TIM Farriss, the INXS guitarist will be invested as the West Sydney Razorback's No 1 ticket holder in the inaugural NBL home game tonight. The rock n' roll icon will be presented with the No 1 singlet at half time against the Victoria Titans at the Whitlam Centre, Liverpool.
And if the home crowd are pumped to the NBL's new season theme song Nothin' Better, they can thank Farriss. He wrote and composed it. Farriss, who took time out from a recording session yesterday to catch up with Razorback's Bruce Bolden and John Rillie, has been a basketball tragic for ages. "I used to go to Kings games quite a lot, but I always really thought there should be another team in Sydney," Farriss said.
"So when I heard about the Razorbacks, and saw the kind of team they recruited, I thought: 'That's me! I'll follow these guys.' I made a comment about following the Razorbacks in an interview on ABC TV, the club contacted me and asked if I'd be the No 1 ticket holder."
Farriss revealed that he had once thought about investing in a second NBL franchise in Sydney. "A couple of years back I almost put some money into a second team. It didn't work out at the time, but it's something I always thought would succeed. I guess that's one of the reasons I'm a Razorbacks supporter."
Farriss, Rillie and Bolden spent the whole photo shoot talking enthusiastically about sport in general and the exciting young Razorback's in particular. Asked how he came to pen the NBA's theme song, Farriss explained: "It honestly started just from talking to a guy in a bar in Melbourne. I was down there checking out some studio facilities. In the bar at the hotel, I was staying in I met this guy, he told me he had this project going. I said I was interested and it went from there. I'd been following the NBL way before that, though."