The DJ is among investors including Andy Burnham helping to buy the Brighton home of The Pipeline.

Fatboy Slim has invested in helping to buy the home of The Pipeline in Brighton, whose building is now owned by a community benefit society The home of a Brighton music venue is to become community owned as part of a £7m initiative backed by DJ Fatboy Slim and Andy Burnham dubbed the "National Trust of music venues". The Pipeline in Little East Street will become the 10th site owned by Music Venue Properties (MVP), a campaign which acquires the freeholds of music venues to secure their futures. Fatboy Slim, whose real name is Norman Cook, is among a number of people, including Burnham and Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook, to invest in the charitable community benefit society. Cook said: "I love venues like this because they remind me of when I started out, that youthful excitement and feeling about having to perform." He said: "Rooms like this are where dreams come true or where memories are made, and enormous acts learn their craft. "In this current economic climate it's quite hard for them to survive, so if MVP buys the venue, we can be the benevolent landlord that doesn't raise the rent, listens to them and gives them long term security." In June, Cook played the 60-capacity venue in a sold-out gig as part of the Everywhere at Once festival.