Fatboy Slim has admitted it is just a “guestimate” that he has performed Glastonbury 100 occasions.
Fatboy Slim would not know the precise variety of occasions he is performed Glastonbury
The Reward You hitmaker has carried out on the competition below numerous guises yearly since 1996 and he celebrated the milestone at this 12 months’s occasion.
Nevertheless, the previous Housemartins bassist – whose actual title is Norman Prepare dinner – admitted he doesn’t “really know” the true variety of occasions he’s graced the levels at Glastonbury.
He instructed BANG Showbiz and different media: “The primary time was 1986. We celebrated my a hundredth present there this 12 months however we don’t really know. The character of lots of Glastonbury gigs is that there’s no paper path. None of us can run it again.
“I’m occurring the truth that I’ve completed each single one since 1996 and I play a minimum of twice however as much as six occasions. So we form of guestimated 100.
“I do know folks like Billy Bragg and there’s a dude out of Hawkwind who’ve been to extra however they make the error of solely enjoying one gig, whereas if I performed six I’ve most likely overtaken them.
“However I’m not claiming that one. It’s unofficial.
“Once we claimed the a hundredth gig at this Glastonbury I used to be ready for somebody to go, ‘Are you certain?’ The factor is I can’t show it anymore than they’ll disprove it.”
The 62-year-old DJ’s favorite second on the competition noticed him play a track backwards in a bid to get the viewers shifting backwards – and he was delighted that they did.
He stated: “I performed Sunday Greatest with Rob Da Financial institution and I believe The Cuban Brothers. There’s a photograph of me watching The Cuban Brothers. That is Sunday tea time so we’ve been there since Thursday most likely, possibly Wednesday, so I’ve misplaced my marbles, my scruples, no matter intelligence I’ve had.
“I distinctly bear in mind deciding that if I play a document backwards the viewers would possibly dance backwards. An attention-grabbing concept and one which I believed I ought to check out on one of many main levels.
“I believed, ‘It’s received to be one thing pretty well-known so they could recognise it backwards and be extra more likely to dance.’ It was a Chemical Brothers observe, most likely, Hey Boy, Hey Lady.
“I used to be enjoying it religiously backwards and to my pleasure a minimum of half the viewers began dancing backwards. Then Ed from Chemical Brothers went, ‘What are you doing?’ I stated, ‘I used to be enjoying the document backwards to see if folks would dance backwards.’ Ed went, ‘Oh good, oh look they’re!’
“That was most likely my favorite set. That’s as far faraway from actuality as you might be however nonetheless lovely that you may experiment with life the best way you experiment with medicine.”