The Go! Team

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The Go! Team
Background information
Genre(s)	Indie
Years active	2000—present
Label(s)	Pickled Egg Records, Memphis Industries, Columbia Records
Website	www.thegoteam.co.uk
Members
Ian Parton Chi "Ky" Fukami Taylor Kaori Tsuchida Jamie Bell Ninja Sam Dook

For the 1980s band of the same name, see The Go Team

The Go! Team are a British, Brighton-based six piece band (with two drummers) whose songs are a mixture of action theme songs, cheerleader chants, guitars and early hip-hop, with a hint of '70s funk. Their songs are a mix of live instrumentation and samples from various sources.

1 Band composition
2 Thunder, Lightning, Strike
3 Doing It Right
4 Members
5 Discography
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Band composition

Founder Ian Parton, born in Wales, was previously the drummer for a band called Dig The Slowness, which was fronted by his brother Gareth Parton. Dig The Slowness became Slot Jockey which went on to enjoy moderate success before folding.

The Go! Team is split 50/50 by gender, with a female frontwoman (Ninja), drummer (Taylor), and multi-instrumentalist (Kaori Tsuchida, who replaced Steidinger in Autumn 2005). Initially The Go! Team was ostensibly a solo project for documentary film director Parton, whose debut release was the Get It Together EP, released in 2000 by Leicester-based Pickled Egg Records. This received airplay from legendary DJ John Peel, but, following signing to indie label Memphis Industries, it would be another three years before their next release, the Junior Kickstart EP in 2003.

[edit] Thunder, Lightning, Strike

The Go! Team playing at Accelerator The Big One in Stockholm, 2004

The Go! Team playing at the Big Day Out in Melbourne

The Go! Team's first full-length album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike, was released on the Memphis Industries label in September 2004 to widespread critical acclaim. It was nominated in 2005 for the Mercury Music Prize, which coincided with the international release of a "legal" version of the album wherein samples which could not be cleared for commercial use were removed.

The bands popularity increased with the re-issue of Ladyflash in the UK charts, resulting in national prime-time airplay on radio stations such as Radio 1 and the Atlanta, USA based 99X.

Their song "Bottle Rocket" was used as the theme on an advertising campaign for RTÉ Sport in 2006 on the Irish TV channels RTÉ One and RTÉ Two. The song and video also appear on the Sony PSP game Lumines II. Additionally, their song "Junior Kickstart" was used as the theme for the "People's Choice" segment on Detroit/Windsor's radio station 89X.

"Ladyflash" appears as a backing track to a section in 2005's 91 Words For Snow, a snowboarding film by David Benedeck, and was used on Sky Sport's cult football program Soccer AM, as background music for their "10 Yard Bucket Challenge".

Their songs are used very often in television programs, most notably the track "Feelgood by Numbers".

Perhaps their most well-known song is "Huddle Formation", which is currently airing on US television as the soundtrack to an ad for a Honda car model as well as in a commercial for the Fox Network coverage of the BCS College Football bowl games.

[edit] Doing It Right

The band's next recording, to be released in September 2006, is a three track EP called "Doing It Right". A second album will follow. Amongst their recent recordings include a cover of Sonic Youth's "Bull In The Heather".

[edit] Members

Ian Parton - band leader, electric guitar, harmonica, and drums
Sam Dook - electric guitar, banjo, and drums
Chi "Ky" Fukami Taylor - drums
Kaori Tsuchida - drums, electric guitar, keys, and melodica (replaced Silke Steidinger, Autumn 2005)
Jamie Bell - bass
Ninja - rapper/vocalist