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Arlo Parks, Laurent Garnier, Honey Dijon, Franc Moody and Todd Terry and more will now join the previously announced The Chemical Brothers, Christine and the Queens, and Fatboy Slim.The festival, which takes place Thursday August 3 to Sunday August 6, 2023 at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire has also added Joesef, GoGo Penguin and Flyte to the bill.Other previously announced acts include Sugababes and Confidence Man, alongside comedy, spoken word, film screens, Q&As, panels, dance performances and more.Speakers so far include the likes of Sara Pascoe, Elizabeth Day, Munroe Bergdorf and more. Check out the poster below to see the full line-up so far.Tickets for Wilderness 2023 are on sale here now.The stars are aligning, prepare for the wildest Wilderness yet! A glorious array of talent has just joined our transcendental Twelfth Season.

Fatboy Slim has shared an anecdote from his time living next door to Paul McCartney, joking that it was “bizarre” because of his fandom for The Beatles.Slim (aka Norman Cook) recently caught up with NME to appear in the column Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! For the chat, he was quizzed on various happenings from throughout his own career – he forgot that Arctic Monkeys covered ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ at their first-ever gig, and that he produced the Blur song ‘Gene By Gene’, but did correctly recall that he once snorted cocaine off the London-to-Brighton train line.McCartney came up in a conversation about Cook’s infamous 2002 gig at Brighton Beach, where he performed for over 250,000 concertgoers. The show itself drew controversy after one attendee died, more than 100 more were injured, and several were rescued unconscious from the seashore.

Fatboy Slim has announced details of a 2023 UK tour, dubbed ‘Y’all Are The Music, We’re Just The DJ’s’ – get your tickets here.The new run of dates come on the back of Norman Cook’s new album ‘Right Here, Right Then’, which came out earlier this month (September 2).Across March next year, he’ll play 11 dates across the UK including a pair of shows at London’s famous Brixton Academy.In a statement, Fatboy Slim said: “Coming out of COVID I have played many different types of shows from arenas to the Gas tower at Glastonbury and i just find the closer I am to the audience the more I love it… this is what this tour brings.”Tickets for the new shows go on sale next Friday (September 23) and you can buy yours here.See the full list of dates below:MARCH 20232 – Newcastle, O2 City Hall3 – Birmingham, O2 Academy 4 – Birmingham, O2 Academy 9 – Edinburgh, O2 Academy 10 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse 11 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse 15 – Brighton, Centre17 – London, O2 Academy Brixton18 – London, O2 Academy Brixton24 – Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena25 – Bournemouth, International CentreTime to get some fun in the diary for next year…Register now for early access to tickets for my March 2023 UK tour.https://t.co/oQ6PeIlEVeY’all are the music. We’re just the DJs pic.twitter.com/ZWYqjp6VR6— Fatboy Slim (@FatboySlim) September 16, 2022Last year, Fatboy Slim DJ’d at the COVID-19 pilot clubbing event in Liverpool.

This story contains discussion and descriptions of sexual assaultFatboy Slim has recalled the “terrifying” moment a van drove into the audience during his set at Woodstock 1999.The DJ and producer looked back on the incident during an interview for the three-part Netflix documentary series Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, which was released yesterday (August 3).“Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its ’99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?” an official listing reads.As Mixmag notes, the 30th anniversary edition of the event, which had an estimated attendance of 400,000, failed to provide basic facilities such as water, food, toilets or on-site security.Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook) was booked to headline the ‘rave hangar’ on the Saturday night but was unaware of the out-of-control crowd that was heading towards the venue.“I’d been closeted in my dressing room all afternoon with people just going, ‘Oh it’s a bit chaotic out there’,” Cook remembered.

Creamfields North 2022 has been announced with Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Fatboy Slim and CamelPhat among the big names.The four-day event is due to take place over the August Bank Holiday weekend in Daresbury, Cheshire.Other names on the bill include Fatboy Slim, Martin Garrix, Bicep, Carl Cox and Becky Hill. Tickets are on sale here now and you can view the full line-up below.This year marks the 25th anniversary of the festival.

Glastonbury has announced the line-up for its Shangri-La area at this year’s festival, with the likes of Bob Vylan, Brass Against and Nova Twins set to perform.The bill continues to grow for the returning Worthy Farm festival, which will be held next month from June 22-26.Shangri-La, a popular live music and late-night area located in the south-east corner of the festival site, has now revealed its line-up and theme for 2022, ‘WE THE PEOPLE’.“Shangri-La 2022 presents: WE THE PEOPLE,” a statement on the festival’s site reads. “Community, collaboration and hope for the next generation.

Fatboy Slim, Romy and Mura Masa are among the leading names who have been announced on the 2022 line-up for Glastonbury‘s Silver Hayes area.The Worthy Farm festival is set to return this year from June 22-26, with Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar to headline the Pyramid Stage.The latest 2022 line-up announcement from Glastonbury has been made today (April 22) for the festival’s Silver Hayes area, which offers “the best names in electronic, R&B, bass, rap, drum & bass and dub music”.As well as Fatboy Slim, Romy and Mura Masa, the likes of Berwyn, Leon Vynehall, Bad Boy Chiller Crew, Sofia Kourtesis, India Jordan, Kojey Radical, ArrDee, Gorgon City, Groove Armada (DJ set), Lava La Rue, Logic1000, Nia Archives, Potter Payper and Shy FX are all set to play at Silver Hayes this year.You can check out the full music line-up for Glastonbury’s Silver Hayes area above.In a statement, Glastonbury confirmed that, this year, Silver Hayes will see “SONIC & WOW make a welcome return, whilst new additions come in the form of THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB – an art deco cinema structure standing over 40 foot high – and FIRMLY ROOTED, a space celebrating all things sound-system culture”. This latest line-up announcement follows on from Glastonbury confirming the bill for their Field Of Avalon area last week.

Biffy Clyro, Madness, Fatboy Slim and more for summer 2022.Snow Patrol will also play a set at the venue in Royal Highland Centre in June.

Creamfields South has announced the first wave of acts for next year’s event, including headliners David Guetta and Calvin Harris.The inaugural dance festival will take place at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex between June 2 and June 4, 2022.

Fatboy Slim, Honey Dijon, Maribou State and more.The Austrian festival will return to the slopes of Mayrhofen in April after a two-year enforced break due to the coronavirus pandemic.Snowbombing organisers had already confirmed the likes of Bicep, Camelphat, Andy C, Rudimental, Gorgon City, Eats Everything and more for the bill.

Fatboy Slim has revealed that he once almost gave up music in order to become a firefighter.The DJ – real name Norman Cook – says he remains a “wannabe fireman” but that he’s now too old to switch careers.During a speech at an event hosted by the Fire Fighters Charity (via PA), he said: “I have been in the music business pretty much all my life but there have been ups and downs and there was one particular down where everyone around was like, ‘You are going to have to actually get a proper job

coronavirus pandemic and promote the importance of electronic music within British culture continues.Launched back in July by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and the Association for Electronic Music (AFEM), the #LetUsDance campaign — which has the support of such artists as Fatboy Slim, Thom Yorke and Massive Attack — has already been successful in helping secure some government funding for the dance music sector in the UK.However, a number of significant dance and electronic music

Zoe Ball bid an emotional farewell to her son Woody as he began university in Bristol on Wednesday.The radio presenter, 49, was joined by her ex-husband Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, who she shares her son with, and she shared a slew of snaps from their trip after dropping him off.One snap saw Zoe put on an animated display as Woody smiled with glee and the DJ, 56, posed behind them, while another snap saw father and son pose together in what appeared to be his dorm in student halls.Zoe