The Red Stains

Cooking up a plastic fantastic disco-punk sound from a collage of musical influences, Manchester four-piece The Red Stains embrace the kitsch and the tacky as a power to disrupt the male-dominated music industry.

Their sharp and sarcastic lyrics hold a mirror up to domestic everyday life: consumerism, mental illness, public transport, discount supermarkets and being LGBT.

Forming the Red Stains’ distinctive ready-meal-punk sound are four ingredients: Natalie Emslie’s fiery and powerful vocals hang over a backdrop of Sterling Kelly’s gritty, throbbing bass and Amber Martin’s dizzying synths and airy, blissed-out guitar. Turn your microwaves up, turn the volume up, turn the hoover on and get ready to dance your socks off.

The Red Stains formed in 2019 and released two singles, ‘Mannequin’ and ‘Freezer Jesus’ during 2020. Their third single ‘Smile!’ was released in 2021, with the releases being played on BBC 6Music alongside both national and international radio coverage.

Their most recent single ‘TV Static’ is set to be released in summer 2022.