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NORMAN COOK:
A letter from our Norman...

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Sceptics might say of
this informal gathering,

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"Why the hell are you doing it again?
Last year was a one-off triumph."

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Well, they have a point,
but the reason, of course,

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is that I love to party, and the
party we had on the beach last year

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was so much fun, so
beautiful and so right,

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that it would be criminal
not to try doing it again.

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GARRY BLACKBURN:No, I never
thought we made a mistake.

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But we were a lot younger then,
and inexperienced, and naive.

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And of course, they're like shields
really, because you don't realise

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how precarious a situation is!

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But that's quite nice,
because it means you go to the edge

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and you go a little bit further.
And usually, it's at the edge

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where good stuff happens.

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# Right here, right now,
right here, right now...

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(CHEERING)

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NORMAN: In 2001, we get a phone call
from Channel 4 all about cricket.

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They had just bought the franchise
to show Test cricket in England,

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and they wanted to celebrate
that by playing it in parks

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and outdoor venues throughout the
summer, to get people into the idea

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of watching Test cricket
on Channel 4.

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They were coming down to Brighton
to show one of the Test matches,

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and they had a sound system for
the commentary and a big screen.

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They just phoned me up and said,

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"As Brighton's
representative of dance music,

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"do you wanna DJ an afterparty, free,

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"for the people of Brighton to
have a little dance on the beach?"

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We lost the cricket on day two, so
no-one came and watched the cricket.

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But an awful lot of people
came to the after party.

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BLACKBURN:I think there
were 40,000 people there.

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It just, this thing happened.
It was phenomenal.

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My first thought
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we have to do this again next year.
We have to own this.

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DAVID BRAMWELL:The sun
was shining and it was free.

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And who doesn't like a party?

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And who doesn't like
a party on a beach?

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And who doesn't like a
party on Brighton beach,

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with Norman Cook DJing?
I can't see...! It's a-no brainer.

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JOHN SIMM:It filtered
in over the years, Brighton.

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I'd go down early on
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and there's just something about it.
I don't know what it is.

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There's some kind of calm.
It's beautiful.

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But it's also got
that city edginess.

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It's just a lovely vibe.
I think maybe because there's

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loads of students, loads of
artists, loads of musicians,

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and things like that.

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DAVID:I came here because of music,
I came here because of gigs.

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I came here because
Brighton is beautiful.

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Brighton started with the whole
thing of coming here for health.

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You came to Brighton to drink the
waters, to bathe in the waters,

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and then Prince Regent came
and gave the town a notoriety.

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It's cabaret, it's burlesque,
occasionally, it's singalongs.

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And the town's always done that.

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Sometimes, being a resident in
Brighton, you hand over your town

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to visitors, and you accept that.

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You live here and you
embrace all of the elements

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that the town has to offer.

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MAN:We welcome those visitors, too.

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We want them to enjoy themselves,

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to indulge in their
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however odd they may seem to us.

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REPORTER:Were there a lot of them?
WOMAN:Yes, whole crowd.

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You couldn't move, it was jammed,
about 200, I should think.

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I went to lock the door
and they pushed me over!

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They just left you lying
on the floor, did they?

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NO, one of the rockers picked me up,
another rocker at another table.

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He was very sweet.

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GLIMMERTWIN:I've been
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I paint things on walls for people.

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Yeah, this one here, the client
said they wanted something Brighton.

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So, I thought, yeah,

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what's more Brighton than
Fatboy Slim these days?

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HELEN HIETT:So, the connection
with Fatboy Slim goes way back

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and a lot of the artists we
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the local people in Brighton,
have a connection with him.

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He's a bit of a gallery favourite.

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He has collaborated
with a few of our artists.

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One such example would be
this Mark Vessey here,

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and he actually approached us and
said, "I love Fatboy Slim's work

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"and I want to do
a project with him,"

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which culminated in this series.
So, this is actually

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Norman Cook's own record collection.

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NORMAN: There's a kind of
two-way love affair

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between me and the city of Brighton.

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But also there's a pride,
I am very proud of this city.

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I think it is the
best city in the world.

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There's something about its relaxed
attitude, its tolerant attitude,

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and its eccentricity
that I just really love.

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Brighton is here to be invaded,
for people to have fun.

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REPORTER:Here at Brighton,
a seaside town not far from London,

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is one of Britain's most
modern universities -

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the University of Sussex.

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I grew up in Surrey.

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My sister went to university in
Brighton, and I used to come down

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and stay with her and I just
thought, "This is the place,

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"this is where I belong."

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So when it came time
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I just wanted to go to Brighton.
I didn't care what degree I did,

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and stayed ever since.

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ANNOUNCER:This year, it's
very much The Housemartins

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that have been in the news.
We were proud as punch

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that they're back in the city today.
I'll be chatting with them

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in a few moments time.
Could I help you?

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ALL: (HARMONISING)
# Hello, hello...

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We're The Housemartins!
That's good...

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GARRY:I first got
involved with Norman

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as I was the radio plugger
for The Housemartins.

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Norman had a nascent,
alternative career as a DJ.

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NORMAN: Obviously,
I didn't intend to be a DJ.

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I always wanted to be in pop bands,
but I was a record collector.

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If you're having a party and you
wanted the best records there,

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you had to have somebody who had
a really good record collection.

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So, I used to get invited to
parties by people I hardly knew,

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just cos they knew I'd
bring my record collection.

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But teenage parties
being how they were,

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my records started getting covered
in vomit and cigarette butts.

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And so, one time, this
girl invited me and said,

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"Would you bring your records?"
And I'm like,

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"Actually, I'm not to bring my
records, if that's all right?"

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And she went, "Oh".
But then, she said,

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"What if my dad hires these kind of
double decks, like a DJ console,

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"and you're in charge of the records,
then would you bring your records?"

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And it sounded like fun,

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and something very,
very fundamental happened.

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I really, really enjoyed controlling
the dancefloor and the music.

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It triggered off a realisation
that my love of music

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is heightened by sharing it
with other people.

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I started thinking of it
more than just a hobby.

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And it was around that time
when I was old enough to start

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playing in licenced venues.

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And so, mixing became a
really big thing for me -

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to learn how to mix, to
afford to buy the turntables

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that had varispeed on them
so you could mix.

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And that was about the
time I moved to Brighton.

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When I moved to Brighton,
they had bars and clubs

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that had Technics 1200s. So, I
used to go and work in those places

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for free, just so I could
practise on their decks,

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and eventually bought my own.

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What I'm gonna do,
grab that beat and go...

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(SAMPLE REPEATS)

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Finger on that, press down
on the fader. It's easy!

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Picture of concentration,
know what I mean?

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I'm sorry, Norman.Rubbish!I'll
leave it to the professionals.

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NORMAN: When I was in The
Housemartins in the late '80s

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and playing white indie pop,
but all the time, that wasn't

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the kind of music that I dug.

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But then, they invented the
sampler and the drum machine.

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All of a sudden, white dudes
like me could make this music

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without having to
pretend to be black.

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And that just unleashed
a whole new career for me,

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and that kind of ended my
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and that kind of music.
I can't do that any more.

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And so, I moved back to
Brighton and went back into DJing.

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DJ culture and club culture
was just absolutely exploding.

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It had been in this sort of ghetto,

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where you had to be over 18
before you ever heard these records,

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and you had to go to the cool clubs
to hear the cool records.

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But then things started
happening, I think,

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when house records started
getting on Top of the Pops.

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Kids started hearing them and
they go, "What are these records?

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"Where can I hear them?"

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CARL COX:A lot of people
were like, "What's happening?

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"What's going on? These parties
I can hear that start at 2 o'clock,

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"and finish at 8 o'clock in
the morning. Where are they?

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"Who are the DJs that
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All this wonder, which was
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NICK FROST:When I was 16,
we were all going to like Telepathy

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and Sunrise and Raindance.

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There wasn't hard house
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and then it started to
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And then, Chime by Orbital.

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That's what kind of got me
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Matthew Miller's car,
driving to fucking Basildon

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to meet some dodgy bloke!

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Or driving for two hours to
score, like, an eighth of hash...

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Like, what?!

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Honest to God, it was
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and frightening, but
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Seeing the weirdest fucking people.

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"What the fuck is this?
Where are we?"

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JOHN SIMM:I think the reason
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at the time, clubbing, let's not
beat around the bush about it.

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I think a lot of it
is to do with ecstasy...

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I think! I think. And so,
that just changed everything.

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It changed football violence,
that stopped overnight.

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It was the end of the '80s,
everything just changed.

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It was suddenly,
this culture of love.

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It was just happy times.

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AYIESHA ADDERLY:It was
the best years of my life.

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Even now, there's friends
who I've met raving

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who are some of my best friends.

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Lots of the big gigs we'd go to,
we'd drive for miles.

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I went to a weekender
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Quite a few free parties,
you'd just drive along and wait

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to find out where
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You meet up with a few people. There
would be people that you would see

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at certain gigs and you'd
just go up and be chatting,

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and having a really amazing time.
There was never any grief.

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You'd just go there and
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COX:For five years straight,
I was doing maybe two parties

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on a Thursday, two or
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two or three parties on a Saturday,
two parties on a Sunday,

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and possibly one party
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In my car, going up and
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and as far up as Scotland.

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Party, party, party, party, party,
party, party, party, party, party!

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Back to Brighton, back out again.

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I was like this, shh! Whirlwind,
working my arse off the whole time.

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NORMAN: Around that time, my main
job was the band Freak Power.

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Like, a traditional line-up band.

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And it just became more
and more apparent to me

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that nobody really
wanted to see bands any more.

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I'd have 10, 12 of us
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and X amount of people would come.

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And if I didn't bring the band
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10 times more people would
come, and there was only me

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and a tour manager I had to pay!

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So, it became very apparent
that more people wanted to see me DJ

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than play bass.

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We were having our time, I think.

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But the problem was the government
were not happy with the way,

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how things were being run,
they wasn't able to control

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this society and what was happening.

