Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim, born Norman Cook in Bromley, is the rare DJ who became a household name without losing his grin or his nerve. Before the global chaos, he was in The Housemartins — earnest indie lads with jangly guitars. Then he swapped politeness for punch.

In the late ’90s he helped drag electronic music into the mainstream with blunt, hook-heavy tracks that felt less like club filler and more like pop songs with teeth. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby turned him into a headline act, not just a bloke behind decks. Brighton Beach crowds in the hundreds of thousands proved he wasn’t a studio fluke.

Cook’s appeal is simple: big tunes, sharp humour, zero mystique. No tortured-artist routine, no posturing — just a man who knows exactly how to make a room move and isn’t precious about it.