The British band, which begins its West Coast tour in San Francisco this week, crashed onto the road after gunmen commandeered the band’s tour van at a Vallejo gas station.
However, as consummate professionals, the group said it would continue touring.
“We were robbed at gunpoint 10 minutes into our US tour,” the band’s sports team wrote in an Instagram post. “A man came running in saying there were men crashing into his van. When he went outside to stop it, he found masked men ransacking the van.”
The post-bank band plans to release a new album in February and will tour later this month in San Diego, Los Angeles and Portland. The band played the first show of the tour in San Francisco on Monday before heading to their next show in Sacramento. But the tour gods weren’t smiling on them when the members first stopped Tuesday at a Starbucks gas station in Vallejo.
As the band members tried to stop the robbery, one of the masked men pulled out a gun, according to a video of the incident posted by the band. The video, shot around 9 a.m., shows a group of masked men removing items from the band’s white tour van. Someone yelled for the band members to take shelter inside a Starbucks.
According to the band’s post, when they called police to report the robbery, they were told to “file a report online.” The members are from Cambridge, England.
The band wrote, “We lost a lot of our personal equipment, but we couldn’t get our instruments, so we’re driving to Sacramento to play tonight.” “They can take away our Nintendo Switch, but they can never take away our ability to play rock songs about freeways. Honestly, no matter how resigned everyone seems to be to that It was quite shocking how it looked. At 9am, I went to a Starbucks at some gas station. wild. “
Vallejo police did not respond to requests for comment.
The 2020 Mercury Prize-nominated indie band is scheduled to perform at El Cid in Los Angeles on December 11th and in Palm Springs on December 15th.