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So, they made up the Criminal
Justice Bill, and basically,

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they were saying if you had
five people dancing around a car

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with repetitive beats,
you're going to jail!

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If you're putting on a party
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unless you did the events properly.

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Licensed events, contracts
for the artists and DJs.

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but it then re-emerged
into super clubs.

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GARRY:Norman quietly
became Fatboy Slim,

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and then it started
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This might sound strange, but
I really can't put a date on it.

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It was just some time in the past,
but it was an exciting time.

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To see Norman DJing
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It was quite an
unbelievable thing.

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BALLY AMES:It was
a very exciting time.

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The Tory government had gone.
Blair was in, and it was...

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Yeah, we can do anything.
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was very much like that.
"We can do anything".

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Records were selling.
Gigs were kind of selling.

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Festivals were getting bigger.

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You'd go to work, go to a gig,
you'd go to the after show,

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you'd go to bed, you'd go
back to work the next day.

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SIMON PEGG:I just remember it being
a really, really fertile time,

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as well, for creativity.
Spaced was our way of writing

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what it was like to be
a 20-something in London

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at the turn of the century,
and all the kind of stuff

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that we felt was never represented,
like casual dope smoking

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or going clubbing, or whatever.

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I felt like I really wanted
to write an episode of the show

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that reflected the true
experience of going clubbing.

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ADDERLY:Brighton has always been
a good place to come and party.

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There was amazing
clubs down in the arches,

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and that was something that Brighton
had in such close proximity as well.

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This is Fatboy Slim.
You're at the Big Beat Boutique.

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I'm one of the resident DJs
and apparently,

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we are the underground
club of the year.

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GARRY:What was going
on at the Boutique was something

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he was very much doing naturally
as his own Friday night out.

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There was another Gareth
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who was running the Boutique,
a local promoter,

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and those two cooked
this whole thing up.

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Really, what he was doing
musically was mashing stuff up

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that nobody else was
even contemplating,

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and creating this atmosphere where
people could absolutely freak out.

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When I went there,
it was dazzling carnage.

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NORMAN: By now, what I'm doing is
just mixing the hooks from pop music,

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the anarchic spirit from punk,
the breakbeats from hip-hop

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and the acid energy from house music.

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MAN:What he did was put UK dance
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and exported it to the world.

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And it was fun,
energetic, exciting.

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And that's what connected
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to get into dance music.

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GARRY:Norman put out
Better Living Through Chemistry,

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which just had that natural
organic connectivity.

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It had a fanbase who were turning up
every Friday to dance along to it.

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The big challenge of any new artist
is usually the second album.

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RALPH MOORE:But that
first album was a cool record

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that tastemakers liked.

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It hadn't crossed over in the way
that everything after that did.

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Everything basically changed
with Rockafeller Skank.

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# Right about now,
the funk soul brother

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# Check it out now,
the funk soul brother...

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(SINGING ALONG)# Right about now,
the funk soul brother

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# Check it out now,
the funk soul brother! #

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The previous two or
three years of the club,

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meeting the Chems and all my other
friends who are doing similar things.

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It was all coming into this,
I know what I'm doing here.

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And so, the second album
came out really easily.

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It was just kind of bottling what
we'd been doing for three years,

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and distilling it, and then
opening it with one big pop.

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# Right about now,
the funk soul brother...

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AMES:If you turned on Radio 1
you could hear Norman.

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But then, if you turn on commercial
radio, you could hear his songs

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being used for adverts as well.
The publishers used to send us faxes

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back then, and then we
slowly got onto emails,

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where they would ask for permission
for a certain song to be used.

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So, the artist had to
kind of give permission.

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I remember one time, one came
through and I had to phone Norman.

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I said, "Norman, we just
had a sync request through."

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And he said, "What's it for?"
I said, "It's for Friends."

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And there's a scene in Friends
where Ross is having a party

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and you hear Rockafeller Skank.

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# Right about now,
the funk soul brother...

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We have got to get
out of this business!

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We are no good at it,
it does not agree with us.

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GARRY:It was a particular moment
where we were sitting there,

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getting daily sales figures.

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I remember one day, by lunchtime,
we'd done 35,000 albums.

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Most of the projects we were
working on didn't do that

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in the whole lifecycle of
the album. So, to do that

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in one morning was...
It was quite intoxicating.

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MOORE:You've Come A Long Way Baby
went to No.1.

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And that led to the idea that
a DJ could be more than just a DJ,

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and you could sell hard tickets,
as we now call it.

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So, he was culturally very visible.

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He was dating Zoe Ball, so
there was the tabloid interest.

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He was basically the world's most
famous and possibly ubiquitous DJ.

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When a band breaks, they
transition from pubs to clubs,

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to theatres, to
concert halls to arenas.

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DJs had never done that.
They'd never done that before.

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And the opportunity came
for us to start climbing up

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that ladder of progression.

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LEE CHARTERIS:I had a
history in big shows for bands.

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I heard a record on the radio
in Los Angeles, Rockafeller Skank,

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and I called a guy in London,
David Levy, who's Norman's agent,

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unbeknownst to me, and he said,

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"Well, he's a DJ and
they play in clubs".

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And I said, "Well, one day, maybe
if he plays bigger than clubs,

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"I'd really like to be involved".
And it took about six months.

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The next thing you know,
we're playing two nights

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at Brixton Academy with
Armand Van Helden, which was really

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the first big venue gig
for a DJ in the UK.

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ANNOUNCER:From Brighton, England.

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Right here, right now, Fatboy Slim!

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(CHEERING)

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GARRY:This is where it's
great working with Norman,

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he's always up for
trying something different.

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We built a boxing ring that rotated
and we set it up as a boxing match.

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So, it's Norman versus
Armand Van Helden.

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We sold it out, it was amazing.

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CHARTERIS:Norman was very conscious
within the experience of a show

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that with a lot of DJs, with all
due respect, it was a bit like

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going to see someone
do the washing up.

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And we went for lights and
sound and video screens.

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To fill those big spaces, you
have to overegg the pudding,

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and that's how it escalated.

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MAN:Red Rocks seats about 8,000,
9,000, and it's gonna sell out.

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WOMAN:It's gonna be packed.
I think this techno scene

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is more popular than
anybody gives it credit for.

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I think it's gonna go
till the city shuts it down.

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AMES:The shows
got bigger and bigger,

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then more production came onboard.
So we got a production team onboard,

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the visuals got bigger and
we're doing shows in Europe.

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We did snowboarding up on
a mountain, a mountain show.

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We've done Red Rocks,
that was like a massive show.

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BECKY STEVENS:In the summer
of 2001, we had a large number

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of really good events in the city.
And one of those was

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Channel 4 on the beach, it was
the summer tour for the cricket.

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So, it was beautiful.
It was four days of cricket.

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The Ashes being shown on Brighton
beach, just near the West Pier.

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CHARTERIS:It was very
much a Brighton thing.

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It was very family-oriented.
And then, there was this offer

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for Norman to play on the stage
that was already built there.

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And I think the numbers
were like 40,000 people.

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NORMAN: Everybody came out.
Kids and old people,

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just united around our
love of Brighton and music.

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It was mainly local people.

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The council absolutely loved it
and said, "This is what Brighton's

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"all about, doing things
like this". The police loved it,

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because they thought it was hilarious
and everyone was really well behaved.

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All the local traders loved it
because people spent tonnes of money.

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But I do remember, when
I came off-stage so elated,

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I just hugged my manager and said,

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"My God, it just
doesn't get any better.

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"How can we ever top this?"

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Careful what you wish for, kids.

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# A's for the anchor
that swings at our bow

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# B for the bowsprit
through the wild seas do plough

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# C for the capstan
we merrily around

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# D are the davits
we lower our boats down

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# Sing high, sing low,
wherever you go

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# Give a sailor his tot and
there's nothing goes wrong. #

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KEVIN CLAXTON:Brighton is a
seaside town; it had recently become

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a city at that time.
It's a vibrant, colourful place.

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From a policing point of view,
anything that you might expect

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the police to become involved
with across the country

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would happen in Brighton & Hove.

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It's a good place to
be involved in policing,

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because there's a lot going on.

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BECKY STEVENS:I think
Brighton was unique at the time.

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Post-millennium, there was a lot
of investment from the council

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into events, so it was
a really creative city.

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I was the assistant events officer

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at Brighton & Hove City
Council from 2001 to 2004.

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We had a really vibrant
art scene and culture scene.

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Loads and loads of DJs,
loads of different club nights.

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It wasn't a mainstream city.

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We used to have
very regular meetings

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with the council's
events planning team.

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They used to give us a list of
the events that were coming up,

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but sometimes, events would
come up at short notice.

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And I can't remember exactly
when I first heard about the event.

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That was possibly a couple
of months beforehand.

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ALEX BRIAULT:There was whisperings
that it was going to happen again,

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and then you heard it
publicly announced.

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So there was a buzz, there
was excitement around it.

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But I'm sure there was also
some doubts as to whether

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it should be happening.
At the time, there was

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a Seafront Traders Association,
where all the shop owners

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and bar owners would get together
maybe two or three times a year,

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have a discussion about what
should and shouldn't happen

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on the seafront. And I remember
some rumblings about the effects

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it might have on the town.

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GARRY:The relationship with
the local council was pretty good.

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These people universally
loved their city.

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They understood it
represented a different ethos

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from perhaps other
parts of the country.

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STEVENS:It had gone so well in 2001,
that everyone was behind it -

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the police, the council,
and the emergency services.

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It was very different in 2001 and
2002 to how it is now, 20 years on.

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There were... Whilst Brighton & Hove
Council had a really good example

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of multi-agency planning, I don't
think the people working on it

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were necessarily as
experienced of major events

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as people necessarily are now.

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So, not always knowing
what we were looking out for.

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So during those planning meetings,
we'd often discuss things

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like medical provision,
security provision, making sure

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that we had the
correct numbers in place.

