Find a job you love doing, the adage goes, and you’ll never work another day in your life. By that reckoning Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, hasn’t worked a day in the past two and a half decades.
Because, let’s be clear about this, he absolutely bloody loves doing what he does. His fellow late-90s musical juggernaut Noel Gallagher uses the expression “having it right off” to signify going out and having a rollicking good time and for two hours on a spring Friday night in Cardiff a patterned-shirted (what else?) Cook led thousands of people in very much having it right off – almost taking the roof of Cardiff International Arena off in the process.
Everything is good – from an invigorating opening with a sample of Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now to a drop of the Bee Gees and a bum-bouncing blast of Los Del Rio (you know every beat - Google it).
