Glad to hear it. I hope all the miserable bastards who dismissed this post when i started it a few weeks back put in their complaint letters to the club first thing...
[cite]Posted By: Bedsaddick[/cite]Glad to hear it. I hope all the miserable bastards who dismissed this post when i started it a few weeks back put in their complaint letters to the club first thing...
Hear, hear Beds. I for one am looking forward to hearing him again and all the other pre-match build up events. I think there's far too many people who are caught up on their self image and what other people think of us. Balls. We are and always have been a family club and whether you like it or not that's what our recent success was built on. If the opera singer and the rest puts us all back in the mindset we had when we were doing well in the Prem' then fantastic, as we had a great atmosphere back then and other teams didn't like playing us at home.
Chris' we've not had much to put a smile on our face at the The Valley in the last few years have we but still people moan.
[cite]Posted By: Bedsaddick[/cite]Glad to hear it. I hope all the miserable bastards who dismissed this post when i started it a few weeks back put in their complaint letters to the club first thing...
I won't complain I'll just cringe. To me this sort of thing is artificial and plastic and dilutes "real" passion generated at football. As much as I may appreciate it as an art form outside of football I don't relate it to supporting Charlton. Opera singers/ abba tributes at a 3rd Division football match in South East London seems a bit gimmicky and pretensious to me personally. Whilst I commend the club for making efforts like this I find all this sort of razz matazz very Americanised and very Palace. Im there for Charlton not an engineered, unanuthentic football "experience".
But if others enjoy it then fair enough and I'm probably in a minority in thinking like this and a miserable one at that.
Agree with the last two posts
I am bringing a few mates to this and it will be cringey sitting there listening
I would prefer to just sit there with the usual build up music
but if you like this sort of thing then fair enough, I just dont think that opera and football go together
I dont get embarrassed mate and couldnt care less what any one other than Charlton fans thinks of my club but I just find it cringeworthy and pretentious. Very fitting in Italia 90 but a bit Phony in SE7 2011 ;-)
Still live and let live and as I said earlier if others enjoy it then good for them. But please not ABBA tributes next for crying out loud!
Has the real ale thing finished then? Haven't heard anything about it recently and personally often don't bother having a drink before the game so hadn't noticed.
a couple of weeks ago they played a sort of charlton anthems mega mix - will that get another airing at some point and what's the story behind that - who 'created' it?
[quote][cite]Posted By: Bexley Dan[/cite]Has the real ale thing finished then? Haven't heard anything about it recently and personally often don't bother having a drink before the game so hadn't noticed.[/quote]
If you don't like it you can read the programme. I think it is important that having got 20.000 + fans in there that the club tries to generate an atmosphere that might encourage a few of them to come again. It is generally quite entertaining to hear an opera singer - wouldn't want to sit through the whole opera but some of the tunes can be quite stirring and can help give the atmosphere a bit of a kick start.
The megamix was a bit of a shocker but for pure nonsense value i found it quite amusing - would like to hear it again but probably not for the reasons it was intended. I enjoyed it in the same way that i've started to enjoy Mcoxo's performances.
Would have been much better with a crowd sample 'CAFC' chant rather than the vocal that was totally out of place. Maybe Mr Lawrence could consider it a work in progress and improve.
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Hear, hear Beds. I for one am looking forward to hearing him again and all the other pre-match build up events. I think there's far too many people who are caught up on their self image and what other people think of us. Balls. We are and always have been a family club and whether you like it or not that's what our recent success was built on. If the opera singer and the rest puts us all back in the mindset we had when we were doing well in the Prem' then fantastic, as we had a great atmosphere back then and other teams didn't like playing us at home.
Chris' we've not had much to put a smile on our face at the The Valley in the last few years have we but still people moan.
I won't complain I'll just cringe. To me this sort of thing is artificial and plastic and dilutes "real" passion generated at football. As much as I may appreciate it as an art form outside of football I don't relate it to supporting Charlton. Opera singers/ abba tributes at a 3rd Division football match in South East London seems a bit gimmicky and pretensious to me personally. Whilst I commend the club for making efforts like this I find all this sort of razz matazz very Americanised and very Palace. Im there for Charlton not an engineered, unanuthentic football "experience".
But if others enjoy it then fair enough and I'm probably in a minority in thinking like this and a miserable one at that.
Cannot stand that bloody opera singer.
Find it cringey.
I am bringing a few mates to this and it will be cringey sitting there listening
I would prefer to just sit there with the usual build up music
but if you like this sort of thing then fair enough, I just dont think that opera and football go together
Majority of those who get embarrassed by this sort of things will still be in the pub
Still live and let live and as I said earlier if others enjoy it then good for them. But please not ABBA tributes next for crying out loud!
I wanted Bagpipers
Majority of those who get embarrassed by this sort of things will still be in the pub[/quote]
I don't go to Charlton for FUN.
Got your foam hand ready?
*flicks foam hand at WSS*
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*kills self*
Had a nice pint of Courage last game still going