Music | DJ Fatboy Slim to perform at Pacha, reveals his 5 F’s

British DJ Fatboy Slim, who is set to rock the stage on Friday at Pacha Macau, has indeed built the foundation for the rise of electronic dance music.
The DJ superstar, born Norman Cook, came to fame through a northern indie pop band, The Housemartines, in the mid-1980s. The band’s songs such as Happy Hour and Caravan of Love were music chart-toppers three decades ago.
Cook, now in his early 50s, took to DJing small venues including Brighton’s pioneering seafront club the Escape, after the indie band dissolved at the end of the 1980s.
Cook then entered charts through the band Beats International, who had a massive hit with “Dub be Good to Me,” which drew heavily on the SOS Band’s early-‘80s space-funk banger “Just Be Good To Me.”
Speaking to Scotland’s Daily Record last month, Cook emphasized that it has always been his passion to share music with other people.
“I genuinely love music and love sharing it with people – the sheer pleasure of finding tunes you love and sharing them with other people,’’ he said.
“Just seeing those faces and eyes going, ‘Wow, this is the greatest night ever, how mental is this?’ Being part of that every night keeps me young. I’m like a vampire. My secret of eternal youth isn’t sucking the blood of teenagers, it’s just absorbing their sweat.”
The renowned dance music pioneer had undergone rehabilitation for alcoholism. He currently dictates the terms of his gigs so that they suit his needs.
“Gigs have to fulfill three of the five Fs: a first – something I’ve never done before. A favor for a friend, whether a promoter or another DJ. Fun – Glastonbury is always fun. Finance – it’s a big payer. And food,” the superstar said.
“I’ve booked gigs in certain places just so I can go to certain restaurants. I played in Barcelona so I could go to El Bulli. That was my rider. We did the same with Noma in Copenhagen.”
Cook also revealed that he is increasingly focused on being a responsible dad and husband and only lets Fatboy out of the box on stage. “Fatboy’s still a lunatic hedonist,” he concluded.