Blaydon Races gets sung at every match. It was written by Geordie Ridley, he first sung it in 1862. Blaydon is a small town in Gateshead, situated about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne, in North East England. The race used to take place on the Stella Haugh 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Blaydon. Stella South Power Station (demolished in 1995) was built on the site of the track in the early 1950s, after the races had stopped taking place in 1916. Home Newcastle was sung by busker and released in 1995. It's not regularly sung at matches as far as I know. Here's one definition of why we're called Geordie. The other one is about miners. TheJacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Jacobites declared that Newcastle and the surrounding areas favoured the Hanovarian King George and were “for George”. Hence the name Geordie used as a derivation of George. Our accent has been said to be the closest to old English you can get. But it has a lot of Scandinavian type words (due to the viking invasion). There's probably some roman mixed in there too. Because of the roman invasion. There were forts all along Hadrian's wall, so lots of Romans wandering everywhere. We used to be part of Scotland at one point, so there's a lot of similar words. There's also a lot of Irish type words in there to. Due to there being a massive Irish population, my family being one of them. I've been away from home for 20yrs, and my accent is still as strong as it ever was. If a geordie goes anywhere else in the country, people tell them they're hard to understand. When I first moved to Somerset, I had to slow my speech down. I used to say, you'd think I was speaking Swahili the way people carried on 😆.
It's not Irish slang, it's geordie dialect haha. A geordie is a person from Newcastle and the surrounding areas, the accent is one of the most disparate in the UK, and has so many unique words and pronunciations, I've seen people struggle to understand it and liken it to a different language altogether, and some people say it sounds Scottish, and others just like pure gobbledegook.
@@deaninit8617 Gateshead, Tynemouth, North/South Shields, Blyth, Ashington? What are you on about mate, of course they are. Geordies are literally from Tyneside, those areas i mentioned are surrounding areas of Newcastle, hence also in Tyneside. Can't believe i have to whack out the old wikipedia to prove such a well-known fact but here we are en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie
@@Gabagoolf sorry but Ashington and Blyth are in Northumberland - South Shields and Gateshead are in South Tyneside (old Mackem Land) to be a true Geordie you have to be Born within half a mile of the North Bank of the Tyne anything else is Honorary
A geordie is a newcastle way of life. Doesn't have to be from newcastle, but has newcastle in their heart, their struggles and passion.Big up the toon.
Thanks. My parents were geordie. My sisters are geordie and I'm not 😭 Newcastle has been my team since I was about 5. My sister let me wear her away shirt for bed and it became my nightie (she was a teenager) at my mums. And I still have it now.
The Blaydon Races is iconic and the chorus is mainly sung at football and Newcastle Falcons Rugby. The Scotswood Road is a road that runs east to west in the City centre of Newcastle and connects Newcastle and Blaydon Blaydon is a small town in Gateshead, situated about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne, The 9th June was when the Blaydon race took place. The Blaydon Race is a 5.9-mile athletics race from Newcastle to Blaydon that takes place on 9 June every year and starts off with the singing of 'The Blaydon Races', as the words are used as the basis for the whole race.
Please visit Newcastle and you’ll soon see for yourself how friendly we are, you must come to a match it’s something you’ll never forget regardless of the result. You’ll feel the passion for football and the city once your there on a match day. We are Geordies and very proud of our people and our city, football is our life. You’re welcome anytime it’s got to be on you’re bucket list. Howay the lads ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️
Coming home Newcastle references the hard times in the 1970s/1980s when a lot of the heavy industry and main employment centres in the region were closed by the government meaning a lot of people left in order to find work. Blaydon races was written by Geordie Ridley in the late 1800s referencing the event of the Blaydon races along the Tyne; a popular foot race. It’s a Tyneside folk song which most Geordies know from childhood
@@jackholloway1 dialects come and go so most certainly they can be older and newer 🤣 if people didnt live in and area then moved to that area and started a different dialect it would most certainly be newer than all the currently spoken ones 🤣
A Geordie is a native of Tyneside and belongs to the wider area and former Kingdom Of Northumbria which goes back over a thousand years. Geordie is unique in England due to our dialect that contains words from Old English (Saxon) & (Angle) that are not spoken anywhere else in the country. We also have our own culture which involves poetry, Songs, Music, And our own instrument called The Northumbrian Pipes which are similar to Scottish Bagpipes but you don't blow them rather using your arm to create the air into them. We have our own Tartan called the Lowland Plaid and Kilts, Tam 'O Shanter style hats, Although we don't wear them anymore which is a shame. We also have dancing which is called "Rapper Dancing" which was invented by the local miners which is very energetic using swords which is brilliant to watch. We were also known as "Reivers" during the 13th Century due to our pillaging across the border into Scotland to steal livestock. That ceased when Reiver families starting marrying into Scottish families to end the violence and create more prosperity for the two people's. The Kingdom of Northumbria is just classed as a county in England today but was a powerhouse in The Golden Age of Anglo/Saxon culture with the country stretching up into Scotland as far as The Forth Bridge, Across into Cumbria, Down Into The Liverpool and Manchester areas, And across into Yorkshire as far as Hull. It's a country of around 15 million if it ever gained independence from Britain which there is now a party formed for this due to the oppression our people have endured from the South Of England for years ! Within England and especially the South Geordies are frowned upon, Looked down on and not really considered as being English in some quarters. We are generally seen as this weird uncivilized tribe that are hard as nails but lacking in intelligence despite our people being at the very start of what went on to be England then Britain.
