Sports Team have announced details of their third album Boys These Days and a UK tour including Manchester gig.
The band will open their 10-date tour at Manchester’s New Century Hall in November. They will also headline at Liverpool’s Arts Club.
To co-incide with the announcements, the Mercury-nominated Sports Team have also shared new single I’m In Love (Subaru). The track looks at the cynical sting behind a new dream car. Part love song part dissection of aspirational hype it delves in to the shameless consumerist dream. As Sports Team’s vocalist Alex Rice explains, “The song captures that tension between those glossy inanimate objects you can project any desire onto versus all the stuff that creeps in behind it. It should be a very uncomplicated love song, talking about cars and how people perceive their relationships, but with humanity, nothing is ever that simple.”
Speaking about the some of the musical inspirations behind I’m In Love (Subaru), he added, “Having been in London guitar world for a quite while, I began looking at people like Bryan Ferry and how it can be a bit more fun if you play around with characters. He looks like he’s having a better time than a lot of the bands from our generation, and that’s what you want to be shooting for. The video we did with Dora (Paphides) really taps into that dramatic side too. It’s something that has always been there, but it felt right to really explore it around this song.”
Sports Team will release new album Boys These Days on 28 February 2025.
When do Sports Team headline at Manchester’s New Century Hall?
Sports Team headline at Manchester’s New Century Hall on 14 November 2024. They will headline a Liverpool gig at Liverpool’s Arts Club on 16 November. The Manchester and Liverpool gigs are two of 10 UK dates they have announced:
14 November – Manchester, New Century
15 November – Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon
16 November – Liverpool, Arts Club
18 November – Sheffield, Foundry
19 November – Glasgow, SWG3
20 November – Newcastle Upon Tyne, Boiler Shop
22 November – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
23 November – Leeds, The Wardrobe
24 November – Bristol, The Trinity Centre
25 November – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
When do tickets go on sale for Sports Team’s UK tour?
Tickets for Sports Team’s UK tour go on sale at 10am on 26 July 2024 with pre-sales open at 10am on 24 July.