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We were estimating 60,000
people were going to come

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and we were planning for 80,000.

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CLAXTON:The first
multi-agency meeting for this event

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was on either the 30th
or the 31st of May that year.

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So, it was only a
few weeks before the event.

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That already started alarm bells
ringing not just with myself,

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but with people
from health and safety

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and the council and various others.

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This was a large event.
It was going to be on the beach.

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Therefore, there was work to
be done and time was short.

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RAJU WATTS:We wanted it to be a
free event because you can't expect

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people to pay on a beach.
As E4, or Channel 4,

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had paid for it previously, we had
no concept of what it would cost

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to put on an event for effectively
60,000 people on a beach. Um..

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It was quite a lot!

455
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,920
So, this is what it's going to be.
We had to put book police,

456
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,760
we had to book security...
Oh! Stewards, toilets,

457
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,840
sound arrays, crowd control,
merchandise.

458
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,520
So, we all sat down, tried to work
out how we were going to pay for it.

459
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,040
Norman's quite popular
in America, isn't he?

460
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,320
So, Garry spoke to
his live agent and said,

461
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,960
"Norman is willing
to do a corporate gig."

462
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,160
Not the sort of thing he does.
"What can we get for it?"

463
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,400
And he managed to get a gig,

464
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,320
and it was approximately,
like, half a million dollars.

465
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,800
And the money for that
gig was going to pay for

466
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,480
all the infrastructure that
we needed to be able to put on

467
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,040
a show for free in Brighton.

468
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,560
So he flew out, did the gig.

469
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,920
I remember the
feedback at the time...

470
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,240
I think there might have been 150
people there at this corporate gig.

471
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,760
It was dead.
I mean, it's a corporate gig.

472
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,960
A massive DJ playing
for people in suits.

473
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,280
It has been a journey in 2002.

474
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,440
This is a general
synopsis of what's going on.

475
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,360
Show down in Seoul,
England v Sweden...

476
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,120
AMES:Building up to that show
was just like any other show.

477
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,640
It's in the cycle of gigs
that we were doing.

478
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,920
It was just another show.

479
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,440
Before Norman did
the show in Brighton,

480
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,840
he was gallivanting around Japan

481
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,440
as the official DJ for
England at the World Cup.

482
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,080
So, leading up to it was
a really, really busy time.

483
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,800
No gig today, so we can
have a wander around.

484
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,600
And right now, we're off to Adidas to
go and meet David Beckham's boots.

485
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,840
Joy! Joy!

486
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,480
OK...
If you ask anyone who was

487
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:55,240
the biggest DJ or
dance music producer,

488
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,440
you would I reckon nine times out
of 10, people would say Fatboy Slim.

489
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,840
Fatboy Slim.
Fatboy Slim.

490
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,760
What?
(THEY CHEER)

491
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,520
MOORE:What Norman did, he laid the
foundations for stadium dance music.

492
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,520
It was proving that a DJ
could sell out a venue

493
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,720
rather than, say, a rock act.
That was an important thing.

494
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,880
I really like this idea that you
could have a job in dance music.

495
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,480
It could be serious, you can
take your career seriously,

496
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,160
but you didn't have to
take yourself too seriously.

497
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,680
The USP was, let's be
serious about our fun.

498
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,280
STEVENS:In the last
multi-agency planning meeting

499
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,240
in the run-up to the event,
I realised from the network

500
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,280
that I was plugged into, in terms
of the clubbing and dance scene

501
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,320
in Brighton, that we were
getting an awful lot of coverage.

502
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,320
So, I kind of tentatively
raised my hand and I said,

503
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,400
"Look, I think we're going to
have a lot more people coming

504
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,880
"than we're planning for,
because it's getting

505
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,680
"a huge amount of coverage".
And I just so clearly remember

506
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,000
a senior council officer
turning to me and saying,

507
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,120
"Don't be silly, Becky. This
isn't The Beatles. It's just a DJ."

508
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,640
KAY:T4 was the show that
talked about the music.

509
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,480
We were the ones that gave our
opinions and we rode that wave.

510
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,040
If the NME was talking about it,
we would talk about it.

511
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,520
So, Norman and that kind of music
was always on our playlist.

512
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,880
And then it was like, "Oh, we're
going to do Big Beach Boutique.

513
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,680
"Do you fancy it?" Yeah! Two-footed
challenge into that, please.

514
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,880
WATTS:We'd hired all the
front suites of The Grand

515
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,840
for family, friends, DJs. We
drove up on the Friday morning,

516
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,880
so parked the car,
went up to see the room,

517
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,760
had a heart attack because of
course, I organised the rooms.

518
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,200
And oh, my God, the view!

519
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,760
NORMAN: We'd hired a room so
that my parents and my son Woody,

520
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,080
who would have been one,
had somewhere safe to watch.

521
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,920
This is probably just about
the best view of Brighton,

522
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,760
but one that locals
seldom get to see.

523
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,960
Everything was all in place.
So, we went out for dinner

524
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,320
with Garry and family,
as far as I remember.

525
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,840
Then we went over to Norman's
house and Zoe's in Hove.

526
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,159
First time I'd actually
properly met him.

527
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:31,920
We're all in there, it got to
about midnight and he said,

528
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,920
"Oh, everyone, I want to play
the song that I've remixed

529
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,159
"for the end song."

530
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,960
(REMIX PLAYS)
There's just something a lot more,

531
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,480
like, hands in the air, beautiful.

532
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,040
'I'd done a version of Pure Shores,
which we got pressed up

533
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,760
'on an acetate, which
cost me like 80 quid,

534
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,040
'so I was definitely
going to play that.'

535
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,840
Probably edit their version
down, because it's a bit long.

536
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,920
There's too many gaps in the middle.

537
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,240
Edit it down, and then
just overlay that...

538
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,760
(BEAT PLAYING)
Overlay that all over it.

539
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,560
So definitely, it
needs a bit more thump.

540
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,240
So, I've got it going now at 100 BPM.

541
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,960
I get out the 100 BPM disc,
and then we just got

542
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,360
a whole load of different beats.

543
00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:23,480
(BEATS PLAYING)

544
00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,040
You could just end up like that.

545
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,480
Just start with the drum beat
and slowly bring it in.

546
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,760
Yeah, that's doable.

547
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,640
GARRY:I remember going
to bed on the Friday night,

548
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,920
really in a state of high anxiety,
praying enough people would come.

549
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,000
Because we'd risked
a lot to set this up,

550
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:05,160
on the assumption it would be bigger
than the previous year in 2001.

551
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,400
And of course, the next
morning was a beautiful day.

552
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,640
But you never know it's going
to work until it's happening.

553
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,080
ELLA SADIE GUTHRIE:
Sunrise or sunset, you ask me.

554
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,680
As you get pebble
dust between your toes.

555
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,680
I don't know. Both, I lie.

556
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,400
I have never been an early riser.

557
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,360
To let my body wake with
the dawn would be a betrayal

558
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,240
of the dreams that hold me down
until at least 10am.

559
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,560
The sunset is deeper.

560
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,480
The last showdown of sky.

561
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,080
Clint Eastwood firing the
last round from a revolver

562
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,520
before the credits roll.

563
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,520
A wrap party, a swan song.

564
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,960
Do you feel lucky?

565
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,400
WATTS:I'll never forget it.
I opened the window,

566
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,320
looked outside, and I turned around
to my wife and I said, "Fuck.

567
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,800
"Fuck!" She said, "What's wrong?"

568
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,400
I went, "There's no cloud in
the sky, and there's 30,000 people

569
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,040
"on the beach,
and it's not 9 o'clock".

570
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,280
Come on!
The weekend has landed.

571
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,480
Just, it was just party time.
(LAUGHS) It was just party time!

572
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,840
Car full of people.
Loads of tunes, windows down.

573
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,360
Banging, weather was great.
Off we went.

574
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,960
ADAM VAUGHAN:Our friends had
been to the first Big Beach.

575
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,240
Some of them turned around to us
saying, "Oh, he's doing another one.

576
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,240
"Do you wanna come
along?" Yeah, why not?

577
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,840
Yeah! We'll see what this is about.

578
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,600
Got nothing else to do.
What's the worst that can happen?

579
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,120
Exactly. So we ended up
tagging along with them,

580
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,720
and heading over to Brighton.

581
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:05,760
SIMON PEGG:Neither Nick or I
had a car, so we borrowed

582
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,040
this knackered old Ford Sierra
to get down to Brighton!

583
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:13,960
I don't even know if we were
supposed to drive it, really.

584
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,200
I mean, I'm pretty sure we sorted
out the insurance, etcetera...

585
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,080
GARRY:I got a call from my wife
at about half 10, 11 o'clock.

586
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,400
She was driving down and she rang to
say that there must be some accident

587
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,720
on the M23, because
there was a traffic jam.

588
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,320
So I said, "Look,
don't worry Gill, just go.

589
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,120
"We know the back roads, just
come off and go the back roads".

590
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,000
Anyway, I got on with
preparing the show,

591
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,680
not realising that the traffic jam
was people coming to the show.

592
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,960
The closer we got, the more people
we could see that were going

593
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,080
and we were passing people
on the motorway and waving.

594
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,120
And there was a lot of music
coming out of different cars.

595
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,640
There's a lot of, "Oi! Oi!"
There was a lot of that.

596
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,320
AYIESHA ADDERLY:
All ready for our weekend.

597
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,960
I woke up in the morning,
getting all this stuff together

598
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,040
and for some reason, I just
thought I'd do a pregnancy test.

599
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,680
And the pregnancy
test was positive.

600
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,560
I phoned my mom and she's like,
"You're meant to be going out

601
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,400
"this weekend, you're going to
have to change your plans!"

602
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:24,080
I was like, "Yeah, shit! Yeah,
I'm meant to be going out."

603
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:30,760
So, that was a massive,
amazing, amazing find,

604
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,320
because I would have
been drinking alcohol.

