ATM Issue 79 Out Now!

Over the last few weeks my daily routine has involved The BBC Gossip Column (first thing), Sky Sports News (about ten minutes later), www.football365.com (at regular intervals) and more forums than is healthy for a long-suffering football supporter.

The reason I’ve been putting myself through this daily ritual is to keep up to date with the latest transfer speculation. Now, I know from talking to producers and DJs in the scene that I’m not the only one obsessed with Premiership football. This issue’s inductee into Hall of Fame, Bryan G, is such a big Chelsea fan he’s signed up member of their TV channel and has all the kits and merchandise to back up his credentials. You can add IC3, Calyx and Phantasy to the Blue Army. Brendan Futurebound, as you might expect given his accent, is a massive Liverpool fan. Mampi swift and Sappo are also long-standing Anfield acolytes. There are loads more: Randall, Andy C, (West Ham), Ruffstuff and Nookie (Spurs), Nicky BM (QPR), Escape (Villa), Shabba and Jordan V (Arsenal) to name a few.

Over in Manchester, Man United have a huge backing in the scene. Whether or not they actually come form Manchester is another thing entirely! One person who is born and bred in Manc is MC Tonn Piper. Now having known Tonn for many years I know that he was at the same year at school as Wes Brown. From time to time Tonn even gets together for the ISS Pro Evo comps with some of the Man Yoo lads. So this got me into thinking about the fine line between music and football. It seem s entirely possible that that the stage-diving presence of Mr Piper could easily have ended up as a sports pro and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility to picture Wes Brown dropping some bars over grime instrumental. Even Rio Ferdinand has ventured into the music world with his White Chalk label recently releasing a debut LP from Manchester talent Nia Ai.

All of this goes to show that the world of football and music are two of the biggest passions for the average person on the street, and they’re both inextricably linked. Both bring massive amounts of enjoyment to people, both offer good life and potentially a career to lads from the estate and they both make forum trawling an obsession!

Mark OD,
Editor,
ATM Worldwide

editor@atm-mag.com