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Table Talk: Groove Armada's Andy Cato

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Andy Cato is a musician, record producer and DJ, and is perhaps best known as one half of the Grammy Award-winning electronic music duo Groove Armada.

Andy is also a farmer and now puts his energy into championing a better food system as co-founder of Wildfarmed, the UK’s leading regenerative food and farming company. Backed by Jeremy Clarkson and hundreds of farmers nationwide, regenerative farming methods place nature at the heart of food production: protecting natural landscapes, minimising pesticide use and building food security.

On the podcast, he tells Lara about nutrition on world music tours, his favourite food spot at Glastonbury Festival and why he sold the rights to his music to pursue regenerative farming.

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0:29.1

Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast.

0:33.8

I'm Laura Prendergast, and today I'm delighted to be joined by Andy Cato.

0:40.9

Andy is a musician, record producer and DJ, and is perhaps best known as one half of the Grammy Award-winning electronic music duo Groove Armada. Andy is also a farmer. As co-founder of

0:47.4

Wild Farmed, the UK's leading regenerative food and farming company that has appeared at Clarkson's

0:53.2

farm. He now puts his energy into championing

0:55.6

a better food system. Andy, welcome to Table Talk. Nice love it to be here. Hi. We always start this

1:02.2

podcast at the same point. We like to ask about your earliest memories of food. What are your

1:07.4

earliest memories of food? Yeah, I don't come from a great food culture.

1:11.4

So I suppose it's got to be the Sunday roast.

1:15.3

I have memories of kind of foggy windows

1:18.4

and that sort of combination of the Yorkshire puddings

1:23.4

and the minced pie simultaneously cooking.

1:27.7

And usually there was a grandparent who would come around to join us,

1:31.6

and it was my first experience of seeing wine,

1:36.0

the bottle of Black Tower,

1:37.2

that was always on the dining room table.

1:39.4

So, yeah, that kind of, there was sort of sounds of the 60s on radio too.

1:43.9

There was a feeling of kind of there was a you know sort of sounds of the 60s on radio too there was a there was a

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