THE GO! TEAM
The Go! Team are an English six piece band (with two drummers) from Brighton. |
So the band will be playing:
04 July - Furia Sound Festival, Paris, France
24 July - Incamon Festival, Mallorca, Spain
And they have recently remixed a Papercuts song that you can check out -here-
01. Grip Like a Vice 02. Doing It Right 03. My World 04. Titanic Vandalism 05. Fake ID 06. Universal Speech 07. Keys to the City 08. The Wrath of Marcie 09. I Never Needed It Now So Much 10. Flashlight Fight (Featuring Chuck D) 11. Patricia's Moving Picture
Get from:
Memphis Shop
Norman Records
Piccadilly Records
Rough Trade
Amazon UK
7" picture disc A. The Wrath of Marcie B. Flashlight Fight (Live)
Memphis Shop Norman Records Piccadilly Records Amazon UK
CD single 01. Doing it Right 02. Milk Crisis
Buy - CD Single:
Memphis Shop
Piccadilly Records
Amazon UK 7" 1 A. Doing it Right B. Willow's Song
BUY - 7" (+ Willow's Song):
Memphis Shop
Rough Trade 7" 2 A. Doing it Right B. Doing it Right (Yo Majesty -v- Burnt Clay)
Buy - 7" (+ Remix):
Memphis Shop
Norman Records
CD single: 01. Grip Like A Vice 02. A Version of Myself 7" 1 A. Grip Like A Vice B. Bull In The Heather
BUY - 7" (+ Bull In The Heather) 7" A. Grip Like A Vice B. Grip Like A Vice (Black Affair aka Steve Mason mix)
BUY - 7" (+ Remix)
CD1: 01. Ladyflash 02. Huddle Formation (RJ D2 mix)
CD2 01. Ladyflash 02. The Wrath Of Mikey 03. Huddle Flash (The Go! Team -v- Kevin Shields) 04. Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco Mix) 7" 01. Ladyflash 02. Huddle Flash (The Go! Team -v- Kevin Shields)
CD:
01. Bottle Rocket
02. We Just Wont Be Defeated
03. Huddle Formation (Radio 1 Session)
01.Bottle Rocket 02. Did you Feel it Too Here's the video hi windows media player
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Release date 22 November 2004
CD + 7"
01. Ladyflash
02. Ladyflash (Hot Chip Mix)
01. Panther Dash
02. Ladyflash
03. Feelgood by Numbers
04. The Power is On (CLICK TO LISTEN)
05. Get it Together
06. Junior Kickstart (CLICK TO LISTEN)
07. Air Raid Gtr
08. Bottle Rocket
09. Friendship Update
10. Huddle Formation (CLICK TO LISTEN)
11. Everyone's a V.I.P to Someone
Get from:
Memphis Shop
Norman Records
Piccadilly Records
Rough Trade
Buy from:
Memphis Shop
Norman Records
Release date 12 July 2004
A1. The Power is On (CLICK TO LISTEN)
B1. Hold Your Terror Close
B2. The Ice Storm
Junior Kickstart (CLICK TO LISTEN)We Listen everyday
Feel Good By Numbers
"Its hard to think of anything in pop music that's more fun han this" The Guardian
"Ridiculously unique" Pitchforkmedia.com
"There's no filler, just smiles all round" UNCUT
24 July - Incamon Festival, Mallorca, Spain
25 April - Le 106, Rouen, France
26 April - Theatre Barbey, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
27 April - Cooperative de Mai, Clermont Ferrand, Auvergne, France
28 April - Astrolabe, Orleans, France
29 April - La Romandie, Lausanne, Switzerland
30 April - Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland
02 May - Donau, Festival, Krems, Austria
15 May - The Great Escape Festival - Brighton Concorde 2
30 May - Primavera, Barcelona
05 June - The Club in La Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris
05 July - Arvika Festival, Arvika, Sweden
11 July - Oxygen Festival, Dublin
18 July - Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK
19 July - Les Vieilles Charrues Festival Brittany, France
20 July - Lovebox Festival Victoria Park, London, London and South East
25 July - Pentaport Festival South Korea
27 July - Fuji Rock Festival (Red Marquee Stage) Naeba, Japan
30 July - First Avenue (w/ CSS) Minneapolis, Minnesota
31 July - Turner Hall (w/ CSS) Milwaukee, Wisconsin
01 August - Grant Park (Lollapalooza) Chicago, Illinois
02 August - Magic Stick, Detroit, Michigan
04 August - MEG stage / Osheaga. Montreal, Canada
05 August - Kool Haus (w/ CSS) Toronto, Ontario
07 August - Trocadero (w/ CSS) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
08 August - All Points West Festival, Liberty Island, New York
09 August - The Palladium (w/ CSS) Worcester, Massachusetts
10 August - Virgin Mobile Festival, Baltimore, Maryland
15 August - Belsonic Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
30 August - Surfstock Festival, Newquay, Cornwall, Southwest
31 August - Jersey Live Festival, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands
2009
12 March - Vaulx Jazz Festival, Lyon, France
02 April - DJ Set at Animal Party at the Casa Veglia club, Laax, Switzerland
18 April - DJ Set at Be At, The Proud Galleries, London
29 May - Auditorium, Murcia, Spain
30 May - Territorios Festival, Sevilla, Spain
19 June - Njoki Summer Festival, Slovenia Ajdovscina
Myspace
WEBSITE
Fan site North Amercian Booking - eric @ groundcontroltouring.com
ROW booking - mick @ asgard-uk.com
Circa 1999/2000: The Go! Team leader Ian Parton buys an old 80's sampler and a four-track tape recorder, and starts molding samples from random places and live instruments into songs.
