Monday, June 25, 2007

Favorite Things: Blood Red Shoes!


A month and no updates, what the hell is wrong with me?! Well, I have just the thing to make it up to you I swear. Laura-Mary from Blood Red Shoes' Favorite Things. Hailing from Brighton, England this intrepid twosome, comprised of Steven Ansell and Laura-Mary Carter has created some of what I humbly feel to be the best rock music in recent memory. I had the distinct honor of seeing them live the other week at the Highline Ballroom, in what I'm about 90% sure was their first stateside show. Sorry to sound like just another run of the mill music writer. I really do love them a lot though. They have that ineffable spark of whatever the hell it is that makes me shut up and take notice and/or start dancing. Speaking of dancing that is exactly what the crowd at that show didn't seem to want to do much of. But screw them, I'll post a clip of the show at the end of this post so you can see just why not dancing, or in some other way moving around, was a knuckle-head decision. And without further ado, here are Laura-Mary's responses to our little questionnaire (and as a side note she chose not to answer all the questions as everyone this is sent to is welcome to do)....

Laura Mary
Band: hood

Book: what a carve up! by jonathan coe

Movie: harvey (with james stewart)

Color: red

Animal: penguin

Artist: benjamin shadbolt

Poet: samuel beckett

President/Prime Minister/ Royal Family member: hugo chavez

Food: aubergine (eggplant!)

Phobia: insects getting into your ears

Word: plinth

Place: paris

Musical Term: sforzando

Childhood toys: the ghostbusters house


Thank you so much Laura-Mary, and Steven if you by any chance read this we'd love to hear from you too! And as promised as your reward for reading the whole post heres a video of them playing their new single "its getting boring by the sea" live at the Highline Ballroom. You cant see Steven very well, but I'm rather impressed I was able to find a video of it at all. Appréciez.