[Bullseye]

Post Match Music : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:40 am  

Anyone else wondering how the club decides on the music choices to be played at matches? Specifically the tune they put out after each game finishes? Sounds like some 1950s movie tune. It's beginning to grind my gears.

Re: Post Match Music : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:52 am  

Bring back Starship-Nothings gonna stop is now!

Re: Post Match Music : Tue Feb 11, 2025 10:03 am  

It's called Penny Arcade, by Roy Orbison (I don't think they're playing the original Roy Orbison version).

It's a very strange choice! I guess there's been a number of years where the result of games was (at best) uncertain, and so playing anything like "Simply the Best" might have been seen as tone deaf.

Re: Post Match Music : Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:03 pm  

I've often wondered what the song is, but to be honest I quite like it now! Feel like marching on the spot when it begins to play!!

[Bullseye]

Re: Post Match Music : Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:33 pm  

I can't stand it. I just don't get it. Makes me want to sprint out of the stadium. Maybe that's the idea?

Re: Post Match Music : Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:01 pm  

Its definitely Roy Orbison but the guy who wrote it is from Bradford. I guess that's why they play it. I'd rather have Terrorvision on that basis though. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... %20Orbison.

Its definitely Roy Orbison but the guy who wrote it is from Bradford. I guess that's why they play it. I'd rather have Terrorvision on that basis though. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... %20Orbison.

[Bullseye]

Re: Post Match Music : Thu Feb 13, 2025 7:48 am  

That explains it. Is he a big Bulls fan?

If we're playing stuff by Bradford musicians and bands maybe we can change it up a bit. She sells sanctuary by The Cult would be a good banger to play after a win.

Re: Post Match Music : Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:40 pm  

cieranblonde wrote: Its definitely Roy Orbison but the guy who wrote it is from Bradford. I guess that's why they play it. I'd rather have Terrorvision on that basis though. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... %20Orbison. Isn't it a loyalist song played at Rangers matches? Edit: It is a popular song played at UDA functions and orange order marches. https://youtu.be/3LYOk7zu9NQ?si=rCqF-5Jcfd0BckgB Why would you pick sectarian music to play after a rugby league match in Bradford?

cieranblonde wrote: Its definitely Roy Orbison but the guy who wrote it is from Bradford. I guess that's why they play it. I'd rather have Terrorvision on that basis though. https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... %20Orbison. Isn't it a loyalist song played at Rangers matches? Edit: It is a popular song played at UDA functions and orange order marches. https://youtu.be/3LYOk7zu9NQ?si=rCqF-5Jcfd0BckgB Why would you pick sectarian music to play after a rugby league match in Bradford?

[Bullseye]

Re: Post Match Music : Thu Feb 13, 2025 5:54 pm  

Interesting. Is it a tune played a lot by Orangemen?

It doesn't seem to have any objectionable lyrics or anything.

Re: Post Match Music : Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:54 am  

I was intrigued by this post so consulted a good mate in Glasgow who is an avid Rangers supporters
Apparently it was adopted by Rangers fans after it was featured in a film . The scene in Trainspotting 2 is set in a loyalist club with the song playing in the background .
As Bullseye has said there’s nothing in the Bradford lad’s lyrics that’s obviously sectarian. I wondered if the mention of red in the second line might refer to the Red Hand of Ulster However the sectarian colours are green and orange