Spurs stories | Spurs fans Lucky Iris taking pop scene by storm

Before Lucky Iris, Maeve Florsheim and Jasper Exley’s first conversation was about Spurs. Years later, having been together through school and moved from London to Leeds for university, their bond over all things Lilywhite is as strong as ever as they continue to make huge strides in the music industry.

The pair’s latest track something to believe in has been everywhere this summer, from Radio 1, Radio 6 and Radio X to a slot on Sky News, where Maeve and Jasper explained to a national television audience how they hoped something to believe in would become something of an unofficial anthem for England at Euro 2024.

Maeve said: “When I’m going through a rough time there are two things I consistently turn to: Music, and football. Being a fan has always given me something to believe in when I need it. This track is our take on an anthem, an ode to the things we pour our heart into when we don’t feel like we can. For me, it’s football and pop music, so why not combine them both?”

Maeve told everyone about her love of Spurs in a special Spurs Story in October.

Fast forward nine months, and it was time to talk to Maeve - and Jasper - again. First topic? Spurs, of course!

Jasper: “My mum is the Tottenham fan. My whole family grew up near the stadium and my first game at the stadium was when I was about five. However, my dad was an Ipswich fan! He took me to a couple of Ipswich games, but I’ll be honest, that did nothing for me, compared to Defoe, Kanoute - that was it! We then moved to the St Albans area. My dad is now a Spurs fan. My mum wants to go to games every week and my dad has joined her, they have been Season Ticket Holders for about 10 years now, and that means myself and Maeve get to go to games a couple of times a season!”

Maeve: “My grandfather was a Spurs fan. I have all of his programmes. He was one of those fans who would get the newspaper report after a game and staple it into a programme, so you could go back to it. He would mark up the players who didn’t play, who came on as substitute. I’ve got all of those, something so lovely to look back on. My dad is also a fan, and that’s how we keep in touch. We’re up in Leeds, he’s still down south, but I get full analysis from him, half-time and full-time debriefs!”

Maeve: “Spurs - it was our first conversation! We were the two Spurs fans in our year at school.”

Jasper: “It definitely came up when we were at school.”

Maeve: “In Leeds, it’s a bit mad. We stand out quite a bit! We went to watch the Rochdale away game in the FA Cup (February, 2018), Lucas Moura’s first match (and he scored in a 2-2 draw). Five of us went on the train from Leeds.”

Jasper: “It’s a small community, but we know everyone who supports Spurs.”

Onto the music, and something to believe in, the band’s follow up to last summer’s oh no (I guess I did it again) has certainly made its mark this summer.

How has life changed?

Maeve: “It’s really exciting because we’re finally getting to show people what we’re all about. We love making music and sharing it with other people, so getting that music out to more and more people is so exciting, and it’s creating bigger fan networks. Our numbers are going up, our opportunities are more and more exciting. It’s so exciting and we’ve more music coming… this is just the start.”

Jasper: “We’ve had loads of support from the football community. We released a football track about a year ago, our first bit of football press, mainly around Leeds, as that’s where we’re based, and I couldn’t believe how friendly the football community was to musicians, everyone is right behind us and we’re starting to see it even more now.”

Maeve “There are definitely parallels between music and football. The sense of community that both bring and seeing that around our music is really, really nice. We wrote our new song, it’s about football, we dropped it just before the Euros and the video, well, it’s all Spurs. We’ve been writing songs about all the things we love like friendships, family, and football is right at top of that, and being able to connect with fans through our music is something really special.”