SPORTS TEAM today release new single ‘Maybe When We’re 30’ alongside a video directed by the band themselves. Written as a sarcastic but sincere ode to settling down, ‘Maybe When We’re 30’ taps into another side of Sports Team, where the wistfulness that often lurks in their lyricism comes to the fore. Over a pensive groove that sounds like a cross between Pulp and The National, they craft a gently euphoric anthem as gripping and exhilarating as anything they’ve done before. Listen HERE
Lyricist Rob Knaggs elaborates, “It’s a song for Brooklyn Beckham. When you start off in a band you feel like Slurms Mackenzie (the Futurama party slug). You can’t believe it’s your job to travel around the world and drink beer and make music with your friends. And then one morning you look around, and all your friends are getting married, and you think, maybe all I really want is to grow old, and get a dog, and write horrible things about Brooklyn Beckham on Facebook, and go on cruises, and have petty disputes with my neighbours about whether the council recycles cardboard.”
‘Maybe When We’re Thirty’ will feature on Sports Team’s upcoming studio album, Boys These Days, out May 23rd on Distiller Records/Bright Antenna. Alex Rice, Oli Dewdney, Al Greenwood, Rob Knaggs, Ben Mack, and Henry Young recorded Boys These Days with producer Matias Tellez (Girl In Red, CMAT, Gracie Abrams) in his Bergen Norwegian studio.
Sports Team have announced a series of instores in support of their new album Boys These Days, kicking off at Banquet Records on May 21st. The dates, which are listed in full below, go on sale on Friday 28th Feb at 10am and are available from participating stores and sportsteam.com
Wed 21st May – Kingston Banquet outstore
Thu 22nd May – Assai Edinburgh outstore at Cabaret Voltaire
Fri 23rd May – Assai Glasgow instore
Sat 24th May – Signing at Live at Leeds
Sun 25th May – Jacaranda Baltic, Liverpool
Mon 26th May – RT Nottingham
Tue 27th May – RT East London
Wed 28th May – Brighton Resident in-store
Thu 29th May – RT Bristol
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