605
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,640
So, I had to make
sure I didn't do that.

606
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,440
NICK STEVENSON:I'd just
started working at Mixmag.

607
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,480
So, this was like the first month
that I was literally in the office,

608
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,560
and left uni about
a month before that.

609
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,720
So, I've moved from Bournemouth
up to London for my big new job

610
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,960
and I got sent down to Brighton
to cover the beach party.

611
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,280
I got the train down on my own from
London to meet my mates in Brighton.

612
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,320
HELEN HOWELL:It was me,
my boyfriend at the time Sam,

613
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:08,200
my best friend there Louise,
and maybe three other folks.

614
00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,560
And we're on the train.

615
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,760
And it just felt like this
giant party on the train.

616
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,720
You felt like you were
making friends immediately.

617
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:21,040
Everybody's sharing their food
and their drinks, and other things.

618
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,600
Lots of music going on the train,
people are dancing on the train,

619
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,520
just riding high, huge
expectation for the day.

620
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,520
KAY:It felt like Southern Railway
had got every train in the UK

621
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,880
to just pick people up wherever they
were and drop them off in Brighton.

622
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,120
Honest, I think we did
a couple of links for T4

623
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:53,280
outside Brighton Station,
and we just couldn't move

624
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,320
for people coming at us. Not
going that way towards the station,

625
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,720
just coming off.
It was insane.

626
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,200
DANCE SYSTEM:We all lived a
little bit outside of Brighton.

627
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:11,800
So on the day of the party,
we had no idea how big it was.

628
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,880
So, I drove my car
with four of my mates.

629
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,400
Basically, there was queues
going all along the Downs,

630
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,800
and we couldn't get through,
there was traffic.

631
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,920
It was like, "Fuck this."

632
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,640
We drove on the other side
of the road, all the way through!

633
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,120
I was like, "Fuck it, no cars
are coming the other way.

634
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,720
"We've got to get there.
We have to get there."

635
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,320
HOWELL:We got there early
enough to where we could find

636
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,640
everything we needed.
We actually got food.

637
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,080
We had sunscreen,
we had enough water,

638
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,480
and we just chilled on the beach.

639
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,880
But quickly, that changed.

640
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,480
Within the course of an hour
or two of us arriving there

641
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,720
in the late afternoon, it's like,

642
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,400
"Oh, shit, I'm having trouble
moving through the street.

643
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,280
"We're going to have
to hunt for a bathroom."

644
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,880
FROST:There was so
much fucking traffic.

645
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,600
There was nowhere to park.
And then we went right up

646
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,840
toward Hove, just
keeping on driving.

647
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,280
But everywhere was
just fucking cars,

648
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,400
like abandoned cars everywhere.

649
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,840
People had just parked
anywhere they could.

650
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,760
PEGG:We just thought, "Fuck it,
let's just get a ticket!"

651
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,160
So, I think we just left it.

652
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,280
(LAUGHS) We abandoned it!

653
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,440
We might as well have
just torched it there,

654
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,240
although we needed it to get back.
But we put it on a kerb,

655
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,920
got out of the car and
headed down to the beach.

656
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,600
STEVENS:I remember
getting a call from a friend

657
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,120
who was driving down
from London, saying,

658
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,920
"Becky, you need to shut the road,
you need to shut Brighton.

659
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,000
"We're in a traffic jam. It's going
all the way back past Gatwick,

660
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,360
"and it's crazy". (LAUGHS)

661
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,760
I was like, "Yeah, I'm not
sure I've got that authority,

662
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,960
"but I'll pass that on!"

663
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,120
SIMM:I remember arriving into
Brighton and just thinking, wow!

664
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,320
It's like the whole city
had been closed down.

665
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,400
Everybody was hiding in their
houses and it was just a huge rave.

666
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,760
So, it was quite
mind blowing, actually.

667
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,360
It was quite a sight to behold.

668
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,080
# The weekend starts here. #

669
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,000
KEVIN CLAXTON:Lots of police
officers in Brighton & Hove,

670
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,520
as I did, didn't live
in the city at the time,

671
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,720
and we had to travel
into the city.

672
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,200
We were all told to come in
at 4 o'clock for a briefing

673
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,280
by the command team.
Straight away, it was apparent

674
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:44,320
just driving into the city,
that the estimates of 50,000 people

675
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,880
were going, were not right.

676
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,040
This is not the day we planned for.

677
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,240
It's gone wrong.

678
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,680
Right, you're happy?
Yeah, more than happy.

679
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:58,360
'During the day, we'd
done some vox pops,

680
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,400
which is the voice of the people.
With vox pops, you always try and be

681
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,160
quite cheeky or irreverent,
and just ask stupid questions.

682
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,080
I've got some very tedious Fatboy
Slim questions to ask you now.

683
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,400
OK. What's Norman Cook's...?

684
00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:13,720
Might want to do that again.
What's Norman Cook's real name?

685
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,240
'The beachfront was packed
and everyone was up for it.

686
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,120
'Everyone just couldn't wait,
because they all knew the music

687
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,240
and there was a huge air of
anticipation for him just dropping,

688
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,720
"Check it out now,
the funk soul brother!"

689
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,960
Yes! I'm checking it out
on the beach!

690
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,200
It was just nuts.

691
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,400
There was a real energy,
a real momentum for people

692
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,280
to have a good time.
And I won't lie.

693
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,520
There was a couple of points
when we were recording

694
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,240
and you get the odd idiot
jump in and grab the mic.

695
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,520
And I'm thinking,
there's a possibility

696
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,760
this could get out of hand.

697
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,120
BECKY STEVENS:People just kept
coming and coming and coming.

698
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:56,640
And things started to
already get quite tense

699
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,600
and stressful down there.
People couldn't get to the toilets.

700
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,000
People couldn't move. The
beach was really, really full

701
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:07,200
directly in front of the stage,
and it narrows slightly in places.

702
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:09,840
So, people were
spreading to the east,

703
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,280
but lots of people
were coming from the west

704
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,480
or still coming off the trains from
London and coming straight down,

705
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,080
directly into the main
footprint of the event site.

706
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,720
ADDERLY:We were late, as per
usual, I'm always running late.

707
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,520
And it was just mayhem.

708
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,680
But I didn't think it in a
bad way. I really liked it,

709
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:34,040
I really enjoyed how it felt.
I really loved that

710
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,600
kind of like excitement.

711
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,280
There was an edge, but
it didn't feel dangerous.

712
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,520
We got to the bottom of West Street
just by where the cinema is,

713
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,680
and it was just rammed.

714
00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:49,240
It was chocka all the
way down to the seafront.

715
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,200
There was no way that we
could've got onto the beach.

716
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,720
NICK STEVENSON:It was so
packed when we got down there.

717
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,280
Trying to find someone,
and this is pre-smartphones,

718
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,240
you couldn't drop a pin back then.
This was literally me being

719
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:05,320
on the beach, counting how many
windows across on one of the hotels

720
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,080
I was to say, "Look, I'm six windows
across on the blue building,

721
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,200
"underneath the stones."

722
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:13,800
I think a lot of people were
doing that around me as well.

723
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,760
So, it was quite a well-trodden
path to not finding your mates.

724
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:20,880
KAREN BATEMAN:I had friends
living down here at the time.

725
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,360
So I was looking for them, and of
course, no chance of finding them.

726
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:29,600
So, we just found a little spot
going down towards the West Pier,

727
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,960
and that was it.
Got ourselves settled,

728
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,200
a few beers, ready for the evening.

729
00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:38,400
When I first arrived in this room,
I was looking out going,

730
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,760
"This is brilliant,
there's so many people!"

731
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,560
And then it went from, it's so many
people to there's SO many people.

732
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,680
And then, the first...

733
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,000
Every hour, I'd be chatting
to people and they're like,

734
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,480
"There's so many people."

735
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,080
15? Right, cool.

736
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,600
(CHEERING)

737
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,760
'I remember, I was waiting
and him walking in.

738
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,240
'And he looked really agitated,

739
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,320
'Which made me a little nervous
because I'd only been doing telly

740
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,680
'for maybe two or three years.

741
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:15,120
We both turned around
at the same time,

742
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,200
and I said something along the
lines of, "Wow, look at this."

743
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,520
And we're both kind of like...

744
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:25,320
We are going to dance tonight.
It's Mr Norman, Fatboy Slim, Cook!

745
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,520
Good evening.
How are you doing, Norman?

746
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,960
I actually feel am scared.Can I just
say, look at what you've created!

747
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,760
I know, it's a monster
that's gone out of control.

748
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,400
CHRIS COCKING:I remember
absolutely shitting myself

749
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,880
walking out of the briefing.
The briefing was in a small cafe

750
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,440
in arches on the bottom
of the seafront,

751
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,480
and I basically had to fight my way
through to get into the briefing.

752
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,880
On the briefing on the way out
they basically went,

753
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,160
"Right, you're on this point.
Get to it."

754
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,680
Pretty much having to fight
my way through the crowd

755
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,240
to get to the point. And
that was four-and-a-half hours

756
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,360
before the gig was
even due to start.

757
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,760
So I knew at that point,
it was going to be massive.

758
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,160
And it was the first
big gig I'd worked at,

759
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,600
so for me, it was a
real baptism by fire.

760
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,480
CLAXTON:We were probably deployed
out into the city in the event area

761
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,920
some time around 6pm.

762
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:18,120
Almost immediately, our
team's officers were lost.

763
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,280
You couldn't see anyone.

764
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,800
It was difficult to get
hold of people on the radio.

765
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,880
I realised and I spoke to
my sergeants and made sure

766
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,480
they understood that regardless of
the orders we've been given earlier,

767
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,040
it was now about keeping people
safe and keeping ourselves safe.

768
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,360
They had loads of stewards
positioned on the high tide line

769
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,000
of the beach to stop people
going beyond that point,

770
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,360
because we knew the
tide was due to come in.

771
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,120
And I understand that around up to
80 stewards resigned on the spot

772
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,000
who were supposed to be
maintaining the high tide mark.

