The Go! Staff announce twentieth anniversary ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ tour and reissue
The Go! Staff have introduced a twentieth anniversary tour to have fun debut album ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’, together with particulars of a reissue. .
The Brighton indie group, who launched their seventh studio album ‘Get Up Sequences Half Two‘ in February 2023, confirmed on-line that the brand new version of their debut album shall be out September 13 through Memphis Industries.
The Go! Staff have shared the CDR model of ‘The Energy is On’, in addition to a Cornershop remix of the album’s ‘Everybody’s a V.I.P. to Somebody’. A brand new remix shall be launched each month all through 2024, with a variety of artists contributing new renditions.
There may also be a restricted Tough Commerce unique urgent of 500 purple and yellow splatter clear vinyls and it comes with a bonus disc of band member Ian Parton’s unique CD-R variations of the songs as they had been in 2004.
The acclaimed 2004 album was counseled for its sonic experimentation and uncooked manufacturing model – with tracks similar to ‘Ladyflash’ placing a DIY spin on genres similar to Motown and 80s hip-hop.
In 2005 ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and a “authorized” model of the album was launched the place the samples that would not be clear within the unique had been eliminated.
Tracks from the DIY album went on to do properly commercially, with ‘Bottle Rocket’ and ‘Huddle Formation’ being utilized in TV adverts.
Along with the reissue, they’ve introduced a slew of exhibits to commemorate their 2004 debut album. The band will kick off their ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ twentieth anniversary tour on September 26 in Edinburgh earlier than taking part in in Manchester on September 27, Bristol on September 28, and Dublin on September 29.
The Go! Staff – presently consisting Ian Parton, Sam Dook, Ninja, Adam Znaidi, Niadzi Muzira, Jaleesa Gemerts, and Deanna Wilhelm – may also head to the USA for exhibits in Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
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The ‘Thunder, Lightning, Strike’ anniversary exhibits are:
SEPTEMBER
26 – Edinburgh, Queens Corridor, UK
27 – Manchester, New Century Corridor, UK
28 – Bristol, Marble Manufacturing unit, UK
29 – Dublin, Button Manufacturing unit, IE SOLD OUT
OCTOBER
28 – Chicago, Lincoln Corridor, US
30 – Cambridge, Sinclair, US
NOVEMBER
1 – NYC, Irving Plaza, US
2 – The Foundry, Philadelphia, US
3 – Black Cat, Washington DC, US