Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars is the third studio album by British big beat artist Fatboy Slim, released in 2000. It features Macy Gray, Ashley Slater, Bootsy Collins, Roland Clark, Jim Morrison and Roger Sanchez as guest contributors. The album's title is an allusion to the Oscar Wilde quote "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars", a line spoken by Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan. Read more on Last.fm.
Fatboy Slim is a pseudonym of Quentin Leo Cook (b. 31 Jul 1963 in Reigate, Surrey - aka Norman Cook), an English big beat musician.
Quentin Leo Cook was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He started a punk fanzine titled Peroxide with his neighbour Andrew Thomas and art student Ian McKay (formerly Laidlaw). Contemporary with his publishing activities, he played drums in Disque Attack (a British new-wave-influenced rock band) for which he later performed lead vocals. Read more on Last.fm
Sex and samples collide under a throng of cheap disco bass lines, digital chirps and disembodied soul singers. It’s not a porno….just Fatboy Slims third proper outing.