773
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,760
And I remember control going,
"Where are all the stewards?"

774
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,600
And asking me, "Where have the
stewards gone?" And I'm going,

775
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,400
"I don't know," because he was
asking me to look and spot them,

776
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,160
and I had a bird's eye view and
I couldn't see a single steward

777
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,880
on the high tide mark.
STEVENS:We went and stood on

778
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,440
the groyne with Kevin Claxton, who
was the bronze police officer.

779
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,040
And I remember us
looking down the beach

780
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,560
and it was absolutely
full of people.

781
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,080
And we looked at each
other and we were like,

782
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,520
"What are we going to do?"

783
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,880
GARRY:We had a sort of emergency
meeting with the chief of police,

784
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,680
who was considering
cancelling the event.

785
00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:30,440
Norman was very concerned
about anyone being hurt

786
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,960
or anything going wrong.

787
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,400
He was very conscious of that.

788
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:38,560
But we were also thinking,
we've spent our whole lives

789
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,720
building up to this moment.
We can't not deliver.

790
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,440
NORMAN: I could see from the
police's faces, they're like,

791
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,960
we are overwhelmed here.
So, I was like, OK.

792
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,360
I've prepared myself mentally that
it's going to be snatched away!

793
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,840
I think they took me into one of
the porta-cabins and they sat me down

794
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:02,240
and said, "Right, we're going to go
ahead with it, but only..."

795
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,440
And I said, "Only cos it's
more dangerous not to do it?"

796
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,080
Because you've got
all those people there,

797
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,160
and they've all been drinking
all day, and they're happy!

798
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,760
And if you shut the place down,
they'll be unhappy

799
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,120
and it could be ugly.
And they said, "Yeah".

800
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,200
ANNOUNCER:This is a
public safety announcement.

801
00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:22,040
(CROWD JEERING)
We're sorry to disrupt

802
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:26,080
your enjoyment of the evening,
but we are endangering the lives

803
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,280
of people at the top of the groyne.

804
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,440
STEVENSON:I remember there were
announcements, something like,

805
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,640
"Please relieve the groyne," which
if you don't know what a groyne is,

806
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,320
it's like a thing that
separates the sand on the beach,

807
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:41,760
everyone's looking at
each other like, "What?"

808
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,160
"Who's groin are
we relieving again?"

809
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,760
ANNOUNCER:..of the police
and the stewards,

810
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:50,240
and start to pull away
from that groyne area.

811
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,480
CLAXTON:We were trying to
stop people getting backstage,

812
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:58,480
and so we were stood on this
slippery, green, covered-in-seaweed

813
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,520
groyne as the tide went out.

814
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:05,560
All along the beach, there were
people urinating in the sea,

815
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,120
mostly men, but not all.
And then a yard in front of them,

816
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,240
there were people
swimming in the sea.

817
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,560
And you just think,
"This can't be going on.

818
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,760
"It's not real.
It can't be happening."

819
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,320
COCKING:They had to get
police in to stand on the groyne

820
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:21,960
to stop people getting
to the edge and falling off.

821
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,040
And they put on riot gear for
their own safety and protection.

822
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,760
And I was reporting through
things that were going on.

823
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,680
Then suddenly, I turned around
and they'd all disappeared.

824
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:34,320
I remember going through to control,
"Where have the riot police gone?

825
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,280
"What's happened?" And after a bit
of going on different frequencies,

826
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,720
he came back and said,
apparently they've been told

827
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:42,880
to withdraw for their own safety.

828
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:55,240
VERNON KAY:I'm having
one of them Ibiza moments.

829
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,800
The sun's setting behind us,
everyone's enjoying the atmosphere,

830
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,280
and I've bumped into John Simm,
star of Human Traffic.

831
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,680
Are we having it
large, John, or what?

832
00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:06,880
We're having it big stylee, aren't
we?Oh, yes. Or what, aren't we?

833
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,480
Or what? What do you think of
the whole event and the whole

834
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,480
atmosphere at the moment? it's
pretty mad, innit?Unbelievable.

835
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,920
I've never seen so many
people in my life, folks.

836
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,480
Unbelievable! There's
more people than pebbles.

837
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:20,040
And what's happening is that
I've not seen any violence

838
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,240
and no trouble.
Everyone is up for it

839
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,560
and everyone's here for the music.
That's how it should be. Absolutely.

840
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,160
I have no recollection
of that whatsoever!

841
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,880
ANNOUNCER:This is a
public safety announcement.

842
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,800
The gentlemen climbing lampposts
must return to the ground.

843
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:43,760
The show will stop
until all the people...

844
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,760
NORMAN: I read various riot acts
about what I could or couldn't do.

845
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,280
And if they told me to switch
off the music, they said,

846
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,880
"You don't argue with us,
you just switch off the music."

847
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,080
Which is not the best
frame of mind to be in!

848
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,680
LEE CHARTERIS:I sat with
Norman a little bit and we knew

849
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:02,040
everything was ready to go.
When he wanted to play,

850
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,200
we could go over
the street and play.

851
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:06,520
I came to the hotel,
I took Norman's record bag.

852
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,240
Norman and the record bags
stayed apart from each other

853
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:12,600
absolutely the minimal amount
of time. So I came to the hotel,

854
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,480
did one trip with the records,
and then came back.

855
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:17,800
(CHATTER)

856
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,680
The walking over the street
came later, because ultimately,

857
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:26,160
we were like, "How the hell are we
going to get from here to there?"

858
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,800
And it was decided that
the element of surprise

859
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,920
is what would get us
across the road.

860
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,440
But as soon as we walked down
the steps of the hotel,

861
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:37,320
it was just a mob!
And it took us 15 minutes

862
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,480
to get to the backstage,
which is a two-minute walk.

863
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:47,360
NORMAN: Looking back, I don't
remember much about the actual gig.

864
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,080
I must have been
completely on autopilot.

865
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,240
But it wasn't the most relaxed
I'd been, because I was aware

866
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:57,080
that we were potentially,
if anything went wrong,

867
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:00,720
we could be in a lot
of trouble, safety-wise.

868
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:05,560
But what I do remember is just
feeding off the energy of the crowd.

869
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,200
(CROWD CHANTING)
Fatboy Slim! Fatboy Slim!

870
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:17,640
There's one shot where you can see
I'm just looking at the stage,

871
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:22,120
looking around, and you can
see like the muscles in my neck,

872
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,360
and my cheek twitching
with the stress of it all.

873
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,520
Then, you suddenly see my eyes
light up as I see a friendly face.

874
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,080
This old friend of mine called Al,
and I just go and give him a big kiss

875
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,600
and everything's alright again.

876
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,840
KAY:People screaming and
whooping and hollering,

877
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,800
the odd cheeky comment,
which you give a bit of banter,

878
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,760
which is all good fun.
And I just remember thinking,

879
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,400
I can't wait for this to start.

880
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,760
(CHEERING)

881
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,280
WATTS:Atmosphere was electric.
It was buzzing.

882
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:02,200
I don't think I've ever experienced
something like that at all.

883
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,680
It was just, "Fuck,
we're going to do this.

884
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:07,280
"We're going to do it."
(BEAT PLAYING)

885
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,440
VAUGHAN:I remember
getting our spot on the beach.

886
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:16,240
And there'd been a buzz
with anticipation as well,

887
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,080
because being 19 and
not really venturing

888
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,040
too far out of our
comfort zone as well.

889
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:27,680
Really, I think it was the
first gig we'd really gone to.

890
00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:31,280
And Rich had made a flag.

891
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,920
I'm pretty sure he unveiled it
when we got down there.

892
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,920
Said, "I've just brought this."
He just unveiled this Union Jack

893
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,440
with "Normstock II" written on it.

894
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,080
SYSTEM:Tim Deluxe It Just Won't Do

895
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,240
was the song of the
summer at that point.

896
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,840
And for him to open with
that was just like,

897
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,840
"OK, he's not fucking around here.
This is just going to be a party."

898
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,680
# My eyes, they can look see

899
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,920
# Other guys, that are cuter

900
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,560
# And my ears, they can look hear

901
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,560
# My friends say I should walk away

902
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:26,280
# But my heart, it won't do, babe

903
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,320
# It won't do, without you

904
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,840
# My doggone heart,
it won't do, babe

905
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,720
# It just won't do without you

906
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,000
# My knees, they don't go weak

907
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,520
# They don't go giddy-up
When you don't call me

908
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,360
# And my head
It doesn't spin

909
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,960
# So don't try me,
with your sweet nothings

910
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,960
# But my heart, it won't do, babe

911
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:58,880
# It won't do, without you

912
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,080
# My doggone heart,
it won't do, babe

913
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,480
# It just won't do, without you...

914
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,720
STEVENSON:I remember just being
caught up in it all a lot,

915
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,600
and trying to enjoy myself
as well as trying to remember

916
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:18,080
what was happening. This was a
very important moment, and I had

917
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,760
a very important job to do
to try and capture it all,

918
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,000
and remember it all.

919
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,640
# My mind is buggin' out
When you think you're it

920
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:32,040
# See me run, lickety-split
And my toes, watch them curl

921
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,920
# So don't call me babe,
cos I ain't your little girl

922
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,200
# But my heart, it won't do, babe

923
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,680
# It won't do, without you

924
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,600
# My doggone heart,
it won't do, babe

925
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,440
# It just won't do, without you

926
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:57,160
# La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la... #

927
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,680
STEVENS:The toilets that
we had on the Kings Road,

928
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,280
they had people in front of them.
It was probably about 10, 20 deep.

929
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,960
And I saw, there was a guy
dancing on top of the toilet.

930
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:18,320
One of the
senior council officers said,

931
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,960
"Oh, you need to tell him to
get down!" And at that point,

932
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,600
he just dropped into the loo!
(LAUGHS)

933
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:26,320
And they said to me, "You
need to go and get him out."

