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Published: 13 September 2007

Ninja on the Go!

INTERVIEW: GO! TEAM'S NINJA

FOLLOWING a sell-out performance at the Electric Ballroom, Go! Team’s new album Proof Of Youth is out this week. Andy Dangerfield caught up to the bands’ rapper, north London girl Ninja.

Andy Dangerfield: Why are you called the Go! Team?
Ninja: Go teams clear up plane wreckages. It’s a dynamic name and we’re a dynamic band.

AD: What would you be doing if you weren’t in the Go! Team?
N: Something fantastic. I’m not someone who would settle for a bog-standard lifestyle. I wanted to be an astronaut before I joined the band.

AD: Where did you learn to dance?
N: You can either dance or you can’t – I just enjoy the music so I just do what I’d do if I was at home and there was no-one there.

AD: Where did you learn your cheerleader chants?
N: I’ve never had training in cheerleader chants but would have loved to have gone to an American high school. I would have been a cheerleader and gone out with a captain of a sports team.

AD: The Go! Team sample a lot of 1980s TV shows. What are your faves?
N: I used to like waking up really early to turn on Channel 4 to watch a lot of Sunday morning cartoons. After the cartoons I’d watch The Waltons or Land Of The Giants. But they should do a channel of just 1980s cartoons.

AD: Who was your favourite cartoon character?
N: I used to love ThunderCats. At school I was the fastest runner and they called me Cheetara. I’d think I was her and get into Cheetara mode and speed through the crowds

AD: I used to be Lion-O
N: Cool. I think they’re making a movie of ThunderCats now. Panthro was definitely a black guy. If they make the movie and he’s not black I’m not going to be happy! I’d love to be WilyKit or WilyKat in that movie!

AD: I look forward to it.
N: I’m not looking forward to it at all. They should leave it alone. I’m scared of what they’re gonna turn it into. It’s gonna be a new thing for kids now. They’re stealing my history!

AD: What are your favourite instruments?
N: I learnt to play the recorder in primary school but then I realised they don’t play recorders in orchestras. Then I found out the Go! Team play recorders so I was happy with that.

AD: Do you like playing in Camden?
N: It depends on the crowd. In general I don’t really like playing in London or the major cities. It’s all industry types. They don’t come to dance. They come to stroke their chins. The fans never get to go there so you don’t get the same energy.

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