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ARTICLEJamie Webster's 10 Firsts For The People
We sat down with Liverpudlian Jamie Webster ahead of his latest album release, 10 For The People, to find out all about his LFC & Musical Firsts!
Ahead of Jamie Webster's latest album release, 10 For The People, LFC Official Membership sat down with Jamie for a series of EXCLUSIVE Member's Area interviews!
Keep your eyes posted to Member's Area over the next few weeks for more content with Jamie in the build up to his Album release, where he is hoping to achieve the feat of Number 1 Album. You can pre order his album using the link below, to help make that feat possible!
FIRST KIT
I just remember it being a Reebok one, it was pre Emile Heskey cause I remember that one was when we won the Treble. This one had Carlsberg on the front with a nice white collar, but I always remember it looked dead baggy on the players when they were playing.
I think I had Michael Owen on the back of that one. He was who I wanted to be growing up. He was living the dream, upfront wearing number 10 for Liverpool!
FIRST LFC HEARTBREAK
Well that brings us on to my first heartbreak. When Owen went to Real Madrid in 2004. I was 10 or 11. Nothing hurt me as much as that. Only probably Torres leaving us for Chelsea comes close. Wow.
I don’t think I’ll ever forgive Owen for going to Man United but I think I can probably forgive Torres for going to Chelsea looking back at it now. The club was in a different place with different people. I’ll never be too bitter about him going when he did, because we ended up with Suarez, but it would’ve been nice to see how that would’ve ended up having the pair of them together if he would've stuck it out
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FIRST ANFIELD GAME
My first game was Valencia in a pre season friendly. We got beat 2-0. I was about 3 or 4. I just remembering loving the noise and the colours round me but after about 20 minutes it started to ware off.
I think my dad was annoyed cause I said can we get off. So not the best introduction to Anfield like but yeah that was my first game!
FIRST MUSIC HERO
Well it’s mad. The first band who got me into music was Oasis, but they were never my heroes because they were from Manchester & City fans.
The first real hero I had who made me think I could probably do something in music was Bob Dylan. My mate played the song, Hurricane, to me and it resonated with me so much. In that song he used his platform to shed light on someone else’s plight & standing up for what he believed was right. This is what I try to do with my music now.
That is honestly what give me the belief to say I can do what I do now. He wasn’t the greatest singer but his songs & what he was about made him special.
I actually use to force one of Bob's songs into my Liverpool sets. The Kop used to sing it about 'The Crazy Horse', Emlyn Hughes, One of our most prestigious captains. I would always sing it and it would always be one for anyone who was a bit older. I guess it would take them back to them times when he was lifting the European Cup.
FIRST LFC HERO
I know I said about Michael Owen earlier on but I would say it would be between him, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. The 4 of them being local lads, well sort of in Owen's case being from Chester. But they were local lads who knew what it meant to play for Liverpool.
If I had to pick one though, I'd probably have to go with Carra. He was called Jamie, I was called Jamie. The older I got the more I resonated with him.He wasn’t the most technically gifted and as a kid I definitely wasn’t the most technically gifted but the last ditch tackles, reading of the game, communication that was all things I tried to do modelled off him as a kid playing footy myself.
He will probably slap me for saying about him not being technically gifted, as I know him quite well now, but he really was everything you wanted from a Liverpool player. He was who I identified with most. So yeah, I’d go with Jamie.
FIRST MERSEYSIDE DERBY
Most of them were boring draws early on to be honest but one of the first ones I remember going to properly was when Gerrard & Everton's James Beattie had 08 instead of 8 on their shirts for The European Capital of Culture.
It was a mad game. Gerrard got sent off and I remember the Evertonian's celebrating like they’d just scored a goal. Phil Neville went and scored an own goal & then they got someone sent off. We won 3-1. Garcia & Kewell got the other two. A great day.
Another one I remember watching when Kewell scored, is when we won 3-0 at Goodison against them. Harry Kewell looked like the best player in the world that day it filled me with a load of optimism for how good he could be, but I just think it wasn’t to be for him at Liverpool.
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FIRST CONCERT
The first concert I ever went was Snow Patrol in the Echo Arena when it had just first opened , I went with my mum. I was only about 11 or 12. I never imagined I’d be doing the same thing one day.
Run by Snow Patrol was a song me and my mum always liked, and it’s funny because it’s come full circle on this album because one of the songs, Voice of the Voiceless, I wrote that with the same writer who wrote Run for Snow Patrol.
My mum was the reason I started playing the Guitar. She was gutted she never learnt to play an instrument early enough. So the first guitar I had was me mums old Guitar. The strings were dead hard, dead old and dead rusted, so I ended up getting one with nylon strings & having a few lessons & here I am now on my third album!
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Watch on YouTubeFIRST PAIR OF BOOTS
It would've been a pair of Preds (Adidas Predators) I think everyone had them cause of Stevie G didn't they? Simple answer like but yeah! I use to love playing in them. Running round making tackles thinking I was like him.
I'll be honest though, I remember buying myself a pair of Nike Vapours that Cristiano Ronaldo had, because I wanted to start playing on the wing. Silver ones. Safe to say I went back to right back after one game in them.
FIRST AWAY GAME
I went a few away games with my dad as a kid, but I started going properly with the lads on the coach when I was about 16/17. I think the first one was Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. We got beat 3-1. We was in a bad spell. Terrible!
I remember going back there the next time when we won, Andy Carroll scored a header, we won 3-2. Doni got himself sent off. It was mad because Pepe Reina couldn't play, that's why Doni was in goal in the first place.
Our third choice keeper Brad Jones had to go in goal. He come on & saved a pen straight away. He played at Wembley the next game when we beat Everton. Andy Carroll last minute header again. I remember feeling like I was nearly getting pushed on the pitch at Wembley celebrating when he scored that!
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FIRST TIME YOU HEARD YOUR SONG AT ANFIELD
I remember before the City game Allez Allez Allez got played. Anfield ended up signing for the full 90 minutes. It was a proud moment because obviously it had been started getting sung round in the pubs and stuff but to hear it at Anfield was something else.
I had people coming up to me after the game saying ‘you helped us win that game tonight lad'. I think in some ways it helped get us over the line like at that time, a boss 3-0 win and boss run of games.
I remember feeling like I had played a little part of it. I felt a little bit embarrassed when I heard my name announced on the PA, I put my head down to the ground where I sit in the Kenny Dalglish Stand but I was proper buzzing inside when it happened.