Fatboy Slim
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Beats International are a Pop Group of Their Time
Report and Interview by John McCready, The Face, November 1990
...an indie star turned dance guru, a soap star turned singer, and a motley crew of British rappers, singers, musicians, graffiti artists and dancers passing ...
Fatboy Slim: The Norman Conquest
Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 19 April 1997
In the beginning, he was a Housemartin. In between, he's been Pizzaman and a Mighty Kat. Now he's FATBOY SLIM. But no matter what NORMAN ...
Report by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 30 April 1998
IS ELECTRONICA STILL THE NEXT BIG THING? AT THE WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE, IT'S ALL THAT AND MORE ...
Report by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 15 August 1998
When Radio 1 decamped to Ibiza for a weekend of daft dancing, super funky anthems and celebs behaving badly, it seemed only polite for NME to join them. ...
Fatboy Slim: You've Come A Long Way, Baby (Skint)
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 October 1998
Big beats, monster choons — Norman Cook refuses to alter a chart-busting formula, says Caroline Sullivan ...
Fatboy Slim: You've Come A Long Way, Baby (Skint)
Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 17 October 1998
A FEW SHORT years ago, Quentin 'Norman' Cook was staring poverty, divorce and imminent nervous breakdown in the face. Despite a string of inspired chart-pop ...
Fatboy Slim: You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 1998
Former Housemartin turns Big Beat pioneer ...
Profile and Interview by David Bennun, The Guardian, 12 February 1999
At his lowest ebb, Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, nearly jacked it in to be a fireman. Now he's a chart-topper with a clutch of ...
Big Beat: Dance Music From England With a Dark Side
Report by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 7 March 1999
BIG BEAT, a boisterous hybrid of hip-hop and house music, is currently the most popular dance style in Britain. ...
Fatboy Slim: Funk Sold Brother
Report by Marc Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 1 April 1999
With help from Nike, Miramax and TV Guide, Fatboy Slim puts some Rockafeller in his skank ...
Electronica Goes Straight To Ubiquity
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 6 June 1999
THE USUAL trajectory for a new form of pop music is from underground sound to mainstream omnipresence, followed by eventual banalization as the style filters ...
Fatboy Slim Vs Armand Van Helden: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 26 June 1999
SATURDAY FiGHT FEVER! ...
Clubs: USA Special! America: What Time Is Love?
Report by Bill Brewster, The Face, September 2000
Dance music conquers America! Yes, really, this time! Bill Brewster on how Sasha, Oakie and Fatboy Slim are taking on the last bastion of rock'n'roll ...
The BACKPAGES interview: Fatboy Slim
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 12 November 2000
When Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook exploded on the world’s dancefloors with ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ and ‘Praise You’, he brought a sense of brash, manic fun ...
Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
Review by Simon Reynolds, The Village Voice, 15 November 2000
FEATURING SAMPLES from a bootleg album of the Lizard King's poetry, Fatboy Slim's new single 'Sunset (Bird of Prey)' isn't the first time Jim Morrison's ...
Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, December 2000
Can't Cook, Won't Cook: Macy Gray guest slot aside, disappointing follow-up to You've Come A Long Way, Baby ...
Fatboy Slim: He's Having A Ball!
Profile and Interview by David Quantick, Q, December 2000
No more doing cocaine off the London to Brighton line, but life is still sweet for the compulsive DJ, celebrity spouse and "geeky, nerdy, baldy ...
Fatboy Slim Must Die: A Night with Norman Cook
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Revolver, Winter 2000
ON THE stroke of midnight, at an uber-groovy establishment in lower midtown Manhattan, an elongated 37-year-old Englishman is heading off to work. Or rather: easing ...
Interview by Ian Watson, The Evening Standard, September 2001
THE INSTRUCTIONS are clear but minimal. Get to Ibiza Town and wait for an email with a mobile phone number. Try the number just after ...
A Conversation With Norman Cook
Interview by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, 1 September 2003
EARLIER THIS YEAR I e-mailed Norman Cook via Skint Records, telling him about the electrofunkroots project and my intention to document the early 80's period ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Rolling Stone (Australia), August 2004
NOT FOR the first time in the last few years, Norman Cook looks nervous. He fiddles with a roll of black gaffer tape, keeping his ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2006
THE SUN DECK of Norman Cook's seafront Brighton home juts out over a stony stretch of supposedly private beach. But it is not that private, ...
Fatboy Slim: Why Try Harder – The Greatest Hits
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, June 2006
AS NATIONAL institutions go, few are as loved as Norman Cook. Taken to the nation's heart as much for the not-afraid-to-make-a-fool-of-himself attitude of his Hawaiian ...
Fatboy Slim's cooking up another monster festival by Loch Ness
Report and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 1 February 2008
HE IS THE original funk soul brother and superstar DJ, the presiding expert in showing dance-floor filling crowds the world over how to have it ...
Superstar DJs: Here We Go! by Dom Phillips
Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 1 March 2009
They're mostly gone now, but back in the 1990s Britain's superjocks could coin thousands for a single night. A lucid history charts their excesses ...
see also Beats International
see also Norman Cook
see also Housemartins, The
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