Who remembers way way back to Fatboy Slim’s 2002 iconic beach party? 🏖️
The year was 2002 and DJHis album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars had stormed the charts, with his single Weapon of Choice scooping the Grammy for Best Video just months earlier. Married toThen, on July 13 that year, he threw the beach party to end all beach parties: Big Beach Boutique II, which is now being remembered in acharting the build up, the mayhem and the aftermath of what has since been described as Brighton’s Woodstock.
But his soaring popularity meant that the 2002 event received an overwhelming amount of media coverage and attention. With the crowds spilling out of control, the chief of police considered canceling the event before Fatboy Slim had even performed. But the security team feared that letting down the 250,000 strong crowd could prove even more dangerous.‘It’s a monster that’s gone out of control,’ he told T4’s Vernon Kay during an on camera interview ahead of the show.‘I vividly remember the day becoming more riotous,’ Andrea Dewhurst tells.
Jo Blood recalls, ‘At one point, we looked up at one of the hotels and there was a couple shagging in one of the windows. They were quite literally performing to a crowd of thousands.’ Fatboy Slim reveals in the documentary that the death of Karen has haunted him and he reached out to her mother to offer his condolences. She told him that her daughter had called earlier that night to say she was having the best night of her life and thanked him for making her Karen’s last night of her life so special.
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