By Margaret Chrystall
Published: 24 April, 2008

WHATEVER else you can say about Fatboy Slim, the punters love him ‘ and he loves them right back.

Right here, right now ‘ Inverness Ironworks, Thursday night ‘ he’s powered up like a grinning sun by the welcoming cheer that greets his arrival and the arms that bounce up to salute the veteran DJ and producer.

The venue was packed out for the one-off night organised last-minute to get the most out of his recce trip to the Rock Ness site.

Earlier in the day at the interviews organised at the Dores Inn, he seemed a bag of nerves.

A trembling hand grasped his Coke glass, though he grinned and did his best to seem relaxed.

Already there was a story that he’d been having a fly cigarette out front before his press grilling ‘ the only time he smoked, he’d confessed to a local.

Some bright spark suggested getting the cigarette butt to sell on eBay’  sadly, he’d tidily taken it with him!

But there’s never a sign of nerves when he’s performing.

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