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		Arts Fatboy and Co fail to outshine the setting   FATBOY Slim pumped up the volume around Dores in an attempt to encourage Nessie to join the party. Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) remixed "Monster" by Automatic, to great delight of the audience, especially when his giant video screen displayed images of the beast bopping away to the tune at the inaugural Rock Ness. Saturday's outdoor festival marked a decade of Fatboy Slim being a household name on the dance scene and included everything from explicit lyrics to the native Gay Gordon's as he worked the 22,000 strong crowd into a frenzy with most of his best recognised tunes from his "Why try harder" greatest hits album. Favourites like "Rockfella Skank" and "Right Here, Right Now" were accompanied by bootlegs of Gorillaz tracks "Feel Good Inc" and "Dirty Harry", Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" and Arctic Monkey's "Scummy Man" as well as a bizarre sampling of Elton John's "Are you ready for love?" Supporting Fatboy was mix master Carl Cox, Skye-born Mylo and the Audio Bullys. Cox who made his name from interchangeable deck-switching and his seamless fusion of dance, pumped up the audience with his infectious personality describing it as "one of his best gigs of the year so far". Highlights of the undercard were Nathan Detroit and his mostly vocal trance set and Deadly Avenger who took advantage of a packed-out strobelit marquee when rain saw many flock to his largely Prodigy-inspired playlist. The mix of dance, trance and electro-house left a largely intoxicated audience of regular festival goers and others who let curiosity get the better of them wanting more next year, whether it be DJs or recording artists. The grand finale included pyrotechnics and arguably Fatboy's most noteworthy track "Praise You" but, in essence, the event wasn't half as spectacular as the venue and looked more like a warm-up to next month's Global Gathering. No less than six of Rock Ness's 14 acts will appear at Long Marston Airfield, near Stratford-Upon-Avon on 28th-29th July, including Carl Cox, Audio Bullys and Fatboy Slim, who shares top billing with Groove Armada and Daft Punk. 27/06/2006		More Arts Fatboy and Co fail to outshine the setting Even the dead can't have a smoke on stage any more! What's On Diary