A possible solution to the "walk out" music and slowing down GOSBTS

[Buzzer]

Apologies for starting a new thread but wondered if this idea could kill two birds with one stone.

Firstly, I'll lay my cards on the table. I'm not in favour of a pop song for the players to march out to. The Palace scum have their Glad All Over and I see that Naylor is suggesting Right Here Right Now. Trouble is both tunes are terribly out of date (as any pop tune will inevitably become) and they're both naff. Wedding music, basically.

What I think we need to do is give GOSBTS an update. Not that awful 200 bpm that Saxondale plays at the end of a game though. That's just appalling. Sacrilege, even.

Nope, what I reckon we could do is what Arsenal used to do - have a Marching Band. This means it will be loud and unique but us fans to actually sing the words to it.

The club will have 2 big screens that can show the words for the newbies and the team march out to a perfectly timed rendition of GOSBTS.

Imagine the first BHA v Palace game with 20,000 Albion fans singing "...and you may tell them all that we stand or fall for Sussex by the sea".

The marching band needn't be every week but long enough for the habit of us singing our anthem is ingrained as ritual.

Tell you what - it would be fortress Falmer IMO.

Plus.....and this is my second point. Fans would start getting into the habit of knowing how fast to sing the tune. Who knows? The full rendition might even replace the dirge-like: Der Der Der Der......

What do you reckon? A go-er?

 

[Giraffe]

Yep. It needs a new version done properly and loudly and slowly, that would be flair. But shame on you for starting a new thread just to make your own view stand out more than others on the other thread. But I agree with you

 

[Superphil]

I agree too, get the words up on the big screens (are we having screens?) , or, if we are having those moving/digital advertising hoardings arpind the pitch, the words could be displayed on there as the team walks out.

 

[Icy Gull]

Isn't LIVE music restricted at Falmer?

 

[Buzzer]

Yep. It needs a new version done properly and loudly and slowly, that would be flair. But shame on you for starting a new thread just to make your own view stand out more than others on the other thread. But I agree with you

Merge it then if it bothers you that much.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Oh I say! What an absolutely SPLENDID idea there Mr B.

TT like. X

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

To be fair this point DESERVES its OWN thread, otherwise it would be lost amongst all the others and probably not picked up on.

Oh and I agree with Mr B. As for live music restricted - I think thats correct, however he is just referring to GOSBTS so thats what 5 min max.

Plenty of bands around, just look at Lewes bonfire nite LOADS of them all playing GOSBTS as the various societies parade thru the town.

 

[Silent Bob]

Isn't LIVE music restricted at Falmer?

Non-BHA events are restricted to a certain number, if that's what you mean. I don't know if a brass band at a game would really count.

I like the idea of a band playing it live if it is possible. Not sure that the signing the actual words thing is ever going to take off though.

 

[Icy Gull]

Non-BHA events are restricted to a certain number, if that's what you mean. I don't know if a brass band at a game would really count.

I like the idea of a band playing it live if it is possible. Not sure that the signing the actual words thing is ever going to take off though.

Fair enough, so the next question is, are there any quality full blown brass bands in the Brighton area?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Nope, what I reckon we could do is what Arsenal used to do - have a Marching Band. This means it will be loud and unique but us fans to actually sing the words to it.

Can I just be a complete pedant ... you can't copy someone else and be unique at the same time. There, I've done it, I feel better now.

 

[Notters]

I'm sure they will have a marching band for the first game at Falmer, as they did for the last game at the Goldstone.

I really don't see what's wrong with the existing Sussex by the Sea though.

 

[Buzzer]

What if you copy what they USED to do but they don't so anymore?

 

[Lokki 7]

I was at Lords a couple of years back for an England game (forget which) and a HUGE marching band came out and played GOSBTS. It was bloody great. Not sure we could afford a 200 member band every week though.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Non-BHA events are restricted to a certain number, if that's what you mean. I don't know if a brass band at a game would really count.

We could ask the Falmer Project Team.........oh

 

[On the Left Wing]

Great idea Mr B

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I was at Lords a couple of years back for an England game (forget which) and a HUGE marching band came out and played GOSBTS. It was bloody great. Not sure we could afford a 200 member band every week though.

I heard that on the radio - it sounded superb.

Arsenal used to have a marching band - I think it is an excellent idea.

 

[Titanic]

I was at Lords a couple of years back for an England game (forget which) and a HUGE marching band came out and played GOSBTS. It was bloody great. Not sure we could afford a 200 member band every week though.

That would most likely have been Christ's Hospital school band... they certainly do play at Lords, Twickenham, The Lord Mayors Show etc... they would be a great choice for the opening game... or perhaps a military band associated with the now defunct Sussex Regiment?

 

[The Large One]

I was at Lords a couple of years back for an England game (forget which) and a HUGE marching band came out and played GOSBTS. It was bloody great. Not sure we could afford a 200 member band every week though.

It was Christ's Hospital's own marching band - I've seen them twice at Lord's now - and they were SUPERB.

They do know how to give that tune the beans.

 

[Lokki 7]

That would most likely have been Christ's Hospital school band... they certainly do play at Lords, Twickenham, The Lord Mayors Show etc...

I think it was a military band but I could be wrong. Anyhoo, the day they stop playing GOSBTS before Brighton games will be the day my love of the club dies a little.

EDIT: I stand corrected above. But whoever they were they were bloody fantastic.

 

[Titanic]

I think it was a military band but I could be wrong. Anyhoo, the day they stop playing GOSBTS before Brighton games will be the day my love of the club dies a little.

EDIT: I stand corrected above. But whoever they were they were bloody fantastic.

Could be another occasion, but defo CH do it...