Friday night around Australia, and around the world, Norman Cook a.k.a. Fatboy Slim will be hosting an event being promoted as the “biggest cinema dance party in the world” as his Big Beach Bootique concert is shown in 800 cinemas around the world, for one night only.
Cook says the one-off aspect will help audiences “get a little bit of the feeling of collective euphoria that you would at a show, as opposed to turning up on the Tuesday matinee and there’s only four of you in there. We are trying to sort of recreate the effect of being there with a lot of drunk people, which we find as a form of collective euphoria works quite well.”
As such Cook recommends swapping the popcorn for a drink or two. “We are encouraging people obviously to have a few drinks before you go,” he says. “I’m not saying you have to be drunk to enjoy it, it just heightens it I find. I’ve researched it over many years and I find that dance music is enhanced once you’ve had a few drinks and you share it collectively with a load of people in the same state.”
So what can audiences expect? “I’ll be honest, I’m quite aware of the limitations of a DJ show,” Cook admits. “It’s not like watching a Coldplay gig or some singer you really love or a heavy metal band that are running from one end of the stage to the other and doing drum solos upside down. DJing is something that you have to kind of be there.
“I’m not sure that unless it was a really big like an event on Brighton beach or a gig in a football stadium that I’d want to go to the cinema to watch a DJ play for an hour and a half. I’m essentially a VJ. We burn visuals that sync with the records I play, no matter what speed or order I play them in, and which we can then project on enormous LED screens.
Of course the event, which proudly proclaims to be “live from the Big Beach Bootique” isn’t beaming directly. It was recorded, edited and will now be projected as live. “I actually had an issue with them putting ‘live’ on the posters,” Cook says. “I managed to make it smaller, but I couldn’t get it removed.
“No, it’s not a live performance. It’s a DJ who is mixing live, but I’m not trying to fool anyone that it’s a live performance. ‘Alive’ would be a better description.”
It’s not just Cook who will be seen “alive.” He describes the film as “an audiovisual assault basically” with the trailer promising a wealth of video effects plus healthy coverage of the audience as well.
“Whilst doing research I watched the Brazilian one we made,” Cook says, “and compared to Brazilian crowds, our English crowds are a bunch of mingers! Obviously every camera man will always focus on the pretty girls dancing and there’s a token shot of two girls snogging at one point. It’s just part and parcel of the glamorous dance culture. But there’s some quite ugly mingery in there too!”
“It’s mainly a performance. The stars of the show are the visuals and the crowd. The crowd are pretty fruity. We haven’t tried to sex it up too much. It’s warts and all English rave culture done in a football stadium and all that goes with it. Even to the fact that it rained for the first fifteen minutes of the set.”
Cook was most recently seen by Australian audiences as one of the performers at the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, so the audience at this event isn’t quite that big.
“It’s not the biggest show I’ve ever done in my career in numbers of people attending,” he admits. “But it is the biggest show I’ve done in terms of spectacle.”
And like that ceremony, the selection of music will be vast and varied. “It’s absolutely everything,” Cook says. “I don’t think I play any of my tracks in their original form in their entirety but there’s references to all my hits. My career now is as a DJ I don’t travel round promoting my tunes and boring people with it. I describe my style as tough but fair. You’ll get some quite dirty acid house but then all of a sudden Adele will pop up or Freddy Mercury will start singing Bohemian Rhapsody so its accessible but quite dirty at the same time.”
There will be one disappointment out of the event however.
“I’m sorry,” says Cook, “the only bad thing about doing 800 premieres around the world is that I won’t be able to attend it. I do apologise for that.”
Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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LMAO - I've always said that no sober person would pay to watch a DJ... 
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhWZTSyD ... re=related
If you can't do this. You ain't shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ5H9Av6 ... re=related
More you can't do.
yrs,
rubato
If you can't do this. You ain't shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ5H9Av6 ... re=related
More you can't do.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
I've always preferred this guy's stuff. Fatboy slim is always a bit too mainstream for me...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
Right, that's true funk, but;rubato wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhWZTSyD ... re=related
If you can't do this. You ain't shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ5H9Av6 ... re=related
More you can't do.
yrs,
rubato
First YouTube comment;look for funk today, you will find the biggest shit of all time :/
Wesley Rios1 week ago 26
Re: Check it out now, the funk soul brother!
The latest trend in dance music; Indie dance/nu disco
This (to me) sounds like 'Dark Side of the Moon' Pink Floyd being gently un-Oxfordised by Peter Tosh.
This (to me) sounds like 'Dark Side of the Moon' Pink Floyd being gently un-Oxfordised by Peter Tosh.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”