Sports Team were one of our highlights of Electric Picnic 2019highlights of Electric Picnic 2019, so we are quite excited at the release of Fishing, the first track to come from their forthcoming debut album.

“The songs are written to be a spectacle live,” says frontman, Alex Rice, who has a certain dash of Mick Jagger about him in a live setting.

“That’s where you’ve got to hear them, front row, with most of the parts played wrong. No one’s doing it better.”

The six-piece, who met while studying at Cambridge, quickly  gained attention thanks to lyrics such as “I just wanted to be your mid-noughties MTV star”.

Sports Team are set for a quick return to Ireland following their Electric Picnic performance as support for Two Door Cinema Club’s Irish tour, with two nights in Dublin’s Olympia Theatre and one night in Belfast’s Telegraph Building next month.

The band are also hitting the road with Pale Waves, before undertaking their own headline tour in November/December. There’s no Irish date as yet, so for now at least, Two Door Cinema Club is your best bet to see Sports Team in Ireland this year.

Tickets to Two Door Cinema Club in Olympia Theatre October 14-15 priced €36.75 on sale now.