Following on from his appearances on XFM Manchester, there'll be many more opportunities to catch City busker Alan Bates along with our other musical Blues in the coming weeks.

Alan is one of eight acts who successfully auditioned and made it through our rigorous Busking For City competition last September who fans have regularly enjoyed as part of the pre game build up at CoMS on matchdays.

We've been informed that Alan's recent radio appearances have caused such a reaction that listeners may be treated to his inimitable ukelele stylings much more in coming weeks with talk of a regular round-up of the weekend's football action set to music in the pipeline.

If you're coming to tomorrow night's game, be sure to check out our other City buskers playing outside the stadium including the excellent Mathew Hibbert and Paul Hesketh from local indie rock outfit, The Reveres.

You can hear more from Alan on his MySpace page and watch an epic video tracing his recent rise to local stardom here.