I saw The Go! Team last night. Wow! Not since Bow Wow Wow have two drummers looked and sounded so great. AND they’re girls (I don’t mean that girls aren’t good at drumming, I merely meant that they look so much better behind a drumkit than fellas) AND one of them is oriental! Soooo cool. Singer Ninja clambers onstage after 3 instrumentals and makes everyone smile from ear to ear. Her shouty rapping suits the rhythmic pounding (no slow songs in this set) and she’s the perfect compliment to the three skinny white boys thrashing their guitars behind her. The Musical Bear says it so much better than me…

...The Go! Team have managed to tap into the intoxicating, unselfconscious glee you most likely lost when you turned from a wide-eyed child into a surly teenager. It’s loud, colourful, funny, beautiful and will make your life infinitely better. It’s hard to say if this will penetrate the dismissive ears of the modern listener long enough to be anything other than an underground concern, but wherever this is playing there will be someone with a stupid grin on their face.

The northern soul tape playing before the band took the stage had most folk shuffling about (as much as you can shuffle in the tiny Barfly, especially when it seems there's 300 bodies squeezed into a space built for 100). The Rakes and Whitey were on too but they never managed to top the exuberance and joy that The Go! Team had sprayed out over us.