Tyno AsPOLLia: Songs of the Great River

i'm coming home Newcastle,
i might as well have been in jail,
i'd walk the streets all day all neet,
For a bottle a yer ol' Brown Ale,
i'm coming home Newcastle,
If ye never win the Cup again,
i'll brave the dark at St. James's Park,
At the Gallowgate End in the rain,
i'm coming home...

is that from something

Busker - Home Newcastle

damn i was hoping someone wouldn't notice my lack of knowledge of own poll options

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLK65bQVfkw

haha.

i have a perverse love for newcastle, my bro lived there, i went to a game or two, thinking the atmosphere was atrocious (although they were at a low ebb at the time) but appreciating perversely the fact that everyone in the city loves their team (despite the fact that my own team is supported by people throughout scotland, england and eire and definitely not supported universely by glaswegians).

my dad phoned me as i left st james as man u had just beat them 4-1 and though i could see stares of hatred as i utter in my lanarkshire accent "aye they got pumped 4-1 it was pish", it wasn't as bad as i might imagine it would be elsewhere.

i'm not sure if i've ever met a newcastle supporter not from the north-east

dim memories that someone might have supported them at school during their mid-late 90s apogee

see i think that's where my like for newcastle comes from in part, in the mid 90s celtic were shit, so catholic school children in scotland like myself, (who claimed to support aberdeen til i was 10 or 11) would support any old english shite if they were succesfull, however very few opted for newcastle, even when they were half succesful, ergo they are not subject to the hate i have for the traditional big english teams, although blackburn were never favoured, actually won the league, and the i still hate them. ah the frivolities of the human psyche.

i suppose the other factor is that i've actually met scottish folk who support, as their main team, arsenal, man u, liverpool, which basically makes me want to spit in their faces, whereas newcastle is as much a lol club for your average scot as it is for your average englander.

how similar is nukey to scotland
i know it's kinda obvious but the accent is less weird if u understand it on a continuum from n england to e scotland

it's similar in that it gets cold and the young folk go out at night wearing clothes that are not suitable for such cold. apart from that i'm not so sure. as in, is it any more different to scotland than liverpool, manchester or leeds is, i couldn't tell you (having spent about 2 hours in liverpool, and my only hours in leeds in a pub called "the pointer bar" full of old irish men listening to "rebel songs" i.e. IRA sea shanties).

oh i also went to the west indian centre but the combo of bouncers and barmaids from west indian backgrounds and lol students was likely not particularly cogent demographically.

the ppl i've known who studied in newcastle are mostly pretty posh

god knows what the locals think of the horsey set decamping in tyneland for three years of drinking and fucking

i think IRA sea shanties is the new name for my book. "the great chilean-scottish novel".

Alexis Sanchez stepped off the plane and was near-hypothermic in seconds. Fuck this, he thought, and back to Santiago he went. The End.

basically the place is constantly beset with outsiders and sort of designed not to make an imprint on the visitor. parochial but without even any sort of interest as being particular? just full of pubs and clubs? trying to think objectively what more glasgow has, kinda sure there is something.

do not utter his name in vain!

it's not sunderland
i think this means a lot to the locals

aye, but only mackems i've ever met wouldn't make a claim that sunderland wasn't shit. although i suppose these kind of things can go one way. "you're shit" and "you're cunts" i suppose.

I would like an explanation here from the biggish team supporters on ilx for their hatred for this genuinely locally supported shitter.

I.e. I expect lj hates toon despite supporting charlton in an authentic fashion.

Yeah I know charlton isn't biggish team.drunk.

My feelings for teams are fickle, but I always hate Newcastle. Though even that flickered for a few games there when they seemed to be having fun, having a go, and having some sense of their own limitations.

I dunno, I think I hate them because they're a closed system. The string of ludicrous owners acting out lord-of-the-manor fantasies with the peasantry gathering outside St James's Park everytime they snap their fingers, the horrible indulgence them and the players get, Shearer being the eternal big dog - reality doesn't intrude at all. They don't seem to aspire to anything except being the best team in Newcastle. At least Rangers and Celtic come up against reality in the form of each other or in Europe. Newcastle are happy to beat Middlesbrough or Sunderland, neither of whom seem that arsed really about the rivalry. You expect that kind of one-sided relationship from the little club, but the big brother enjoying it so much is pathetic.

No matter how bad actual results and performances show them to be, they're still the biggest club around because they have the best local hero, the biggest ground in the country, the best fans in the world or take the championship by storm, whatever it happens to be at the time. You can't disprove it - they're like Dynamo Berlin without the glorious history.

I dunno, the localism is something I should normally salute, but the complacency it breeds here makes my blood boil.

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lol

Busker - Home Newcastle 1
Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army 1
Jimmy Nail - Big River 1
Gazza - Fog on the Tyne 1

worth doing a playoff?

underrated thread.

missing newcastle, not been in over a year. going to try and go to the tyne and wear derby at st james's next season.

i like how gazza defeated one of blurs 'best' tracks itp

Shuffling through a complete Now… collection, listening to Big River for the first time knowingly.

enjoying it. Would have voted for it.

Never been to Newcastle.

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England Blues Lyrics
by Gretchen Peters

we'll take the redeye flight and leave Nashville way behind
i got a feeling everything's gonna work out fine
three thousand miles from Tennessee
in between the devil and the deep blue sea
take the redeye flight and leave Nashville way behind
got my hand on the wheel and i'm drivin' on the left hand side
hold on baby it's gonna be a hell of a ride
god save the queen and the BBC
they can't do nothin' ‘bout you and me
got my hand on the wheel and i'm drivin' on the left hand side

holed up in a hotel room on the river Tyne
just me and my baby and a do not disturb sign
24 hours by the hotel clock
hotel maid goin' knock knock
holed up in a hotel room on the river Tyne

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Item location:
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom