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Sports Team work up a sweat on the Festival Republic Stage

Sports Team work up a sweat on the Festival Republic Stage

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Saturday 8:37 PM

Here they come again – Sports Team are back at Reading Festival and this time, they’ve moved onto the Festival Republic Stage.

This time last year, I was reviewing their headline slot on the BBC Music Introducing Stage – does this mean we’ll soon see them on the Main Stage? This band is definitely making moves.

Since the loveable six-piece were last here, they’ve released their a second EP ‘Keep Walking!’ which gifted us more indie-rock hit tracks such as ‘M5’ and ‘Ski Lifts’, they’ve sold out Scala and Electric Ballroom and took everyone on another day out to the beautiful seaside town of Margate.

The band walked on to the anthemic ‘Let Me Entertain You’, and boy did they. Fronted by charming lead-vocalist Alex Rice, these lot make jangle-pop infused indie-rock hits that you’ll have blaring on repeat and your mum will tell you to turn off. The band’s fan-favourite classics ‘Kutcher’, ‘Camel Crew’, ‘Margate’ and closing anthem ‘Stanton’ all go down an absolute storm, with mosh pits left, right and centre.

With microphone stands swinging, crowd surfers galore and impressive harmonica skills – Sports Team are on the up and they’re not done quite yet.