From the heights of Mount Victoria
To the Shores of Kilbirnie;
We come to follow the Phoenix
playing in our fair city;
Claiming honour for our nation
Wellington is where we�ll be;
We are proud to bear the title
of NZ�s football team.
From the heights of Mount Victoria
To the Shores of Kilbirnie;
We come to follow the Phoenix
playing in our fair city;
Claiming honour for our nation
Wellington is where we�ll be;
We are proud to bear the title
of NZ�s football team.
I think "you give me fever" would be great, but i do think chanting the tune of " ring of fire" would get the crowd going too, who's up for friday night against the Jets we should start all these chants then, for good practice for the opener against Melbourne.
I hope we get a good turn out on Friday show our appreciation
for the teams good start to the season. WE LOVE OUR PHOENIX, WE DO,
WE LOVE OUR PHOENIX, WE DO!!!!!
Someone mentioned it a while ago (Rupert I think), but that "Yellow" song by Coldplay would kick ass. The whole song has a massive anthemic quality - add a few thousand lubricated blokes and what a feast of fevered feeling it'd be.
great kiwi music.
To reserect a long dead thread this takes my vote, Wellington band, iconic kiwi song, and topical - as in after last seasons road trip the Nix are playing at home again.
Or Michael McGlinchey is coming home again.
New here...may have been done already - but I just knocked this up..
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In a town called Wellington
There's a yellow football team
We are kiwi and we're proud
In a league of Aussie teams
We all support the Phoenix football team
The Phoenix football team, the Phoenix football team.
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(Lennon/McCartney/Newgolddream)
I like Lean on me.
It has the makings of an anthem I think.
"Lean On Me"
Sometimes in our lives
We all have pain, we all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on
Please, swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you won't let show
You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on
You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on
If there is a load
You have to bear that you can't carry
I'm right up the road, I'll share your load
If you just call me
Call me (If you need a friend)
Call me (Call me uh-huh)
Call me (When you need a friend)
Call me (If you ever need a friend)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (If you need a friend)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (Call me)
Call me (Call me)
Call me
It absolutely has to be Jonny Cash Ring of Fire - easy to sing, works with our home ground, uniquely ours.
It absolutely has to be Jonny Cash Ring of Fire - easy to sing, works with our home ground, uniquely ours.
I agree. My mention of Lean on me above was made because I had not seen any groundswell to adopt Ring of Fire. If there is, I am 100% in favour. If it is not going to be adopted I am suggesting Lean on me as a plan B.
My ONLY reservation about Ring of Fire is that it works fantastically with musical accompaniment - the trumpets are crucial. So, it seems to me we either need the PA System supplying the intrumentals and we sing along (which I am not sure is something we want) or we get some trumpet players in the zone to lead/augment our singing.
I am worried that with JUST fans singing Ring of Fire might be difficult to pull of.
great kiwi music.
To reserect a long dead thread this takes my vote, Wellington band, iconic kiwi song, and topical - as in after last seasons road trip the Nix are playing at home again.
Or Michael McGlinchey is coming home again.
It absolutely has to be Jonny Cash Ring of Fire - easy to sing, works with our home ground, uniquely ours.
I agree. My mention of Lean on me above was made because I had not seen any groundswell to adopt Ring of Fire. If there is, I am 100% in favour. If it is not going to be adopted I am suggesting Lean on me as a plan B.
My ONLY reservation about Ring of Fire is that it works fantastically with musical accompaniment - the trumpets are crucial. So, it seems to em we either need the PA System supplying the intrumentals and we sing along (which I am not sure is something we want) or we get some trumpet players in the zone to lead/augment our singing.
I am worried that with JUST fans singing Ring of Fire might be difficult to pull of.
Gold! Do it. Jazz school kids just up the road. Could have lent you mine if I hadn't sold it aged 17.
great kiwi music.
To reserect a long dead thread this takes my vote, Wellington band, iconic kiwi song, and topical - as in after last seasons road trip the Nix are playing at home again.
Or Michael McGlinchey is coming home again.
Well realistically we are never gonna get enough people at away games to make it worthwhile singing our song away, so we are only ever going to sing it at home.
Works on so many levels.
It absolutely has to be Jonny Cash Ring of Fire - easy to sing, works with our home ground, uniquely ours.
I agree. My mention of Lean on me above was made because I had not seen any groundswell to adopt Ring of Fire. If there is, I am 100% in favour. If it is not going to be adopted I am suggesting Lean on me as a plan B.
My ONLY reservation about Ring of Fire is that it works fantastically with musical accompaniment - the trumpets are crucial. So, it seems to em we either need the PA System supplying the intrumentals and we sing along (which I am not sure is something we want) or we get some trumpet players in the zone to lead/augment our singing.
I am worried that with JUST fans singing Ring of Fire might be difficult to pull of.
Gold! Do it. Jazz school kids just up the road. Could have lent you mine if I hadn't sold it aged 17.
You sold your Jazz school kid?
Surely illegal in this country?
Trumpet. Pissed off I couldn't play like Miles Davis after 10 lessons. And my lips best kept for kissing at that age.
It absolutely has to be Jonny Cash Ring of Fire - easy to sing, works with our home ground, uniquely ours.