I love coming home Newcastle, I think that and Big River are the 2 ultimate Newcastle songs. They aren't about football but what it is to be a Geordie and the history of the area
Geordie is another name for George (as in who wrote Blaydon Races George "Geordie" Ridley), likely because of their support of the first Hanover Monarch George I.
There are argued two origins of the name Geordie, one is that it was a term given in response to the locals siding with King George against the Scots (also where the cities motto originates "Fortiteir Defendent Triumphants" Triumph in defence. The other originates from a handheld lamp that was used by miners.
They're our songs, it's about our history. Folk songs, people having to go to london for work and hating it missing a bottle of brown ale (bottle of the river Tyne) .. so much history on the songs you won't understand. Blaydon races is a running race. Geordies are us from Newcastle. We sing coming home Newcastle before matches in the ground and Blaydon races we sing part of it during games. Not all of it
Here youngin, I like you but you’ll never understand the toon unless you visit it. Blaydon races was taught to me at 3 by me nana, coming yem newcastle is a folk song. Spend a weeknd here and you’ll begin to understand. Yes we sing it al kidda 👍🏻
You should do a video on English accents you’ll be shocked at how many and how different they are for such a small island. It’s not Irish dialect it’s someone singing in a geordie accent. A geordie is someone from Newcastle.
These days to be a geordie you dont need to have been born half a mile off the river. Anywhere near is fine . And if you support Newcastle united even better. I know lots of people from Durham support Newcastle united . Likewise i know lots of people from Ashington and Bedlington who support Sunderland team .and i know lots of people living close to the ground never go there or support . its called their choice.
Check out tyneside life he does playlists of history cultured of Newcastle and explains chants and songs and nicknames from origin and the history of Newcastle
I really like you and your content but on the Newcastle Away video you didn't bother with the last minute of the video and you even mentioned: "We will play the end" as opposed to ??? It's disrespectful and silly playing 90% of it and not playing the end of a song, my friend unless you have low attention disorder in which case I apologise..
A Geordie is a person from the area of Newcastle ,as for Blaydon races it's the chorus they sing at the football match not the whole song its Geordie slang not Irish lmao ... Oooh men , you should only see us going Passing those folks along the road just as they are standing All the the men and women there , all with smiling faces , going along the scotswood road to see the Blaydon races . think that's how its said in English llol
It’s not Irish slang 😡 A Geordie is someone from Newcastle and our accent and dialect is no different from the many states and places within the states of the US who have there own way of speaking, we are no different.
Smh that's folk music not irish,its alike but not the same..a Geordie is what we are.we are Geordies.the name comes from the GEORDIE LAMP from doon the mines.'George "Geordie" Stevenson invented the safety lamp ....the name stuck . coming home Newcastle is just a love song for the toon coz wor mate was away doon the big smoke yuh see and he missed the toon and he missed having a bottle of dog and watchin the black and white army from the gallowgate end in the pissin rain . ✌️🐜 Ps im in Blaydon shopping centre reet noo 👋
The Geordie accent is the closest thing to our cousin's language the Vikings. Many words are very similar to words that are still spoke today in Scandinavia n countries
Coming home Newcastle was played at my nanas funeral 😢 That’s how important Newcastle united is to geordies. Football is our religion. ◼️◽️◼️◽️
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Ya nana was a legend, mate. ◼️◽◼️◽
Your nana is celebrating in heaven now mate
Same at my grandad funeral
A Geordie is a person from Newcastle, I'm a Geordie and we also speak Geordie which is the colloquial language
Blaydon Races gets sung at every match. It was written by Geordie Ridley, he first sung it in 1862. Blaydon is a small town in Gateshead, situated about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne, in North East England. The race used to take place on the Stella Haugh 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Blaydon. Stella South Power Station (demolished in 1995) was built on the site of the track in the early 1950s, after the races had stopped taking place in 1916.
