opening the Box of Secrets

Blood Red Shoes

Steven and Laura-May of Blood Red Shoes have given an exclusive commentary on one of their tracks from their upcoming album Box of Secrets:

‘It’s Getting Boring By The Sea’
Says Steven: We wrote this in about ten seconds, another one of those songs that seemed to fall out of the sky. I don't even really remember it happening, I just remember being at our practise space and jamming around for ages, then at some point something occurred and we both started grinning and the song was just there, pretty much fully-formed. The lyrics are a reaction to the dickheads who called us sell-outs or thought that we weren't ‘punk’ anymore because we wrote a chorus or a song you can dance to. In my mind there are two kinds of punk kids: the real punk kids who understand the nature of freedom, and punk kids for whom punk is a type of clothes, a hair colour and a certain type of band, and anything outside of those parameters is no longer ‘punk’. That's a kind of restrictive idiotic point of view I just can't abide - it's the least punk thing since U2.

Laura-Mary says: The meaning of the song changed however, after we visited a small town next to Brighton called Worthing.

Stephen says: Oh gawd..

Laura-Mary says: Yeah it really changed the aspect of the song completely, I have never been to a place which can only truly be described as boring (proun. boreee-ringggg). From now on I can't help but think of that town everytime we play it live. Only once was my mind taken off it when I saw this hot dude in the crowd at Komedia the other day in a black jumper - couldn't take my eyes off him. Anyway yeh thats 'It's getting boring by the Sea' summed up for you. ps im really beautiful