Sports Team reflect on gun culture in America on new single ‘Bang Bang Bang’

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Sports Team have released their new single ‘Bang Bang Bang’ which reflects on gun culture in America. Check it out below.Produced by Matais Tellez (Girl In Red, CMAT, Gracie Abrams), ‘Bang Bang Bang’ opens with a western guitar riff and howl.

At the same time, frontman Alex Rice sings: “And little Jimmy gets B’s in Maths /anf two shots in the head / Washington gets dinner dates and fancy IPAs / and Newton still gets robocalls / From the NRA,” contemplating gun culture in the U.S.

from an outsider’s perspective.Directed and produced by Sports Team themselves, the track’s accompanying visualiser sees clips of a man wearing a red t-shirt and jeans dancing mixed in with clips of the Cambridge six-piece hanging around a white studio.Check it out below.The track has since taken on a deeper and darker meaning for the band as what was originally created to be an outsider’s perspective of gun culture in America now hits closer to home after the band themselves were recently robbed at gunpoint on the first date of their US tour.

Sports Team shared a video on their Instagram account of a group of armed men breaking into the group’s sprinter van while at a coffee shop on December 3 2024. “Just been robbed at gunpoint 10 minutes into the US tour.