Red Square (band)
Red Square is a free improvising band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England originally formed in 1974.
History
Consisting of Ian Staples (electric guitar), Jon Seagroatt (bass clarinet) and Roger Telford (drums and percussion). The group played extremely loud and intense free-form jam sessions supporting other like-minded musicians, such as Henry Cow, Lol Coxhill, etc.
Red Square also played regularly on a semi-squatted basis at The Queens, a dilapidated hotel in Westcliff-on-Sea, where, according to a local urban myth, their set drowned out a concert by Cliff Richard, who was playing half a mile away at another venue.[citation needed]
The group was also involved with the left-wing political organisation, Music For Socialism.
Staples and Seagroatt moved to Oxfordshire, and worked together in other bands including the dance based The Duffs and ambient/techno duo B So glObal.
In 2008, the record label, FMR, released an album by the band called Thirty Three, containing re-mastered recordings from the 1970s. Red Square have since reformed. Seagroatt also plays saxophone, flute and percussion with the reformed psychedelic folk band, Comus.
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