Ten years on from the first time James Watts picked up a microphone in his mates bedroom we now see MC Wotsee as one of the biggest ever Welsh Underground music acts and one of the biggest names worldwide in the Hardcore scene. James who hails from Lliswerry in Newport has had a rollercoaster ride over the last decade but looking back on it the success he has had has shown what you can achieve with hard work,dedication and a will never to give up.

From making two years of demo’s and doing the occasional Inside Beat radio show it was then when MC Wotsee made his official club debut at The Jailhouse in Hereford in March 2000 when he had a ten minute trial for DJ Frooty’s set. In 2000 and 2001 MC Wotsee worked week in week out with DJ Dodgee and the Welsh duo made themselves a big name all across the country with the highlight oftheir partnership before going there own ways being Compulsion at Bowlers in Manchester.

MC Wotsee overnight became the fastest rising star the scene had ever seen as with 18 months of his first ever night club set he had played at every major event in the UK and his name wasspreading at an alarming rate. From this though James for a few years seen hiscareer go up and down but was always rated very highly by thousands of people who believed in what he was doing.

The year 2004 was the first year that James got major recognition for all of his efforts in the Hardcore scene as he was awarded “Breakthrough MC 2004” at the Hardcore Heaven Awards. This award basically seen a huge rise in James’s bookings for the remainder of thatyear and he ended the year with three bookings on New Years Eve which showedthat the momentum behind MC Wotsee was getting more intense by the week.

The following year started in tragic circumstances as James was involved in a serious car accident. After being in hospital for a week fighting for his life James was sent home to aid his recovery. After spending eight weeks in a solid body cast as well as visiting visual and ankle specialists along with treating an 8 inch cut on his head it was in April that James was allowed to go back onthe stage with the full blessing of the doctors to once again try and get his career back on track.

After a year of recovery James believed that he really needed to step up his game later on in 2006 so that is what he started to try and do. Always seen to be the MC in the shadows of the big names but still in his own league it came to the stage where James needed to come up with loads of new lyrics, a new style and become much thinner and faster on stage and very soon a lot of people started to get behind it.

The year 2007 seen James push his two massive events in Wales which are Atomic and Hardcore Evolution but keep onstepping up his MC’ing to a level that had not been seen before and as the year ended the name MC Wotsee has to be by far the biggest that it has ever been.Atomic has been Newport’s biggest event for a long time and Hardcore Evolution put on a number of super huge nights at Evolution in Cardiff with twice the night pulling well over 1500 ravers. Wotsee’s radio show with Denzo in 2007also became the biggest the scene has ever had averaging 120 every week. 

So what does James Watts or MC Wotsee want to achieve in the future. He says that he wants to be the best MC in the scene and he wants to produce a number of new tracks and take Welshdance events further and further in the next few years.

Watch this space!!!!