Fatboy Slim announces 2022 headline Belfast show
The SSE Arena will be bouncing! 🙌
Last updated 20th Sep 2021
One of dance music’s most iconic figures has announced a headline show at the SSE Arena, Belfast on 18th March 2022.
Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim is renowned as one of the most influential DJ/producers of all time.
His litany of ’90s and ’00s hits opened the door for electronic music as a mainstream phenomenon and we are delighted to have him return to Belfast.
He started DJ-ing over forty years ago. Although everything has changed a thousand times over since then, in the most important ways nothing has. “That’s what drives me, keeps my thirst for it – the power of the collective unity and community that a shared musical experience can have” .
When he prepares to DJ, there are visible signs that a transformation is taking place. Most notably, he puts on a Hawaiian shirt, removes his footwear, and then his tour manager slaps him on both cheeks. Slaps him hard.
All of these are part of the same process. “It’s telling myself, and everybody, that I’m not Norman anymore, I’m Fatboy. It may be a superstition, but it’s a reminder to myself: when I’ve got my shirt on, I have to give it my all as a performer and a showman and, you know, as a professional idiot. And when I haven’t got the shirt on, I have to concentrate on being a functional father and a human being”.
His life and career has taken many turns, travelled down many unexpected by-ways, but over time it has become clearer to him what lies at its centre: “Everything I do revolves around being a DJ. Over the years I’ve dabbled with being a songwriter, a bassist, a pop star, and I occasionally remix and I occasionally produce . I occasionally curate art . I occasionally curate film soundtracks . But it all revolves around being a DJ.”
How to get tickets:
Tickets go on sale Friday 24th September at 9am from ticketmaster.ie
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