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BensGrandad
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It isnt in Lower West but in fairness to the club I have written to PB on this and they have checked it out and found it to be ok so going to the audiologist this afternoon o get hearing aids checked. As regards the singer I like her and will take my seat early to listen to her but I think GOSBTS is better when sung by a male either single duo or trio but then I do not like choirs so a quartet is the maximum but it is ruined when sung by a female. Just my opinion and not intended to be sexist in any way.
What time does she start?
Would a soprano be able to pull it off though?
Never seemed to have a problem when I've been fortunate enough to be alone with one.
Hence the ***
Gilliver's Travels
Peripatetic
Right, let's get some context here.
We are still continuing to commemorate the centenary of World War I. Sussex by the Sea was written by William Ward-Higgs as a military marching song, to be sung by soldiers on the march. Indeed, the cover of the original 1907 printed score confirms this.
SBTS was sung by soldiers of the Royal Sussex Regiment – on the march, in the trenches, and as they went over the top. It was the last piece of music that thousands of Sussex men will have heard in their brutally shortened lives.
Having SBTS screeched out by a single soprano, with her exaggerated and unwelcome vibrato, there to fulfil just another professional gig, is grotesquely inappropriate.
Sussex by the Sea is our own, unique anthem, and it needs to be belted out on Saturday with pride and with passion, by a huge crowd, of men, women and children, as a shared and fitting tribute to our team, to our lost soldiers and to our Sussex heritage.
We are still continuing to commemorate the centenary of World War I. Sussex by the Sea was written by William Ward-Higgs as a military marching song, to be sung by soldiers on the march. Indeed, the cover of the original 1907 printed score confirms this.
SBTS was sung by soldiers of the Royal Sussex Regiment – on the march, in the trenches, and as they went over the top. It was the last piece of music that thousands of Sussex men will have heard in their brutally shortened lives.
Having SBTS screeched out by a single soprano, with her exaggerated and unwelcome vibrato, there to fulfil just another professional gig, is grotesquely inappropriate.
Sussex by the Sea is our own, unique anthem, and it needs to be belted out on Saturday with pride and with passion, by a huge crowd, of men, women and children, as a shared and fitting tribute to our team, to our lost soldiers and to our Sussex heritage.
Withdean11
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On this occasion, the 'Alternative' lyrics are more appropriate.
And we're going up
And we'll win the cup
For Sussex by the sea.
maltaseagull
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- Apr 5, 2014
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drew
Drew
What defeat was that then?
HastingsSeagull
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#cringe comes to mind....... but sure you all at the stadium will drown her out for me on Sky, thousands of miles away.
Oh go on! Please!
Oh go on! Please!
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Hmm. I can understand people's disapproval on grounds of taste; if you don't like the sound of her murdering GOSBTS then fine; but to suggest it's grossly inappropriate is a stretch IMO. What exactly is inappropriate? That she's a soprano? Or that she's being paid to sing it? If so then do you have the same issue with military marching bands for hire as well?
Personally I think she's a screecher and am not a fan of her voice at all.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
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I'd swap her in a NANOSECOND for some of this.
I'd swap her in a NANOSECOND for some of this.
AmexRuislip
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All for a bit of culture at the Amex, for all those uneducated heatherns that congregate in the north stand 
But I'll think it'll bring out all those chinless wonders from the 1901'latinum' club, who think, because they listen to Classic FM, they're an expert on such things opera.
Anyway, at the end of the day, if it gets people singing and rejoicing all things Albion, I'm up for anything different
But I'll think it'll bring out all those chinless wonders from the 1901'latinum' club
, who think, because they listen to Classic FM, they're an expert on such things opera.Anyway, at the end of the day, if it gets people singing and rejoicing all things Albion, I'm up for anything different
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Wellesley
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,161
Better good used to opera at the Amex, it's three tenors for away fans in the Premier League
(or two tenors when that Virgin Media / Football Supporters' Federation deal kicks in)
(or two tenors when that Virgin Media / Football Supporters' Federation deal kicks in)
BensGrandad
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Easy 10 I'd swap her in a NANOSECOND for some of this.[/QUOTE said:
Badger Boy
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- Jan 28, 2016
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Any chance she WON'T belt out Nessun Dorma AGAIN? I hate that song.
el punal
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Gazwag
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You are very generous, its about 80% around me
aolstudios
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I think she's great