Some of the biggest names in dance music have been announced on the team-sheet for Australia’s first official five-a-side football tournament for the music industry, the inaugural Música Copa.
Officially partnered with ARIA Week and the Electronic Music Conference (EMC), Música Copa will take place on Thursday 5th December – in between the two weekends of Stereosonic at Marrickville’s industrial KIKOFF complex.
The tournament will see touring artists, TV & radio personalities, label representatives and industry legends fire up old rivalries on and off the pitch. Each team will battle it out to win the bumper cash prize for their nominated charity, plus exclusive bragging rights for the next 12 months!
A host of notable artists have already been confirmed in the first round announcement, with the likes of Van She, Canyons, What So Not, Rufus, Movement, Dan Single, Yolanda Be Cool and Danny Clayton (captaining the Channel V team) taking up the gauntlet. Many more players will be confirmed in the coming weeks, and with Sydney awash with international talent at the time of the competition, the team-sheet is set to read like a fantasy festival line-up.
To celebrate, Aussie team member Martin Novosel of Purple Sneakers and Englishmen Paul Stix of Modular have programmed a very speial, soccr-themes mixtape.
Paul Stix of Modular
Match Of The Day Theme Song
As an Englishman, the ONLY place to kick off (excuse the pun) is the Match of the Day theme tune. Saturday nights were never the same again. The all time, number one, never-to-be-bettered football highlights show featuring cult presenters. Silky Des Lynam, Alan “could have been a great manager, but choose the easy life as a pundit’ Hansen, the god-like Alan Shearer and big ears himself, Gary Lineker. The theme tune is world famous, and sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. This video clip has to be one of the best opening sequences too. The 80s right?
Gillingham Football Club -‘The Home Of The Shouting Men’
Pretty much 95% of football songs are crap. That’s just what happens, yet every year a lot of cubs records their own songs, and they’re ALL RUBBISH. Since my older brother took me to my first Gills match when I around 14, I’ve been a Gillingham FC supporter ever since. Last season we were the Division 2 Champions was made a pleasant change, and in our hay-day we proudly sat in mid table in the Championship. When I was 16 I scored a Saturday job working as the stat guy for local radio station Invicta FM. They did live match commentary of all Gillingham’s home and away games and I got to interview the manager and players after the match which was pretty cool. This clip features one of Gillingham’s bangers, “Home of the shouting men” – riveting stuff huh.
GAZZA -‘Fog On The Tyne’
This is more like it. Paul Gascoigne; one of England’s all-time greatest players… singing about sausage rolls and life on the toon!! Sadly Gazza’s career ended up much like this song… but he will always remain one of my all-time heroes. One of the best players that never was I guess. In the 1990 World Cup, England came so close to reaching the final and Gazza was pulling all the strings, until a 2nd yellow card would see him miss the final. His tears that night summed up the nations grief and it’s tragic to see how life after football has taken its toll and created some serious health concerns on his life. Gazza, I salute you.
Lightning Bolt – ‘Three Lions’
It was inevitable that I would include an England song… but which one? New Order’s ‘World in Motion’ is utter genius and Johnny Barnes’ rap is one of the best things of all time… BUT… in 1996, TV chappies Frank Skinner and Daniel Baddiel teamed up with the floppy haired dude from the Lightning Seeds to record ‘Three Lions’ and the rest is history! “It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming… football’s coming home”!! Every terrace around the country would be singing this, it began a genuine national anthem, and could probably have replaced the actual national anthem during the hysteria of the 1996 Euro Finals hosted in England. Which typically we lost on penalties. In the semi final. To Germany. Arrrgh. Ao popular was Three Lions in fact, that the guys re-recorded it for the World Cup 2 years later. Altogether now, “It’s coming home…”
Martin Novosel (Purple Sneakers)
Pat Benatar – ‘All Fired Up’
Not strictly a ‘soccer song’, but is probably one of the most high octane pop songs ever written. The kind of song that just makes you wanna WIN!!!! Also it just might qualify as a ‘soccer song’ with the words “I gotta feel the kick inside”?
Ricky Martin – ‘La Copa De La Vida (Cup Of Life)’
The best world cup anthem at the best world cup that I can remember… France 98. Although sadly Australia was knocked out by Iran in qualifications that year (still one we are all bitter about!), I still had another reason to follow this World Cup… It was the first time that Croatia – the country I was born in, which had become independent of the former Jugoslavija just a few years earlier – had ever qualified for the World Cup, and they came a surprising third, beating Holland, Germany and other footballing super powers along the way. It was a very proud moment. PLUS Ricky Martin is way hotttt!!!
New Order – ‘World In Motion’
Although I vaguely remember the 1986 Mexico World Cup it wasn’t until the Italia 1990 World Cup that I understood what was actually going on. The big deal that year was that Germany was playing as a divided team of West and East for the last time – cos the Berlin wall had fallen and reunification was in the process of occurring. I also remember watching England have their asses handed to them in a penalty shootout in the semi finals – and it’s still a moment in footballing history that English people are sore about. And to be honest at the time I was a kid and so didn’t pay too much attention to this song and video, so it wasn’t until I moved to England some 12 years later (where I watched the 2002 Korea Japan World Cup) and the country was still singing this song that I fully understood the cultural significance of it. Not only is it awesome cos it’s a New Order track but the most especially awesome part is England (via Jamaica) legend John Barnes’ rap toward the end of the song!! Legendary!
Rocky Orchestra – ‘Gonna Fly Now’ (Original Rocky Theme)
Everyone always thinks that the Rocky theme is Survivor’s ‘Eye Of The Tiger’. As a MASSIVE Rocky fan I gotta make the correction… As all time awesome that song is, it has NOTHING on the funk grooves and horns of the actual theme ‘Gonna Fly Now’ by Rocky Orchestra. And when paired with footage from the movie itself is some inspiring shit!! It just makes you wanna switch Foxtel off, get off the couch, strap a log to your waist, run some miles through the mud, and hit that brick-laden punching like there’s no tomorrow!!! The song that champions listen to!
