Was ‘Ooh Baby’ one?”, WRONG. Scopri più di 56 milioni di brani, crea le tue playlist e condividi i tuoi brani preferiti con i tuoi amici. At school he was a prolific musician, frequently performing and leading on school shows such the Carol concert or as a pianist at school assembly. In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells? It couldn’t have been further from the free parties on the South Downs in the late ’80s/early ’90s. WRONG. In 2008 Cato moved with his family to Gascony in France. They were ‘Black Sheep’ and ‘Wholemeal’. I’m not doing very well! Download Andy Cato songs, singles and albums on MP3. “(Laughs) All the things I could write about people could imagine. You’re pulling out some tricky ones! It was hilarious because people couldn’t have showers because half of them had been commandeered by Kings Of Leon in a fenced-off security-guarded compound – which were never used because they arrived two minutes before in tinted-windowed Range Rovers and left two minutes after. Harrods was shut. Then check out the leaderboard. So we went back underground, playing to smaller audiences and only releasing good house music on decent labels. (Laughs) One out of three? All the paparazzi were there and no-one took any pictures of us, so a panicky publicist from the label made us go round the back and come back in, having tipped them off who we were – there were still no pictures! He often wrote his own songs e.g. Allegedly it started when Elton John said to Madonna: ‘You have to hear this new album [Groove Armada’s ‘Vertigo’] – to which she replied she already had, pulling it out of her handbag. There’s a Hall & Oates feel. I’m tempted to Google it, but I’m going to be honest and say I don’t know.”, “Should have Googled it! I should have done better there. After Oxford, he moved to London, where he began acting as a disc jockey at nightclubs such as Fabric where he started in the upstairs bar, and composing music. In 2013 they acquired a 100-hectare farm, where they now grow organic no-till crops and raise livestock in pasture. With our heart in our mouth, we sent it back to him – it was the day the album was going to be mastered. View the profiles of professionals named "Andy Cato" on LinkedIn. It’d be fun to work together again.”, “Roxy Music, Grace Jones and… Dizzee Rascal?”. “It was funny – but also tragic. (Laughs) What’s astonishing is the lengths of bullshit artists can put people working backstage through. She’s a typhoon of creative energy – larger than life, brilliant with words, every aspect of a true entertainment star. “From the moment we got the offer of a licence on Clapham Common in 2002 and sold 20,000 tickets in an hour, to going on to host 70,000 people in Victoria Park in 2005, I’m proud of Lovebox – before that, the idea of a major festival in central London didn’t exist. "Christmas means to me - presents round the tree", from an early age. We were doing it at my flat in Brick Lane, and her crew phoned to say Madonna’s coming round, so we ran around to the neighbours to borrow a hoover and try to clean the kitchen – then she never showed up.”, “Elton invited us to play a gig in New York alongside Lil’ Kim  for Interview magazine’s birthday. In 2003 they started the Lovebox Festival, named after the club night they started in London venue 93 Feet East in 2002. Shortly after, Madonna asked us to do a remix [of ‘Music’]. For the dance music we love, things changed: it was bombastic and celebrity and champagne-driven rather than inclusive. [3], Please help to establish notability by citing, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Groove Armada: how we made At the River", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy_Cato&oldid=981530897, People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, Articles lacking in-text citations from September 2016, Articles with topics of unclear notability from July 2016, All articles with topics of unclear notability, Music articles with topics of unclear notability, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2015, BLP articles lacking sources from December 2015, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 21:39. He had a total lack of bullshit – a contrast to Lil’ Kim with her 40 or so security guards blocking the hallways.”. She responded on Twitter: “I didn’t get an invitation sadly or I’d have been wiggling away for you very happily.”, “It’s a running joke that I don’t know the answer to anything about film, music or TV – so I’ll happily take that score!”, Groove Armada’s new album ‘Edge of The Horizon’ is released October 2, Want to know how Andy’s score compares to other artists who’ve taken the Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! “It kept is going until the dance landscape changed again. WRONG. Andy Cato tracks The drummer [Nathan Followill] got out, making ‘Come on then’-type gestures. The last one stopped. CORRECT. “We were pretty invisible in France – I’d have better luck with the UK cabinet!”