Put Your Hands up For Brighton to Replace Good Old Sussex By The Sea ?

[SittingbourneSeagull]

You should never do away with tradition, there is not enough of it left in the world as it is. As for music after goals anyone who has been to Readings ground can't possibly want to hear the same thing at Falmer. Much too American.

 

[countrygull]

Yes, it is a thought. Just another very, very stupid one. Enough of this crap already, in the nicest possible way.

Here here, I don't think he quite gets it yet. We will never change GOSBTS, we don't want to and we don't want music after a goal.
But I do agree a big brass band playing GOSBS would be a gobsmacking start to life at Falmer.

 

[hart's shirt]

As as young lad, memories of hearing GOSBTS playing at the Goldstone meant a quick dash down the terrace and finding a place to stand.

Some things change, but some things should still stay the same.

With the Goldstone gone, GOSBTS is the link for the newer and/or younger Albion supporters to the past and older generations of supporters.

Let's face it, it's one of the few things that we can pretty much all agree on as Albion supporters.

It's a unifying anthem and is specifically written about Sussex as a whole - East and West.

It's ours - exclusively ours - and long may it remain so.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Apart from everything else that has been mentioned above, I also genuinely love it as a piece of music on its own merits.

It's got everything: a great shock-you-awake attention-grabbing fanfare at the start, a nice build-it-up-gradually march (the woodwind bit), and then a massive strident brass parp-it-out-loud-and-proud chorus that NO-ONE who knows it won't feel drawn to want to sing along to and earworms into your head like a motherfucker. I think it's genuinely a brilliant piece of composition. And I want to hear it NOW.

 

[Brovion]

Quite cheering reading this thread as even the younger posters have acknowledged that we are lucky to have such a stirring piece of music as our anthem. Certainly it means more to me (and has a higher emotional effect) than God Save the f***ing Queen.

 

[BensGrandad]

When I had my pub in Guildford I had a band ask if they could practice during the day in the pub for a gig they were doing that evening. i agreed and during the day they asked if there was any tune that I wanted them to play and jokingly I said GOSBTS and was most suprised that the lead guitarist played it, It transpired that he came from Hassocks and knew the tune. Was I suprised

 

[Fungus]

I think I would actually CRY if at the first game at Falmer there was a brass band on the pitch playing Sussex by the Sea and on every seat in the ground there was an A4 piece of paper with the below words on it, and everyone sung IN TIME with the band, instead of the 1000bpm version we normally sing.

I'm crying already at the mere thought of that. How could it be anything other than GOSBTS?

You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea.

 

[Frutos]

Would any of the 9 who have voted against GOSBTS (at the time of this post) care to divulge the reasoning for their choice?

 

[steve-c]

you could never ever consider changing classic that is GOSBTS

 

[lizard]

Shit yeah, should we start playing in red too?!?!?!

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Whoever voted for 'put your hands up for brighton' should be shot.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

"You may tell them all that we stand or fall
For Sussex by the sea."

Love that line myself.

 

[Frutos]

Whoever voted for 'put your hands up for brighton' should be shot.

Repeatedly.

 

[Elder for England]

No!! I hate it!

 

[Giraffe]

No no and no

 

[British Bulldog]

So how is it so many people seem to know the words to GOSBTS but when it's played I never see anybody singing it? Would it not help the atmosphere if the crowd sung to it as the players came out?

 

[northstandnorth]

dear sir
f*** off
good old sussex by the sea pref by the horsham borough silver band for the falmer opening please

 

[steward 433]

dear sir
f*** off
good old sussex by the sea pref by the horsham borough silver band for the falmer opening please

Would hope we could get a proper military marching band to do it.

 

[Buzzer]

Isn't GOSBTS the oldest club song in the world?

Part of our heritage innit. It's also played at Worthing FC before games (or was when I used to watch them).

Is it played at any other Sussex grounds?

 

[steward 433]

Isn't GOSBTS the oldest club song in the world?

Part of our heritage innit. It's also played at Worthing FC before games (or was when I used to watch them).

Is it played at any other Sussex grounds?

Played it before the Worthing friendly every season i have been including this year.

Never heard it at another ground though.