BLOOD RED SHOES // CHALK (VENUE), BRIGHTON
Blood Red Shoes deliver their homecoming headline show at the all new Chalk (venue) with flair!
BLOOD RED SHOES PERFORMING AT CHALK , BRIGHTON - 14.11.2019
PICTURE BY: | MICHAEL HUNDERTMARK PHOTOGRAPHY
★★★★☆ (4/5)
With the weather bringing a reprise, who would want to leave the confines of the house to attend a gig but when the Blood Red Shoes come to town for a long time overdue show, who would want to stay at home but go and eagerly queue with the fan base for an enhanced electric performance. The Band were last performing at the now defunct Sticky Mikes Frog’s bar way back in December 2018, Blood Red Shoes certainly returned with the right sensational sounds after a longer beak, gaining popularity in the US and taking on their own solo musical ventures in the meantime.
Blood Red Shoes are an alternative rock duo who originally stem from Brighton, consisting of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell. The Band have release their fifth studio album this year, ‘Get Tragic’ via their own record label Jazz Life and came together in late 2004 with demise of their previous bands. By mid-2005 Blood Red Shoes released their deput 7” EP which sold out within weeks with BBC radio 1 and XFM giving the band airplay and the their grew from there onwards.. Carter and Ansell were influenced by American underground garage and punk, before developing their own idiosyncratic noise pop with bouncing rhythms and catchy lyrics.
One surprise was the diverse group of ages at tonight’s gig. Over the last decade people have grown up with Blood Red Shoes and have seen the band still releasing new material and packing out venues on a midweek night. The band hit the stage as a four-piece, playing tracks, the newest material, ‘Elijah’ and ‘Mexican Dress’ taken from the ‘Get Tragic’ Album, soon to be back as a two piece after a few songs playing popular numbers ‘An Animal’, as the crowd erupt in a mosh pit!
The Duo’s energy and connection to the crowd is electric for this early show, as Steven proclaims, “….it’s too early for a Blood red Shoes gig!” and the band prove that they still got what it takes to deliver an exceptional loud show! The sound is crisp and loud in the new Chalk venue, with Steven’s drum kit having a few mic’s positioned around it.
The crowds cheer, wanting more with the encore of ‘ Bangsar’, and a blistering performance of ’Colours Fade’ and the night finished rather early.
SETLIST: | BLOOD RED SHOES CHALK VENUE, BRIGHTON – 14.11.2019
Elijah
God Complex
Mexican Dress
Light it up
An Animal
Black Distractions
Red River
Je Me Perds
Cold
The Perfect Mess
Don’t Ask
This is Not For You
When We Wake
Vertigo
Eye to Eye
Howl
I Wish I Was Someone Better
Encore:
Bangsar
Colours Fade