Stereolab : Spiral Scratches Sub-Site
Tuesday 1st November 2011
                              

I've put together a small sub-site dedicated to the vinyl releases of another of my favourite bands, Stereolab. If you're also a fan please check it out here. If you're not familiar with them here's three songs but really, they did so much great work in the 19 years they were active, it's impossible to sum them up other than to say they were a fantastic band...
Jenny Ondioline
Valley Hi! 
The Light That Will Cease To Fail


Rolling Blackouts Single
Sunday 6th November 2011

While I don't have any further details at present it appears that the title track from The Go! Team's album is getting some sort of a single release. Rolling Blackouts has picked up some airplay on BBC 6 Music in the last week and promo CDs are also doing the rounds. Hopefully some more info soon...

Rolling Blackouts Artwork
Tuesday 8th November 2011

Here's the cover artwork to the promo CD single of Rolling Blackouts. Click the above image to go to the release page. The version on the CD I picked up is an edited version of the track. No more info at present.

Archive Articles/BBC 6 Music Interview/Momoiro Clover
Thursday 17th November 2011

Many thanks once again to Chi from The Go! Team for very kindly contributing yet more material to the Titanic Fandalism archives. There's some some further posters - two from the recent festivals the band performed at in China and two rare, numbered limited edition prints from the bands charity show at the Duke Of York's cinema in Brighton in 2008 - and some fascinating early press articles including one from June 2003, a year before The Go! Team played live.  I have grouped the articles together here but they are also included on the interviews page (see the menu bar above). The poster are on Chi's dedicated page here.  All very much appreciated Chi - thank you.

There was some news from the band earlier this week that Ian and Ninja are guests on the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC 6 Music tomorrow afternoon (Friday 18th November) from 2pm GMT.  You can listen live via the 6 Music website here.

And lastly Ian has written the music for the new single from Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z. The track's entitled 'Roudou Sanka' and is released in Japan on the 26th of November.  There's a video for the track on YouTube here. Thanks very much to Chris Thomson for the info.

London Koko: Last Gig 'For A While'
Sunday 27th November 2011

According to the band their gig this week, at Koko in London, is set to be their last 'for a while'.

The six years I've spent  following The Go! Team has been an amazing experience and a lot of fun. The Go! Team's music has pretty much dominated my life since 2006. Both live and on record they never cease to astound and uplift in equal measure and music will be a much duller place without them around. I've been very lucky to get to see the band play live quite a bit and I, for one, will miss that aspect of The Go! Team enormously.  It's also been a real privilege to  have undertaken a little  bit of website admin work for the band and Memphis Industries since 2007 and to have met the band and their management on occasions - they're a really great bunch and my sincere thanks go out to Kaori, Jamie, Chi, Ian, Ninja, Sam, Matt and Ollie for all the kindness they've shown towards me over the years and I wish them the very best for all their future activities, both in their personal and professional lives. Thanks guys!