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Sports Team is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Libertines. Those roots explain a lot about how Sports Team arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Courting, Sprints, Shame, Blossoms and Porridge Radio, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into IDLES and Fontaines D.C., where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Sports Team, reaching back through The Libertines and forward to IDLES. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Sports Team are an English alternative rock band based in London. The band consists of lead vocalist Alex Rice, rhythm guitarist and vocalist Rob Knaggs, lead guitarist Henry Young, bassist Oli Dewdney, drummer Al Greenwood, and keyboardist Ben Mack. According to The Guardian, their songs "romanticise Middle England" and idiosyncrasies like Wetherspoons, flip phones, the M5, and fishing.
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Sports Team connections
Sports Team grew out of The Libertines, shares an orbit with Courting, Sprints, Shame and Blossoms, went on to shape IDLES and Fontaines D.C.. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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