The Glasgow band Mogwai, known for their deafening post-rock music, have become the shirt sponsors of a primary school football team in their home city.
St Roch’s Primary and Deaf School in Roystonhill were the recipients of the kits, emblazoned with the band’s logo. “They look amazing! We can’t thank you enough,” the school tweeted to the band, whose member Stuart Braithwaite replied “So happy about this”.
Mr McDonald and The Young Team of St Roch's Primary would like to thank @mogwaiband for sponsoring their new football strips! They look amazing! We can't thank you enough 👍 pic.twitter.com/N5A6O1hoRC
— Saint Roch's Primary (@SaintRochsPS) January 22, 2018
The band’s drummer Martin Bulloch told BBC Scotland that the school’s deputy head had suggested the sponsorship deal to him. “They were in some old kit and he was looking to get them some new stuff. He asked if we could help out. I emailed the rest of the boys and they were delighted to do so. There is nothing in the school budget for stuff like that so you can only imagine what they were kicking around in - old kit from years ago.”
Mogwai have dabbled in football-related projects before, scoring the film documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, which follows former French international Zinedine Zidane for an entire match. They have made four other soundtracks as well as nine studio albums – the most recent two reached the UK Top 10, and they played the biggest hometown concert of their career at Glasgow’s Hydro in December 2017.
Other bands have meanwhile come to the aid of teams with sponsorship deals: in 1999, Fatboy Slim’s label Skint sponsored Brighton & Hove Albion when they languished in the third division, while other Scottish bands Biffy Clyro, Wet Wet Wet and the View have all previously sponsored kits.