934
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,280
I was like, "That's not happening!"
(LAUGHS)

935
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:33,400
So, I think that man must've
spent the whole gig in the toilet,

936
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,000
because there was no way
those 20 people in front

937
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,200
were going to get out the way.

938
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,320
ALEX BRIAULT:We had a boat donated
by a guy called Jack Stewart,

939
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:48,160
and it was a lovely big fishing boat
and it was put out on the beach.

940
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:52,200
And he rang me at about
6 or 7 o'clock, saying,

941
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:55,360
"You've got to get down here and do
something to protect this boat".

942
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:59,400
I was at the far end of town. There
was billions of people in the way.

943
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:02,800
I couldn't possibly have got there.
And I spoke to him the next day,

944
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,240
and he said he'd spent
the whole night on the boat

945
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,360
trying to encourage
people not to get on it.

946
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,600
But of course, everyone
was trying to get a view.

947
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:12,200
And sadly, it did get,
sort of, smashed to bits.

948
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:26,160
It got really stressful.
There were people who had obviously

949
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:30,680
consumed lots of alcohol and drugs,
and they were not in a good way.

950
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,600
It was relentless. The medics,
there was nothing they could do

951
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,440
and there were just people
coming at them all the time saying,

952
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,280
"Help me, help me!"
And we had nowhere to put them,

953
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,840
because our medics tent had
basically been taken over.

954
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,800
SYSTEM:It felt like something
really special was happening.

955
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:58,280
My friend got punched,
because some guy was like,

956
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,320
"Oi, which way you going?" And
he was like, "Calm it, mate".

957
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,160
The he got punched.
He was like, "All right."

958
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:09,160
# Oh, I'm wicked and I'm lazy

959
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:17,280
# Oh, oh, don't you
want to save me? #

960
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:45,440
EATS EVERYTHING:To watch a
bloke commanding, like that...

961
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,360
It was monumental.
We couldn't even get...

962
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:52,000
I was like, a thousand
people at least back.

963
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,480
You couldn't get anywhere near it.

964
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:03,760
CHRIS COCKING:At one point, we
nearly lost the sound desk

965
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,320
because just the weight of people
meant the Heras fencing broke down,

966
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,920
and the people on the sound
desk were coming up to me,

967
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,480
because there were just people
dancing right next to it,

968
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,240
going, "Get them away!" Because
if the sound goes down,

969
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,280
that's it, the gig's over. And I
was frantically radioing through

970
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,800
going, "I need security here,
I need security here.

971
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,040
"We're going to lose
the sound desk".

972
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,640
And control going, "I'm
completely sympathetic to you,

973
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,680
"but we can't get in through the
crowd. The crowd is just too big".

974
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,280
KAREN BATEMAN:I had quite
a low waist pair of trousers on,

975
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:54,240
as my G-string... (LAUGHS)
Popped out the back,

976
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:57,400
and Graham's brother Neil
lent over and did a little ping!

977
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:00,400
So I turned around and went,
"Oi, cheeky!" And that was it.

978
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,800
We just started talking.

979
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:07,400
GRAHAM PEARSON:I'm a shy person
and Karen is very easy to talk to.

980
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:11,840
And yeah, I was pretty much
grabbed from the start really.

981
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,560
I didn't come down with
very high hopes for the day,

982
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:17,960
and then I found myself
having this fantastic experience.

983
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,480
WATTS:Oh. It was magical.
That's all I can say.

984
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,520
And some of the setlist he played,
he plays It Just Won't Do.

985
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:58,480
He plays 77 Strings, Sexiest
Man in Jamaica, Mint Royale.

986
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,160
But then, he plays Camisra.

987
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,360
(CROWD CHEERING)

988
01:03:17,760 --> 01:03:20,360
PEGG:defining moment in
that set for Nick and I

989
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:23,640
was that he played Camisra,
Let Me Show You.

990
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,080
And that was the track
we used in Spaced.

991
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,200
We and Nick, "We love
this" blah, blah, blah,

992
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:33,440
and we started jumping up and down
and dancing, and whoever was with us

993
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:36,080
turned and said,
"He's playing this for you".

994
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:41,720
I mean, Nick and I couldn't have
been more wreathed in giant smiles.

995
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,680
It was this perfect night.

996
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:49,680
And everything was perfect,
the vibe and the music.

997
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:53,800
And then, the superstar DJ on
the stage was playing a track

998
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,240
just for me and Nick
as we were there.

999
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,640
It just doesn't get
much better than that.

1000
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:04,320
FROST:Wow, it was amazing.
We were just fucking thrilled.

1001
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:09,480
And then, that kicked off
just the best night, you know?

1002
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:53,240
HOWELL:I had no way of
conceiving how massive the crowd was

1003
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:57,480
at that point. You're just in your
little space in your little moment.

1004
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,840
Sam was over six feet tall, so I'm
like, "Let me get on your shoulders,

1005
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:04,200
"I wanna see what's going on!"

1006
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:07,720
And getting up there, I
couldn't see the end of people.

1007
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:11,160
It's hard to put it into words,
but it felt like you were part of

1008
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,320
this giant organism
that is just beyond you,

1009
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:16,920
and you're just this
one little part, you know?

1010
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,800
I remember feeling
overwhelmed with joy,

1011
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:22,680
in being able to share
this moment with other people.

1012
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,800
CLAXTON:The decision was
taken with the event organisers

1013
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,080
to finish the event early.

1014
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:39,480
I believe it finished
some time after 10pm.

1015
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,480
(CHEERING)

1016
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:04,240
STEVENS:I was very, very grateful
when I heard Pure Shores coming on.

1017
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:07,160
And I still get
goosebumps when I hear it.

1018
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,640
And I just thought, "Oh, thank
God, it's gonna be over now."

1019
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:13,920
# ..searching places to find

1020
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,840
# A piece of something to call mine

1021
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,160
# A piece of something
to call mine...

1022
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,280
ADDERLY:I thought
it was just amazing.

1023
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,520
Had a good dance. I didn't dance
as much as I would have liked to,

1024
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,120
because there wasn't
enough space. But it was just

1025
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,240
one of the best evenings.

1026
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,840
# ..is the place I can call mine

1027
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,320
# Is the place I can call mine

1028
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,280
# Coming closer to you

1029
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,760
# I'm moving, I'm coming
Can you hear what I hear?

1030
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:51,680
# It's calling you, my dear
Out of reach

1031
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,120
# Take me to my beach

1032
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:59,760
# I can hear it calling you
I'm coming, not drowning

1033
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,200
# Swimming closer to you

1034
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,840
# I'm moving, I'm coming
Can you hear what I hear?

1035
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,160
# It's calling you, my dear
Out of reach

1036
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:13,520
# Take me to my beach

1037
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,480
# I can hear it calling you

1038
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,880
# I'm coming, not drowning

1039
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,720
# Swimming closer to you... #

1040
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,080
COCKING:There was a general
consensus that the vibe of the gig

1041
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:27,360
was Fatboy Slim, it
was more chilled out,

1042
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:30,120
meant that a norm developed
where people were more tolerant

1043
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:34,680
and more accepting, and it was a
kind of more convivial atmosphere.

1044
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,400
I remember talking to a senior
security person afterwards

1045
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,800
and he did say to me, "If
that had been an Oasis gig,

1046
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:42,200
"we would have been fucked."

1047
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:54,680
SIMM:I remember it being kind of
chaotic, looking out, thinking,

1048
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:59,040
"Wow, where are all
these people gonna go now?

1049
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:02,360
"How are you getting home?"
Jesus!

1050
01:08:03,560 --> 01:08:06,720
And thinking, "I'm so glad I don't
have to try and get back to London."

1051
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:21,560
HELEN HOWELL:I know someone
in the group had a plan.

1052
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:26,800
We rushed through the crowd
and ran to the train station.

1053
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,080
We were able to get on a train.

1054
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:33,439
When we were waiting
for the train to take off,

1055
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,319
there were these hordes
of people that just climbed

1056
01:08:36,359 --> 01:08:39,600
on top of the train, because
there was no more space.

1057
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:43,439
And they were prying at the doors,
and they were shaking the train.

1058
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:48,040
And it took forever for staff
to get them off of the train.

1059
01:08:49,040 --> 01:08:51,840
It was definitely one of those
scenarios where the potential

1060
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:54,880
for danger was very much present.
But that whole day

1061
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,439
just feels like a dream to me.
Like, everything went so well

1062
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:03,000
that I was like, "Oh, we got on the
train and we're safe and we're here.

1063
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,040
"We're going to get home!
Ha ha, there's people on the train."

1064
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:09,640
And not really being aware of,
"Oh, shit, this is a shit show!"

1065
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,920
ANNOUNCER:Ladies and gentlemen,
fantastic evening.

1066
01:09:12,960 --> 01:09:16,680
And now, we want you
to go home safely.

1067
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:19,080
Fantastic evening.

1068
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,000
Please leave Brighton
safe with good memories.

1069
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:26,680
Please do not push,
please do not push.

1070
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:29,880
Listen to the police
and the stewards.

1071
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:33,960
KEVIN CLAXTON:By this time,
we were already tired.

1072
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,600
It had been a hot,
sticky, difficult evening.

1073
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,200
We'd run out of drinking
water a long time ago,

1074
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:42,080
and there's no time
to refresh or whatever.

1075
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:48,640
We had real trouble getting
people safely off the beach.

1076
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:52,440
I saw people slipping and
falling underneath people

1077
01:09:52,480 --> 01:09:54,640
and getting trodden on.

1078
01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:56,960
ANNOUNCER:..start
making your way home.

1079
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,240
But please don't push.

1080
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:03,640
Listen to the police
and the stewards.

1081
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,680
ADAM VAUGHAN:Remember having
to walk through the crowd,

1082
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:10,520
holding hands in a chain,
so we didn't lose each other.

1083
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,680
Buzzing still!Yeah.
Such a great day.

1084
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:16,720
Yeah, with a suntan as well.

