Red Square (band)

Red Square (band)

Red Square was a free improvising band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England during the 1970s.

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.

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.


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