The British rock group who are originally from St Albans, have teamed up with their hometowns football team to raise donations for food banks across the UK. Enter Shikari and St Albans City Football Club (SACFC) will debut a charity shirt in which the funds will go directly to either St Albans & District Foodbank in Hertfordshire and the Fans Supporting Foodbanks charity in Liverpool, Merseyside.
The t-shirt is £19.99 and feature the bands logo from their April 2020 album – ‘Nothing is True and Everything is Possible’ – as well as the St Albans FC logo. The t-shirt is available for pre-order now and will be distributed on 19th March 2021. All funds will go to the aforementioned charities.
| Saints x Shikari. We’ve been working with @ENTERSHIKARI on this brilliant collaboration t-shirt!
All profits from sales will be split between @Stalbansdistfb and @SFoodbanks!
You can pre-order yours now by heading to https://t.co/LvkVTBVvZ4#SACFC #RightToFood https://t.co/fYpmoGgx7N
— St Albans City FC (@stalbanscityfc) February 23, 2021
This is not the first time the band has teamed up with St Albans FC to create and design football shirts. For the 2020/2021 football season, Enter Shikari have sponsored the tea, having their own logo on their hometown footy team. The bassist of the band, Chris Batten, said “Growing up I was passionate about two things: football and music. The reality is that sport and music go hand-in-hand when it comes to providing a positive outlet for young people, no matter what their background.”
Chairman of SACFC, Lawrence Levy, expressed his glee at the band and footballs teams collaboration saying, “Music and football have a long history of common personalities and with all 4 members of the band born and bred in St Albans and educated in local schools, we have a great platform for working together to improve outcomes for young people in the district.”
The popular British rock group have also been re-working their music video for ‘Warm Smiles Do Not Make You Welcome Here’. The video will incorporate a new green-screen live video for the track. Oleg Rooz, a friend of the band and visual collaborator based in Ukraine, was sent the individual video takes and told to ‘do whatever you like to it’.
The bands frontman, Rou Reynolds stated of the re-worked video, “It was nice to revisit this old track, recording it in front of green screens in our respective front rooms, and then giving the footage to our mate Oleg to create a psychedelic beast of a video for.” Watch below to see the end product.
