Sports Team
Saturday 23 November 2024
Doors 19:00
Hand-break off, Sports Team are back. With musical pedals to the metal and saxophones at full throttle, a river of halogen glows golden and an incisive critique of latter-day capitalism burns through the haze as the six-piece’s new single ‘I’m In Love (Subaru)’ glides into view. A song not only born to float out of car stereos, but one to question the mass-produced, brand-obsessed cultures that create them.
Carpooling with the likes of Trust-era Elvis Costello, city-pop icon Mariya Takeuchi and Bryan Ferry shimmering with all his Roxy Music sophistication, ‘I’m In Love (Subaru)’ merges thematic lanes with Prefab Sprout’s ‘Cars And Girls’, to deliver an updated exploration of cynical sting lurking behind the new car dream, though with a power steering assuredness Sports Team embrace the musical spirit of ‘the road’.
Boasting some of the band’s most dynamic musical performances to date, alongside the seer-like lyrical insight, ‘Boys These Days’ is the perfect roadside recovery for the pitfalls of modern life, both on record or on stage, the latter being a place that Sports Team are very keen to return to now an autumn UK tour has been announced to precede the album’s release early in 2025.
“Not playing live was like two years in a convent” jokes Rice, eyeing his band’s touring schedule. “Being onstage is a high you can’t get anywhere else.”
Although getting behind the wheel of a classic Impreza with ‘I’m In Love (Subaru)’ locked on the stereo promises to be some trip too. It truly does feel “like driving a throne”…
