Marc Kenny is a producer and musician from Merseyside who has managed to combine his music career and his love of the Reds to lead an exciting life in Liverpool.
You’ve probably heard some of the music Marc has helped create.
Having produced songs such as Egypt King (the Mo Salah song) and released his own album in 2022, Put Your Favorite Face On, he has become well known on the Liverpool music scene and among fans of the football club.
We caught up with him to find out more about his life as a Liverpool fan.
I started supporting Liverpool because…
I’m from a family of Reds, so I never had a doubt who I supported. My first real memory of LFC was when I was about five and we were returning from living in Australia.
I wanted to bring back a Perth Eagles jersey as that was where we lived at the time. My dad didn’t let me, saying that we have the best team in the world and that I don’t need any other shirt than the red one. He was right!
My first game was…
A 2-1 win against Luton Town in January 1992: a Nick Tanner own goal gave Luton the lead and then Steve McManaman and Dean Saunders rescued the points for Liverpool.
To be honest, I don’t remember much about the game, but the crowd noise is something you don’t appreciate when watching the game on TV.
I think that’s the biggest thing that stuck with me, the noise level inside Anfield.
My favorite season supporting Liverpool has been…
It’s a difficult question as I’ve been lucky enough to remember some of the glories of the late 80s and early 90s, the 2001 treble, the miracle of Istanbul and our resurgence under Jurgen Klopp.
I think I would have to go for a more recent season, 2018/19, for the obvious reason of the Champions League, but more because of the football we were playing: fluid attack with Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino. .
Alisson had just signed in the summer and Virgil van Dijk joined in January; We won the Champions League at the end of the season and that set us up for our first Premier League title next season. It was just an incredible time to be red.
Marc produced the music for this fantastic video.
How has your musical career been intertwined with LFC?
I’ve always been singing during Liverpool matches, usually in a local pub where I’d be put on after the match to get the crowd to stay for a few drinks – songs like Fields of Anfield Road, Poor Scouser Tommy and You. I will never walk alone.
Lately, however, there have been more and more songs, to the point that there is now almost one for every performer, some of which I have released myself.
I originally started working on some legends quiz shows where I would play a few songs here and there, which eventually led to me doing my own shows and organizing fan events around the world.
I enjoyed every second of it and consider myself incredibly lucky that my two biggest passions, Liverpool FC and music, go hand in hand.
Any famous faces you’ve met or any football stories?
I work with a team of Reds who organize our own fan events called KopConnect.
We do this quite regularly in Canada and the United States, so I spend quite a bit of time with a lot of the former players involved in them, like Bruce Grobbelaar, Phil Thompson and Roy Evans etc.
However, last year I was lucky enough to work with Van Dijk and Luis García for a Carlsberg promotion, and I will never forget the presentation of the great Virg.
The room was lively with everyone chatting, but it fell silent very quickly when we found out that Virgil was coming down. The silence of the room was broken by a huge scream that stopped everyone in their tracks.
This was followed by Virgil poking his head through a curtain asking why everyone is so quiet. He really broke the ice and the nerves that people had working with him.
After filming, he asked me to play a song he had made for Joel Matip and recorded on his phone to show him. Virgil is a fun guy, incredibly charismatic and as easy-going as you want!
If you could go back to any game and relive it, what would it be?
Corner taken quickly… Origi! That night against Barcelona at Anfield.
We should have known there was a sense of inevitability when Salah turned up in his ‘Never Give Up’ shirt, but we all knew it would take another miraculous night at Anfield.
We had a three-goal deficit to make up without our star player and top scorer, but when the odds are against us, that’s when we see the best of this club.
Thanks to Marc Kenny for taking part in our My Liverpool Life series. You can listen to Marc’s album, Pon Tu Cara Favorita, here.
