[maccawozzagod]

you can't please all the people Jake, but you sure can displease all the people!

Whether its my taste or not I think you can't go too far wrong if you try to look for inspiration around mod type music. I'd be thinking more along the lines of where does the inspiration for much of the Ultras songs come from? Madness etc

Lots of the younger guys have a penchant for this type of stuff, whether it's just a retro kitsch type of cool of whether its good music is another debate though ... also lots of the older guys will remember such days with fondness.

I remember talking to Duncan Seddon (played for us in the 80's) a couple of years back and he was talking to me about the crowd noise. He said that he and his mates had loved it because all these young guys were singing stuff like Minder, Madness etc and that it was a real throwback.

I also remember one of the Torquay weekenders where we took over a pub on the friday night. They had a band on that was playing things like The Proclaimers "500 miles", The Clash "Rock the Kasbah (rock the crown ground)". The pub was full of multi aged Stanley and to a man, woman and inbetweener there was raucous enjoyment.

Sing alongers, with tempo and volume.



Secondly. Clayton End volume is almost irrelevant as in previous seasons you just cant hear it at all. The Cheltenham game you could have just shouted from your seat and we'd have heard you. If it is possible to separate the volume channels from the fanzone and the actual stand then I think you should increase the volume significantly on the fanzone. Currently it is being used by good numbers of people from half one onwards and decent music at a decent volume should help to get folk feeling up for it.


Decide why you are playing music and that will dictate what you play and how loud. Is it background music just to waste electric? is it calming music to keep people sat in their seats and encouraging coffee sales? or do we want folk bouncing off the walls and ready to party?