One of the most unique, exciting and bizarre bands out there, the story of who and what The Go! Team could take up scrolls of writing in itself. A potted history, then:
There are two different Go! Teams. In 2004, Ian Parton sat in a bedroom and used all sorts of musical bits and pieces to create ‘Thunder Lightning Strike’, an album that took inspiration as much from G-Funk as it did Sonic Youth. It was released to international acclaim, end-of-year polls, a Mercury nomination, and all musical tie-ins (‘Get It Together’ is now living a second life as the theme music to the PS3 game Little Big Planet), and was one of the breakout albums of 2004.
Then came the second incarnation of The Go! Team, a six-piece band who took the recorded output as a starting point, from where they turned the whole thing into a raucous non-stop party. Fronted by hyperactive MC Nkechi “Ninja” Eganamba, this version of the band has toured all over the world, playing in Russia, Tasmania, China, and more or less any other country you’d care to name, spreading endless good vibrations in the process.
These days, however, The Go! Team of latest ‘Rolling Blackouts’ could be described as being a lot more similar to the live band The Go! Team. It’s party music for the party at the end of the universe, and suitably enough, their set will come close to the end of the weekend on Sunday night!