1085
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:19,800
Been on the beach so long!
Yeah, some tan lines.

1086
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:23,200
Just the sea of people...
Trying to get home!

1087
01:10:24,440 --> 01:10:26,960
ANNOUNCER:Please take their advice.

1088
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,440
CLAXTON:There were tens
of thousands of people

1089
01:10:33,480 --> 01:10:35,800
moving off the beach into the town.

1090
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,720
Lots had come by rail,
and we knew that there weren't

1091
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:42,000
a lot of trains laid on to
take people away afterwards.

1092
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,560
And very quickly, the gates
to the railway station

1093
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,240
were shut by the railway company.

1094
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:53,760
We tried to get a few trains in
and we did get some trains in.

1095
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:58,360
We had buses laid on to take people
I think at least as far as London.

1096
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:00,680
There was a huge
operation that went on

1097
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:03,080
to try and get people
safely out of the city.

1098
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:08,640
ROB CARRON:At that point, the last
buses were in the garage by 12:30.

1099
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:12,600
That particular night, there
were no night buses as such.

1100
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,160
I think we invented 'em that
night to get them through,

1101
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:17,560
due to the number of people
that were still around.

1102
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:20,400
We got calls out to the drivers
to say, "Those of you that want

1103
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:23,560
"to do extra for us tonight, if you
want to do an extra round trip,

1104
01:11:23,600 --> 01:11:26,320
"you'll be paid accordingly
and it'll all be moved on."

1105
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,080
From there, we had to make sure
we can get as many people on

1106
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,280
as what we could, and try to
ensure that those more vulnerable

1107
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,440
were getting on to get home.

1108
01:11:35,440 --> 01:11:38,400
KAREN BATEMAN:I was meant to go back
to London and it was a bit like,

1109
01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:41,040
"Wow, I don't think I'm going
to get a train at the moment,

1110
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:43,320
"so we'll just hang out
on the beach."

1111
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:46,400
Damien disappeared off somewhere,
I hung out with Graham and Neil.

1112
01:11:46,440 --> 01:11:48,840
We had a couple of beers on
the beach, and then we had

1113
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:51,040
a bit of a wander around.

1114
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,360
You couldn't move,
but the buzz was unreal.

1115
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:55,920
The amount of people that
were there, the conversations

1116
01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:58,760
taking place, the happiness
and the madness of people.

1117
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:01,040
It was just absolutely mental!

1118
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,920
The last time I saw anything like
that was when I went to Wembley

1119
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,800
for the Brighton-Man United
cup final. And that's the only time

1120
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,640
I've seen that amount of people.
Some drivers had never driven

1121
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,280
certain routes before,
because they'd just now appeared

1122
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:15,040
because we got some drivers
to stay on and do extra services.

1123
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,920
And we almost came to a
decision that if you don't know

1124
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:21,400
where you're going, effectively
you know your end goal,

1125
01:12:21,440 --> 01:12:24,400
get yourself there, and
get back as soon as you can!

1126
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:28,080
Cos I can't see the pavement yet.
There's still that many people!

1127
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:33,600
Thankfully, it was a
brilliant, a peaceful party.

1128
01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:37,000
There was no aggravation,
no argument, no trouble.

1129
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:40,400
It was great fun.
It was a massive challenge.

1130
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:43,880
And it still ranks as one of
my highest memories in my job.

1131
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:51,480
(HUMMING)
Oh, is that a video camera?

1132
01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:05,480
BATEMAN:It was time, it was starting
to get a little bit lighter.

1133
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,920
We walked back up
towards the train station.

1134
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:12,200
Graham and Neil walked back up
with me and, as I was going,

1135
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:15,560
Neil said, "Oh,
can I take your number?"

1136
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:18,200
(LAUGHS)

1137
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:20,600
I owe my brother a lot!

1138
01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:25,440
More than I can say.So I quickly
scribbled it down and was like,

1139
01:13:25,480 --> 01:13:29,280
"Yeah, be great to hear from you,"
looking at Graham!

1140
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:32,040
(LAUGHS)
And that was it.

1141
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:34,680
I went off into the night,
into the early morning,

1142
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:39,080
got back to West London, showered,
straight back into Central London

1143
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:43,400
and did a day's work at my desk,
going, "Oh, my God, what a night!"

1144
01:13:43,440 --> 01:13:45,800
Can't believe you did that.

1145
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:49,320
CLAXTON:All of us who started that
evening at sort of four o'clock

1146
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,480
the previous afternoon,
didn't generally get off

1147
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,320
until five, six, seven
o'clock in the morning.

1148
01:13:55,360 --> 01:13:58,000
I decided to try and
drive along the seafront,

1149
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,080
which I did with some difficulty,

1150
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:02,320
because of the
rubbish and everything.

1151
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,440
The whole beach between the piers

1152
01:14:04,480 --> 01:14:07,040
just looked like
some huge refugee camp.

1153
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:11,760
BECKY STEVENS:There were
just cars abandoned everywhere.

1154
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,040
There were just clothes,
there were shoes.

1155
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:17,840
It was like people had just
disappeared and left everything.

1156
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:21,280
There were bodies of people lying,
just sleeping on the ground.

1157
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:24,240
I ended up not going home,
because I realised my housemates

1158
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:28,360
were having a party and I went to
my mum's instead and hid there,

1159
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,520
while trying to work out
what on earth...

1160
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:34,920
I just felt like I'd
destroyed my hometown.

1161
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:38,760
It felt so awful what
happened to the city.

1162
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:41,040
And that was so sad,
because it should have been

1163
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,320
such a good thing to celebrate.

1164
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:48,680
I drove along there, and
then ended up back at home.

1165
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,640
And I remember standing there,
and then looking down

1166
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:54,320
and realising that I still
had my full uniform on.

1167
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:56,800
I had all my kit on...

1168
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,920
Kit that I should have
left at the police station.

1169
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,040
And just thinking...

1170
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:06,560
"I don't know what's gone on,

1171
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,400
"I just don't know how
we've got through that."

1172
01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:23,800
GARRY:The following morning,
I had my kids with me.

1173
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:26,600
The tidy-up was going on.

1174
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:30,200
We jumped on our bus and we headed
down on holiday for two weeks.

1175
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:34,400
So, the thing I remember most about
that was getting a phone call

1176
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:37,800
from Zoe saying,
"Why aren't you here?

1177
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,400
"Why aren't you dealing with this?"

1178
01:15:40,440 --> 01:15:44,000
We had no crisis
management strategy.

1179
01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:46,360
So, there was an aftermath.

1180
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,920
ALEX BRIAULT:I also had another job,
where I worked out of town

1181
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:54,640
and had to get up early.
I had a pick-up truck at the time,

1182
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,400
and I remember driving through
the rubbish along the seafront.

1183
01:15:58,440 --> 01:16:01,480
And the rubbish being as high
as the wheels of my truck.

1184
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,920
BECKY STEVENS:
So, woke up the next morning.

1185
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:09,480
I spoke to my boss, and he told me
that a clean-up was starting,

1186
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,680
but he told me to stay at home.

1187
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,200
So, I didn't need to
come down to work on it.

1188
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:16,640
But I felt incredibly guilty,

1189
01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:20,640
because I felt like
I had done this to my town.

1190
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:24,200
So, I did go down later on and
I went and helped pick up rubbish.

1191
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:31,160
Of course, what happened was that
then, the sun didn't stop shining.

1192
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:34,040
So, we could have done
with some rain to wash away

1193
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:37,000
the lovely smell of urine
that was over the whole beach.

1194
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:39,880
So, it absolutely stunk
for about two weeks.

1195
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,640
NORMAN: I was mortified. I thought
everyone was going to love me

1196
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:47,640
for what we'd done. And the
idea they would all hate me...

1197
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:51,560
Literally, don't shit
on your own doorstep.

1198
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,080
So, I immediately said,
"Just whatever it takes,

1199
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,200
"I'll pay for the clean-up."
Broken glass and piss...

1200
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:02,320
The two things you don't want in
your life when you go to the seaside.

1201
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:07,360
NICK STEVENSON:This was written
20 years ago this week, I think.

1202
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,520
I know we held the magazine back
because we wanted to get this in.

1203
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:13,480
Cos print magazines,
the deadlines are really tight.

1204
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:16,080
And to get something in
that's new is really difficult.

1205
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:19,320
So, we held back this double page
spread to get the story in.

1206
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:22,640
Well, first of all, the headline,
Fatboy Slim Is Fucking In Trouble.

1207
01:17:23,720 --> 01:17:27,880
When this was happening,
all the papers, the kind of buzz

1208
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:32,160
and the media around it was
a sort of negative reaction

1209
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:34,960
to what had happened, in a way.
People weren't necessarily

1210
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:37,280
celebrating what had
happened positively.

1211
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:40,280
They were talking about how Fatboy
Slim has to leave the country,

1212
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:43,600
they've caused such a massive mess,
or people have been injured.

1213
01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:47,040
WATTS:We got into the office on
Monday and had a sort of debrief,

1214
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:49,440
and that's when the press
had started to come out

1215
01:17:49,480 --> 01:17:52,240
that someone had died
of a heart attack.

1216
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,560
There was lots of aggro.

1217
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:57,840
A lot of false reporting,
but we didn't feel euphoric.

1218
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,040
We felt broken.

1219
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:05,440
Most people had a good time.
There was a few injuries.

1220
01:18:05,480 --> 01:18:08,920
But considering that amount of
people - there were six arrests,

1221
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,160
which is apparently
less than there normally is

1222
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:13,360
on a Saturday night in Brighton.

1223
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:15,960
GARRY:There was a lot of
distress amongst the services,

1224
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,560
amongst the police and
amongst the ambulance services,

1225
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:20,840
because they had no
control over the situation.

1226
01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,840
There was a lot of anxiety there,
and that fed into the media a bit.

1227
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,280
They were available to
comment on the event.

