One of the highlights of the whole year!!
by May on 9/5/22Big Night Live - BostonFatboy Slim had one of the best sets I've ever heard, and people of all ages were having a blast including the venue staff!! Great music, visuals, and atmosphere.
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Fatboy Slim on Tour
Norman Cook may be approaching his 60s, but onstage, the DJ better known as Fatboy Slim is forever young. Like his signature smiley-face iconography, the Fatboy Slim live experience is an expression of pure, senseless joy. Flanked by video screens that display a rapid-fire succession of mashed-up pop-cultural imagery like a TV channel clicker with a stuck button, Cook is the consummate master of ceremonies, decked out in loud Hawaiian shirts and working up as much of a sweat behind the decks as the thousands of revelers dancing before him. No matter the time of year or location, a Fatboy Slim show is the ultimate beach party.
Fatboy Slim in Concert
Norman Cook wasn't the most obvious candidate to become the preeminent UK rave breakout star of the '90s — in the previous decade, the London native had served as bassist for indie-pop melody makers The Housemartins. However, like many Brits of his generation, Cook was drawn to the dance floor in the late '80s, making his initial forays into club music with the dubby hip-hop soul crew Beats International. After cycling through a number of other dance-oriented projects (Freak Power, Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz), Cook rebranded himself as Fatboy Slim in 1996, fusing his loves of '60s go-go music, hip-hop breaks, rock ‘n' roll crunch and acid-house freakiness into the adrenalized, earthquaking sound that became known as big beat. Alongside peers like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim was among the wave of Brits that brought electronica crashing onto American shores in the late '90s, thanks to era-defining jams like the surf-tinged rave-up "The Rockafeller Skank" and the gospel-blessed "Praise You" (whose DIY Spike Jonze–directed video was inescapable on MTV in 1999). Following 2000's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars — which earned a Best Music Video Grammy for the wild, Christopher Walken–starring clip for "Weapon of Choice" — Fatboy Slim's output has turned more sporadic. But Cook has stayed in the spotlight through collaborations with David Byrne (as The Brighton Port Authority) and various one-off singles, and he's remained a fixture on festival stages with his reliably bonkers live spectacle.
Fatboy Slim had one of the best sets I've ever heard, and people of all ages were having a blast including the venue staff!! Great music, visuals, and atmosphere.
Ticketmaster/big night live should have noted this was a Fatboy Slim dj set and not a Fatboy Slim concert.
This is the best DJ in the world ever!! His performance keeps everybody’s energy up!!
So I came into this show not really knowing what to expect but this performance blew me away! Nervo and Fatboy Slim proved to be a great combo, and they really kept the adrenaline going at an all-time high until the closing set. The visuals were great and both artists kept the crowd pumped up and wild with all their amazing drops. Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat!
Kinda glad I arrived late it was hard to dance to/listen to nervo. technically and production wise they have alot of skill, but they could not stick with one beat for more than 30 seconds and every 40 seconds there was another drop. Every single time i would start getting into what they were playing they'd change it and then a drop would happen. Fatboy Slim was amazing tho and he was definitely worth waiting for. Had a blast at his show.
Great artists. Great sound. Great crowd. Great venue. Great bathroom facilities. Easy to get in and out.
show was awesome, nervo was actually good too! wish the show had started about 3 hours earlier. venue was sick
We go to a lot of these types of event and hadn't seen Fatboy Slim before. He played, quite possibly, the best DJ set we've ever seen.
Opening set by Shinichi Osawa was absolutely amazing, a lot of great songs like Digitalism's "Pogo", "Jupiter Room" and even Blur's "Song 2" (with revamped lyrics also) ripped time and space apart! With the crowd already ignited and blasting off as a result of the raw energy radiating from Shinichi's set, Fatboy Slim took the stage and effortlessly rocketed them into the atmosphere. One of the most incredible shows I have ever witnessed, with jaw-dropping computer generated visuals dancing to the music on a humongous screen behind Fatboy Slim the entire time. to put it short, I would pay three times as much to see this same show again if I had to.
so the show was unforgetable....he did an amazing job, and would def love to see him again, the croud was so plesnt to be in, although it was packed there was still ample dancing room. My only complaint is that i wish he played an encore!