Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Would you like to Eat Sleep Rave Repeat?

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We’ve come a long long way together, through the hard times and the good – it’s almost as if Normski Cook foresaw himself playing the Shine 25th birthday after the year that was

2020.

And that he is – one of dance music’s most iconic figures, heading to The Telegraph Building this October to help blow out the candles on 25 years of Shine raves and parties in the city.

Norm needs absolutely no introducti­on, his litany of ’90s and ’00s hits opening the door for electronic music as a mainstream phenomenon as we know it.

Fast forward to 2020 when staying home became the new normal, Norman Cook in the land of lockdown took to the online streaming phenomenon, inviting fans to join him live from his home.

He released a series of 20 Lockdown mixes every Friday during the summer and in his usual relentless pursuit of fun, he also released his personal Back To Mine after hours groove collection as part of legendary and much-loved mix series.

The winter months saw Norman keeping warm at his much-loved Big Beach Cafe in Brighton.

As a DJ, songwriter, bassist, art curator and father who’s been seen playing clubs, stadiums, festivals, fields, boats, and Brighton’s i360; it’s time for Fatboy Slim to don that Hawaiian shirt, kick off his shoes and reunite us all again under one roof raving.

■ Tickets for the Shine birthday with Fatboy Slim headlining go/went on sale at 10am this morning from www. shine.net and all Ticketmast­er outlets.

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