The musician also known as Fatboy Slim is sharing his skills as part of an NHS initiative. He talks about the joy of decks, his own lockdown blues – and being reduced to tears by his kids’ DJing
ednesday lunchtime, and a restaurant on Hove seafront is being treated to a drum’n’ bass remix of Althea & Donna’s 1978 reggae hit Uptown Top Ranking. You could call the volume it’s playing at cutlery-rattling if there were any cutlery in the restaurant to rattle, but there isn’t.
“Natalie reached out to me, and it sounded interesting,” nods Cook. “It’s sort of life-affirming really, it’s good for me to see the people who’ve never touched a set of decks before going between two tracks and thinking: ‘Whoo!’ Sometimes I can get a bit blase about what I do for a job, and seeing that innocent joy about the way you can manipulate music: it’s exciting, it centres you, it gives you a nice warm feeling.
Like a lot of DJs, he posted weekly mixes online, “which kind of kept my mental health on track, and I had the summer off that I’d always promised myself. Then in the autumn, my son went off to university, and my daughter was back in school and the walls started to close in a bit.” Covid notwithstanding, Cook’s DJing career just seems to have steamrollered on at an arena-packing level, unaffected by changing times, tastes or indeed his decision to, more or less, stop making music of his own.that if his records stopped selling, he would “seriously consider packing it all in”, and proved true to his word after 2004’s Palookaville failed to match the platinum success of previous Fatboy Slim albums.
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