NORMAN COOK (aka FATBOY SLIM!) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, originally episode 268 from 2019-05-15.
Original writeup below:
“Fatboy Slim? Just a band…”
It’s so great when these music based episodes come around, especially when Pip has had previous dealings with the guest in question which is exactly the case with Norman. In fact you will hear the evidence of which at the very end of the podcast so keep that in the treat bank for now eh! A truly great chat with the two down on the coast in Norman’s Brighton home, where they catch up on all sorts covering the past, the present and the future of his career. As you’ll hear, it’s really quite a monumental career at that - indeed, he goes decades deeper than a few hit singles. From an early start with his band The Housemartins, he’s had more pseudonyms than Kool Keith and played to more people than - well, you name em… The very definition of a superstar DJ, let’s say! From some podcast chatter up top, to some light Millwall vs Brighton banter, to his early days in Reigate being a punk up against a sea of teddyboys, the homogeneity of culture these days, the relationship dynamics of being in a band, how he’s always been into indie and dance music when the two were not as mixed up as the present day, that insane Brighton beach show, collaborating with previous DPP guest Ryca, being very much in the public eye via his marriage to Zoe Ball and SO much brilliant music talk throughout. Immense! Listen and love!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, this is the distraction pieces rewind for Tis Friday. |
| 0:07.6 | We came back to 2019 with this one, going back seven years to when I went and visited Fat Boy Slim, |
| 0:15.7 | aka Norman Cook, at his home in Brighton, which was an absolute joy. Brighton makes me think of Fat Boy Slim and |
| 0:24.0 | Fat Boy Slim makes me think of Brighton. So I was really glad to have this conversation there in his |
| 0:29.3 | home. He was so open and given with his stories and information. It's an absolute joy. Get this in |
| 0:36.1 | your ears. This is my chat with Norman Cook, |
| 0:38.6 | aka Fat Boy Slim, |
| 0:40.4 | from May 2019. |
| 1:01.1 | I'm joined today by Norman Cook. How are you, sir? I've joined you up joined me. I've joined you. Yeah, I've been welcomed. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm joined today, though. Screw me as, Peter. |
| 1:08.5 | Or we were just having a discussion on what podcasts even are, which is, it's a good discussion |
| 1:16.8 | to have. |
| 1:17.0 | A lot of the ones I like the most, there's one, I've got kind of a podcast network, and one |
| 1:21.6 | of the shows on that, it's called Hardcore Listing, and it's these two lads who I've |
| 1:25.6 | known for years, and they have guests on, and the guest just does a top five of anything. Right. And that's far more interesting than just, it's another interview about my career, which, again, is what we're going to be talking about a lot here, but still, it means that you get these artists to come on and go, I'm just really into, as we said, art or cooking or whatever, |
| 1:44.6 | here's my top five of this and just go into it. |
| 1:46.9 | I like the fact that there's no real kind of agenda. |
| 1:49.7 | You've got no, there's no kind of BBC or corporation that you're answering to. |
| 1:55.5 | And for me, it's like fanzine. |
| 1:57.6 | I grew up as a punk rocker. |
| 1:58.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:59.1 | And fanzines said things that NME and IPC |
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