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Groove Armada have played a 13-hour set in Sydney. Dance duo Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, who recently announced that they are splitting after 14 years of working together, went straight from their headline act at Parklife on Sunday night to playing at Kings Cross nightclub Lady Lux until lunchtime on Monday. Venue owner David Freeman told The Daily Telegraph: (more)...

Groove Armada have announced that they will split once their current tour has finished. The dance duo, made up of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, will finish performing together as a full live band after their UK and Australia tour dates, but will continue to DJ and produce. They said in a statement: "We've crossed and re-crossed the world with this band and crew. There's no other team like it. With their help, Ga live became the sound of legendary nights from Mount Fuji to Moscow. "It's (more)...

Electronic dance music duo Groove Armada are planning to retire from live performances after their upcoming U.K. tour. Tom Findlay and Andy Cato formed the acclaimed act in the mid-1990s and they became a popular European festival draw - but the pair is quitting life on the road following their trek next month.

A statement from the duo reads, "We've crossed and re-crossed the world with this band and crew. There's no other team like it. With their help, Ga live became the sound of legendary nights from Mount Fuji to Moscow.

"It's not often in the spotlight maybe; but ask the people who have come and filled the tents and surrounded the stages for the last decade. A massive thanks to all of them, for staying with us." The duo's farewell tour kicks off in Leeds, England on October 7.

Black lightGroove ArmadaWork It!/Virgin, Rs 395Rating: 4 and half Groove Armada’s latest album Black Light is the soundtrack of our lives. Or, at any rate, the soundtrack of my life. With dark sunshine exploding from its core, it’s what people wearing frockcoats — or their equivalent in the summer heat — would call an end-of-the-century album. Put the disc on and it could be 1899, 1999 or 2099, swivelling years, stashed with all the fin-de-siecle feelings of stylised and stylish grief and arsenic-laced joy. What we have here is, courtesy the venerable English electronica-and-more duo of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay ...

Groove Armada have described recent collaborator Will Young as "brilliant". The duo revealed that they were impressed with Young's vocals when they teamed up with him on new track 'History'. "The song we did called 'History' is a kind of Bronski Beat homage," Andy Cato told the Daily Star. "I had a few nights out with Will in Ibiza and he's just a brilliant singer, but obviously he does his commercial stuff which isn't exactly what we do. "But I found if you treat his voice in a diff­erent (more)...

Groove Armada have reportedly invented a new scheme for bands to distribute their music over the internet. The dance duo's new Ep is being given away on PAP4 via the method, which enables fans to listen to music for free by sharing it with others. Andy Cato told NME that he hopes the system will be picked up by other bands. "Our original idea was to make the music free, but one of the issues that Tom [Findlay] and I have about free music is that there's so much of it that (more)...