I agree. My mention of Lean on me above was made because I had not seen any groundswell to adopt Ring of Fire. If there is, I am 100% in favour. If it is not going to be adopted I am suggesting Lean on me as a plan B.
My ONLY reservation about Ring of Fire is that it works fantastically with musical accompaniment - the trumpets are crucial. So, it seems to me we either need the PA System supplying the intrumentals and we sing along (which I am not sure is something we want) or we get some trumpet players in the zone to lead/augment our singing.
I am worried that with JUST fans singing Ring of Fire might be difficult to pull of.
Liverpool fans do it and it's a real winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRm4ogJJM8
What about Wellington by the Muttonbirds...
Wellington by Muttonbirds
I wish I was in Wellington, the weather's not so good
The wind it cuts right through you and it rains more than it should
But I'd be there tomorrow, if I only could
Oh I wish I was in Wellington
I wish I was in Wellington - the bureaucracy
The suits and the briefcases along Lambton Quay
The Harbour City Capital, the lights beside the sea
Oh I wish I was in Wellington
It just isn't practical, you down in the capital
And me at the other end of the island
The problem is the gap - between us on the map
And there's no easy way to reconcile it
I wish I was in Wellington, the cafes and the bars
The music and the theatre, and the old Cable Car
And you can walk everywhere 'cause nowhere's very far
Oh I wish I was in Wellington
Oh I wish...
Oh I wish I was in Wellington, the wind it cuts right through
I wish I was in Wellington, there's so much more to do
I wish I was in Wellington, and you wish I was too
Oh I wish I was in Wellington, 'cause then I'd be with you
Oh I wish I was in Wellington, 'cause then I'd be with you
It absolutely has to be Jonny Cash Ring of Fire - easy to sing, works with our home ground, uniquely ours.
I agree. My mention of Lean on me above was made because I had not seen any groundswell to adopt Ring of Fire. If there is, I am 100% in favour. If it is not going to be adopted I am suggesting Lean on me as a plan B.
My ONLY reservation about Ring of Fire is that it works fantastically with musical accompaniment - the trumpets are crucial. So, it seems to me we either need the PA System supplying the intrumentals and we sing along (which I am not sure is something we want) or we get some trumpet players in the zone to lead/augment our singing.
I am worried that with JUST fans singing Ring of Fire might be difficult to pull of.
Liverpool fans do it and it's a real winner
Agree, but my point was that is with SIGNIFICANT PA system support. In the singing part Johnny Cash on the PA receives, at best, a smattering of disjointed support from the singing fans. They really get into the do-do-do-do-do-do-doooooo part, but that is hardly the foundation of an anthem, in my opinion.
By contrast the Liverpool fans sing "Never Walk Alone" unaccompanied and it's moving, loud, scans well etc. It's the epitome of a football anthem.
I worry that without the intrsumentals Ring of Fire is actually quite technical and difficult for a crowd to sing unaccompanied.
Maybe it's just me though? *Shrug*
Unfortunately it's not the Don Mcglashans best work.
Unfortunately it's not the Don Mcglashans best work.
No its not, but its very Kiwi and Wellington song, so thought I'd throw it out there.
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By contrast the Liverpool fans sing "Never Walk Alone" unaccompanied and it's moving, loud, scans well etc. It's the epitome of a football anthem.
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Pretty sure they just stole this off Celtic, so they had a nearby template on how to do it.
What about something by The Phoenix Foundation?
Closer each day
Home and away
By contrast the Liverpool fans sing "Never Walk Alone" unaccompanied and it's moving, loud, scans well etc. It's the epitome of a football anthem.
Absolute classic but it's not unaccompanied. They play it over the PA before games (although it's unaccompanied when sung during the game obviously).
By contrast the Liverpool fans sing "Never Walk Alone" unaccompanied and it's moving, loud, scans well etc. It's the epitome of a football anthem.
Absolute classic but it's not unaccompanied. They play it over the PA before games (although it's unaccompanied when sung during the game obviously).
That's what I was meaning. It can be, and is, sung unaccompanied.
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By contrast the Liverpool fans sing "Never Walk Alone" unaccompanied and it's moving, loud, scans well etc. It's the epitome of a football anthem.
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Pretty sure they just stole this off Celtic, so they had a nearby template on how to do it.
Okay. Let's just say they did steal/borrow/adapt it from elsewhere... so what?
I don't think anyone is claiming that we have to not borrow something, that it MUST be 100% original.
Whether Never Walk Alone is or is not borrowed or original is irrelevant to this discussion... it is still a great football anthem.
What we want is a great football anthem. If getting to one involves borrowing/stealing/adapting it from elsewhere, then fine, let's do that.
I was trying to talk about what characteristics a candidate tune/song needs / ought to have in order to be a good choice as an anthem.
I think it needs to:
1. be easy to sing en masse, preferably without musical or PA accompaniment.
2. have lyrics that focus on one or more of (preferably many of): mateship, loyalty, belonging, football, Wellington, passion, integrity, winning, yellow and black, Phoenix.
3. stir people's emotions and passion.
I've got no problem with stealing/borrowing anything - I just like to have a dig at Liverpool fans.
