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Aug 07, 2024 By Marina Malin

In 2004, The Go! Team emerged into the Brighton disco scene with Thunder, Lightning Strike. To celebrate its 20-year anniversary, the LP is being reissued on vinyl and CD. It’ll include a bonus disc of Ian Parton’s original CDR version of the album. Today, The Go! Team and Los Bitchos have shared “Junior Kickstart (Los Bitchos Rework)” which follows the previous “The Power is On (CDR version),” as well as a Cornershop remix of the album’s “Everyone’s a V.I.P. to Someone.” Listen to “Junior Kickstart (Los Bitchos Rework) below.

On the track, band leader Ian Parton said this in a press release: “Gotta love reworks that are so unmistakably that band. It’s like ‘Junior Kickstart’ has been reflected from Los Bitchos’ mirror—you can pick up motifs from the song, but they are refracted through their distinct cumbia, afrobeat, surf twang. It’s like you know it but can’t quite put your finger on where from.”

A Rough Trade exclusive release is a machine numbered and pressed on red and yellow splatter vinyl and comes with an exclusive 7-inch featuring new versions of “Hold Yr Terror Close” by the Pastels and The Orielles. The Go! Team will also be playing anniversary shows, find those dates below.

As well as Lost Bitchos, The Go! Team will have other personally admired artists remix tracks from Thunder, Lightning, Strike. Throughout 2024, every month a new remix will be released.

The reissue follows their two-part album release Get Up Sequences Part One (2021) and Get Up Sequences Part Two (2023). In 2004, we were the first American media outlet to interview The Go! Team. Also, check out our 2021 interview where they celebrate 20 years of being a band.

Los Bitchos have recently announced their new album Talkie Talkie that will be released on City Slang at the end of the month. Ahead of its due date, Los Bitchos have shared their new singles “Don’t Change,” “Kiki, You Complete Me,” and “1K.”

Thunder, Lightning, Strike Anniversary Shows:

26 Sep –Edinburgh, Queens Hall, UK

27 Sep –Manchester, New Century Hall, UK

28 Sep –Bristol, Marble Factory, UK

29 Sep–Dublin, Button Factory, IE [SOLD OUT]

Oct 28 –Chicago, Lincoln Hall, US*

Oct 30 –Cambridge, Sinclair, US*

Nov 01 –New York, Irving Plaza, US*

Nov 02 –Philadelphia, The Foundry, US*

Nov 03 –Washington DC, Black Cat, US*

Dec 09 –Brighton, The Corn Exchange, UK

*With support from La Sécurité

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