1228
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:30,360
They weren't commenting upon it
as a musical experience,

1229
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:33,760
a cultural experience.
They were commenting on it

1230
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:38,960
as an averted disaster, like a
Hillsborough that nearly happened.

1231
01:18:50,520 --> 01:18:54,600
An Australian nurse died.
She fell off the escarpment.

1232
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,840
She'd been at a
party after the event,

1233
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:01,440
and had an accident
falling off the scarp.

1234
01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:07,520
NORMAN: It was a horrible thing,
that someone had to die that night.

1235
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:10,440
And the poor girl, Karen, the nurse.

1236
01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:15,080
I managed to get in touch with her
parents, and I spoke to her mum

1237
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:20,080
and I just said, "Look, I'm so
sorry." And she said, "Don't worry.

1238
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:25,160
"It was going to happen.
She phoned me earlier that night

1239
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:27,680
"and said, I'm having
the best night of my life."

1240
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:30,360
And she said, "Thanks for
making the last night of her life

1241
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,000
"the best night of her life,"
which really got me.

1242
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,040
But yeah...

1243
01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:40,880
I still feel, because I was
the reason she was in Brighton

1244
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:43,600
that night, I feel somewhat
responsible for her death,

1245
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,120
and that will always haunt me.

1246
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,840
CLAXTON:The city had to learn
from the events of that evening

1247
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:58,960
that had things gone more wrong,
it might have been that

1248
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:02,080
several people could have
been put more in harm's way.

1249
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,280
My own organisation, the police,
we had a big debriefing

1250
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,760
where events were openly discussed.

1251
01:20:10,480 --> 01:20:16,720
There was a council enquiry
which I went to and spoke at.

1252
01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:20,880
The city as a whole,
collectively, came to the view

1253
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:25,000
that an event of that size
needed better planning,

1254
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:28,880
and at that scale, shouldn't be
allowed to happen on the beach.

1255
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:34,240
What happened on that night was a
brilliant event for lots of people,

1256
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:36,680
but it wasn't a great
event for everybody.

1257
01:20:36,720 --> 01:20:39,080
And it was a traumatic time.

1258
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:42,800
And I think history
shouldn't lose sight of that.

1259
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:01,120
NICK STEVENSON:This kind of thing
of having a big free party

1260
01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:03,520
used to be the norm in the UK.
This was part and parcel

1261
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:06,160
of going out at the weekend.
This was the late '80s

1262
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:08,680
and early '90s was about.
A lot of my generation grew up

1263
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,480
when we hadn't ever got to
experience the free party scene.

1264
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,120
So, we don't know what it's like
to turn up to a free party,

1265
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:17,440
and just dance. So it's kind of
weird in a way, that suddenly,

1266
01:21:17,480 --> 01:21:20,200
out of nowhere, there's
this massive free event

1267
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:23,120
that everyone can turn up to,
and it's just liberating

1268
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,840
and everyone's having a great time.
And then immediately,

1269
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:28,360
the morning after, you're like,
actually, we're never

1270
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:30,600
going to get to do that ever again.

1271
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:38,280
COCKING:The problems that
there were on the day,

1272
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,320
and there were massive problems,
were to do with infrastructure.

1273
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:44,280
Myself and other people who work
in the field of crowd psychology

1274
01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:47,880
use this as an example to show,
yes, this was a near catastrophe,

1275
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:51,000
but the catastrophe was to do with
the infrastructure collapsing.

1276
01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:53,520
It was absolutely nothing
to do with crowd behaviour,

1277
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,200
and it's a very good example,
I would say, of the crowd

1278
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,840
actually preventing disaster,
because there were times

1279
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,160
when we had to work with the crowd.

1280
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:07,080
STEVENS:One of the
things that came out

1281
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:10,280
after the Big Beach Boutique concert
was that there were going to be

1282
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,000
no more free, unticketed
events in the UK.

1283
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:15,480
We were incredibly lucky that day,

1284
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:18,360
but it was only a short amount of
time that there would have been

1285
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:20,600
another free ticketed
event, where something

1286
01:22:20,640 --> 01:22:23,800
could have gone really wrong. So,
I think without Big Beach Boutique

1287
01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:26,560
kind of setting the line
and making sure that we...

1288
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:29,320
It really helped the
industry improve dramatically,

1289
01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:31,880
and it has meant that
we've gone on in the UK

1290
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:34,520
to have some of the best
and safest events in the world.

1291
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,480
GARRY:I think one of the
nice things I remember was...

1292
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:44,320
Well, the phone didn't stop
ringing from all over the planet.

1293
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:46,960
We started to play
beaches all around the world.

1294
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:52,720
So, Big Beach Boutique happened
in Rio on an even bigger scale.

1295
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:55,920
It happened in Japan.
By then, it was selling tickets

1296
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:58,360
and it was a
different kind of model.

1297
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:03,400
It wasn't the kind of free spirited,
spontaneous, acid house spirit.

1298
01:23:03,440 --> 01:23:06,480
It was a bit more organised.

1299
01:23:06,520 --> 01:23:11,000
And it just took Norman to
another level internationally.

1300
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:18,080
STEVENSON:This party in Brighton
was a milestone in dance music.

1301
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:20,800
It was a change in
how people perceived DJs

1302
01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:23,960
and what they could do.
It was not just a turning point

1303
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,200
for dance music and DJs, but also
for music culture in general.

1304
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,080
I think an acceptance that
dance music is more than just

1305
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,200
sweaty nightclubs
or underground raves.

1306
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:35,720
It was something for everybody.

1307
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:41,880
NORMAN: For me, it opened more doors,

1308
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:44,560
just in my relationship
with the city.

1309
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:49,560
I kind of thought there
might be sections of the community

1310
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:54,320
down here who would hate me,
after we almost destroyed the city.

1311
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,640
But everyone seemed to love me.

1312
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,760
And from then on, everybody
I meet walking down the street,

1313
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,440
the first thing they'll say is,
"When are you going to have

1314
01:24:02,480 --> 01:24:04,760
"another beach party?"

1315
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,440
Fatboy Slim!
(WHOOPING)

1316
01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:11,960
Thank you so much, Fatboy Slim!

1317
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,480
Fatboy Slim! Yes, man!

1318
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,920
# I have to celebrate you, baby

1319
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:23,800
# I have to praise you like I should

1320
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:28,000
# I have to praise you
like I should...

1321
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:34,200
NORMAN: I'm still doing this
because I genuinely love it.

1322
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,400
I love hearing tunes,
and just instantly

1323
01:24:38,440 --> 01:24:40,800
wanting to share them
with other people.

1324
01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:43,720
And something very, very
powerful happens at raves,

1325
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:49,240
and at parties, where it
becomes stronger than the music,

1326
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:52,000
becomes stronger than the
sum of the people who are there.

1327
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:56,720
Something happens where the room
just becomes this one mass of energy,

1328
01:24:56,760 --> 01:25:00,240
and that's what gives me my energy.
I kind of feed off that.

1329
01:25:01,400 --> 01:25:05,320
It's something that drives me along
and something that I am very grateful

1330
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,720
that I've been allowed
to do for so long.

1331
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:20,600
STEVENS:So, I teach event safety and
crowd management at universities.

1332
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:23,960
I often use Big Beach Boutique
as an example of an event

1333
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:27,280
that obviously, where
things kind of did go wrong,

1334
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,320
but what we can learn from it and
what we take away from it.

1335
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:33,640
Some of them have never heard
of Big Beach Boutique before.

1336
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:36,480
I tell them about it and
they are always blown away

1337
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:39,520
by the scale of what
happened and the size of it.

1338
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:42,240
# ..I have to praise you
like I should

1339
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,440
# I have to praise you...

1340
01:25:46,480 --> 01:25:49,480
When you're there in the moment,
you don't always think about it.

1341
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:52,000
But it's only looking back
on it now, you kind of think,

1342
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:55,960
"Wow, that was a huge cultural
milestone in our country,

1343
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,840
"in our country's history,"
and I was there.

1344
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:09,280
That for me was the point
in my life where I was like,

1345
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:12,360
"I want to do this,
I've got to get into this.

1346
01:26:12,400 --> 01:26:17,000
Goosebumps already, just thinking
about that day, and thinking...

1347
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:19,560
This is just some guy
playing records, you know?

1348
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:23,360
But look how happy. I could
do that... How hard can it be?

1349
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:34,920
I was 30 years of age
and I'd been quite unhappy

1350
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:38,160
for 10 years, really.

1351
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:44,240
Fighting... I was shy,
lonely, and I had depression.

1352
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:47,880
This day has completely
changed my life.

1353
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:52,840
Completely turned it around
from a very, very bad place.

1354
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:08,840
It's hard to put into words. It's
just like pure elation, you know?

1355
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,840
It's this full spread
of me on Sam's shoulders.

1356
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:17,520
It was such a beautiful day,
and I felt like that picture

1357
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:21,280
really captured my time that day,

1358
01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:23,800
and how a lot of
people must have felt.

1359
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:38,800
From a little thing this big.

1360
01:27:38,840 --> 01:27:44,680
Grown up to be this
fantastic, amazing, kind,

1361
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:48,320
generous rugby player.

1362
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:52,240
Yes, he's doing really well now.
He's my little miracle.

1363
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:12,960
NORMAN: I think it's apt that
it took 20 years for the council

1364
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,120
to allow us back on the pebbles.

1365
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,400
The first rule was
it can't be free any more.

1366
01:28:17,440 --> 01:28:21,520
I would love to do this for free,
I don't do this to make money.

1367
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:25,560
I do this because I love this city
and I get so much pride in doing it.

1368
01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:28,720
But in order to control it,
you have to fence it in

1369
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,960
and have a certain amount of people.
You can't just invite the world.

1370
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:34,240
That was one lesson we learnt.

1371
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:36,600
(CHEERING)

1372
01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,000
# I have to praise you

1373
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:47,920
# I have to praise you

1374
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,280
# I have to praise you

1375
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:05,320
# I have to praise you...

1376
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:26,960
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