. Over you and other artists trying to break into their backstage shower area. One artist had a tantrum, saying: ‘I’m not going onstage until my daughter’s taken to Harrods’. It was at the height of EDM – it was difficult to play at festivals that were just confetti guns and hammering white noise. If ‘Black Light’ was the studio version of that big onstage guitar and electronic sound, this is what would happen when we got on the bus afterwards.”, CORRECT. It’s the Ibiza-set thriller White Lines. He formed the successful Groove Armada after he met Tom Findlay in 1994 in Cambridge, through a common friend who was his girlfriend (and now his wife), Jo, whom he met at Oxford. We had such a laugh. But she was enjoying herself in the evenings and was a hard person to track down. From the beginning, it was mayhem because we’d bought a mixing desk from the Cocteau Twins’ old studio and the people who delivered it were the people who lost out to us in the auction – who left it on the drive outside in 3000 pieces. For me and Tom [Findlay, Groove Armada bandmate], it began in ’96 when we went there to be residents at Manumision. We thought they were ridiculous – they didn’t. (Laughs) Róisín’s brilliant. I don’t know if that made it because it was truly awful? Headlining the John Peel Stage in 2010 was one of our defining moments we’ll take to the grave, and our best gig ever.”. You revealed she’d been one of the few celebrities to turn down a request to appear in your ‘Get Out On The Dancefloor’ lockdown video (which features the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Rose McGowan dancing). (Thinks) Mel C?”, “There were some cross words about that – which I’d totally erased from my memory until now!”, “There was an absolute comedy terrible tune called ‘Stitch And Tap’. That was Gram’ma Funk, who one night down there muttered the immortal words ‘I See You Baby’.”. I’ve suddenly got a memory of someone rushing into the studio saying exactly that. The hardest bit of that tune was getting Mutya in the studio because she had a habit of going missing in action. Cato grew up in Badsworth, near Pontefract, and played the trombone in the Grimethorpe Colliery Band,[1] as well as the Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra and won the Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award in 1996. Andrew Derek Cocup Sr. (born 7 June 1973), known professionally as Andy Cato, is an English musician, record producer and DJ who is currently one half of the electronic music band Groove Armada, the other half being Tom Findlay. Would your autobiography end up with a super-injunction? We had to deal with similar behaviour when we ran the festival Lovebox. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. Why didn’t it happen? We worked with [Roxy Music frontman] Bryan Ferry on the track ‘Shameless’ for the ‘Black Light’ album. © 2020 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. “You revel in the absurdity of scenes like that! Andrew Derek Cocup Sr. (born 7 June 1973), known professionally as Andy Cato, is an English musician, record producer and DJ who is currently one half of the electronic music band Groove Armada, the other half being Tom Findlay. It was one of those situations when I remembered back to 1988 in Ibiza, thinking who could have foreseen me being there? Of course! This week: Andy Cato of dance duo Groove Armada, “Just asking me to name a show on Netflix would be a challenge! – Groove Armada’s Andy Cato. It was Girls Aloud’s ‘Call the Shots’. “Pulled it out of the bag! She went: ‘Well, open it then!’”, “Christ! head-scratcher. He was also involved with Rachel Foster in Weekend Players, another electronic dance group, between 2001 and 2004. He set up the label Skinny Malinky, which produced records under various aliases included Big C, Mother's Pride, Vadis, Beat Foundation, Fatback Boogaloo and Qattara (with Alex Whitcombe).[2]. We stuck around afterwards. “Sounds like my kind of program! You were sandwiched between PJ Harvey and Elbow. I first went to Ibiza in 1988 because my cousin was Digs from DIY – one of the original free party organisers – and I’ve been every year since. Apparently Tom gave the worldwide one-fingered sign of dislike as the cars went past. Our only link to the outside world was a payphone.

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