Running Red Lights was established in 2006. Migrating from small towns all across Eastern Canada to the swelling city of Toronto. Kevin, David, Jeff and Scarlett assembled together as a pop oriented, female fronted group under the control and direction of well-established traditionalists with crumbling ideas.
The band found themselves caught between2 worlds, eventually weathering the collapse of the old guard and struggling to adapt to the new age of DIY and the ever changing music industry.
Despite what at times felt like creative and career pandemonium, RRL went on to release a number of EP’s between 2009 and 2012.
The band continued to be apart of Canada’s growing live music scene and in 2010 out-rivaledsome of Canada’s top indie bands to become the winners of the Youdiscover Live Music Concert Series.
RRL's debut album 'There's a Bluebird in My Heart' released in 2014 to a sweep of praise from music journalist from all over the world. The album was added and featured on CBC and BBC Radio. The leading single 'Mulberry Love' was named #1 Song of 2014 via NY Blog Given and Taken in Ink and the popularity of the song allowed the band an appearance on the nationally televised Canada Am.
Running Red Lights has toured all over Canada into America, across the sea to Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.
On May 25th 2018 Running Red Lights released the first single, Songs of Blue their sophomore album, I Am You.
‘When I was fifteen, I had a high school boyfriend whose mother was a free-spirited, unconventional and lenient single parent who would often leave us unattended with her impressive collection of classic albums. Upon her departure we had a custom of randomly selecting an album and listening while we laid together on the sofa.
One day we selected Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’, and in that moment, that voice and those chords, my passion for songwriting began. Her songs went straight to the marrow of my heart. When the flighty love between me and my high school boyfriend dissolved, and all the subsequent broken hearts that followed, Joni Mitchell was always there, inviting me to be sad but promising that life would go on. It’s in the memory of those assailable and heartsick moments I so often shared with Joni, that ‘Songs of Blue’ was written.’
- Running Red Lights
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