... Amazing Hibs Fans Best Sunshine on Leith Scottish cup final 2016 - Duration: 7:32. Hibernian supporters sing Sunshine on Leith after the club win the Scottish Cup for the first time in 114 years. Great team, cool fans”.Written by Proclaimers pair and devoted Hibees Craig and Charlie Reid, Sunshine on Leith appeared on the 1988 album of the same name. James Corden has Tweeted a clip of Hibs fans singing Sunshine on Leith. Cricket Ireland announces North versus South developmental seriesJohn McGuinness satisfied with brace of top-seven results on short circuit return at Donington ParkThe song, which reached only 41 in the UK charts as the title track of The Proclaimers’ second album, saw a remarkable transformation to becoming one of the world’s favourite stadium anthems, with the composition now permanently married in the minds of the public with visions of tens of thousands of passionate Hibs fans holding scarves aloft and amplifying every word.The Proclaimers song Sunshine on Leith was adopted as an anthem during the Hands Off Hibs campaign.During the fight to block the takeover of Hibs by then-Hearts owner Willie Mercer in 1990, the supporters’ club rallied together to find ways of getting the Hands Off Hibs message out.Life-long supporter Willie McEwan, 68, a former Hibs Kids volunteer who remains active with the club as treasurer of the former players’ association, was tasked with handling public awareness.As well as creating T-shirts, badges, petitions and leaflets, he was in charge of organising what would turn out to be packed rallies at Easter Road and the Usher Hall.Featuring a host of well-known names and prominent footballers, the rally at the Usher Hall was headlined by The Proclaimers.The Auchtermuchty twins were involved in the campaign right from the very first meeting at Sunnyside and offered to help out at key moments, recalls Kenny McLean, son of campaign leader Kenny McLean senior.He said: “Charlie Reid came over to me and my dad and said, ‘Listen, this rally at Easter Road, we’ll provide all the amplification, we’ll provide a marquee for the guests and we’ll also help you with anything you need at the Usher Hall’.”One Proclaimers track that was particularly well received at the Usher Hall was Sunshine on Leith.
Sad scenes saw a hooligan minority pick fights with opposition supporters and players as well as ripping up turf and pulling down goal posts.To date, Police Scotland have made 150 arrests in connection with the trouble on the Hampden pitch. It was at this time [1990] the song really started to resonate with the Hibs fans.“It was always looked upon to me as the song that helped defeat Mercer. This clip of Hibs fans singing ‘Sunshine on Leith’ after beating Hearts in 2018 In March, video footage emerged of ‘Banana Flats’ residents singing the song together in lockdown.Margaret Alcorn, wife of the late Bill Alcorn who was the Hibs Supporters’ Club general secretary, said the song soon took on huge significance.She said: “When there was the meeting at Easter Road, the fans, almost without guidance, started singing Sunshine on Leith. It is not uncommon to hear Sunshine on Leith blasting out the tannoy system when Hibs are at home.In 2013 the song inspired the title of a feature-length musical, also entitled Sunshine on Leith. Hibs fans singing after their team won the 2007 CIS Cup final against kilmarnock...Battery run out so only got some of it. Not surprisingly, with their beloved club’s strong ties to Leith, the song proved an instant hit with Hibs fans and was quickly adopted as an unofficial club anthem. The film centred around the fortunes of soldiers Davy and Ally, who were learning how to readapt to life in Edinburgh following active service in Afghanistan.Sunshine on Leith has appeared on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs on a couple of occasions. Hibs fans show what it feels like to end a 114-year wait for a trophy with a stirring rendition of the Proclamiers' Sunshine over Leith. Anthony Stokes took the lead for Hibernian after only three minutes Hibs fans show what it feels like to end a 114-year wait for a trophy with a stirring rendition of the Proclamiers' Sunshine over Leith. A number of supporters of both teams have been issued with banning orders.This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Corden follower @markwmunro wrote: “Good rendition or not James check your maths”.This morning’s praise from James Corden’s is not the first time that a world-famous West Ham-supporting English comedian has publicly praised Hibs and their fans after a cup success.On 14 April 2013, a day after Hibernian had booked themselves a place in the Scottish Cup Final with a tense 4-3 semi-final win over Falkirk, Russell Brand Tweeted: “Congratulations Hibernian.