ALL systems go, Brighton’s boisterous sample bandits The Go! Team are setting out on their first British tour for three years.

Tonight, Ian Parton and co will be playing The Cockpit in Leeds, but who will be in the line-up when the guest list on new album Rolling Blackouts runs to Satomi Matsuzaki from Deerhoof, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast, Tampa rapper Dominique Young Unique and Bordeaux bedroom balladeer Lispector?

None of them will be swelling the ranks. “Well, you know with six of us in the band, we’re not trying to replicate the album,” reasons Ian. “Ninja [The Go! Team’s MC], Chi and Kaori all sing, and I might be chipping in on one – though I’m not sure which one yet.

“The live show has always been its own entity. Some people prefer it, some people prefer the records. It’s more ballsy live; it’s broader and has more dimensions with lots of different types of song, where we can shift gear – and it’s nice to have three albums to choose songs from.”

How does Rolling Blackouts move The Go! Team’s adventures in audio forward from 2004’s Thunder, Lightning, Strike and 2007’s Proof Of Youth? “It’s not a vast departure,” says Ian. “Often people assumed we were nicking people’s tunes and putting samples on them, but we’ve always been interested in putting different sources next to each other, but this time I was even more guided by melody, coming up with nice tunes, and then I’d flesh it out with samples. So melody was god.”