No sooner had Sports Team landed in the US last December to start a tour prepping their third album Boys These Days than their first breakfast at a Californian gas station was interrupted by a concerned citizen rushing in to tell them their van was being broken into.
For fans back home watching one of rock’s most dramatic ever TikToks – an acoustic album showcase in an unkempt kitchenette this was not – Greenwood’s post provided hard-hitting evidence that US gun crime could affect anybody.
“Fox News were going to send a Foxmobile to pick me up and take me to LA to do the Martha MacCallum show [The Story with Martha MacCallum],” says singer Alex Rice, now safely ensconced with his jovial bandmates in a pub in the relatively crime-free utopia of Clapton, east London.
Drilling down into US gun culture, it casts a withering eye over the nation’s racially motivated killings, incel acts of revenge, gun shows, assault weapon open-carriers and crazed mall shooters.
The robbers took personal belongings, passports and laptops but the band’s instruments were secure in the back of the van, so Sports Team were able to complete the tour as planned.
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