DJ Fresh Escape From Planet Monday
Much like Garfield, the cartoon cat, DJ Fresh hates Mondays. The grind. The deflated soul-sapping feeling as you wearily join the rat race for another week. But, unlike that lasagne-fiending mute, this drum & bass maverick did something about it.
“It’s a theme that’s been important throughout my life,” says Fresh, as he actually strolls down a beach in Thailand, phone in hand, sand under foot. “You need to take hold of your dreams and make them happen. That’s what life’s for. That was something that I really wanted to explore with this album.”
Joining him on his mission were a cast of extras so extraordinary that the double taking could give you whiplash. Is that DJ Shadow laying down life-affirming beats? No way! Elsewhere, Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant is telling us not to throw our life away! And, crikey! That can’t be ’80s TV prankster Jeremy Beadle book-ending the whole album with sage life lessons and surreal shout-outs, can it? It is! It is!
“He was a really special guy, and very academic and literate,” says Fresh of the much-loved host, and now unlikely
