Groove Armada

Groove Armada are Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, the London duo who took their name from their own mid-90s club night. Across nine albums they have moved between sunlit downtempo like 'At the River' and full-tilt party house — 'Superstylin'' earned a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. Cato is 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 — 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 Sep 23, 2026.