Lansdowne Club member of 7 years and British Olympic hopeful Laurence Halsted has swapped fencing for filming to star in a music video for his favourite band.
Brighton six-piece Two Spot Gobi's video for new single Simon's Song (Alright) sees Halsted ham it up as a frustrated fencer in full GB regalia, taking on team-mate Ed Jefferies, before a victorious finale on the piste in front of an adoring crowd.
"I'm pretty much their biggest fan," Halsted, the world number 25 in men's foil fencing, told BBC Sport. "But the acting was weird. When we did the winning scene, with an audience of people I didn't know, I had to do it seven or eight times. It was horrible.
"I don't like seeing myself on camera and I think it's a little bit cheesy but it's a music video. It could have been a hell of a lot worse."
The band say the song relates to "a conversation with an old school friend who had been overseas serving in the Forces". James Robinson, the band's frontman, said: "Simon's Song is all about overcoming adversity with the message that we all have the ability to do great things in life. Almost instantly it occurred to us that it would be cool to link it with some sort of sporting story."
The group, mentored by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, release the song along with new album The Sun Will Rise on 16 May.
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Courtesy of BBC Sport