Many UK bands have broken America; few have seen its civilised facade so quickly shattered. 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.
Intrepid drummer Al Greenwood was halfway across the forecourt, filming the robber as evidence, before she realised she’d brought an iPhone to a Glock fight. “Our tour manager [Lauren Troutman] was ahead of me, running towards them and shouting, asking them to stop,” she recalls, clearly shaken at the memory. “I saw quite immediately that they were carrying something that Lauren hadn’t seen.”
