The British band Sports Team have been robbed at gunpoint on the first day of their US tour.
The indie group, who have scored two top 10 albums in the UK, lost their passports, stage equipment and personal belongings in the incident, as a thief looted their tour van in the city of Vallejo, in the Bay area of California.
The US was used to dump British convicts (and other undesirables) first, about 52 thousand of them.