Sports Team live at The Fleece in Bristol - 24 September 2026
Posted on: 11 Sep 2026Sports Team have announced a run of intimate dates across the UK in collaboration with DIY Magazine, bringing their notoriously chaotic and exhilarating live show to fans in a more up-close-and-personal setting including a show at The Fleece, Bristol on Thurday 24 September 2026.
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The band have recently released their first new music in over a year with their unapologetically raucous single 'Billy', check the video below.
Sports Team are Alex Rice (vocals), Robert Knaggs (lyrics, backing vocals, rhythm guitar), Henry Young (lead guitar, lap steel), Oli Dewdney (bass), Al Greenwood (drums) and Ben Mack (synths, piano & percussion).
If you hate Tequila Rose, then Sports Team have just the post/late-summer anthem for you. The Mercury Prize-nominated indie outfit have officially returned with their brand-new single ‘Billy’ which is out now via Distiller Records alongside a music video.
‘Billy’ takes the melodious, freewheeling indie-soul of 2025’s Boys These Days and adds a jagged, rock’n’roll edge on one of the band’s most enjoyably raucous songs yet, marking the first release since their acclaimed third studio album dropped in May 2025.
"It’s a love letter to getting desperately, insanely drunk at a carpeted pub on a Tuesday night," says songwriter Rob Knaggs. "We recorded it live at RAK studios over the first weeks of summer with Seth Evans and Adele Phillips. It felt like a return to how we made the first album. Fast, and loose and loud."
‘Billy’ is available on all major streaming platforms, alongside a limited run of physical flexi discs.
To celebrate their return, Sports Team will head out on a special run of intimate UK dates at the end of September, in collaboration with DIY Magazine. The eight-date tour will see the band head to some of the UK’s most beloved smaller venues, bringing their notoriously chaotic and exhilarating live show to fans in a more up-close-and-personal setting.
SPORTS TEAM – UK TOUR 2026
22 Sep – Southampton, The Brook
23 Sep – Oxford, The Bullingdon
24 Sep – Bristol, The Fleece
25 Sep – Liverpool, Arts Club
26 Sep – Blackpool, Bootleg Special
27 Sep – Edinburgh, La Belle Angele
29 Sep - Newcastle - Digital
30 Sep – Nottingham, Metronome
3 Oct – London, EartH
Sports Team have firmly established themselves as one of the UK’s most exhilarating and essential bands. Renowned for their incendiary live performances and sharp, satirical lyricism, they burst onto the scene with their Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Deep Down Happy, which landed at no.2 on the UK Albums Chart. They solidified their critical and commercial status with the acclaimed follow-up Gulp! securing their second consecutive Top 3 record, while Boys These Days cemented their place at the forefront of British guitar music, peaking at no.1 on the Official Record Store Chart.
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