Red Square (band)
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Red Square was a free improvising band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England during the 1970s.
Consisting of Ian Staples (electric guitar), Jon Seagroat (bass clarinet) and Roger (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 Seagroat 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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