Do the Tony Mowbray

Dec 20, 2023, 11:01 AM

"Hearing the raw feeling with which these Sunderland fans sing an apparently silly tribute to their manager prompted me to write a simple song about how emotional we can all get over something as trivial as football. The sacking of Tony Mowbray during this project brought out something especially sad about the intense but fleeting bonds that form between football's practitioners and their audiences, and I did my best to highlight this with some fairly minimal instrumentation."

Sunderland fans in London reimagined by Henry Mason.