Groove Armada

Groove Armada. Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, the London duo who named themselves after their own mid-90s club night. Across nine albums they've moved between sunlit downtempo like 'At the River' and full-tilt party house, and 'Superstylin'' got a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. Cato's a trained trombonist who played with the celebrated Grimethorpe Colliery Band and was named Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 1996. He later sold his Groove Armada songwriting rights to buy a farm, and co-founded Wildfarmed, a regenerative-farming venture whose bread range launched at Waitrose in 2024. This track closes 1999's Vertigo. It's built on Irving Berlin's standard 'Blue Skies' and sung by Sophie Barker, the same voice on Zero 7's 'Passing By' at track 18 of this episode. The full live band took its bow with a farewell tour in 2022.

From the notes for Episode 06 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.