It has been revealed that house and techno heavyweight DJ Tennis has finally admitted that his name is “hilarious”, having been “defensive” about it for so long.
DJ Tennis, real name Manfredi Romano, the founder of Life and Death record label is said to have “accepted” he made a huge error when picking his musical alias, claiming “it’s too late to go back” but at least it gets people “interested in the sport”.
“I am Italian so I was a bit confused by the English translation,” Tennis told us. “In English you say you would like to watch ‘the tennis’. Whereas in Italian, we say we would like to watch ‘il tennis’. You can see where I came unstuck, right?”
“Part of me wishes I was called DJ Football or DJ Rugby, as they are popular sports, in which Italy are particularly good, and people would respect me a whole lot more but we do not have any good tennis players in Italy so I guess I am just a laughing stock.”
Wunderground asked Greg Oreck, of Thugfucker, what prompted Tennis to finally admit his name is funny, “We were in a restaurant last week and the waiter made a joke about serving some bread and Tennis lost the plot and smashed the place up,” said Oreck. “Over the years there have been jokes about his music being a bit of a racket, if his wife’s name is Anette and if love means anything to him. He never saw the funny side.”
“I encouraged him to get stoned and talk it through” continued Oreck. “After a couple of joints, he realised he has been uptight and moody and is now happy to laugh at himself. I think it’ll be really good for him. People always say that DJ’s complain a lot, well he was by far the worst because of that silly name. I mean come on, my musical alias is Thugfucker, that would definitely be the worst if Tennis wasn’t on the scene, it sounds like I go around sleeping with thugs, which I really don’t. I should thank him for keeping me out of the line of fire really.”
