Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, has a new mantra. Where once it was “eat, sleep, rave, repeat”, the dance floor maestro now has a sticky note with “dancing, community, joy, connection, solidarity” written on it.
“That’s what somebody wrote to me after a big arena gig,” he explains to WHO over a Zoom chat. “I thought that was just the review of the gig, but that’s become my new mantra and that’s my purpose in life, to engender those things.”
While he may have a new motto to live by, the 59-year-old has lost none of his love of DJing, of holding a crowd – whether it’s big or small – in the palm of his hand, like the