'I will keep going until I drop': Fatboy Slim plans to carry on performing
Fatboy Slim has no intention of retiring.
The 61-year-old DJ is set to play gigs in Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and Las Vegas in the coming months and explained that he still has the same burning passion for the turntables that he possessed as a teenager.
Fatboy – whose real name is Norman Cook – told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "I will keep going until I drop.
"I genuinely love my job so much. I have still got a passion for it – I am still driven to DJ like when I started at 15.
"I have fallen out of love making records but I love the DJ side of it. Slowing down and quitting is not an option.
"I glimpsed at retirement and it was the abyss of golf and endless lunches."
The 'Right Here, Right Now' hitmaker credits his ex-wife – the BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball - for keeping him grounded when he was propelled to stardom during the 1990s as she was used to the spotlight herself through her broadcasting work.
Fatboy said: "I was having too much fun to think about the next day or the next thing. It was like being on top of a big wave and you had to stay on.
"Zoe helped me through it as she knew that level of fame before and she is a very kind, thoughtful person and she just had this way of checking my ego.
"She brought me through the trickier bits. We could talk about it as we were thrust into the same spotlight.
"It was nice to have a soulmate in there with you."
Fatboy recently revealed that he couldn't commit to working with DJ and record producer Fred Again as he struggles to get his head around the technology that is used in modern music.
Speaking on Apple Music 1, he told Rebecca Judd: "Everybody was trying to get us to work together. I was just going, 'I can't be in the same room as him.' I wouldn't know where to start because of what he's doing with technology.
"I'm old school, I'm OG and I'm used to just playing records with the cross-fader and maybe using a sample a bit, but he's taking it to the next level. I don't feel like I'm in the same conversation as him.
"I would sit there looking at him in awe, going, 'How the hell did you do that?'"
The 61-year-old DJ is set to play gigs in Australia, Indonesia, Mexico and Las Vegas in the coming months and explained that he still has the same burning passion for the turntables that he possessed as a teenager.
Fatboy – whose real name is Norman Cook – told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column: "I will keep going until I drop.
"I genuinely love my job so much. I have still got a passion for it – I am still driven to DJ like when I started at 15.
"I have fallen out of love making records but I love the DJ side of it. Slowing down and quitting is not an option.
"I glimpsed at retirement and it was the abyss of golf and endless lunches."
The 'Right Here, Right Now' hitmaker credits his ex-wife – the BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball - for keeping him grounded when he was propelled to stardom during the 1990s as she was used to the spotlight herself through her broadcasting work.
Fatboy said: "I was having too much fun to think about the next day or the next thing. It was like being on top of a big wave and you had to stay on.
"Zoe helped me through it as she knew that level of fame before and she is a very kind, thoughtful person and she just had this way of checking my ego.
"She brought me through the trickier bits. We could talk about it as we were thrust into the same spotlight.
"It was nice to have a soulmate in there with you."
Fatboy recently revealed that he couldn't commit to working with DJ and record producer Fred Again as he struggles to get his head around the technology that is used in modern music.
Speaking on Apple Music 1, he told Rebecca Judd: "Everybody was trying to get us to work together. I was just going, 'I can't be in the same room as him.' I wouldn't know where to start because of what he's doing with technology.
"I'm old school, I'm OG and I'm used to just playing records with the cross-fader and maybe using a sample a bit, but he's taking it to the next level. I don't feel like I'm in the same conversation as him.
"I would sit there looking at him in awe, going, 'How the hell did you do that?'"
