TOURING THE UK AND IRELAND THROUGH OCTOBER
NEW ALBUM GULP! OUT 22ND JULY 2022
Britain’s most exciting breakthrough band of recent years, Sports Team today announce a huge run of live dates across September and October 2022, taking in 17 shows across the US, before returning to the UK for an 11 date headline tour of the UK and Ireland. Tickets for the ‘UK, IE, USA Friendship’ tour will be available on general sale this coming Friday 17th June. Fans can pre-order Sports Team’s new album Gulp! via https://shop.sportsteamband.com/ for access to a limited number of presale tickets, which will be on sale from 10am on Wednesday 15th June.
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’, with more to be announced on this in the coming months. 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.
Pre-order Gulp! for access to pre-sale UK, IE & USA Friendship Tour tickets
New album Gulp!, out this summer, 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..
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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”.
Sports Team 2022 tour dates
16/06 – Bergenfest, Norway17/06 – Piknik I Parken, Oslo26/06 – Glastonbury Festival, Pilton01/07 – Castlefield Bowl, Manchester (w/The Libertines)02/07 – Vida Festival, Barcelona06/07 – Mad Cool Festival, Madrid07/07 – Soho House Festival, Gunnersbury Park09/07 – Soho House Festival, Gunnersbury Park14/07 – Super Bock Super Rock, Lisbon16/07 – Zwarte Cross, De Shans23/07 – Truck Festival, Steventon24/07 – Tramlines Festival, Sheffield29/07 – Y Not Festival, Matlock30/07 – Kendall Calling, Lowther31/07 – Over The Bridge, Edinburgh05/08 – The Great Hall, Cardiff (w/The Libertines)06/08 – Valley Fest, Somerset11/08 – Haldern Pop, Haldern27/08 – Victorious Festival, Portsmouth09/08 – LKC Festival Bilbao10/09 – Andalucia Festival, Malaga16/09 – Masquerade, Atlanta17/09 – Richmond Music Hall, Richmond18/09 – Songbyrd, Washington20/09 – Middle East – Upstairs, Cambridge21/09 – Mercury Lounge, New York22/09 – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia24/09 – Hard Luck Bar, Toronto25/09 – El Club, Detroit26/09 – Schubas, Chicago28/09 – 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis30/09 – Ponyboy, Oklahoma City01/10 – Empire Control Rooms, Austin02/10 – House Of Blues, Dallas04/10 – Valley Bar, Phoenix06/10 – The Observatory, Santa Ana07/10 – The Echo, Los Angeles08/10 – Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco11/10 – O2 Academy, Leeds12/10 – Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow13/10 – O2 Academy, Birmingham14/10 – Academy, Manchester16/10 – Rock City, Nottingham17/10 – O2 Guildhall, Southampton19/10 – O2 Academy, Bristol20/10 – UEA, Norwich21/10 – Roundhouse, London24/10 – Limelight 2, Belfast25/10 – The Academy, Dublin04/11 – Exil Club, Switzerland06/11 – Chelsea Club, Vienna08/11 – Cafe V Lese, Prague09/11 – Privatclub, Berlin11/11 – Loppen, Copenhagen13/11 – Bar Brooklyn, Stockholm14/11 – Parkteatret, Oslo16/11 – Molotow, Hamburg18/11 – Tivoliredenburg, Utrecht20/11 – Botanique, Brussels21/11 – La Boulenoire, Paris
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago and married my childhood sweetheart and life is good.
