Scott  
October 26 - Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo 
October 27 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern  
October 28 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop   
October 29 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean  
 
 
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