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| 22 June 2009 - New Live Dates Added |
One more festival to see The Go! Team this summer, the Incamon in Spain. 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- |
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| DISCOGRAPHY | |||||||
| PROOF OF YOUTH - OUT 10/11 SEPT 2007 | |||||||
![]() 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 |
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| THE WRATH OF MARCIE - OUT 19 NOV 2007 | ![]() 7" picture disc A. The Wrath of Marcie B. Flashlight Fight (Live) Memphis Shop Norman Records Piccadilly Records Amazon UK |
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| DOING IT RIGHT SINGLE - OUT 03 SEPT 2007 | ![]() 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 |
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| GRIP LIKE A VICE - UK release date 02 July 2007 | ![]() 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) |
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| LADYFLASH - release date 30 Jan 2006 |
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) |
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| BOTTLE ROCKET - release date 26 Sept 2005 |
CD: 01.Bottle Rocket 02. Did you Feel it Too Here's the video hi windows media player lo windows media player hi real player lo real player |
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| LADYFLASH |
Release date 22 November 2004 01. Ladyflash |
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| THUNDER, LIGHTNING, STRIKE | ![]() 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 |
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| The Power is On EP |
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| Junior Kickstart EP |
Junior Kickstart (CLICK TO LISTEN)We Listen everyday Feel Good By Numbers |
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| PRESS | "One of the greatest bands in the world today" NME "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
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| TOURING | |||||||
| Upcoming Touring |
04 July - Furia Sound Festival, Paris 24 July - Incamon Festival, Mallorca, Spain |
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| Old Touring | |||||||
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2008 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 |
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| SHOP: The Go! Team | |||||||
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Myspace WEBSITE Fan site North Amercian Booking - eric @ groundcontroltouring.com ROW booking - mick @ asgard-uk.com | |||||||
| BIOGRAPHY | |||||||
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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. | |||||||