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Go! Team hope to rock Japan in a good way

"People are scaredy-cats, aren't they?" laughs Ian Parton, founder of British cut-and-paste kitsch-pop outfit The Go! Team, when told that many Western bands have canceled their Japan tours in the wake of March's radiation-tinged triple disaster in the Tohoku region.

Luckily, Parton and Co. are no such sissies. The six-piece will bring their supercharged live show to Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo this month and by all accounts the gang are excited, if a little apprehensive at the possibility of aftershocks.

"I'm dying to see how the other members of the band react," cackles Kumamoto-born Kaori Tsuchida, the band's multi-instru mentalist , on the phone from England during a brief between-tours stopover. "They've never experienced earthquakes, so I'm kind of looking forward to seeing them freak out!"

Hey, even the bravest band would be a little jittery in The Go! Team's shoes: Recently, they appear to be cursed. Just a couple of weeks ago, rapper Ninja suffered an injury (a Ninjury?) when she was severely winded on stage, and was carted off to hospital in a Brooklyn ambulance. And a few weeks before that , drummer Chi Fukami Taylor tripped while exiting a stage in Spain and split her forehead open, requiring stitches. Sod the Japan Meteorological Agency: You can probably predict the next major catastrophe simply by looking at The Go! Team's Japan tour dates.

Still, as Japan prepares to enter a summer of likely power shortages and economic concern, a Go! Team show is just the thing to lift spirits. Always an outpouring of unmitigated naked euphoria, the band's feel-good lo-fi dance tunes, instrument-swapping and crowd-baiting antics are the perfect party starter.

"I was wondering what I can do (for my country), and my brother, who lives in Yokohama, said, 'Do your best in Japan and make people happy,' " says Tsuchida, who has lived in London for about a decade. "Too much jishuku (self-restraint) is not good. I think it's time for people to got back to normal and rock again."

The Go! Team sound has evolved subtly with each of their three albums, from the sample-heavy bedroom lock-in of 2004's "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" (recorded by Parton alone, and an instant indie hit) to a fuller band sound on recent disc "Rolling Blackouts."

Although Parton (who says "Wowzers" a lot, like Inspector Gadget) still writes and arranges the songs, the other five band members, who were originally recruited by Parton solely for live shows, have had more creative input this time around. This is partly thanks to how the album was recorded — not in a studio, but at Parton's home in Brighton, England.

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