"People are scaredy-cats, aren't they?" laughs Ian Parton, founder of British cut-and-paste kitsch-pop outfit The Go! Team, when told that many Western bands have canceled their Japan tours in the wake of March's radiation-tinged triple disaster in the Tohoku region.
Luckily, Parton and Co. are no such sissies. The six-piece will bring their supercharged live show to Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo this month and by all accounts the gang are excited, if a little apprehensive at the possibility of aftershocks.
"I'm dying to see how the other members of the band react," cackles Kumamoto-born Kaori Tsuchida, the band's multi-instrumentalist, on the phone from England during a brief between-tours stopover. "They've never experienced earthquakes, so I'm kind of looking forward to seeing them freak out!"