Home Newcastle was sung by busker and released in 1995. It's not regularly sung at matches as far as I know.
Here's one definition of why we're called Geordie. The other one is about miners. TheJacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Jacobites declared that Newcastle and the surrounding areas favoured the Hanovarian King George and were “for George”. Hence the name Geordie used as a derivation of George.
Our accent has been said to be the closest to old English you can get. But it has a lot of Scandinavian type words (due to the viking invasion). There's probably some roman mixed in there too. Because of the roman invasion. There were forts all along Hadrian's wall, so lots of Romans wandering everywhere. We used to be part of Scotland at one point, so there's a lot of similar words. There's also a lot of Irish type words in there to. Due to there being a massive Irish population, my family being one of them.
I've been away from home for 20yrs, and my accent is still as strong as it ever was. If a geordie goes anywhere else in the country, people tell them they're hard to understand. When I first moved to Somerset, I had to slow my speech down. I used to say, you'd think I was speaking Swahili the way people carried on 😆.
Nailed it. Perfect.
Actually I should probs just add that they do play coming home Newcastle before the game.
@@lancecougar thank you.
@@lancecougar Hopefully for you long-suffering Guys it WILL be coming home soon.
I hope so :)
@@Isleofskye Thank you!! I can't believe it's actually happened. To think I almost didn't renew my season ticket for this season too!
It's not Irish slang, it's geordie dialect haha. A geordie is a person from Newcastle and the surrounding areas, the accent is one of the most disparate in the UK, and has so many unique words and pronunciations, I've seen people struggle to understand it and liken it to a different language altogether, and some people say it sounds Scottish, and others just like pure gobbledegook.
A Geordie is not someone from the “surrounding areas” 😂
@@deaninit8617 Gateshead, Tynemouth, North/South Shields, Blyth, Ashington? What are you on about mate, of course they are. Geordies are literally from Tyneside, those areas i mentioned are surrounding areas of Newcastle, hence also in Tyneside. Can't believe i have to whack out the old wikipedia to prove such a well-known fact but here we are en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie
@@Gabagoolf Source: Wikipedia page edited by a plastic Geordie from Washington.
@@Gabagoolf sorry but Ashington and Blyth are in Northumberland - South Shields and Gateshead are in South Tyneside (old Mackem Land) to be a true Geordie you have to be Born within half a mile of the North Bank of the Tyne anything else is Honorary
@@marktodd6613 Gateshead is not south Tyneside & is within a half a mile of the north bank of the Tyne😂
A geordie is a newcastle way of life. Doesn't have to be from newcastle, but has newcastle in their heart, their struggles and passion.Big up the toon.
Thanks. My parents were geordie. My sisters are geordie and I'm not 😭
Newcastle has been my team since I was about 5. My sister let me wear her away shirt for bed and it became my nightie (she was a teenager) at my mums. And I still have it now.
The blaydon races were horse racing that took part next to the river Tyne. Crowds of people used to come from all over Newcastle to watch.
There's a sign up in blaydon that indicates where the races started, it's on shibdon road
The Blaydon Races is iconic and the chorus is mainly sung at football and Newcastle Falcons Rugby. The Scotswood Road is a road that runs east to west in the City centre of Newcastle and connects Newcastle and Blaydon Blaydon is a small town in Gateshead, situated about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne,
The 9th June was when the Blaydon race took place. The Blaydon Race is a 5.9-mile athletics race from Newcastle to Blaydon that takes place on 9 June every year and starts off with the singing of 'The Blaydon Races', as the words are used as the basis for the whole race.
Please visit Newcastle and you’ll soon see for yourself how friendly we are, you must come to a match it’s something you’ll never forget regardless of the result. You’ll feel the passion for football and the city once your there on a match day.
We are Geordies and very proud of our people and our city, football is our life. You’re welcome anytime it’s got to be on you’re bucket list.
Howay the lads ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️
“And a miss the auld blink busker”
Coming home Newcastle references the hard times in the 1970s/1980s when a lot of the heavy industry and main employment centres in the region were closed by the government meaning a lot of people left in order to find work. Blaydon races was written by Geordie Ridley in the late 1800s referencing the event of the Blaydon races along the Tyne; a popular foot race. It’s a Tyneside folk song which most Geordies know from childhood
Howay the lads!!!
