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Fatboy Slim Last time in Seville: First time!

Venue

Plaza de España

Av. Isabel la Católica, 41004, Seville, Spain

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Fatboy Slim biography

Fatboy Slim (born 16 July, 1963) - aka Norman Quentin Cook - is an English musician/ DJ/ rapper and record producer from Surrey.

He started out in a band called "Disque Attack" as the drummer, which was very much a new wave rock band. At 18, Cook went to University to study British Studies. During this time he began DJing on the Brighton club scene.

He had his first solo hit in 1989 called "Blame It on the Bassline", which featured the future Beats International member MC Wildski. It reached 29 on the UK Singles Chart.

In 1996 Cook first took on his Fatboy Slim persona. His first album as Fatboy Slim and second solo album was called "Better living Through Chemistry", which was released with Skint Records. It had the Top 40 UK hit single "Everybody Needs a 303".

In 2000 he released his third studio album called "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars", which also became an award winning video. The following year Fatboy Slim won six awards for "Weapon of Choice", which was the most awards won at the ceremony that year.

Cook also produced the single "Mama Do the Hump" for Rizzle Kicks, which got to number two on the charts. He also reached number 3 in the UK charts with his single "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat" in 2013.That same year he performed at one of the open air concerts on Brighton Beach, in front of over 250,000 people.

On 6th March 2013, Fatboy Slim performed at the House of Commons in London for the first time, in aid of the Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Foundation. And in May 2014 he played in Essex at the We Are FSTVL, playing for nearly two hours, the biggest act at the event.

Cook was also awarded a star on the City of Brighton's version of the Walk of Fame alongside Winston Churchill.

Live reviews

Whilst his commercial heyday is likely behind him at this point - if you think about it, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby basically soundtracked the late nineties - Fatboy Slim remains a compelling live prospect. After all, he’s a DJ by trade, not a recording artist, and his ability behind the decks means that the stage has clearly trumped the studio for him this past decade (not allowing for Here Lies Love, a bizarre concept album with David Byrne about Imelda Marcos, there hasn’t been a Fatboy Slim album since Palookaville way back in 2004). Harking back to an earlier era of EDM, Fatboy - or Norman Cook, when he’s at home - has been focusing primarily on techno in his recent sets; his steadfast refusal to yield to current, dubstep-flavoured trends is admirable. Indeed, anybody suggesting that techno is dead should see the size of the crowd he commanded at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami just last summer; only a choppy remix of Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ alluded to the present-day. He closed, too, with a reworked version of his classic ‘Praise You’; perhaps a nod that he’s set to move back towards his Big Beat days. After all, as Jeremy from Peep Show once so nobly put it: “Big Beats are the best, get high all the time.”

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