Fired up to announce new TG!T album “Get Up Sequences Part One.”
It’s soda fountain soul, a handclap happening, a drumstick bulletin, a meteor shower in mixed media and it will be yrs to buy on the 2nd of July.
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Bringing the flare over land, sea and air it’s the new album: ☆ GET UP SEQUENCES PART 2 ☆
A forward roll for the soul. As brave as the French New Wave. A doing word. It’s us plus
Say yes to all of it.
Next slide Please
I put the shout out for female rappers - this is the email the fateful email where Ninja
@ninjaisaninja
replied…within a year of that we had travelled the world - japan , australia, america
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ANNOUNCING TODAY:
To mark the 20th anniversary of THUNDER LIGHTNING STRIKE - a one-off show in
@RoundhouseLDN
playing the album IN FULL. Feb 10th 2024. its what Saturday nights were made for.
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Ladyflash - YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH I guess for lots of people this is the definitive go team song. the nearest thing we had to being a hit - we even did it on Top of the muthafuckin Pops just before it folded…
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ladyflash started life as about 7 separate ideas on my demo tapes - I wanted it feel a bit like flipping radio channels between a spector girl group and roxanne shante - like a tour through female music - i don’t think its dated too badly
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We’re sad to let you know that we won’t be able to perform at
@bluedotfestival
and
@StandonCalling
this year. But we’re absolutely delighted that the reason we can’t is because Ninja has a baby on the way.....
I was kind of imagining New York subconsciously with this album. I dig: Midnight Cowboy. Sesame Street. Woody Allen. Sonic Youth. Wildstyle. Velvet Underground . Roxanne Shante - I just wanted to turn it into one big thing
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Ninja is all over this one - she was heavily pregnant - 2 weeks away from the due date so I had to drive to her in Guildford to record. Breathing was pretty tricky for her, Lots of sitting down between takes.
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This is the kitchen where I did the drums - setting the kit up where that kitchen island is now. It aint exactly Abbey Road. My grandma would come in to make a cup of tea during drum takes sometimes…
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Junior Kickstart - so once the album started getting heat the major labels started sniffing around a pretty comical time. The original version of the album was totally illegal - uncleared samples. cos we figured - no hit - no writ. its a smalltime album no fuckers gonna sue us
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Wow!! What a nite. THANKS to everyone who came to the
@RoundhouseLDN
If anyone has any phone footage they'd like to share of the night we'd love to see it. Email it to>>>>
mail
@thegoteam
.co.uk
I think there are other Go team albums which are as good as this one but I guess cos this one came out as a fully formed universe which touched a nerve it will probably be the one we’re remembered for
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I never believed there’d be 7 go team albums when i started but ive never felt like there’s no more stuff to try. Ive still got a backlog of hundred of ideas waiting to find a home.
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Get it together : this is the first song I wrote and felt “yeah this is what I want to sound like” as it was a weird hybrid of electro /jackson 5/ sonic youth harmonics/ country and kinda a kids tv theme.
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I didn’t come from a dance music - 4 on the floor clubby background. Ive always been into noisey guitars more - and Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine
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The power is on !! Everything changed overnight when Pitchfork started bigging up this song at the time when Pitchfork had real muscle - we were one of the early internet buzz bands I guess.
I turned up at a pub in Brighton with my computer and a microphone and asked if I could record their piano upstairs - they said yes. I think you can hear a car horn beeping outside.
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ANNOUNCING TODAY
To mark the 20 anniversary of Thunder Lightning Strike some of our fave artists have reworked tracks from the LP - first up CV Vision goes toe to toe with "We Just Wont Be Defeated" - every month another one will be divulged:
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New song out Today from the NEW ALBUM >>>>
***** T H E M E F R E Q U E N C Y *****
The Star Feminine Band tagteaming with Ninja on
Starting Yr Own band,Getting in the van and gettin' a New Plan...
We were on tour in Seattle when I got a text from Ollie at our label
@memphisind
that said “ITS MERCURY A GO-GO” - I gave my mercury award to my Grandma to look after
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The London Roundhouse show went so well we decided to take it out there.
To mark 20th years of Thunder Lightning Strike we're playin the album in full, front to back Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh and Dublin this Sept.
On sale from 10am March 1st here >>
I think id have preferred to be a slow burn band - it happened too quickly - the trouble with being hipsters is the clocks ticking
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USA! we're coming Yr way. We're hitting the West Coast next May marking 20 yrs of Thunder Lightning Strike. Thrashing songs from the debut plus other killers from the Go! cat. Sign up here for access to the fan presale - on sale from 10am PST, 26/09
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"POW" another song to wow from the forthcoming album. Here's the video a photocopy free-for-all made by Xerox hero James Slater
@thewildoutdoors
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It was the first single released in 2000 and John Peel was the first person to play it which was obviously a dream come true .
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After work I would fire up my sampler and work on really lofi four track demos. These tapes have got some pretty trippy titles: Disneyland Crack Ring/ makeshift dick/ little chico. If you look closely you can see the odd tape name that became a song title.
Since the 90’s Ive kept books full of slogans. As I thought of them Id stick em down - here’s the page where i wrote down The Go Team for the first time. Pretty sure I wrote it down after reading an article about the people that clean up plane wreckage
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Pantherdash - woooo - gotta start an album with siren . (probably shouldn’t say but the sirens were sampled from The Jazz singer soundtrack)
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Its more to do with grabbing all your favourite stuff and jamming it together - being as inspired by a theme tune or a documentary - secondhand memories, as your own life. I always think of it as your life flashing before your eyes….
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