With festivals coming out of our ears this summer, its difficult to whittle down the options each weekend and even more difficult to stretch out the cash to cover the season.

But the Pohoda festival in Slovakia could provide you with the opportunity to make lots of new and interesting european friends without burning a hole in your pocket.

Fatboy Slim, The Gossip, Audio Bullys and UNKLE will be descending upon an airfield outside of Tren on 18th and 19th July.

Tickets are a miser’s dream at 28 euros for 2 days. Smoked sheep cheeses all round!

For more info visit: www.pohodafestival.sk

Fatboy Slim’s new project, the Brighton Port Authority, has long been shrouded in mystery. But with the digital release of ‘Toe Jam’ on 7th July, the hearsay can finally come to an end.

This collaboration between FatBoy, Talking Heads frontman, David Byrne, who may be better own for his vocals on X-Press 2’s ‘Lazy’, and the Dirtee Stankster himself, Dizzee Rascal, is the first of the offerings to be released under the title.

We always remain humble here at Mixmag but would like to accept most of the credit for the hook up between Norman and Dizzee. Without our 25th anniversary cover-shoot where two of our finest homegrown talent met, would ‘Toe Jam’ only feature Byrne?

We've just received the last EVER line up for Turmills, the London clubbing institution which closes at the end of March.

The details are as follows: The Last Ever Gallery on Friday 21st March will feature, among others, Judge Jules, Tall Paul, Seb Fontaine and Sister Bliss.

The Heavenly Get Together on Saturday 22nd March will feature The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and Justin Robertson.

The Last Dance House Special on Sunday 23rd March will include sets from Frankie Knuckles, CJ Mackintosh and another 'what retirement?' set from Danny Rampling.

All parties start at 9pm and will probably roll til the afternoon. Check www.ticketweb.co.uk for tickets at £20 + bf. You can only buy four tickets per booking.

Not content with already headlining two festivals this summer (Glastonbury and Rockness) Fatboy Slim has been announced as the headliner for the 02 Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park.

The festival, which last year had Daft Punk playing the headline set, will take place on the 5th July.

Mark Ronson has also been confirmed along with Underworld. Tickets go on sale on Monday.

Fatboy Slim could be holding TWO Brighton beach parties this year.

It's rumoured he'll be playing beach gigs on September 26th and 27th.

The last time Fatboy played a beach set in Brighton was on January 1st 2007 despite being initially banned by councilors from playing outdoors in Brighton after the 2002 party which saw 250,000 people fill the beach.

The 2008 parties will be ticketed, with local residents getting first dibs.

The parties are expected to take place on Madeira Drive, between the hours of 5pm GMT and 9:30pm GMT on each day.

They said he'd never be able to do it again but Mr Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, has managed to persuade Brighton council to let him do another beach party, titled Big Beach Boutique 3. After his 2002 beach party sparked major safety fears due to overcrowding it looked unlikely it would happen again but this time it's not free and instead of 250,000 revellers there will be only 20,000. Also it won't be on a hot summer's day but January 1 2007.
Joining him on the beach will be The Cuban Brothers and David Guetta and tickets are available through www.fatbotslim.net.
Brighton beach in January, hats and gloves recommended...