You've come a reel long way, baby

‘If you have a quality director, I think film is an art form that goes so far past music,' FATBOY SLIM told Hot Press in a recent interview backstage at this year’s Creamfields.

Fatboy Slim - superstar DJ, hubby to TV presenter Zoe Ball and alter ego of erstwhile Housemartin Norman Cook - also told Hot Press of his ambition to score a film.

Our Norman cited Ry Cooder’s spoken-word-and-lap-steel treatment of Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, as well as the Vangelis-composed Blade Runner and the Oscar-winning Giorgio Moroder score to Midnight Express, as three soundtracks he considered ‘classics’.

He may be closer to fulfilling this ambition than ever, seeing as he has already recently contributed to the soundtracks of Tomb Raider and Moulin Rouge. In any case, Mr Slim is already big mates with several heavy hitters of the film world, such as Spike ‘Being John Malkovich’ Jonze, director of the promo for Slim’s ‘Praise You,’ and sibling mavericks the Coen Brothers, makers of ‘Fargo’ and ‘The Big Lebowski,’ who have approached him about doing a Fatboy Slim video in future…

Read more about Slim’s filmic ambitions - as well as why he has a – wait for it - Meg Ryan fetish, how he and Zoe aren’t ‘newsworthy enough’ and, last but not least, about Ms Ball’s advice to her husband not to punch photographers - in the current issue of Hot Press, on newsstands Thursday 5 July.