Funnily enough geordies have the oldest direct dialect in the uk, also none of its Irish 😂
It's guttural and pure Broad Geordie's nearest cousin is the German Language
@@marktodd6613 specifically Fresian
@@marktodd6613 its nearest cousin is Northumbrian dialect
No dialect is older or newer than any other
@@jackholloway1 dialects come and go so most certainly they can be older and newer 🤣 if people didnt live in and area then moved to that area and started a different dialect it would most certainly be newer than all the currently spoken ones 🤣
Im a Geordie. , people from Newcastle upon Tyne. And Gateshead. Are Geordies
We play a more modern version of blaydon races. If you look up Blaydon races 2017 you’ll find it!
A Geordie is a native of Tyneside and belongs to the wider area and former Kingdom Of Northumbria which goes back over a thousand years.
Geordie is unique in England due to our dialect that contains words from Old English (Saxon) & (Angle) that are not spoken anywhere else in the country.
We also have our own culture which involves poetry, Songs, Music, And our own instrument called The Northumbrian Pipes which are similar to Scottish Bagpipes but you don't blow them rather using your arm to create the air into them.
We have our own Tartan called the Lowland Plaid and Kilts, Tam 'O Shanter style hats, Although we don't wear them anymore which is a shame.
We also have dancing which is called "Rapper Dancing" which was invented by the local miners which is very energetic using swords which is brilliant to watch.
We were also known as "Reivers" during the 13th Century due to our pillaging across the border into Scotland to steal livestock.
That ceased when Reiver families starting marrying into Scottish families to end the violence and create more prosperity for the two people's.
The Kingdom of Northumbria is just classed as a county in England today but was a powerhouse in The Golden Age of Anglo/Saxon culture with the country stretching up into Scotland as far as The Forth Bridge, Across into Cumbria, Down Into The Liverpool and Manchester areas, And across into Yorkshire as far as Hull.
It's a country of around 15 million if it ever gained independence from Britain which there is now a party formed for this due to the oppression our people have endured from the South Of England for years !
Within England and especially the South Geordies are frowned upon, Looked down on and not really considered as being English in some quarters.
We are generally seen as this weird uncivilized tribe that are hard as nails but lacking in intelligence despite our people being at the very start of what went on to be England then Britain.
I live an hour away from Newcastle literally on the Scottish border and even me and my friends sing these songs, oooooooooooohhhhh me lads
Ya should’ve as gannin
another tune that is played at st jamex park is local hero
I mean st James park
Blaydon Races is Newcastle's national anthem.
Coming Home Newcastle is a massive song for us as well
Blaydon races is a foot race in Newcastle. It’s run in June and runs from Newcastle to Blaydon which is about 6 miles.
It used to be a horse race in Blaydon. The foot race commemorates the original horse race and more or less runs the route in the song
I love coming home Newcastle, I think that and Big River are the 2 ultimate Newcastle songs. They aren't about football but what it is to be a Geordie and the history of the area
Geordie is another name for George (as in who wrote Blaydon Races George "Geordie" Ridley), likely because of their support of the first Hanover Monarch George I.
If you want to see St Jamses Park Rockin watch the Toon vs Spurs on Sunday 4-30 KO.
There are argued two origins of the name Geordie, one is that it was a term given in response to the locals siding with King George against the Scots (also where the cities motto originates "Fortiteir Defendent Triumphants" Triumph in defence. The other originates from a handheld lamp that was used by miners.
Blaydon Races was sung at West Brom away in your last video
This is a story song with regards the Blaydon Races. What's sang at the game is just the chorus x
I'm from Blaydon, it was a horse racing event but 1862 well before my time.
They're our songs, it's about our history. Folk songs, people having to go to london for work and hating it missing a bottle of brown ale (bottle of the river Tyne) .. so much history on the songs you won't understand. Blaydon races is a running race. Geordies are us from Newcastle. We sing coming home Newcastle before matches in the ground and Blaydon races we sing part of it during games. Not all of it
Here youngin, I like you but you’ll never understand the toon unless you visit it. Blaydon races was taught to me at 3 by me nana, coming yem newcastle is a folk song. Spend a weeknd here and you’ll begin to understand. Yes we sing it al kidda 👍🏻
Blading races is normally played before a match whilst the players are warming up.
blaydon races is in memory of the geordies that died in the blaydon races
when you going to wear YOUR Newcastle shirt?
What is a geordie - Santiago muñez
Watch the film ‘goal’ it’s a classic you’ll love it bro don’t know anyone that doesn’t
It’s not Irish it’s Geordie! Someone from Newcastle.
im a Geordie btw Gannin allant the scotswood roads to see the balydon races I MISS ALAN SHERRA:(
These are less pure football songs and more local songs of the city. There's a very strong local tradition of local music and song
You should do a video on English accents you’ll be shocked at how many and how different they are for such a small island. It’s not Irish dialect it’s someone singing in a geordie accent. A geordie is someone from Newcastle.
