My daughter (who comes to some games with me) recently came back from a school trip to Belgium. She said they were blasting out SOL on the bus all the time and lovin' it. Any other instances where you've heard the song appreciated in non game situations.
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Thread: The love of Sunshine on Leith
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09-06-2017 08:02 AM #1
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The love of Sunshine on Leith
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09-06-2017 08:06 AM #2
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Sitting in ma mates playing the ZX Spectrum when most people hadn't even heard of the Proclaimers
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09-06-2017 08:24 AM #3
First dance at my wedding
That day I inherited 56 English relatives
Most had heard of Craig and Charlie but not SoL
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09-06-2017 08:27 AM #4
Whenever I end up in Dickens with my old man for a pint, its usually on the most played list on the jukebox which seems to annoy the Jambo landlord.
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Were you playing Penetrator or Manic Miner at the time?
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09-06-2017 09:13 AM #6
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I belted it out in the Birchwood pub in Abbywood London while meeting my daughter's soon to be inlaws. Got a cheer at the end let everyone know I was a Hibby, showed them the Hibs tattoo and my daughter loved it.
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09-06-2017 09:20 AM #7
"While I'm worth, my room on this earth, I will be with you" were my wedding vows!
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09-06-2017 09:23 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-06-2017 09:32 AM #9
After the 2007 League Cup Final, SoL took on a whole new significance for me. My dad died not long after the final and it was only fitting that SoL was the music we used when his coffin was brought in to the chapel at his funeral. Now when it's belted out after significant victories, it reminds me of him and I inwardly "thank him, for his work" for introducing me to the Hibs family 55 years ago.
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09-06-2017 09:41 AM #10
On the way back from "James McFadden" game in Paris, I abandoned the particularly fragrant Tartan Army train from Paris to Glasgow when it reached London and went to stay with my brother for a few days.
We met up with a few of my mates who lived down there and we had a cracking rendition of it in some pub in Dulwich. My brother and I were the only Hibbies too, but they all seemed to know it word for word as well.
Afterwards we had girls coming up to us saying it was one of the best and most emotional things they'd ever heard.
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What a wonderful thing to do.!!!!!
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09-06-2017 09:54 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was in Dickens a couple of weeks ago.
Just happened to be in the area;-)
I know a number of the day time regulars well(and early morning ones,too!)
It may surprise some that a fair number of regulars in Dickens are Hibernian supporters.
Callum is a good landlord.
I have known him for many years.
If he didnae want SOL on the juke box,it widnae be there.
But yer right,he does usually pull a face when someone plays it.
Mostly kidology wae CallumLast edited by Mick O'Rourke; 09-06-2017 at 09:56 AM.
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09-06-2017 10:39 AM #14
I was down at Blackpool for my uncles funeral in January, it wasn't played at the funeral, but later on I heard it getting played at my cousins house, one of three females born in Edinburgh and not realy interested in football. My cousins and their teenage kids were singing along and knew the words and were paying respect to their heritage. It was great to hear it sung by so many Lancashire voices.
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Hardened Jambos get off on roof trusses and plastic cows these days.
I doubt the freaks know anything of beauty.
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09-06-2017 11:20 AM #18
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09-06-2017 11:28 AM #19
I remember seeing a comment on facebook or youtube describing SoL as 'a love song to a football club'
Like that.
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09-06-2017 11:37 AM #20
My Mum got married to a guy from york a few years ago who was a singer in some bands and pubs/clubs solo. Took him to a hibs game where we sang it (for the life of me I can't remember who) but he loved the song and admitted knowing a few proclamore songs and never heard of it. Any way in and around York is where he gigs and he started using it in his sets and has said the positive feedback he gets it great. And he can also spot the hibs/hearts fans in crowd
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09-06-2017 01:01 PM #26
Proclaimers
I worked in South Africa 1994/95. i worked in a Italian restaurant and one of the other guys, a south african used to rave about the Proclaimers, he was delighted when I gave him a cd, he used to play it all the time in the restaurant and it went down really well with the customers. :green grin.
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09-06-2017 02:00 PM #27
Following on from my vows, I bumped my new wife to dance to sunshine on leith with my Hibs pal, he kens who he is if he's reading this!
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09-06-2017 02:12 PM #28
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Sung at my nephews funeral in Vienna . Very poignant.
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09-06-2017 08:39 PM #29
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Saints fans gave it big licks after their draw at ER recently.
Could be a new anthem for them?
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09-06-2017 08:46 PM #30
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Letter from america, the video was filmed in leith docks but was meant to be filmed in the caledonian distilary haymarket, but the owners thought it was to political to be filmed there, they shut the place a short while after
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