Leinster v Treviso Fri 23rd 7.35 TG4

[Oldschoolsocks]

Nope. We are a Top Gun kind of team.

Whatever about the movie you’ve picked the wrong song

One more negative comment on the Top Gun Anthem and you're going on ignore, OSS. To paraphrase Jimmy Rabbitte Snr., that's f*cking blaspheny, Steve Stevens wasn't a Cajun.

Hey, I can just about get past the fact that your a ‘nure type of guy, but your song choice is both profoundly and objectively wrong

[Morf]

@Laighin Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zq7ujKwuRY , not Dangerzone.

sorry Hugo, you can feck right off with that power ballad shite

Nope. We are a Top Gun kind of team.

My vote is Cheap Trick

[Twist]

I'd give serious consideration to adopting the Ultimate Warrior's entrance music, but they'd all need to have the eye mask make up and we'd have to install some ropes to shake. Oh, and streamers from the lads' biceps.

[RoboProp]

Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration "Atmosphere" by Russ Abbot.
It set out its stall early with its intentions

"Oh, what an atmosphere
I love a party with a happy atmosphere
So let me take you there
And you and I'll be dancin' in the cool night air"

It lays down a marker, it really lets teams and fans know what we are all about. Woe betide any opposition who doesn't harken that warning.
For those of you too young to remember, this is Russ riling up the crowd at TOTP (that's Top of the pops)



Only good things can come from this I guarantee it.

[Oldschool]

There is an hilarious scene in Sunderland Till I Die Season 2 where some guy called Charlie is having a meeting about changing the walk out music at the Stadium of Light. They had been playing some local song called Shipyards and, iirc, Charlie wanted some Ibiza vibes (in Sunderland!).

Leinster have always gotten the pre game music, the points music, PA and walk out music wrong at games. An annoying PA and absolute trash music is the stable of every Leinster game. "wave your flag". There was some discussion here recently about Leinster attendences. I used to love the idea of bringing people to the RDS for a Leinster game. Visitors from abroad. Now I never bother. It starts and ends with the RDS and the match day experience. Paying 37 euro to sit behind the goals in an unreserved seat with no roof that, outside, is covered in wood chippings; or paying more to see academy players that casual rugby fans and new visitors have never heard of in the Anglesey that comes with an obstructed view. Or head to the terrace and have plenty of blocked views if you can't arrive early enough. Generic, cr@p pre game music, an cringey PA dribbling all over the mic, and the music they play after Leinster score It isn't fun. There's no atmosphere at all for run of the mill Pro14/URC games. There's always a gentle murmur like a Ryanair flight at 6:20am before take off. Bland chanting as well. Brought this up years ago and some people responded with, chants happen "organically." About a decade later, still hair raising Lein-ster Lein-ster Lein-ster. Don't forget about those boys in blue. The RDS needs more terracing. An atmosphere is always better when people are standing. But 95% are sitting down, arms folded, cold, watching a smattering of Academy players and URC journeymen against Dragons at 7:45pm in midwinter. Attendences will decline.

"Come on you boys in blue" is the elephant in the stadium.
An impossible air to sing to. I'm not alone with that opinion either. Normally I'd suggest an alternative but.......

[curates_egg]

The run out music is chosen by the team themselves. Last year’s ‘Enter Sandman’ was, as far as I know, chosen by Andrew Porter

That's true I think.

When there was a similar discussion last year, Dave Cahill recommended various young Irish bands to out of touch 'centrist dads' like me* (and anyone else on the thread). I've actually been listening to a few of them (Fontaines DC, Lankum...). One, in particular, has an anthem that would be a great addition to the playlist in the RDS: 'Green and Blue' from The Murder Capital.

*A bit like the weekly video of modern culture Malcom Tucker makes for the prime minister and forces the minister of social affairs to watch.

[Dave Cahill]

I absolutely love that song - the drummer must be knackered when they play it live

[paddyor]

To give a bit more a balanced view (and I've been one giving out about Leinster not doing enough to attract casual fans) - Friday was brilliant. A fine evening watching loads of test stars with the added benefit of the pre and post match entertainment which was a great addition. A ticket for that event was great value.

It won't always be like that, but credit where it's due.

(The complaining about the walkout music in this thread has a touch of 'old man yells at cloud' about it by the way )

Yeah, really enjoyed Friday. I think both Leinster and the RDS have made a bigger effort this season. It's around the fringes, but I'm happy that an effort is being made rather than nothing being done.

The columns in the Anglesea are what they are: they hold up the roof. They're a bit of a pain in the hole but if we got rid of them we'd have an uncovered stand, and I'd rather have a covered stand with obstructed views than an uncovered stand with unobstructed views.

Music is subjective. Some people like Sibelius, others like Slayer. You are literally never going to please everyone. Sure I came out of Top Gun: Maverick convinced that Leinster should take the guitar anthem as our walk-out music!

[Which is a brilliant idea, and which we should definitely do.]

The new one has the added advantage of having Lady Gaga as a contributor to appeal to the yoof

[heno]

One of the biggest problems professional rugby in England faces, is that the majority of their fan base is aged between 55 and 80.

Whilst Philo and Lizzy might be gods to some of us, to a lot of people, especially those under the age of 25, he's just the guy in the Jimi Hendrix statue

Teenagers aren't going to start going to games because we play a minute of whatever drill track is currently lighting up E14, mandem.

We had Boys Are Back In Town, it was a great choice. It's an amazing tune, amazing performance, very apt theme, everybody knows it, it was written and played by Dubs, public performance royalties went to the Lynott estate.

The main thing is that you keep playing the same tune at the same time, and it becomes part of your identity: YNWA for Pool fans, Z Cars for Everton fans, Glad All Over for Palace fans etc. It's like a logo: you spend time designing it as well as you can, but after a while it goes out of fashion and people start to think it looks a bit sh!t. But if you stick with it through that time, it emerges the other side as a classic.

Think of the Adidas trefoil: they started to ditch that for the 'Equipment' logo in the 90s [generic as f*ck] because the trefoil was goofy, but then they brought the latter back because after about five minutes everyone realised that the 'Equipment' logo was totally characterless, and the trefoil was odd but really identifiable.

So you think hard about the song that you want to play for the run-out, you make the decision, and then you stick with it forever.

@Laighin Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zq7ujKwuRY , not Dangerzone.

The trouble with that is the first rule of being a marketing manager is you can't arrive in and say that's all fine the way it is. You have to be seen to be "adding value". So what ever you like or dislike, the marketing manager merry go round will have at it eventually.

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