The band will showcase their latest album ‘Californian Soil’ to the seaside amusement park as part of the venue’s ‘Summer Series’ of live music shows.

We are excited to announce a new headline show at @DreamlandMarg on Tuesday, August 24th.

Tickets are on sale tomorrow, August 3rd, at 10am BST.

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— London Grammar (@londongrammar) August 2, 2021

They will be joined by James, Billy Ocean and Björn Again are also set to perform across the next two months as part of Dreamland’s ‘Summer Series’. You can find out more information about what’s on at Dreamland Margate this summer by heading here.

The trio are then lined up to play a number of intimate UK tour dates next month before a bigger tour kicks off in October. You can see London Grammar’s upcoming live dates below.

London Grammar Tour Dates:

24/08/2021 Dreamland Margate  – Margate
27/08 All Points East Festival, Victoria Park – London
20/09 Pryzm – Kingston Upon Thames
21/09 New Slang (Pryzm) – Kingston Upon Thames
25/09 Beckett Students’ Union – Leeds
27/09 O2 Academy Oxford – Oxford
28/10 Motorpoint Arena – Cardiff
30/10 Centre – Brighton
02/11 Motorpoint Arena – Nottingham
05/11 O2 Academy Birmingham – Birmingham
06/11 O2 Academy Glasgow – Glasgow
08/11 O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
09/11 – O2 Victoria Warehouse – Manchester
12/11 – Alexandra Palace – London
13/11 – Alexandra Palace – London

Sports Team’s annual Margate trips are infamous in the indie scene; they hire a bus from London and take a rabble rousing bunch on a trip to the sunny Kent coast. This year, Sports Team are doing it in style – they’ve recruited a fantastic line up and the event is now an all-dayer across two venues.

Alex Rice and co have curated quite the lineup for 2021’s seaside holiday. Post-punk upstarts TV Priest are hot off their debut, ‘Uppers’, an in-your-face, raucous album jam-packed with songs to get the pit going. Courting are on the bill, who’s superb EP ‘Grand National’ dropped a matter of weeks ago. Both of these bands have a cult following of dedicated fans – Margate ’21 tickets are going to sell fast!

English Teacher are one of the most exciting additions to the bill: their band of melodic, spoken word indie will strike a chord with Dry Cleaning fans. A further addition is instrumental groove aficionados Los Bitchos, who dropped two superb singles in 2019. There are some DJ sets included, from Golf Ahias, Billie Martin and indie legend and cheif Maccabee, Orlando Weeks.

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Sports Team themselves are fresh from the release of new track, ‘Happy (God’s Own Country’), which is a brilliant, frantic, two minute snapshot of English life and a satire on Tory Britain. The Margate bus trip is bound to be an exciting post-lockdown party for any indie fan. Each of the bands on this bill bring their own niche and the day will surely be full of fun, cans and indie bangers.

Sports Team are also due to play a lengthy UK tour, kicking off in Manchester this winter. They’re stopping off at cities country wide to tour debut album ‘Deep Down Happy’.

‘Stations of the Cross’ is something of a profound song title, and the lyrics betray a real shrewdness. “Weekends follow weekends / like the stations of the cross” Rice sings. “And it’s not that you’re unhappy you’re just happy on and off.” Under the surface of a flashy, cool setup at Kennington’s iconic cricket ground, there lies a bleakness about growing older and disillusioned. It strikes a great contrast with Sports Teams’ unique, and cheery, guitar band sound.

Sports Team rarely take themselves too seriously, though. From their record label account, Holm Front, they called it a “mostly competent version.” They are underselling themselves; the energy of the video is contagious.

Deep Down Happy has been nominated for the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize, which will be announced live on The One Show next Thursday (September 24). Although there won’t be a ceremony on the scale of previous years, there will be plenty of TV and radio coverage throughout next week to celebrate all the nominees. The full run of events can be found here.

Speaking to NME about their upcoming nomination, Alex Rice said, “I’d rather win The Mercury Prize than anything else. It’s just bigger than anything else. It does feel like recognition from people just like us, who are obsessed with music, which is incredible.”

All in all, it’s been a big week for Sports Team. With precedent out of the window, what better way to prepare for an awards ceremony than by attempting to beat Pete Doherty’s time on the mega breakfast challenge at Margate’s Dalby Café? This is what guitarist Henry Young got up to yesterday – the band shared the following pictures of his attempt. For those interested, the breakfast consists of four rashers of bacon, four fried eggs, four sausages, onion rings, mushrooms, beans, bubble and squeak, hash browns, two slices of toast and – of course – a quarter-pounder burger with a side of chips.

Pete Doherty, if you have any pride, you will come down to the Dolby and defend your title pic.twitter.com/yZ5veZw7U3

— Sports Team (@SportsTeam_) September 15, 2020

Unlike Doherty, Young didn’t finish. Sports Team followed up with a tweet that just says “flop team”. 

Next April, Sports Team are heading up and down the country for a small UK and Ireland tour – although they won’t be returning to Margate on this occasion. You can see where to catch them below.

20/04/21 – The Grand Social – Dublin
22/04 – Leeds University Stylus – Leeds
23/04 – The Albert Hall – Manchester
25/04 – Rock City – Nottingham
26/04 – SWG3 – Glasgow
28/04 – SWX Bristol – Bristol
29/04 – O2 Academy Brixton – London