03 September 2022
Newsdesk
Britain’s most exciting breakthrough band of recent years, Sports Team, today share new song ‘Dig!’. Lifted from Sports Team’s forthcoming second studio album Gulp!, ‘Dig!’ is one of the most raucous tracks on the highly-anticipated new record, and is described by the band as “a much needed pinch of salt in the thin gruel of pop culture today.” Gulp! is due for release via Island Records on the updated release date of 23rd September, owing to further production delays.
Sports Team have been busy playing a packed run of UK and European festival dates, including Glastonbury, Mad Cool, Super Bock Super Rock, Truck, Tramlines, Kendal Calling and more - drawing in impassioned crowds excited to witness the band’s electric live show. They also recently embarked on their annual Bus Trip all dayer to Margate, where they were joined by Nine8 Collective, Traams, The Dinner Party, Island Of Love and Heartworms who performed throughout the day at Elsewhere.
Sports Team will be taking their headline tour across UK and Europe through October and November. Following a sold out show at London’s Brixton Academy last year, the UK leg will see the band this year stop at London’s Roundhouse for a special show with ‘friends’. Sports Team’s vivid vignettes of modern Britain and inspections of the follies, foibles and frustrations of youth have earned them an impassioned fanbase, a real community who come together at the band’s infamously electrifying live shows. Tour tickets are on sale now below.
New album Gulp!, out this September, houses Sports Team’s most assured and invigorating work to date, and is available to pre-order now on vinyl, CD & cassette from the band’s webstore. Gulp! follows Sports Team’s 2020 Mercury Prize nominated debut album Deep Down Happy, which charted at #2 in the UK’s Official Charts, achieving the biggest vinyl sales for a debut British artist in 2020.
Gulp!
The Game
Dig!
The Drop
Cool It Kid
Unstuck
R Entertainment
Kool Aid
Getting Better
Fingers (Taken Off)
Light Industry
Sports Team are Alex Rice (lead vocals), Rob Knaggs (rhythm guitar + vocals), Henry Young (lead guitar), Oli Dewdney (bass), Al Greenwood (drums) and Ben Mack (keyboard + percussion). Formed in 2016, the band released two EPs Winter Nets and Keep Walking! before sharing their debut album Deep Down Happy in June 2020 to widespread critical acclaim, praised by The Times for their “indomitable spirit and a refusal to take things too seriously” and The Guardian for their “sharply observational lyrics skewering the mores of suburbia”.
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