RedTrack have just been confirmed to play at this year’s City Showcase, London’s leading festival for new music. They will play a slot on May 8th at 2pm at WeSC in Carnaby Street.
www.cityshowcase.co.uk
RedTrack’s Double-A sided ‘Pole Dancer/Addicted to Lust’, the third release from the Southend band, co-arranged and featuring on backing vocals The Buzzcocks legend Pete Shelley, was released March 30th. Dave M. Allen (Cure producer) and Mark Ralph (Filthy Dukes) produced and engineered the single.
Pole Dancer has received spot play on BBC Essex Introducing, Pete Mitchell’s show on BBC Radio 2 and Total Rock Radio. The band are set to perform a live set for Total Rock Radio later this month.
RedTrack were born late in 2006 and quickly the band were “discovered” by London management/ production company Northern Blue Music. At the time RedTrack had no studio experience and about eight songs. Northern Blue planted RedTrack in Maple Recording Studios in Southend-on-Sea and by March 2007 the band were deemed ready to record their debut single.
The band were due in the studio to record ‘Pretty Boy/Inside’ on March 11, 2007. The day before their studio debut, Phil was attacked by two men wearing tracksuits and baseball caps. The attackers shot Phil in the leg with an air-rifle and hacked him with a meat-cleaver on the head and across his forearm. Phil had 20 stitches in his head and needed emergency microsurgery on the severed tendons in his arm. Phil permanently lost the use of two fingers on his left hand. Not good for anyone, let alone a bass player the day before he was due to record his debut single.
In August, 2007, RedTrack got back in the studio with Phil on the bass and the band were able to record and release their first single (Pretty Boy/Inside) in October 2007.
The single received some great reviews and was featured on Steve Lamacq’s Radio One show. On the strength of the single and their great live shows Red Track also got some great supports with bands including The Maccabees and The View.
The band’s second release, the EP ‘Wait Around/Miss You Not’, released July last year, has been featured on Zane Lowe’s “Fresh Meat”, and been championed by Colin Murray of Radio One and again by Steve Lamacq on 6 Music. Billy has also performed an acoustic session for Kerrang Radio.
RedTrack sold out both of their single launch parties at Dublin Castle in Camden last Summer. Since this release, they have gone on to play supports with Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, do a 5 day tour of Scotland to rave reviews and play an acoustic session on Talk 107 FM.
You can catch RedTrack live on the following dates
April 17 – Dirty South, London / April 19 – Remix, London / April 24 – Total Rock Radio live session
April 29 – Chinnerys, Southend / May 1 – Liverpool o2 Academy / May 8 – City Showcase, London / May 24 – International Pop Overthrow Festival / June 6 – Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford / June 19 – Fred Rock Festival / July 3 – 12 Bar Denmark Street, London
NORTHERN IRELAND MINI TOUR – Aug 13 – Empire Music Theatre, Belfast / Aug 14 – 4M, Omagh / Aug 15 – Nerve Centre, Derry / Aug 22 – Grangemouth Music Festival
www.redtrack.co.uk
www.myspace.com/redtracktheband
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