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Perhaps It's this search for different possibilities which also sees Daedelus dress up as a Victorian dandv onstage?
‘My wrfe and I like the stylistic ideas of the Victorian era.‘ he says. ‘I began to play out like that because I realised that people prefer it to the plarnclothes version of me. Besrdes, I also identify wrth the dandy ideal that everything you do is art.’
Which is all fair enough. but maybe he should ditch the costume before he walks the streets of Glasgow. (Davrd Pollock)
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l’( )l’ THE GO! TEAM ABC, Glasgow, Fri 14 Sep
The Go! Team have always ploughed a lonely, if thrilling, furrow. When the Brighton six-piece outfit's debut album, Thunder; Lightning, Strike, exploded in our faces in 2004, it was a joyful, irrepressible record which sailed in the opposite direction from the prevailing tides of miserable, white-boy indie rock.
That album was nominated for a Mercury, and the band’s outrageously fun and ridiculously daft performance at the awards ceremony made the rest of the contenders look like the joyless goons they are.
‘A magazine like NME doesn’t want to put us on the front cover, cos we’ve got girls in the band,’ says outspoken frontwoman, cheerleader and all-round rabble-rouser Ninja. ‘They think indie bands have to be scruffy boys with too much hair gel and skinny jeans who do drugs and drink loads. We don’t fit into that, so we don’t get the support we deserve.’
The band are set to unleash the follow-up, Proof of Youth, another scintillating mash up of 705 TV theme tunes, hip hop, funk, soul, rock and car chase music.
PSYfll if [)i l l/\ CARIBOU The Arches, Glasgow, Sun 9 Sep
Once in a while we all need to try something new this better than [)an Snaith, lhe chap otherWir,e known a'. (,‘aribou was forced to embrace change in 9004 when ancient rocker Richard ‘Handsome [)ick' Manitoba filed a lawsuit forcind him to ditch lll', 'llll‘,I(,itI moniker, lifted from the Canadian provrnrge, and for hrr. utunnrnd fourth release Andorra, the Canadian ex pat is singing throurtfiout for the first time. was created using a corripletely new rriethod
‘I wanted evehy track to be a song] he explain', from lll‘, l ondon home don't mean in terms of lyrics. I just mean the way the rnelodie', dexelop l wanted verses and choruses that's something I had fl‘;/‘:f tried before
faking inspiration from ‘music that packs an erriotional punon‘ by everyone from The /ombies to Ariel Pink, Wire, .Jarne', Holden and Alllll'fll Collective. Snaith's latest work is his most personal to date and he can't wait to gauge reactions to the release in a live setting
‘Making a record is a very solitary thing, and since flfllSillfV} lfll’, one I have been really eager to get out there and play it to people.‘ he says ‘ lhe show has always been about making everything as loud and o/emhelrninr; as possrble. just a real senSOry overload.
‘We're particularly exerted about Glasgow] he adds 'One time after playing a crazy Halloween show there our van got spray painted while we were drrvrng down the street. There's a feeling at Glasgow digs that anything could happen and I like that.‘ (Camilla Pia;
Listening to it, you can‘t help thinking The Go! Team should be prescribed for people suffering depression, because it’s the musical equivalent of Prozac.
While the debut album was the brainchild of musical lynchpin Ian Parton, this time round the band contributed much more, having spent two years solid on the road together.
‘After all that touring we six had six months completely off, just dedicated to recording,’ explains Ninja. ‘This record is still based around Ian’s musical influences, but the band got involved much more in the recording side. It was great fun.‘
Which can also be said for experiencing The Go! Team live. Listening to the records doesn’t prepare you for the full-on, clattering mayhem of the band's gigs. With two drummers, an onslaught of rock guitars, keyboards and funky samples, and Ninja leading from the front, it can be a jaw-dropping experience.
‘We're a very chaotic band, and there's so much going on that we don’t expect any show to be perfect,‘ Ninja laughs. ‘We always have loads of things going wrong, things break, and I seem to get hurt in every show. But it's worth it.’ (Doug Johnstone)
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