New Music Friday: Sports Team – GULP!


Sports Team Gulp!




Sports Team’s second album has been released on New Music Friday – stream it right here.

Whilst containing the familiar upbeat Sports Team formula which made debut album Deep Down Happy so irresistible, the lyrical content of GULP! is a reflection of the much darker periods of lockdown in which it was written.

“It has felt like an endless cycle of awful stuff happening and it’s very hard to write fun sunny lyrics when you’re doing nothing and the only things you see are terrible,” Rob Knaggs said.

“There are a lot of life and death lyrics. I guess it was just spending too long inside, a bit too long with your thoughts.”

Sports Team have certainly been making up for lost time since then, and their status as one of the UK’s best live bands will be back on show again during an extensive European tour through to the end of November.

“This does sound soppy and earnest, but playing in a band does feel otherworldly,” Alex Rice added on their touring. “You’re part of a genuine community, something that’s bigger than yourself and I’d never felt like before this – you’re going on stage and you’re having that night together.”


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