Groove Armada - Get Down / Soundboy Rock

'We were doing a really good live version of I See You Baby that's very different from the Fatboy Slim remix that's on the Renault advert,' says Findlay. 'It's got a big fat guitar loop on it - it's very different too from the more underground version that was on [1999 album] Vertigo. The greatest hits, and those shows, did help draw a line under all the stuff we'd done before. But it was also rejuvenating.'

There were further boosts. After some record label jockeying, Groove Armada found themselves, at last, on a big, proper label with, at last, decent support and creative input from a savvy A&R collaborator. Cato made music with his side-project Rising 5, and Findlay toured with his other band, Sugardaddy. Both kept up their DJing. And, finally, Andy Cato moved to Barcelona, while Tom Findlay stayed in north London.

'That definitely shook up our working dynamic,' Cato says.

After all those years sat cheek-by-stubbly-jowl in sweaty little rooms, smoking and drinking and thinking, 'I found the new set-up really liberating,' says Findlay. And into that geographical/mental/emotional space, Groove Armada resolved to flood all sorts of song ideas, vocalists and styles. In the end they wouldn't have room for all of them And their plans for a double CD - Saturday night/Sunday morning stylee - would fall by the wayside.
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