Sports Team: International Showcase Fund (SXSW)
Having first released music in January 2018 with their Winter Nets EP, the past 12 months have been good to Sports Team as early single ‘Kutcher’ was named Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record in the World’, trademark single ‘Camel Crew’ declared Noisey’s 10th best song of 2018 and EP cut ‘Beverly Rose’ winning Steve Lamacq’s Round Table. The band finished the summer of 2018 by headlining the BBC Introducing Stage at Reading and Leeds and selling out London’s 800 capacity Scala, while gracing the covers of both DIY and long-time backers So Young Magazine to end the year.
Sports Team return in January with new single, ‘M5’. Recorded with Jolyon Thomas (Slaves, U2, Kendrick Lamar) the song treads a uniquely English path, but one which now feels definitively Sports Team’s. Released ahead of their first North American visit via SXSW, made possible by the PRSF International Showcase Grant. The band will return to the UK for their biggest tour yet, which includes a headline date at Electric Ballroom in London.