I think-in the UK, at least-music’s slightly going back in its shell again, in the world of guitar music at least. I think that kind of music seems to have an ambition to it. You probably get this a lot, but you’ve got an Iggy Pop meets Talking Heads thing going on with your vocals. So I don’t think we sound that alien to crowds out there. We love all those bands-Modern Lovers, Iggy Pop, stuff like that.

A lot of the bands we like are Parquet Courts, Twin Peaks-they’re from Chicago as well, aren’t they? But we’ve always coupled that with a very American energy. I think we’re always slightly… our lyrics and our points of reference are very English. How different do the shows feel in the States? We did some dates in New York and LA after that, but not Chicago, sadly. We went in March, then we did a very small tour. I thought it would be old boys in the crowd, but instead it was 18 year olds rediscovering it. Yeah, I was amazed: they seem to have got this increasingly young fan base, which is bizarre. That’s a throwback to high school for me, Two Door Cinema Club. We did some big venues on it, which was great. We’ve done two support tours, one with a band called Pale Waves and another more recently with a band called Two Door Cinema Club. RIOT FEST: How many shows have you played so far on this tour ?ĪLEX RICE: We’re about halfway through. release.Īhead of a special Halloween show at Cobra Lounge (the band’s first-ever stop in Chicago), Rice had some time to spare for a quick chat about Making Hay and the group’s October 31 plans with Riot Fest ahead of the gig. Now that energy is heading towards the U.S.

Most notably, the group has racked up attention for their energetic live shows you’d be hard pressed to find Rice himself sitting still for a performance. Over the past two years, the band has managed to sell out some impressive shows and release a steady collection of songs, albeit just short of releasing a full-length LP. It’s a good way to sum up Sports Team, a group made up of six Cambridge schoolmates who’ve made quite a name for themselves amidst a new wave of British post-punk acts. But he’s more concerned with putting on a good show-one that sends a signal farther than just the fancy fretwork on display. It’s a line that stood out to me as one of the more surprising admissions during our phone call Rice, the frontman of Sports Team, is undoubtedly a musician. “None of us are musicians,” Alex Rice dismisses.

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