July Updates
Monday 1st August 2011

Blimey - August already! Just a few site updates from July, not previously covered.  Firstly there's some recently added Go! Team posters on the Posters page including this really nice one from 2006 here and a photo I'd thought  I'd lost of a bus stop in Mexico here. No really.  Plus  there's a few additions to the discography - Simian Mobile Disco's 'Live in Japan' album that includes live remixes of 'Ladyfash' and SMD's 'It's The Beat' featuring Ninja on vocals here and a rare Japanese promo CD of the same album here - and lastly an odd EMI Music Publishing promo CD entitled 'White Label 005' from 2005 featuring 'Bottle Rocket. Check it out along with other notable compilations here. For a full Go! Team discography go here. 


'Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial'
Wednesday 3rd August 2011

In honour of its 13th year of releasing records, Memphis Industries has put together a nice mix tape of tracks from the label, to listen to or download, via the NME website here. Interested to see what Go! Team track had been included, I checked it out and found it was their version of Sonic Youth's  'Bull In The Heather', which was released on the b-side of 'Grip Like A Vice'  back in July 2007. However, during the summer of 2006, a random promo-type CD of 'Bull In The Heather' started doing the rounds (item here/info here) which I had put on my iPod straight-away and listened to a fair bit at the time. So when checking out the version on the NME site  yesterday I noticed that the promo version and the subsequently-released b-side version are different. Firstly, the promo version has a four beat drumstick count-in underneath  the opening squal of guitars, whereas on the b-side version this has been replaced with a single echoey bass drum. Secondly...well there is no secondly I'm afraid - I couldn't hear any other differences. Nonetheless I was delighted to discover this tiny bit of trivia. Strangely, my wife seemed reluctant to share in my excitement and suggested I get out more.


YNot & Ignition Festivals
Thursday 4th August 2011

Another two UK festivals for the band this weekend - a headline  appearance at the Y Not? Festival tomorrow night (Friday) and their Saturday evening slot at Newcastle's Ignition Festival. Wishing festival folks a splendid weekend...

Ignition Off
Thursday 4th August 2011

The Ignition Festival in Newcastle this weekend has been cancelled. There's a bit more info here - commiserations to the band and anyone planning on going. Y Not  is still on, however this is a weekend-ticket only event - there are no day-tickets on the gate - and the weekend tickets appear to have now sold out. 

London
Tuesday 9th August 2011

Lots of love and best thoughts to all Londoners affected so badly following the third and worst night of rioting. One of the many groups of businesses hit last night were independent record labels - the above photo is of the Sony Distribution Centre in Enfield which housed the stock of a number of independent labels including Memphis Industries. More Information here. Our very best to the chaps at MI. Our very worst to the vermin scum of London.

Edit: Memphis are left only with the stock in their offices. Visit their store here and make like it's Record 'Label' Day.

 

Message From Memphis Industries
Wednesday 10th August 2011

Issued by the label 9th August:

'Hi there

For those of you who are unaware, on Monday night Pias' (our distributor) warehouse was burned down, taking with it the stock of many fine indie labels great and small. With around 90% of our stock having been warehoused there this obviously has implications for us in the short term. What we can say is that we will be repressing and getting our physical distribution in the UK and Eire back up and running as soon as is humanly possible.

Matt and Ollie Memphis

Label Love
Thursday 11th August 2011

Following Monday night's fire that destroyed many independent labels' stock at the Sony distribution centre in Enfield, London, a campaign called Label Love has been set up to provide support to many of the labels affected. Read up further on the campaign in this article here (which also contains Twitter links), support wherever you can - and spread the word!

Elsewhere - thanks very much to skip128 for tracking down a surreal remix of Apollo Throwdown by Dam Mantle - and I managed to get hold of a Japanese promo issue of Funanori's EP - chuffed!. Check them out here and here.

Extra Curricular Kaori
Monday 15th August 2011

The Go! Team's Kaori Tsuchida has contributed vocals and guitar to a couple of tracks released by two bands - Skibunny and Now. Neither appear to be recent releases and I have to say I wasn't aware of either until doing some Discography updates over the weekend. The Now album was released on Pickled Egg Records in 2009 on which Kaori sings and plays guitar on a track called 'Hiway Code'. More information about the band and release can be found here. The Skibunny album Hugs, released in 2010, includes a track called 'All In This Together' on which Kaori provides vocals.  Further details about each album can be found in the 'No! Team' section of the Discography here.

What's Going On
Tuesday 16th August 2011

The Go! Team's Sam Dook is involved in organising a workshop for a friend, Yuri Landman, who 'builds weird and wonderful experimental instruments' and has made them for such bands as Sonic Youth, Melt Banana and dEUS (see above photo). The workshop will be held in Brighton on the 22nd and 23rd of October. Check out the band's Facebook page here for more info. Sounds really interesting. Quite literally.

A quick reminder that Memphis Industries' summer sale is still on with a whole heap of bargains available at a time when support is very much needed. Check out the Go! Team store here for some splendid deals on vinyl, CDs and T-shirts etc.  

And Happy Birthday Chi - hope you're having a great day!