Dancing Your Feet Red
The show at King Tuts marks the third time that I’ve seen Blood Red Shoes this year. The duo have left quite an impression during festival appearance, but tonight drummer Steven seems displeased at the sight of yet another barrier at the venue, thinking that they’d got past that after the festival season drew to a close. Despite the small barrier, the crowd feed off the band straight away, leaping around in frantic moshpits at the very first song, ‘Doesn’t Matter Much’, with it’s energetic shouty-pop chorus, which is painfully easy to join in with. The band treat fans to three new songs, which all seem to follow along the lines of the band’s previous material with jagged beats and fractious percussion; there’s one tune about repetition and another that’s so new that Laura-Mary hasn’t even worked out lyrics yet. But the band are eager to try out these new tunes to give the fans who have followed them at festivals something new.
It’s true that as a relatively new band there isn’t much variation from their festival sets but the crowd are a lot more feverous at the headline show than in a field and the band are bathed in the luscious red of two red lampshades. Laura-Mary and Steven have the perfect onstage interaction, managing to appear both connected to each other and the crowd throughout the show, with Steven often turning to face the crowd during songs, as far as his drumkit permits! Songs like, ‘This Is Not For You’ and ‘I Wish I Was Someone Better’ go down exceedingly well with the crowd at the sold out show all full of energy and just waiting to leap along at any given moment.
Blood Red Shoes are a great band live and have perfected the art of stage presence and keeping a crowd’s interest, which serves them well as their songs can be a little similar. They should have a bright future and it will be great to see them hopefully playing even more hot new material in the future.