Heavy Drinking Fatboy Slim Enters Rehab

03/04/09 1:41pm

A bunch of drunks may soon be doing "The Rockafeller Skank," but not in a dance club.

Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, voluntarily checked into a southern England rehabilitation facility on Monday to be treated for alcoholism.

Cook, who has often talked about his drinking in a lighthearted way, has had an alcohol problem "for some time," according to a quote from manager Garry Blackburn in NME.com.

"Sometimes it feels a little undignified, but I never seem to get tired of getting drunk," Cook once said. "I've tried going on stage sober, and it wasn't much fun."

The DJ, musician, producer, remixer and former Housemartins member recently told Britain's The Guardian newspaper he doesn't remember recording sessions for the I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat debut album from his new project, The Brighton Port Authority.

"I'd find myself looking at tape boxes going, 'Martha Wainwright? I did a tune wth her?'" he said. "You know, time passes, alcohol was involved. It's all a bit sketchy."

"Norman is voluntarily seeking help for his alcohol problem, but he's in good shape," Blackburn said in a statement about his 45-year-old client, who has the support of his wife and family.

Fatboy Slim headlined the travelling Good Vibrations Festival in Australia in February and is scheduled to headline the week-long Snowbombing music festival at a ski resort in Mayrhofen, Austria at the end of the month. It hasn't been revealed if this new turn of events will affect that.