A BIT of indie here, some dance music there, influences from cheap cinema films and hip-hop inspirations were just some ingredients in the Go!

Team's melting pot of manic pop.

Yet the four years leading up to new album The Scene Between have seen some changes.

Half the group have departed, and all the new songs were solely the work of the group's main man, Ian Parton, going back to how the Go! Team operated in their early days, when he recorded songs in his parents kitchen.

"It was getting harder and harder to operate as a live band, with babies, jobs and side- projects, so we had a band meeting and decided it was time to stop touring," explains Ian.

"It was never really announced as the band splitting up because you never know what will happen, but I knew I would never stop writing songs and it was kinda nice just to be pleasing myself again.

"That was how the Go! Team started - I did the first album Thunder Lightning Strike on my own so in some ways it was a return to that way of working."

The result is The Scene Between.

It's still exuberant, from the sugar rush of What D'You Say to summer stomper Blowtorch powered by guest vocalist Doreen Kirchner, and Ian was determined to highlight the melody of the group's songs.

"I always thought the Go! Team had been kinda reduced to a list of stuff," he says.

"Double dutch chants plus car chase horns plus distorted drums equals the Go! Team and people had overlooked the songwriting side.

I wanted to follow on from songs like Buy Nothing Day and Ready To Go Steady and make an album driven by singing and melody.

"It"s kinda curvy and catchy but hopefully in an unobvious trashy way, maybe a Mamas and Papas gone wrong type feel.

"I've always thought catchiness is the hardest thing you can do and The Scene Between is going all out for it."

Some of the songs were written with the future of the Go! Team still in doubt, and Ian wasn't sure if they would be for a new project or not.

However, while there's been some changes to the cast, their upcoming live gigs, including King Tut's on Sunday June 7, will be as energetic as ever.

The group's lively frontwoman Ninja is still there to lead the charge, too.

"The energy is a massive part of it for us," says Ian.

"I never understand bands that just stand there.

"We still swap instruments every song, have two drum kits going off, and put action above perfection. "There's three new amazing ladies in the group on top of me, Sam (Dook) and Ninja - Simone on drums, Cheryl on bass and Maki singing and on multi-instruments."

That onstage exuberance makes them a natural fit for Glasgow, where the energy has often carried on past the actual gigs.

"Some of my favourite shows have been in Glasgow," he recalls.

"The crowd are in a different league if they're on your side.

"I remember once after a show we looked out the back window of the tour bus and saw two lads clinging on - the cops pulled us over before we made the motorway or that could have been nasty..."

Away from the Go! Team Ian's had a few other projects - including the mad world of J-pop.

"I was approached by a Japanese girl band called Momoiro Clover Z a while back and asked to write a song for them," he says.

"They're a chart topping band in Japan but have this kooky cred thing about them.

"One minute I was singing it with my acoustic at home, next I see videos of them singing it in a stadium with the crowd waving glow sticks.

"It was a pretty comical exercise."

The Go! Team, King Tut's, June 7, £14, 8.30pm