Grip Like A Vice

Given that the Thunder, Lightning, Strike album was essentially the sound of one man in his bedroom, ‘Grip Like A Vice’ is the first time that the full Go! Team experience has made it into the studio. As such, it doesn’t disappoint. Everything we’ve come to expect from their live show is present and correct, all tied up in a record that is uplifting, full of righteous positivity and guaranteed to get the party started wherever they land this summer. Here’s hoping that the album will display a bit more progression but for the moment, the Go! Team are back and that’s all that matters.

Phil Udell, 25 Jun 2007

Given that the Thunder, Lightning, Strike album was essentially the sound of one man in his bedroom, ‘Grip Like A Vice’ is the first time that the full Go! Team experience has made it into the studio. As such, it doesn’t disappoint. Everything we’ve come to expect from their live show is present and correct, all tied up in a record that is uplifting, full of righteous positivity and guaranteed to get the party started wherever they land this summer. Here’s hoping that the album will display a bit more progression but for the moment, the Go! Team are back and that’s all that matters.

Phil Udell

The Go! Team’s sound is wired, varied and brimming with energy: It works like a blast of pure adrenaline and the crowd respond in kind.

2007-11-29 - REVIEW

Fresh from their killer performance at the Electric Picnic – not only on stage, but also in the Hot Press Chatroom – The Go! Team play Dublin this November.

2007-09-25 - News

Maybe I've become too familiar with what they’re trying to achieve – but right now there’s nothing here to make me instantly love this record.

2007-08-24 - REVIEW

This year The Go! Team did battle with The Who at Oxegen (they won) and now they join the rock establishment by playing the Olympia.

2006-11-02 - REVIEW

Brighton's funkiest exportsThe Go! Team have lined up a short Irish tour in October.

2006-07-27 - News

The Go! Team want Kevin Shields to work on their next album. Oh, and a guest spot on The Simpsons, please!

2006-05-30 - News

The Go! Team re-release their fantastic Thunder Lightning Strike, the pot-boiler album of the year, later this month. Worth it for the impudent harmonica alone, it is as good as you’ve been told, so make like the Nice treaty and give in to it, because you know they’re just going to keep putting it out there it ‘til we do.

2005-10-04 - REVIEW

We should have been warned. For a while now the whispers have been that, no matter how good The Go! Team were on record (ie. bloody fantastic) it wasn't a patch on the live experience. All well and good but, believe me, nothing could have prepared us to become part of a mass of waving arms, grinning inanely and chanting Go! Team as if our lives depended on it. It was that kind of night.

2005-05-09 - REVIEW

Operating in the interstice where Sonic Youth meet the Jackson 5, Brighton dance-rock outfit The Go! Team are deservedly brewing up a storm with their debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike.

2005-04-13 - Interview

Cork, Dublin and Belfast are on the agenda next month when The Go! Team descend on Ireland

2005-03-21 - News

Ladyflash is a day-glo hotch potch of a record that throws hip-hop, soul, disco and rock at the wall to see what sticks.

2004-11-25 - REVIEW

Ladyflash is a day-glo hotch potch of a record that throws hip-hop, soul, disco and rock at the wall to see what sticks.

2004-11-25 - REVIEW

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