British band Sports Team ‘robbed at gunpoint’ outside Starbucks on first day of US tour

British set Sports Team person revealed they were robbed astatine gunpoint successful California connected Tuesday.

The indie stone band, consisting of vocalist Alex Rice, guitarist and vocalist Rob Knaggs, guitarist Henry Young, bassist Oli Dewdney, drummer Al Greenwood and keyboardist Ben Mack, claimed they were getting coffee astatine Starbucks erstwhile they were alerted that their circuit van was being robbed.

It was connected the greeting of the archetypal time of the US limb of their tour, and they’d been driving to Sacramento to perform.

They claimed they ‘lost a batch of idiosyncratic gear’ but were inactive capable to execute arsenic their euphony instrumentality and instruments were left.

A connection connected social media read: ‘Just been robbed astatine gunpoint 10 minutes into the US tour.

‘Stopped for coffee. Man runs successful saying immoderate guys are smashing into a van.

‘Ran retired to effort to halt it and find masked guys ransacking the van. Start yelling and they propulsion retired a gun.

‘Police effect was ‘submit an online report.’

‘Lost a batch of idiosyncratic gear, but they didn’t get the instruments truthful driving connected to Sacramento to play tonight.

‘They tin instrumentality our Nintendo Switches but they tin ne'er instrumentality our quality to play stone songs astir motorways.

‘In each seriousness beauteous shocking however resigned everyone seemed to beryllium to it.

‘”It happens.” 9am astatine immoderate petrol presumption Starbucks. Wild.’

They besides shared a video of what appeared to amusement radical ransacking the van, and the set members wrong the Starbucks, yelling to ‘stay inside’ and ‘get down’.

Singer Alex aboriginal told the BBC: ‘Obviously, if idiosyncratic pulls a gun, you tally for cover, but the happening that struck maine astir it was the resignation.

‘The radical astir america weren’t precise panicked astatine all. It seemed similar a precise mundane occurrence.’

Drummer Al added: ‘Somebody opened the doorway and was like, does anybody person a achromatic Sprinter van? Because you’re being robbed close now.

‘So we each ran out, shouting. Lauren, our circuit manager, was somewhat up of me, and idiosyncratic other ran past america successful the other direction, and said, “Careful, he’s holding something.”

‘I truly thought I was astir to ticker idiosyncratic get shot, due to the fact that it took a portion for our circuit manager to realise.’

‘It was precise discombobulating due to the fact that they conscionable carried connected with their shift,’ she added.

The set said the robbers targeted electronics, and they mislaid each their passports, documents and suitcases containing their clothes.

‘We’re going to beryllium wearing the aforesaid things for the adjacent 2 weeks,’ she said, and, aft her diary was taken, added: ‘I cognize it sounds ridiculous, but that’s astir the worst part.’

The radical person scored 2 apical 10 albums successful the UK and were promoting their forthcoming 3rd album, Boys These Days.

They program to proceed playing and volition instrumentality to the Bay Area connected Saturday night.

Metro has approached the LAPD for comment.

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