The Go! Team Live in Singapore
Mosaic Festival17th March 2010 07:30PM
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Esplanade Concert Hall
Singapore
Singapore
Owner: Yuda
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Tickets:
- S$40
- S$48(Event Day)
Standard Price comes with 'One Standard Drink'
This is a FREE STANDING event!
“Ridiculously innovative.” – PopMatters
Lodged somewhere in the previously undiscovered zone where Sonic Youth meets The Jackson Five, international boy/girl six-piece The Go! Team kick out the jams and then spread them on crumpets for tea. Across two albums, 2004's Thunder, Lightning, Strike and 2007's Proof of Youth, Brighton, England's The Go! Team has created a unique sound that is at once nostalgic, youthful, exuberant and party starting.
It all started, according to band leader Ian Parton and former indie kid "about 10 years ago. I got an old Eighties sampler and a four-track (tape recorder) and (along with brother and engineer Gareth) just started welding ideas from songs with samples I’d heard in random places and live instruments".
The first EP Get it Together appeared on tiny UK label Pickled Egg which came to the attention of slightly bigger UK label Memphis Industries to whose ship The Go! Team jumped in mid 2002. Ian spent the next year flitting between his job as a TV documentary maker (including classics such as Sleepwalkers Who Kill and Tales of the Living Dead) and creating the album. Of recording the album Ian says "lots of it was played by me but I pulled in random people to play bits and pieces. It was pretty chaotic. It was recorded in a basement, everything was slammed to tape with the levels in red".
The Go! Team live team was put together by Ian in three weeks when Memphis sprung a Swedish touring festival in June 2004. Says Ian, "There’s three lads and three ladies. The blokes, (Ian – guitar, harmonica & drums / Sam Dook - guitar, drums, banjo, Jamie Bell – bass) are from Brighton. "Chi (Fukami Taylor), who’s Japanese, lives in London. I put a shout out for anybody who knew drummers. And then there’s Kaori (Japanese Tsuchida) who plays everything – recorder, melodica, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals. Ninja was the tricky one. I wanted someone who was big into hip-hop, but not all bling. I sent her a CD and she really dug it. She was one of the few lady rappers that got it. She’s into the idea of experimenting. She feels no pressure to sound like everybody else…" The aim was to put a band together of people who would not normally be in a band together.
The debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike was released in the UK in September 2004 to slavering critical acclaim. Tracks such as the Northern-Soul-meets-80s-electro of Ladyflash, the Bollywood maelstrom of The Power is On and the turbo-charged girl group pop of Huddle Formation became blog sensations. The band backed it up with a kickass live show that saw them grace stages around the world including headlining the John Peel Stage at 2005’s Glastonbury Festival, the new bands tent at the Reading and Leeds Festivals and the inaugural Pitchfork festival. Following on from a Mercury Music Prize nomination at the tail end of 2005, 2006 saw them complete a triumphant sold-out 20-date UK tour and tear up festivals around the world including T in the Park, Oxegen, Australia’s Big Day Out, Coachella and Lollapoloza. The follow up album, 2007's, Proof of Youth was no less effervescent with standout tracks Grip Like A Vice, Keys to The City and Doing it Right becoming highlights of their live set which they again took on another whirlwind world tour in 2008.
It’s live that this gleefully uplifting band takes full effect’ the music crashes triumphantly forward, mashing distorted samples, noisy guitars, MC Ninja’s gleeful rapping, dancing and double drumming into one glorious mess. Imagine the most exhilarating block party you’ve ever been to and then multiply the fun quotient by 100. It’s hard to think of anything in the world of music right now that’s more colourful, more joyous, more ***damn fun than The Go! Team.
Purchase your tickets here: http://www.sistic.com.sg/cms/events/index.html?contentCode=team0310
- S$40
- S$48(Event Day)
Standard Price comes with 'One Standard Drink'
This is a FREE STANDING event!
“Ridiculously innovative.” – PopMatters
Lodged somewhere in the previously undiscovered zone where Sonic Youth meets The Jackson Five, international boy/girl six-piece The Go! Team kick out the jams and then spread them on crumpets for tea. Across two albums, 2004's Thunder, Lightning, Strike and 2007's Proof of Youth, Brighton, England's The Go! Team has created a unique sound that is at once nostalgic, youthful, exuberant and party starting.
It all started, according to band leader Ian Parton and former indie kid "about 10 years ago. I got an old Eighties sampler and a four-track (tape recorder) and (along with brother and engineer Gareth) just started welding ideas from songs with samples I’d heard in random places and live instruments".
The first EP Get it Together appeared on tiny UK label Pickled Egg which came to the attention of slightly bigger UK label Memphis Industries to whose ship The Go! Team jumped in mid 2002. Ian spent the next year flitting between his job as a TV documentary maker (including classics such as Sleepwalkers Who Kill and Tales of the Living Dead) and creating the album. Of recording the album Ian says "lots of it was played by me but I pulled in random people to play bits and pieces. It was pretty chaotic. It was recorded in a basement, everything was slammed to tape with the levels in red".
The Go! Team live team was put together by Ian in three weeks when Memphis sprung a Swedish touring festival in June 2004. Says Ian, "There’s three lads and three ladies. The blokes, (Ian – guitar, harmonica & drums / Sam Dook - guitar, drums, banjo, Jamie Bell – bass) are from Brighton. "Chi (Fukami Taylor), who’s Japanese, lives in London. I put a shout out for anybody who knew drummers. And then there’s Kaori (Japanese Tsuchida) who plays everything – recorder, melodica, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals. Ninja was the tricky one. I wanted someone who was big into hip-hop, but not all bling. I sent her a CD and she really dug it. She was one of the few lady rappers that got it. She’s into the idea of experimenting. She feels no pressure to sound like everybody else…" The aim was to put a band together of people who would not normally be in a band together.
The debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike was released in the UK in September 2004 to slavering critical acclaim. Tracks such as the Northern-Soul-meets-80s-electro of Ladyflash, the Bollywood maelstrom of The Power is On and the turbo-charged girl group pop of Huddle Formation became blog sensations. The band backed it up with a kickass live show that saw them grace stages around the world including headlining the John Peel Stage at 2005’s Glastonbury Festival, the new bands tent at the Reading and Leeds Festivals and the inaugural Pitchfork festival. Following on from a Mercury Music Prize nomination at the tail end of 2005, 2006 saw them complete a triumphant sold-out 20-date UK tour and tear up festivals around the world including T in the Park, Oxegen, Australia’s Big Day Out, Coachella and Lollapoloza. The follow up album, 2007's, Proof of Youth was no less effervescent with standout tracks Grip Like A Vice, Keys to The City and Doing it Right becoming highlights of their live set which they again took on another whirlwind world tour in 2008.
It’s live that this gleefully uplifting band takes full effect’ the music crashes triumphantly forward, mashing distorted samples, noisy guitars, MC Ninja’s gleeful rapping, dancing and double drumming into one glorious mess. Imagine the most exhilarating block party you’ve ever been to and then multiply the fun quotient by 100. It’s hard to think of anything in the world of music right now that’s more colourful, more joyous, more ***damn fun than The Go! Team.
Purchase your tickets here: http://www.sistic.com.sg/cms/events/index.html?contentCode=team0310
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