Go! Team's Ninja working solo on the side

There is no “I” in “Go! Team,” but said pronoun is somehow apparent in “MC Ninja,” the Brighton group's rapping, chanting, schoolyard vibe-bringing front-woman who recently told NME that she has been recording solo material with producer Richard X (Jarvis Cocker, Depeche Mode, Kelis, M.I.A.)

"If I write a song, I write it for me," Ninja said. “I've got exercise books stuffed with lyrics instead of homework going back to when I was 11.”

Ninja has pursued her own career years before she answered the classified advertisement posted by Go! Team bandleader Ian Parton, seeking an “old-school hip-hop rapper.” In March 2006, she told LiveDaily, “I had no idea I was joining a band. I kept accepting calls every week to do another show, another show, another show because I thought the shows that we were doing were going really well.”

Meanwhile, Ninja will be kickin’ it with Go! Team on a fall tour. Here are the U.S. dates (see the links below for others.)

October:
13 - Chicago, Ill. @ Double Door
15 - Seattle, Wash. @ Neumo’s
17 - Portland, Ore. @ Doug Fir
19 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Mezzanine
20 - Pomona, Calif. @ Glass House
21 - Los Angeles, Calif. @ Echoplex
25 - Boston, Mass. @ Paradise
26 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ TBA
27 - New York, N.Y. @ Bowery Ballroom
28 - Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Studio B
30 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club