29-05-2025
The substance and silliness of Sports Team
The track was already written when Sports Team came face to face with the issue on tour in America at the tail end of last year. Setting off for their first show, they were robbed at gunpoint in the Bay area of California; soon, they found themselves embroiled in the middle of a political battleground. 'You had the Left-wing press coming at you with the anti-gun angle which obviously we did the press for, and then suddenly you get the Right coming at you,' explains Rice. 'We got asked if we wanted to do primetime Fox News the next day, so I was like, 'Yeah alright!' They were sending this Fox-mobile down 10 hours from LA, and then as soon as we shared some information about stopping gun violence in the US they just turned the car around and didn't want to come anymore.'
