Blood Red Shoes: “If not for our music, we’d be best friends locked in the same insane asylum”

Since forming in 2004, Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell have built a reputation for fiery dual vocals, bold riffing, and a performance style that feels simultaneously urgent and unpretentious. Over six studio albums — from the fan favourite “Box of Secrets” (2008, V2) to the boundary-pushing “Ghosts on Tape” (2022, Jazz Life) — they’ve grown in ambition and depth, all while retaining their signature edge. As Belgrade gears up for its first encounter with the