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DESCRIPTION:Tickets: \n- S$40\n- S$48(Event Day) \n\nStandard Price comes w
 ith 'One Standard Drink'\n\nThis is a FREE STANDING event!\n\n\n\n“Ridic
 ulously innovative.” – PopMatters\n\nLodged somewhere in the previousl
 y undiscovered zone where Sonic Youth meets The Jackson Five\, internation
 al 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\, Stri
 ke and 2007's Proof of Youth\, Brighton\, England's The Go! Team has creat
 ed a unique sound that is at once nostalgic\, youthful\, exuberant and par
 ty starting.\n\nIt all started\, according to band leader Ian Parton and f
 ormer indie kid 'about 10 years ago. I got an old Eighties sampler and a f
 our-track (tape recorder) and (along with brother and engineer Gareth) jus
 t started welding ideas from songs with samples I’d heard in random plac
 es and live instruments'.\n\nThe first EP Get it Together appeared on tiny
  UK label Pickled Egg which came to the attention of slightly bigger UK la
 bel 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 (in
 cluding classics such as Sleepwalkers Who Kill and Tales of the Living Dea
 d) 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 wa
 s pretty chaotic. It was recorded in a basement\, everything was slammed t
 o tape with the levels in red'.\n\nThe Go! Team live team was put together
  by Ian in three weeks when Memphis sprung a Swedish touring festival in J
 une 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 Jap
 anese\, lives in London. I put a shout out for anybody who knew drummers. 
 And then there’s Kaori (Japanese Tsuchida) who plays everything – reco
 rder\, melodica\, guitar\, keyboards\, backing vocals. Ninja was the trick
 y one. I wanted someone who was big into hip-hop\, but not all bling. I se
 nt her a CD and she really dug it. She was one of the few lady rappers tha
 t 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 peopl
 e who would not normally be in a band together.\n\nThe debut album Thunder
 \, Lightning\, Strike was released in the UK in September 2004 to slaverin
 g critical acclaim. Tracks such as the Northern-Soul-meets-80s-electro of 
 Ladyflash\, the Bollywood maelstrom of The Power is On and the turbo-charg
 ed girl group pop of Huddle Formation became blog sensations. The band bac
 ked it up with a kickass live show that saw them grace stages around the w
 orld including headlining the John Peel Stage at 2005’s Glastonbury Fest
 ival\, the new bands tent at the Reading and Leeds Festivals and the inaug
 ural Pitchfork festival. Following on from a Mercury Music Prize nominatio
 n at the tail end of 2005\, 2006 saw them complete a triumphant sold-out 2
 0-date UK tour and tear up festivals around the world including T in the P
 ark\, Oxegen\, Australia’s Big Day Out\, Coachella and Lollapoloza. The 
 follow up album\, 2007's\, Proof of Youth was no less effervescent with st
 andout tracks Grip Like A Vice\, Keys to The City and Doing it Right becom
 ing highlights of their live set which they again took on another whirlwin
 d world tour in 2008.\n\nIt’s live that this gleefully uplifting band ta
 kes full effect’ the music crashes triumphantly forward\, mashing distor
 ted samples\, noisy guitars\, MC Ninja’s gleeful rapping\, dancing and d
 ouble 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 mo
 re colourful\, more joyous\, more ***damn fun than The Go! Team.\n\nPurcha
 se your tickets here: http://www.sistic.com.sg/cms/events/index.html?conte
 ntCode=team0310\n\nThis is a Public event\, 1 Attendees (at time of iCal e
 xport)\n\nLocation: Esplanade Concert Hall\n\nSingapore\nSingapore\n\nGene
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