Sports Team by Lauren Maccabee
Stations Of The Cross is the latest example of Sports Team‘s earworm packed LP Deep Down Happy.
A live performance of the track, recorded at The Oval cricket ground in London, has been released before the band put their debut album up for this year’s Mercury Prize; “It’s in the lyrical realm where Sports Team differentiate themselves: songwriter Rob Knaggs has an observational eye like Messrs Turner and Cocker, yet unlike those two giants his experience is one as a member of the middle class rather than the working,” our 8/10 review reads.
“Though the band are surely loath to be viewed through a class prism, kudos to him for not hiding from this fact, as it’s no less valid an experience than relying on Universal Credit. Through singer Rice, Knaggs laments the boredom of chain pub The Slug & Lettuce, for example. The only real moment for pause on the album, the piano-led Long Hot Summer, contains passionate vocals and the timeless lyric: ‘There’s nothing for me in this town’.”
Tour dates:
April 2021
20 – Dublin, The Grand Social
22 – Leeds, University Stylus
23 – Manchester, The Albert Hall
25 – Nottingham, Rock City
26 – Glasgow, SWG3
28 – Bristol, SWX
29 – London, O2 Academy Brixton
