England’s The Go! Team has been touring tirelessly in recent months, bringing their patented brand of cheerleader rock all across the globe. Last night marked their first ever stop in D.C., where they met a sold out Black Cat crowd that for once remembered to wear their dancing shoes.

For those of you that haven’t heard The Go! Team’s brilliant first album, Thunder Lightening Strike, their sound is somewhere in the unexpected intersection of old school party hip hop, 60s girl groups, surf rock and retro-ish sample-heavy big beat British dance music in the vein of Fatboy Slim or Lionrock. The Go! Team is, in a word, fun. They’re not out to make a thinking-man’s album — they make dance music with recorders, doubled up drum kits and melodicas, on top of the standard guitar/keys/vocals. Their music is sincere in its pursuit of fun — what’s more fun than cheers and clapping that punctuate a female emcee?