You’ve been on quite a bit of a tour. How’s that been and what have been the highlights?

Yeah this year we’ve been everywhere. We’ve been to China, we’ve been to Finland Norway, going to America next week, were going to Japan after that and then Australia and that. It’s really surreal how music can literally take you places. Bring people around the world, bring people together you know. This tours been good because we’ve been to places we wouldn’t have thought of going to, and here we are in Plymouth. That wouldn’t have really been on our maps conventionally and we went to Bangor and Preston and Warwick and all these sort of places that are forgotten. And that’s were you normally have people going for it a bit more than London.

How do you prepare for gig?

Not a lot really we don’t have any kind of group hug Madonna style, or anything, or pump iron, or do crack or anything you know. It’s a lot of pacing around and jumping. We play Frisbee a lot as well, particularly on the last tour.

What was it like making the new album?

It’s got a different process to the first one, because there was no pressure first time round, it was really just me and my folks kitchen. Just setting drum kits up and getting in the way.

What year was that?

About three years ago, I still had a job and just like I did it in holiday time and stuff like that. In the three years that have passed we’ve become a band, we’ve been nominated for the Mercury Prize and travelled the world. There was kind of a lot more people waiting for it. I tried to approach it exactly the same. Let the songs guide you and that.  This time we it in more of a studio in our hometown but we did everything ourselves, there was no producer.

How do you feel about how it’s been received? And are you happy with how it’s going down live?

I think so; it still feels kind of early days it’s almost like a fermentation process with new songs. Until the people ingest it or spit it out. It’s almost like they, the live crowd are the people who are the real critics. Forget the broadsheets and stuff like that. It’s almost like if it doesn’t rock it in a live arena then that's the ultimate kinda test, you know.

How would you compare playing live to when you’re working in the studio?

The studio is kind of almost is about detail and slaving over things and like focus the live thing is like releasing it. We sacrifice technical skill for energy, so we really go for it every single night jumping around. That’s kind of when it’s unleashed.

What would you say is the future for the Go! Team?

I don’t know really. I never thought beyond the first album, you know. I never really thought we’d ever do a second album, so it would be nice to do a third album. There’s plenty of stuff to try. I still feel like were pretty unique even three years after since we’ve been going. I don’t think there’s anyone else come along whose had these kind of goals and influences. So, I still feel like we’ve got our own path to plough, do you know what I mean?

The Go! Team.

I caught up with Ian Parton the man behind the jumping, energetic, head banging hybrid rock band The Go! Team, before going on stage, Saturday 6th November 2007.  The Brighton band are currently on the NME tour with the Satin Peaches and Operator Please to promote their second album Proof Of Youth, expectations where high for them to deliver a set full of a diverse assortment of sounds and styles. They didn’t disappoint, receiving a good crowd reception and a mild mannered mosh. The new material went down exceptionally well, especially Grip Like A Vice. Everybody appeared to leave smiling and full of energy, which is ultimately what this music is about. This bodes well for The Go! Team who look to build on the success of their first album and take up deserved positions on the rock and roll centre stage.

Check them out at: http://www.myspace.com/thegoteam

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Interview.

Hi, Ian How’s it going?        Pretty good.

First of all can you tell us, What you do in the band? and What is your band all about?

Well, I guess I started the band about three years ago. Just as sort of a hobby really and just as something to please myself because I was mightily fucked off with 90 percent of indie music and was kinda frustrated with how everyone Linda sticks within their scene and everyone seems to meld into one kind of dirge of male dominated indie bullshit. Do you know what I mean? So I wanted to, you know, slam all my favourite things together. From old school hip-hop, and noisy guitar music, and mo-town, and girl groups, break beat and Bollywood, you know Curtis Mayfield. So yeah it was it was quite self-indulgent operation, I guess in the beginning. And then I thought, How the fuck am I going to do this live?  So I actually assembled got all these people together that wanted to do it with me and within a few weeks or two we had our first gig and kinda took it on from there

You’ve got a very distinctive style. How would you say your style has changed over time?

I don’t know if it has to be honest. It’s just kinda evolving the basic idea of making hybrids and ramming together quite sort of different things, I guess. Even as far back as when I was 19 I was really into like getting into listening to Tijuana loops and sort of playing Marvin? Valentine style guitars over the top and stuff like that. So I think I’ve always had this idea about contrast. I guess hopefully it’s getting more refined at it, making it more interesting. I still think we’ve only scratched the surface.

How do you come about making new tune? Is it an organic jamming process?

So far the whole band evolved out of my taste I suppose, it’s almost like my record collection amounted into one sound. You know, so far I’ve been I’ve been the sort of the songwriter and I’ve actually found all the samples and I actually hunt this shit down. It’s really kind of work intensive working through stacks of samples. So it’s real trial and error thing where you slam different things together and you sample it and stretch it move it around until it feels like it wells together as a song. So it’s not just a gimmick actually there’s a melody going on.