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The Go! Team
British band
For the 1980s American indie rock band, see The Go Team.
The Go! Team | |
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The Go! Team playing in Stockholm, 2004 | |
| Origin | Brighton, East Sussex, England |
| Genres | Indie rock, indie pop, alternative hip hop, alternative dance, instrumental, plunderphonics |
| Discography | The Go! Team discography |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | current: Memphis Industries, Beatball, Shock, Tearbridge/Avex; previous: Columbia Records, Pickled Egg Records, V:Room/Stubbie, Cooperative, Sub Pop, Secret City |
| Members | Ian Parton Sam Dook Ninja Niadzi Muzira Adam Znaidi Jaleesa Gemerts Kate Walker |
| Past members | Jamie Bell Silke Steidinger Chi Fukami Taylor Kaori Tsuchida Simone Odaranile Cheryl Pinero Angela "Maki" Won-Yin Mak Viva Msimang Deanna Wilhelm |
| Website | thegoteam.co.uk |
The Go! Team are an English indie rock band from Brighton, England. The band initially began as a solo project conceived by Ian Parton; however, after the unexpected su
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The Go! Team releases their third studio album, Rolling Blackouts. Set to play a string of OZ shows, over the month of May, and featuring on the Groovin’ The Moo line-up, Ian Parton, founder of The Go! Team promises to go hard every night.
It begins with what most musicians call, “The Enemy”, (often spoken with a slight Darth Vader embellishment), the select group of industry people who seemingly determine the divide between the mainstream and the independent music scene. The people who apparently tip the Top 30s, Top 40s, Top this and Top that-s. Yet, to this day, we are still trying to un-complicate what they have complicated. Ian Parton, founder and creator of lively, sample English band, The Go! grupp, knows who I am talking about, and he knows them very well. So much so, in 2004 he formed his very own team, armed with a four track tape recorder, 80’s sampler and dynamite ideas, and took on the guys in pinstriped suits. “It was sort of born out of a
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Their first release, 2000s Get It Together, was primarily a solo effort by Parton that gained support from John Peel and others, but legal problems prevented a timely follow-up. By the time of 2003s Junior Kickstart single, the group had been assembled (and included Silke Steidinger, who left in the fall of 2005) and signed to Memphis Industries. Thunder, Lightning, Strike was released in 2004 and quickly became a sensati