Fatboy Slim 2025

Iconic party-starter Fatboy Slim returns to Australia for his BIGGEST EVER TOUR with very special guests DJ Seinfeld, CC:DISCO! and Jennifer Loveless.

Norman Cook wasn't the most obvious candidate to become the preeminent UK rave breakout star of the '90s — in the previous decade, the London native had served as bassist for indie-pop melody makers The Housemartins. However, like many Brits of his generation, Cook was drawn to the dance floor in the late '80s, making his initial forays into club music with the dubby hip-hop soul crew Beats International. After cycling through a number of other dance-oriented projects (Freak Power, Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz), Cook rebranded himself as Fatboy Slim in 1996, fusing his loves of '60s go-go music, hip-hop breaks, rock ‘n' roll crunch and acid-house freakiness into the adrenalized, earthquaking sound that became known as big beat. Alongside peers like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim was among the wave of Brits that brought electronica crashing onto American shores in the late '90s, thanks to era-defining jams like the surf-tinged rave-up "The Rockafeller Skank" and the gospel-blessed "Praise You" (whose DIY Spike Jonze–directed video was inescapable on MTV in 1999). Following 2000's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars — which earned a Best Music Video Grammy for the wild, Christopher Walken–starring clip for "Weapon of Choice" — Fatboy Slim's output has turned more sporadic. But Cook has stayed in the spotlight through collaborations with David Byrne (as The Brighton Port Authority) and various one-off singles, and he's remained a fixture on festival stages with his reliably bonkers live spectacle.