Go! Team

[Dr_Gonzo]

I think they're brilliant, the new album is going to be amazing if it lives up to their recent live sets and they've got chuck d on one of their new tracks.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Techie article about the making of the first album if anyones interested:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov05/articles/goteam.htm

 

[Dubversion]

What's the live lineup then? I though it was basically one bloke doing the album...

first album was developed by Ian, then fleshed out by a big live band (7?).. new album presumably involves full band

 

[Nixon]

MY gf hearts them.I didn't mind them when they first came out but they have got shitter..so now I beg to differ.

 

[veracity]

I love em, happy happy noises and fun memories of dancing in the mud to them at glasto *waves at lurking boyfriend*

 

[The_Reverend_M]

And the (delibrate I know) lo-fi production really gets on my tits as well.

That's been my problem with them as well.

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Pros:
Like their instrumental stuff a lot.
Covered an obscure Sonic Youth track

Cons:
Hate the shouty singers.
Lothe the "we're so trendy" lo-fi sound on the first album with a vengence
Can't understand why they carried it onto the second album.

 

[May Kasahara]

Brighton..

Ian Parton is from Wokingham. Mr K used to know him, they were in overlapping teen bands or something.

 

[Dubversion]

Ian Parton is from Wokingham. Mr K used to know him, they were in overlapping teen bands or something.

Mr K was in a teen band? tell me more

 

[May Kasahara]

You'll have to ask him yourself when you come up to do PRoD

 

[souljacker]

Ian Parton is from Wokingham. Mr K used to know him, they were in overlapping teen bands or something.

Cool! I may have had a fight with him in the Molly Millar.

 

[disco_dave_2000]

First time I had seen them live and quite enjoyed the energy of the live performance. That said, I definately wouldn't spend money on buying their music. Anyways here are a couple of photos I took of them in action;

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I'm seeing them when they come to Glasgow in September and am looking forward to it.

 

[blamblam]

they rock, but can't play live for shit.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I'm seeing them when they come to Glasgow in September and am looking forward to it.

They were fucking awesome.

 

[poului]

they rock, but can't play live for shit.

This is lamentably true.


And the new album, single aside, is basically just the same as the first but weaker.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

They really got the crowd going last night. Ninja is

The new album gets better with every listen. Some of their stuff sounds kinda same-y, but who cares? They make a nice change to all those shite plain indie bands.

 

[BEARBOT]

i saw them at dublin castle some years ago cos a mate who knew a member at the time(a german girl i seem to remember) and tipped me off..i thought they were great!

sure ninja's voice isnt technically brilliant but her attitude/style are great and her not 100%perfect singing suits the style of the music to a T. SURE the music mix was/is a bit messy at time but they were/are quite DIFFERENT and fun to watch too...they are getting bigger and bigger now but they still are a nice contrast to "typical mainstream indie"

at that time there were all different people in the line up except for ninja(singer) and ian(songwriter/leader)...i heard the new people are employed on a session kinda basis..thats why new record is so similiar to last one,its the leaders vision..they are playing parts, not writing them..

 

[Dubversion]

i'm fairly sure the line-up now is pretty much what it always was since they formed into a band, it's just that the first album was made by Ian alone.

 

[Onket]

Sublime...they're the new PWEI

Anyone want to comment on this?

 

[Dubversion]

well it doesn't really work for me, but i can sort of see his point - sample heavy lighthearted beats, very referential..

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Excellent stuff when the girls arn't singing.
Totally crap when they are.

 

[Onket]

well it doesn't really work for me, but i can sort of see his point - sample heavy lighthearted beats, very referential..

Hmmmmm, I can see myself being disappointed.

 

[Dubversion]

Hmmmmm, I can see myself being disappointed.

that's your default position, no?

 

[twister]

I've now seen them 4 times and they've yet to really impress me. They can't ever quite seem to pull it all together live. Be it at Electric Ballroom first off, where the sound was all-round awful and 'Ninja' got on my fucking tits big style by trying to involve the audience in a cringeworthy I-say-'GO', you-say-TEAM call-and-response (the fact that they were brand new and people had more come to check them out than to chant their name passed them by). Or at Glastonbury 2 years back when they managed to go two whole songs without realising noone could hear the lead singer (not a bad thing always tbh). Not saying the latter was their fault, but hey I submit it as exhibit b none the less.


Why have I seen them 4 times and dont like them all that much? I really dont know. I like Thunder Lightning Strike and love a few tunes off it, but too often live they sound like a bunch of toddlers who have all discovered their instruments 10 minutes before the gig.

and Ninja is shit, they need a new front'man'.

 

[bluestreak]

i got the new album the other day. it's like the first one, only MORE.

that's a good thing.

 

[Spandex]

I'm glad they don't listen to you lot for advice.

If they had classically trained singers, the greatest instrumentalists in the world and the finest production any record has ever seen they'd be boring. I like the ramshackle performances and the production on the albums that makes a grands worth of stereo equipment sound like a cheap transistor radio.

And the new album's great, with one ace tune after another

 

[Onket]

trying to involve the audience in a cringeworthy I-say-'GO', you-say-TEAM call-and-response

That is ALWAYS shit. Especially so with such a shit name as this lot have got.

Dub- Yes, sadly.