Laura-Mary Carter: Women Make Music

Hailing from London, Laura-Mary spent her teens borrowing guitars from friends in order to teach herself how to play and develop her own sound. Influenced by strong female rock icons of her youth, she began working with drummer Steven Ansell, and soon established herself as the guitar-thrashing half of internationally revered British punk-rock duo Blood Red Shoes. As part of the band, Laura-Mary has released four studio albums, receiving resounding critical acclaim and a worldwide following of devoted fans. Alongside this, Laura-Mary has graced the main stages of major international rock festivals, often finding herself the only female performer on the main stages of the likes of Reading and Leeds in years 2012 and 2014.

During time away from Blood Red Shoes, Laura-Mary began writing songs in a different vein to their usual style, discovering an independent voice in her own material. PRSF funding will help Laura-Mary form, release and tour her debut solo release Town Called Nothing EP. Her solo work speaks from the deceptively peaceful eye of a storm, from someone whose adult life has been in constant motion. All the faces of all the people she’s met along the way, and the anonymous locations she’s passed through, echo throughout the work; moments of intimate honesty manage to bring life into sharp focus.