SaintsLoyal Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Since this awful funeral procession has been going the results have been woeful at home. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pip Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Far more upbeat yesterday. I enjoyed it. Clutching at straws if you're blaming the band for our home form 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wadesmith Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 We desperately need to get a new face in on Tuba before the window closes. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie May Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 March of death brass band and Zombie Nation when we score - think you might be on to something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 52 minutes ago, SaintsLoyal said: Since this awful funeral procession has been going the results have been woeful at home. I blame the white witch we paid her for a 25 year spell and it’s run out in last 2 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectisSaint Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 When the Saints was originally a funeral march, I assume they do still ramp it up a gear after the first few bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Ditch the funeral dirge and get in some Ra Ra girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Unless you stick your fingers in your ears and miss 75% of it when it goes higher tempo i've never really understood this complaint. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul.Studio Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 I dont think much of them either - i remember at the Dell for a period we had a genuine New Orleans Jazz Band with the fellow at the front dancing with an umbrella - more upbeat and a good sound. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31cc Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 49 minutes ago, Challenger said: Ditch the funeral dirge and get in some Ra Ra girls. Didn't we have cheerleaders when we first started at St Mary's - the Saintettes or something like that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint lard Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Said it time after time…it’s a dirge. Depressing shite. Ever since they’ve been on the seen we’ve been in decline. coincidence….I think not. seriously,it really doesn’t act as a rallying cry for support… not a slight on the band members…but it needs to be binned. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Reminds me of the opening scene and funeral in Live & Let Die. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Not a great fan of it, but rather that than a bloody laser light show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Thought it was brilliant and really like it. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Brass Band Out!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pip Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 How many of you moaning about it actually heard yesterday's version? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manji Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 32 minutes ago, 31cc said: Didn't we have cheerleaders when we first started at St Mary's - the Saintettes or something like that? Yeah they had to ditch them due to inappropriate comments from the crowd 🤔 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 I seem to remember that back in the 60's the whole crowd sang OWTS at the slow speed. As time went by the Milton speeded it up, then a few years ago the Northam decided that doing it twice at the slow speed, followed by the faster speed was the way to go. I think that this why Saints Brass have done it that way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 I like it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 41 minutes ago, Pip said: How many of you moaning about it actually heard yesterday's version? I thought the same reading this thread tbh. Apart from the opening, called by musicians an “intro” I believe 😉, the whole thing was upbeat. The idea of it getting faster at the half way line has been replaced so get behind the band playing OUR song ffs !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SotonianWill Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 It's like a bad scent left over to remind you of last season, enough to send shivers down ones spine. Also the song 'won't stop till we're legends' last season seemed fitting as we didn't stop losing to the likes of Everton, Forest and others. Noticed they didn't play that "It started in a church" video bollox this time round. The Saints are coming is a lovely reintroduction, other than that let the fans create the atmosphere. With all four sides of the ground now seemingly having a section for some chanting, I see no reason why we cannot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpsaint Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Far more upbeat yesterday, coupled with the video on the new big screens of our best bits over the years I thought it was decent. Thought the teams were going to come out to Enter Sandman by Metallica as they played that straight after but cut it short after about 10 seconds! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 I’m ok with it, but I’d like a trumpeter to go rogue and start blaring out a jazz version as a solo then finish up with a knee slide. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, SNSUN said: I’m ok with it, but I’d like a trumpeter to go rogue and start blaring out a jazz version as a solo then finish up with a knee slide. Good thinking. Wonder if he could go ‘blackface’ and do the full Satchmo (Louis Armstrong for younger readers) style. Think it might gain some publicity. Edited 13 August, 2023 by Badger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 3 hours ago, Badger said: Reminds me of the opening scene and funeral in Live & Let Die. Me too. That would be a better tune actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceandfriendly Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 If somebody plays that upbeat brass band version of OWTS at my funeral I hope the organiser gets a slap. How many funerals have those complaining attended where a brass band has been playing a cheerful number? Such an odd complaint. 😂 Cracking way to start the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSA96 Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 I actually quite like it too, sue me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolution saint Posted 13 August, 2023 Share Posted 13 August, 2023 Count me in the no camp. Brass bands aren’t my cup of tea and I could happily live without them. All personal opinion of course but I’ve never felt that whenever we’ve tried to use brass bands that the crowd has ever really got behind them and created much of an atmosphere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiknsmack Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 It got people going and it is unique to us so I am/was a fan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 17 hours ago, wadesmith said: We desperately need to get a new face in on Tuba before the window closes. I was going to suggest Baz, but he’d probably fucking drop it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Juice Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 Gonna put myself in the ‘like it’ camp. It’s not like the players walk out to it and it’s something different, gives us a bit of personality. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
once_bitterne Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 5 hours ago, Fitzhugh Fella said: It got people going and it is unique to us so I am/was a fan Going as in leaving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 I like it and consider it unique to us ! Always people around me clapping along and where I am in the Kingsland I've never heard any complaints ! Amazingly there are a number of critical comments on Saintsweb, who'd have thunk it 😆😆 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Tone Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 31 minutes ago, eurosaint said: I like it and consider it unique to us ! Always people around me clapping along and where I am in the Kingsland I've never heard any complaints ! Amazingly there are a number of critical comments on Saintsweb, who'd have thunk it 😆😆 ! Agree. Now they get to the quicker bit sooner, it gets even us old fogeys in the Kingsland clapping. And OWTS is our song. It's important to keep tradition and anything that's particular to one club going, or every crowd becomes interchangeable. Similarly good on the Norwich fans for still singing "on the ball city" - their song for many many years - and Stoke for delilah (if it's still allowed!) .... etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 Whenever I hear a brass band I imagine a depressing,wet, smokey northern town still having gas lights and tram lines in the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssEffCee Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 I'd sooner ditch zombie nation after the goals. Horrendous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 Speaking as somebody whose 3 children have all played at the National Brass Band Championships Finals, and has sat through probably over a hundred concerts, the worst BB tune ever is "Ruby Tuesday", closely followed by a segue piece called "Santa Claustrophobia". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toussaint Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 22 hours ago, SaintsLoyal said: Since this awful funeral procession has been going the results have been woeful at home. Since Saints Loyal has started posting drivel on SWF results have been woeful at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonaggro Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 4 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said: I was going to suggest Baz, but he’d probably fucking drop it. Wouldn't be able to lift it. Needs a few years on triangle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 On the Saintsweb forum even the pre-match band get told they are shit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltonaggro Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 2 hours ago, Sergei Gotsmanov said: On the Saintsweb forum even the pre-match band get told they are shit. Equality in action, family club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Brightside Posted 14 August, 2023 Share Posted 14 August, 2023 Would have agreed with this post before Saturday. Was expecting the same old slow death march as you put it, but much to my surprise, they’ve speeded it up from the start, much better. Thought it got the crowd going and drowned out the Norwich fans. It’s a yes from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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