Monday, September 04, 2017

James Watts - Short Profile


39 year old James Watts who has joined Hereford FC as General Manager used to be one of the UK's leading hardcore drum and bass MC's. He went under the title of MC Wotsee.

But he has always loved football and Newport County in particular.

He went to his first game when just six years old. County lost that game but it didn't put him off.

However after leaving college it was music that interested him most.

"The moment that it really happened was when I met DJ Brisk in a club in Bristol and he put me in the window," Watts told the South Wales Argus in 2014.

"Here was this kid from Wales on the main stage and everything just came together.

"I’ve been doing it for so long and have performed all over the world. I’m no longer doing it full-time, but I’ll never retire and there’s always one more thing you want to do in music.

"I’d estimate I’ve done 1,500 gigs in 10 different countries and I’ve performed in front of 60,000 people at Global Gathering.

"It’s mental and performing in front of those kind of crowds is like going from playing in the Welsh League to turning out for Manchester United."

However Watts continued his interest in Newport County.

"I used to post on County message boards with my MC handle, MC Wotsee. They were usually insightful, occasionally controversial, posts about the team or the club.

"I knew that I would eventually work for County and that it was my destiny.

"I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved and we’ve brought in lots of new sponsorship, with around 50 or 60 new companies.

"We’ve made a lot of progress on social media and we had never done hospitality before I arrived, either." 

Later in the article Watts revealed that one event on January 25th 2005 changed his life.

"I was a passenger in a 90 mile per hour collision near Worcester and I had to learn to walk again.

"I had been asleep and I just remember waking up sprawled on the road and the only way I could tell it was bad was when the paramedic was putting this really hard pressure on my head to stop the bleeding.

"I required 30 stitches to my head and my right eye had to be restructured.

"The way I would describe the scene would be like a knife cutting into a pumpkin: there was a huge hole in my head.

"That accident changed my life and I’ve never been more motivated.

"If someone tells me I cannot do something, I point to that and use it as inspiration to prove them wrong.

"I’ve always been pretty determined, but that made me want to be as good as I can be.

"It means that I’m really competitive, even if it was just a game of snakes and ladders.”