Held by robbers UK band sports team “10 minutes” into his US tour on Tuesday at gunpoint.
The band revealed the situation at Starbucks Vallejo, Californiaearly in the morning
“A man runs up saying some guys are hitting a van,” the crowd said Instagram read. “They stopped it and saw masked men robbing the van and ran away. Started shouting and they pulled out a gun. The police response was ‘file a report online.’
“Lost a lot of personal gear, but they didn’t get the instruments so drove to Sacramento to play tonight,” the band added. “They may take away our Nintendo switches but they will never take away our ability to play rock songs about motorways.
UK band Sports Team pulls gun on bandits as robbers steal items from band’s van (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
“In all seriousness pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it. ‘It happens’. At 9am in some petrol station Starbucks. Wild.”
“In all seriousness pretty shocking how resigned everyone seemed to be to it. ‘It happens’. At 9am in some petrol station Starbucks. Wild.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Vallejo Police Department for additional information.
The band’s laptops, in-ear monitors, personal items and cameras were taken in the robbery but the instruments were not taken “because the back of the van was reinforced,” frontman Alex Rice said. Sky News.
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The sports team said it was “shocking how everyone seemed to want to resign”. (Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
Three of the six members’ passports were also taken.
“The most immediate concern for us is passports, to be honest,” he told the outlet. “All three of us have taken our passports.
“It’s a ‘try to go to the consulate and sort it out for Christmas’ kind of situation.”
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Rob Knoggs, Ollie Dewdney, Al Greenwood, Alex Rice, Henry Young and Ben Mack of Sports perform at Webster Hall on Nov. 9 in New York City. Passports of three members were stolen in the heist. (Astrida Waligorski/Getty Images)
The group will continue their US tour as they promote their upcoming album, “Boys these days.”
“We’re really lucky that we’re able to do that,” Rice told Sky News. “We have a lot of friends in San Francisco. People have been incredibly supportive.
“It’s a terrible thing that this happened, but we were lucky that our real equipment was not taken – it has happened to us in the past.”
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