Sports Team Takes Aim At American Gun Culture With ‘Bang Bang Bang’

Sports Team released a new single, “Bang Bang Bang,” which comments on American gun culture. The track is set to land on the group’s upcoming album, Boys These Days, arriving on May 23 via Bright Antenna Records/Distiller Records.

Sports Team already had “Bang Bang Bang” ready to release as their first single in 2025, however, an incident while touring in the U.S. late last year terribly affirmed the band’s decision to tackle the issue of American gun culture. While in the Bay Area, Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint outside a Vallejo Starbucks.

“I think what was most shocking was how resigned to it people seemed,” guitarist and lyricist Rob Knaggs said of the incident. “You’re queuing for coffee. And then you’re trying to negotiate somebody waving a pistol around. The staff come and lock the doors, tell you to step away from the windows. You’re thinking about barricading yourself in the toilet and they’re still doing the squirty cream on the drinks.”

Knaggs also detailed how the fateful “Bang Bang Bang” came to be in the first place.

“We toured America a lot when we were working on the third album, and you would see the AR-15 logo used on coffee bags, hats, t shirts, bumper stickers,” guitarist and lyricist Rob Knaggs explains. “You’d stop for petrol, and alongside the snacks and neon drinks there’d be racks with tourist souvenirs; a Mickey Mouse hat, pet rocks, some postcard of a local landmark, then an AR-15 thermos cup. That’s where the seed of the lyrics came from. Seeing that silhouette used like it’s just any other American icon. Then across the time we spent in America I was fleshing the lyrics out. There was a story I saw about NRA robocalls after the Newtown shooting, and it’s horrific. The immediate PR damage control machine that clicks into action.”

“Bang Bang Bang” is tinged with a western motif a la Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti-western scores. Watch the lyric video for “Bang Bang Bang” below:

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