Harry Angus Composes New Greater Western Sydney Theme Song

Posted: 17 February, 2012

We love our footy, here at Gaga –– AFL football, that is. We're all certified tragics, going into hibernation over the summer months, and babbling ceaselessly from March through to October about our beloved, and usually perennially underperforming, teams. 

Which makes us hugely excited to announce announce our involvement with the new Greater Western Sydney Giants theme song, which has been unveiled today.

The new theme, ‘The Mighty Giants’, was written and produced by acclaimed songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Harry Angus, of Cat Empire and Jackson Jackson fame. The track hearkens back to the grand old footy theme songs of yore, and, if we do say so ourselves, it’s an absolute cracker.

‘The Mighty Giants’ came about while we were researching 1920s music with Harry for Underbelly Razor and the ABC’s new 20s Crime drama, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Our research led us to some classic 19th century football songs, and inspired Harry to try his hand at writing a theme for the AFL’s newest team.

Ditching the contemporary approach of other younger clubs, the new Greater Western Sydney theme song takes you back to the early days of football, where games were watched from wooden seats in the grandstand or atop empty beer cans in the outer, exclusively on a Saturday afternoon.

The sound of ‘The Mighty Giants’ is the sound of a simpler era of football –– a time before replay and nose-bleed grandstands, when you’d all head out onto the newspaper-strewn ground after the final siren, regardless of the result, for a game of kick to kick.

'I started to become interested in this idea that there exists an entirely different genre of music that is the old classic football song,' Angus says. 'It got me thinking about how easy it could be to make a new song sound old.'

'I began to research where some of these old classic songs had come from, to understand the mindset of the old captains and players who created these pieces of music. It became clear that the beauty of these great songs is their simplicity.'

‘The Mighty Giants’ gives heritage to the AFL’s freshest club, and more than holds its own against the league’s other grand old songs. Wrap your ears around the new song in our player above, and listen out for it tomorrow night, when the GWS players run onto the ground for their opening NAB match at Blacktown International Sports Park.

Pete : 17 February, 2012 - 1 Comments

• I like it. Well done.

  edward nicholson | February 16, 2012

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