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Andy Cato and Tom Findlay first met in London in the early 1990s. A friend suggest they get to know each other so Cato dropped by Findlay’s parents’ house. Findlay was in the attic, lying on a beanbag a bit stoned, when Cato, who is 6ft 8in tall, was directed upstairs to meet him.

Findlay says he thought he was hallucinating when he saw Cato materialise, crouching under the low ceiling. The pair hit it off immediately, later DJing together after university at a club night in London called Captain Sensual at the Helm of the Groove Armada. Shortening their name to Groove Armada, the duo released their first album, Northern Star, in 1998.



It included At the River, one of the tracks that has won them fans all over the world. Grammy nominations ensued over the last quarter of a century while they continued to drop other iconic dance tracks like I See You Baby and the dancehall dub classic, Superstylin. They’ve also teamed up with interesting collaborators, including Neneh Cherry and the late Richie Havens, the opening performer at the Woodstock festival in 1969.

Cato took a radical turn around 2007. He was flying home from Eastern Europe after gigging with Groove Armada when he read an article, by chance, about the dire environmental consequences of modern food production practices. The picture it painted wasn’t “pretty,” he says.

He adds: “There was a brilliant line in the article: ‘If you don't like the system, don't depend on it.’ I was living in France at the.

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