Norman Schwarzkopf Basic Member Posts:427  
| 4/18/2005 10:37 AM |
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Anyone else at Go!Team on Sat.night? Short but great fun. Haven't seen a band look so happy on stage in a long time. All smiles unt sunshine. Great.
For those of you who weren't there, let me describe DJ Scotch Egg.
After The Pipettes (early 60s girl group style), a small bearded Japanese lad in a hoody and baseball cap came out on stage with some real aggressive electro music. He started "rapping" and shouting into the mic (although you couldn't hear him) and jerking about and pointing. Now and then he would put his mic down mid-song to play his Game Boy for a little bit. I don't mean play "musically", he just played it. Then he picked up a very long makeshift cardboard "megaphone" with a clown teddy stuck on the end and started rapping into it, before chucking it into the crowd. To top it all off, he started giving the crowd the finger and chucking scotch eggs at everybody before finishing, picking up his Game Boy and a little metal box and walking off stage, leaving a totally baffled audience. It lasted about 15mins and I was in tears laughing.
http://www.adaadat.com/artist.php?artist=3
Check him out.
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Una Veteran Member Posts:1721
| 4/18/2005 10:43 AM |
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that's sounds hilarious, if not ridiculous. Is he friends with Yoko by any chance? Sounds quite fluxus shmuksus. How were the Go!Team. I'm a bit underwhelmed by them. I wish Zane Lowe would change his f**king t-shirt.
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
| 4/18/2005 11:06 AM |
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It was hilarious. Just looked him up, turns out he was shouting "KFC - Buy One Get One Free" and "f**k You" over and over, though I couldn't tell at the time.
Go Team were good, apparantly they've only been playing live less than a year but they sounded great. Bit too much banter from wee Ninja, the frontgirl but she was dead enthusiastic and lovely. Made a major faux pas while trying to compliment us, saying that the crowds in Ireland were the best British audiences she's played to. Cue loud Booing and heckling. She laughed it off and corrected herself. Main gripe was the whole brevity thing but she got everyone going and twas lotsa fun.
Not a fan of the album, no?
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 4/18/2005 11:14 AM |
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Not really. It's ALRIGHT. A lot of the samples sound like they would feel very at home in a Wiseguys record, which is not very with it. It seems like a lot of the stuff is really chucked together, in a rather dumb fashion. BUT, that said, some of the stuff is ok; Ladyflash, Chillout By Numbers (is that what it's called?). I respect that they all still have day jobs and are just getting together in sweaty rooms and blasting it out when they could take the hype train.
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
| 4/18/2005 11:24 AM |
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Mmm. I like it, although over the course of the album, it is a bit samey. A good summer album though. They played 2 new tracks on the night and sounds like more of the same. They're not being that hyped are they? They were hyped in the high street music shop I worked in, word spread and all but since I left, I haven't read or heard much about them. My friends are my personal hype machine.
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 4/18/2005 11:27 AM |
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yeah, i think the Go!Team are a word of mouth thing.
"My friends are my personal hype machine."
Gold.
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Pilchard Advanced Member Posts:699
| 4/18/2005 11:38 AM |
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best live show i've seen this year. left the venue with a huge grin on my face. OK they sound like Mikc Jones Bad audio dyanmite fronted by neneh cherry, but c'mon, better this kind of joyous rattle than going to see, oh i dunno, athlete or paddy casey.
i think she was taking the piss with the British thing cos she and the rest of the band were laughing right away at it. they were in cork the night before
the album is v good but i prefer the live thing. i think the album is a little like the avalanches in that the pre-sample clearance version is a whole lot better.
i missed DJ Scotch egg but it sounds like a bad student rag week joke.
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Norman SchwarzkopfBasic Member Posts:427
| 4/18/2005 12:05 PM |
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It would've been funny to me when I was student and it's funny to me now. And will probably give me a chuckle when I'm sitting on my stairlift in 60 years time. Guess it just tickled my comedy skeleton.
What's that about pre-sample Go!Team? Is there another version with uncleared samples?
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strollerAdvanced Member Posts:576
| 4/19/2005 9:14 PM |
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Originally posted by Una
Not really. It's ALRIGHT. A lot of the samples sound like they would feel very at home in a Wiseguys record, which is not very with it. It seems like a lot of the stuff is really chucked together, in a rather dumb fashion. BUT, that said, some of the stuff is ok; Ladyflash, Chillout By Numbers (is that what it's called?). I respect that they all still have day jobs and are just getting together in sweaty rooms and blasting it out when they could take the hype train.
I have to say that I've been a big fan of the Go! Team ever since I heard Ladyflash on the Memphis Industries Estuary English compilation over 2 years ago. I suppose you've got a point with the Wiseguys comparissons but then I've always had a soft spot for them, especially A Better World Part 2 off the Casino Sans Pareil EP and One For The Ladies off the Battlecreek 2 EP. Plus the Wiseguys had a great ear for a sample (Lalo Schifrin, Marlena Shaw). Can anyone else remember Donal Dineen playing Ooh La La on Today FM ages before it came out? |
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sweetieBasic Member Posts:132
| 4/20/2005 9:20 AM |
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No, but I remember loving the video for 'causing a commotion' though.
Darragh Purcell used to play it alot on pop on 3 back in the day.
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silentsigh New Member Posts:67
| 5/2/2005 7:26 PM |
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Was a great gig. Thought they were brilliant live. Lead singer was great to watch. Pity it was in the village. Not a fan. Was near the back and couldnt see a thing, and im tall.
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bonzoBasic Member Posts:364
| 5/3/2005 1:43 PM |
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Originally posted by sweetie
No, but I remember loving the video for 'causing a commotion' though.
Darragh Purcell used to play it alot on pop on 3 back in the day.
Retro! That was back in the day. |
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