These days to be a geordie you dont need to have been born half a mile off the river. Anywhere near is fine . And if you support Newcastle united even better. I know lots of people from Durham support Newcastle united . Likewise i know lots of people from Ashington and Bedlington who support Sunderland team .and i know lots of people living close to the ground never go there or support . its called their choice.
@@ronrichardson3103 durham mags 💪🏴🏳🏴🏳
A novacastrian is from Newcastle not a geordie a geordie was someone who followed king George a George’s man
When the game starts local hero comes on when the game starts
Best pre game tunes on route on matchday
The Geordie accent is like the New Yorker accent here in USA. Once you here it, you know they are from the north.
Are Geordies are Newcastle fan
Toon toon !!!! ❤❤
Your missing the actual supporters song. 'the Geordie boot boys'
People from Newcastle are the friendliest in the UK
A geordie is a person with a accent like wi ay and a geordie is also a name if you are from newcastle
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I think he secretly is a Toon fan. He knows the Mackums are garbage, said it in the derby reaction vid
@@mkbine2488 gonna have to watch that video mate
local hero is the one played before kick off
Geordies is basically a saying from people from newcastle supporting king George so we're called georgies hence geordies
Check out tyneside life he does playlists of history cultured of Newcastle and explains chants and songs and nicknames from origin and the history of Newcastle
You should listen to Sunderland's a massive club.
A geordie is a person from my hometown Newcastle
I really like you and your content but on the Newcastle Away video you didn't bother with the last minute of the video and you even mentioned: "We will play the end" as opposed to ??? It's disrespectful and silly playing 90% of it and not playing the end of a song, my friend unless you have low attention disorder in which case I apologise..
wow proper Karen there like 😂😂😂
Love the TOON 🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
Goerdy is a peaple who’s from Newcastle
You need to watch game footage of geordies (toon fans, people born in NE England) singing.
A Geordie is a person from the area of Newcastle ,as for Blaydon races it's the chorus they sing at the football match not the whole song its Geordie slang not Irish lmao ... Oooh men , you should only see us going
Passing those folks along the road just as they are standing
All the the men and women there , all with smiling faces , going along the scotswood road to see the Blaydon races . think that's how its said in English llol
in games we sing six at the minimum
HE RLLY SAID IRISH SLANG 😭
a geordie is a person born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
King George ( Geordies ) 👑🏴 👏👏👏
if anyone is a Geordie its fine ppl may bully you for your account I have your back bc im a geordie and I love this song
It’s not Irish slang 😡 A Geordie is someone from Newcastle and our accent and dialect is no different from the many states and places within the states of the US who have there own way of speaking, we are no different.
it's howay the lads not howay the toon eny way im a geordie im a newcastle fan
OMG... ITS A NEWCASTLE PERSON WHO HAS A ACCIENT FROM NEWCASTLE lol!!!!!
They are Newcastle people
A Geordie is a native of Newcastle
people who are gordies are people who were born in newcastle
A gordie is anyone who lives in Newcastle
USUALLY SING 2 VERSES, AND 2 X, CHORUS .... Not All The Song.
Smh that's folk music not irish,its alike but not the same..a Geordie is what we are.we are Geordies.the name comes from the GEORDIE LAMP from doon the mines.'George "Geordie" Stevenson invented the safety lamp ....the name stuck . coming home Newcastle is just a love song for the toon coz wor mate was away doon the big smoke yuh see and he missed the toon and he missed having a bottle of dog and watchin the black and white army from the gallowgate end in the pissin rain . ✌️🐜
Ps im in Blaydon shopping centre reet noo 👋
you are a geordie if you support newcastle becouse geordies made newcastle geordie used to mean homeless
they spelt differnt a pernouced differnt becouse the language is call geordie
Toon is pronounced two-n also lol x
Come on the TOON
Howay me bonnie lads,gerrin there Toon 4 soothhampton1
Geordie boys taking the piss ….the real Newcastle song is local hero mark knophler
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and blaydon races people still die in the blaydon races i seid geodies becouse its a newcastle thing
Villa doesn't compare to Leeds and NUFC
The Geordie accent is the closest thing to our cousin's language the Vikings. Many words are very similar to words that are still spoke today in Scandinavia n countries
This isn't true, in fact Geordie dialect has less Norse influence than Yorkshire because it settled less by Danish colonists
its not irish ots geordie ya tool 😂😂😂😂
'Keep Right on' Birmingham City FC Fans absolute blinder (We're not very friendly to Villa).