Project Anthem

[Barry Shaw]

Manufactured nonsense and best put to bed.

[dave.woodhall]

A big well done to whoever sabotaged the PA so it could hardly be heard.

[Dazvillain]

Prefer Hi Ho Aston Villa at the final whistle to be honest.

Only heard a few half hearted renditions during the game.

Hi ho Aston Villa is at lease uplifting when we win and gives you a great feel good factor when you leave

[spartacuss]

Sorry, if I were a Villa player coming out  to that funereal tolling bell, I'd expect at least the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to be waiting on the pitch.   Uplifting? It was literally diabolical as in 'go straight to hell (Championship), bring out your dead, the end is nigh!'

Tell me it it was a technical cock-up.  I appreciate the effort that a lot of fans put into the "Bells Are Ringing" (never did hear the actual song), but as someone once said: 'The bells... the bells...!'

[pauliewalnuts]

The sound of the funereal chiming of the bells was the least appropriate "rouse the crowd" sound I've ever heard at a football match.

The entire thing has been a bit of an embarassment from start to finish.

[pauliewalnuts]

Oh, and the other thing the bells reminded me of was the start of Do They Know It's Christmas, the Band Aid song (extra info for the young scampsters, there).

[Pete3206]

Reminded me of this:

[MoetVillan]

I was intitially delighted, as I thought they had put the wrong cd on, and in fact had started with Hells Bells ACDC.  Infact all i heard then was a church bell ringing reminding me its some time since I went to communion.   

[DB]

I was intitially delighted, as I thought they had put the wrong cd on, and in fact had started with Hells Bells ACDC.  Infact all i heard then was a church bell ringing reminding me its some time since I went to communion.   

Or For whom the bell tolls by Metallica, Black Sabbath the song.... not very up-lifting.

[Dave Cooper please]

Oh, and the other thing the bells reminded me of was the start of Do They Know It's Christmas, the Band Aid song (extra info for the young scampsters, there).

This is exactly what's been going through my head since I first heard it.

[Dr Butler]

How about getting some bells and some bellringers and actually record them playing the "bells are ringing" ?  not sure if it would work but it had to be better than what I heard yesterday.

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[Chris Smith]

It was played a couple of times in the pub before that game and all I could think was I wonder how much the club had to pay Bon Jovi to record the song?

Well intentioned but poorly executed, a bit like a Reo Coker forward pass.

[Risso]

It was played a couple of times in the pub before that game and all I could think was I wonder how much the club had to pay Bon Jovi to record the song?

Well intentioned but poorly executed, a bit like a Reo Coker forward pass.

Sounds more like Stefan Dennis than Bon Jovi to me.

[not3bad]

Oh, and the other thing the bells reminded me of was the start of Do They Know It's Christmas, the Band Aid song (extra info for the young scampsters, there).

This is exactly what's been going through my head since I first heard it.

Maybe they could play it at Chistmas time when Liverpool or Everton are visiting and we could sing "Feed the Scousers".  That would be hilarious.

[DeKuip]

"The Bells are Ringin'" used to work well as a terrace chant/song without anyone ever needing to ring a bell.
It would still work in the old way but the chances of it returning are now zero thanks to the club's embarrassing interference this time.
If anyone has any future ideas for a song, do us a favour and don't start Facebook campaigns about it or contact the club for their backing - just sing it in the pubs before games and at the ground. If it's any good it'll catch on and spread.

It might surprise a few of you that football grounds had fantastic atmospheres long before Facebook and Twatter.
None more so than Wembley on cup final day when fans used to celebrate by singing their own songs without being drowned out by a PA telling what to sing and when.
And pre-match the community sing-along of "Abide With Me" was joined in by all 100,000 inside the ground. Now they have a professional opera singer singing it in a key that the fans can't sing along properly with it, and is so loud that you can't hear the fans anyway.

All an example of the game being taken away from the fans by marketing people and their like who have no understanding of the habits of football fans. It pisses me off greatly.