2002: The first songs (Get it Together, Kill the Klansmen, Pocket Money Radio, The Ice Storm) are recorded as an EP called Get It Together, which was released on a small indie label Pickled Egg. It caught the attention of Memphis Industries, with whom The Go! Team began working later that year.
2003: Memphis Industries release Junior Kickstart as a single (its backed with We Listen Everyday and Feelgood by Numbers) - it sells out in double quick time. Ian then spends the next year simultaneously working as a TV documentary maker and creating the group's first LP, Thunder, Lightning, Strike. Playing most of the album himself, recruiting some friends, sampling tons of noises that came his way and getting his brother Gareth to help out on the sound desk, the album was completed in 2004.
2004: The Go! Team are asked to tour Sweden with Franz Ferdinand in July 04, so Ian decides to put a band together whose aim was to be made up of people who would not normally be in a band together. The band is made up of three skinny lads - Ian (guitar, harmonica, drums), Sam Dook (guitar, drums, banjo), and Jamie Bell (bass, noise effects) - and three ladies - Chi Fukami Taylor (drums, vocals), Silk Stiedinger (guitar, keys, recorder, drums), and Ninja (vocals, shakers, recorder). The album comes out in the UK to widespread acclaim, resulting in shows at the Glastonbury and Reading Festivals, and appearances at Fuji Rock in Japan and Roskilde in Denmark. Bloggers and music sites immediately begin championing the band, resulting in a top ten album of the year plug by Pitchforkmedia.com.
2005: As the word spreads worldwide, The Go! Team headline a packed show at SXSW that had people dancing so hard, the floor showed signs of potentially caving in. The album subsequently finds a home on an American label released that autumn, resulting in rave reviews in everything from Rolling Stone to The New Yorker to Spin to the Los Angeles Times, many of which called it one of the top records of the year. The band also embarks on their first full American tour. Back home Thunder, Lightning, Strike is nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Silke leaves to concentrate on her own band Kaput! - she's replaced by Japanese noise group Yumi Yumi front person Kaori Tsuchida who brings more ladyee vocal action to the table.
2006: After completing their largest UK Tour to date culminating in three sold out shows at Koko in London the band return to the States in the summer to tour with The Flaming Lips and Sonic Youth. The Flaming Lips then invite the band to support on their UK dates which concludes with an unforgettable night at The Royal Festival Hall. The band then holes up in a studio space in Brighton next to a bus station, filling it with all the gear they could, and start recording with the help of Ian's brother Gareth. This time, the record is not as sample-heavy; instead the balance is in favour of live instrumentation and live vocals. Says Ian, "The influences are still the same as the first record - The Go! Team sound is aiming to be about hybrids and slamming things next to each other that you wouldn't expect. I'm really into the idea of random stuff rubbing shoulders." And while the group did enlist the use of better mics and amps to have their new LP sound a little less bedroom-made than Thunder, Lightning, Strike, Ian insists that "degrading the sound is still a big part of The Go! Team. We're always aiming to make things more chaotic and sound like it's on the edge of falling apart. The goal is genuinely for maximum excitement and to try to make something original in some way." Ian invites some of his favorite musicians to play on the record, resulting in recording of Maryland's pint sized rappers The Rappers Delight Club, Ian popping over to Brooklyn, NY to record the legendary Double Dutch Divas, and to London to track with Marina from Bonde Do Role. Solex comes over from Amsterdam to record in the Team's Brighton studio, while Chuck D of Public Enemy recorded his vocals in his home studio in Brooklyn.
2007: By May 2007, the LP, now entitled Proof of Youth, is completed in all its glory. "I didn't think too hard about what people were expecting from the second album," Ian explains. "I just thought about things that I wanted to try; it's just a snapshot of what's going on at the moment." With the album finished its time to hit the road again, with the band playing at pretty much every festival you can imagine including triumphant slots at Glastonbury Benicassim, Electric Picnic and Bestival, as well as managing to scoot over to play Shanghai and Beijing. As you do. Come September, Proof of Youth is released to critical and commercial acclaim, Observer Music Monthly calling it "Genius", The Guardian "Absurdly exhilarating" and Rolling Stone "A hook filled gem". Which is nice. Sold out tours of the UK and USA follow, plus jaunts across Europe and Japan. The band sees in the New Year headlining the Falls Festival in Australia.
2008: The world is the Go! Team's playground as they hit up festival after festival from St Petersburg to Seoul to Sao Paulo as well as a co-headlining tour of the US and Canada with like minded Brazilian band CSS which should be just about the most entertaining pairing of the year. Once all that's over the band will start on album 3 in September.