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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
when we finished was,
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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
when I'd left drama school,
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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
legitimate pleasures,
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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
in Brighton now 22 years.
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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
work with, as well as a lot of
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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
for me to go to college,
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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
relationship with The Housemartins
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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
are playing this music?"
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All this wonder, which was
making it really exciting.
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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
necessarily in the beginning.
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It was stuff that came over
from Detroit and Chicago,
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and then it started to
get a London feel to it.
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And then, Chime by Orbital.
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That's what kind of got me
in the back of my mate
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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
just fucking terrifying,
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and frightening, but
exhilarating, and exciting.
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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
it was such a big culture
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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
called Kamikaze Do Or Die.
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Quite a few free parties,
you'd just drive along and wait
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to find out where
you're going to be going.
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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
literally dance all night.
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COX:For five years straight,
I was doing maybe two parties
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on a Thursday, two or
three parties on a Friday,
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two or three parties on a Saturday,
two parties on a Sunday,
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and possibly one party
on a Monday, for five years!
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In my car, going up and
down as far as Cornwall,
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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
on the road with Freak Power,
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and X amount of people would come.
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And if I didn't bring the band
and I just played records,
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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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And the promoters was also the same.
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If you're putting on a party
in this way, you're going to jail,
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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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The rave scene as a
whole did get quashed,
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but it then re-emerged
into super clubs.
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And then, we had the
rise of the superstar DJs.
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GARRY:Norman quietly
became Fatboy Slim,
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and then it started
to become something.
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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
was quite a thing.
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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.
And I think the industry
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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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And it was a really exciting time.
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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
around at that point,
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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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And that became what
became known as big beat.
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MAN:What he did was put UK dance
music on the map in the late '90s,
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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
with me as a 14-year-old,
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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!
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So, this is what it's going to be.
We had to put book police,
454
00:30:10,970 --> 00:30:15,770
we had to book security...
Oh! Stewards, toilets,
455
00:30:15,810 --> 00:30:19,850
sound arrays, crowd control,
merchandise.
456
00:30:21,530 --> 00:30:25,530
So, we all sat down, tried to work
out how we were going to pay for it.
457
00:30:25,570 --> 00:30:28,050
Norman's quite popular
in America, isn't he?
458
00:30:28,090 --> 00:30:31,330
So, Garry spoke to
his live agent and said,
459
00:30:31,370 --> 00:30:34,970
"Norman is willing
to do a corporate gig."
460
00:30:35,010 --> 00:30:38,170
Not the sort of thing he does.
"What can we get for it?"
461
00:30:38,210 --> 00:30:40,410
And he managed to get a gig,
462
00:30:40,450 --> 00:30:43,330
and it was approximately,
like, half a million dollars.
463
00:30:43,370 --> 00:30:45,810
And the money for that
gig was going to pay for
464
00:30:45,850 --> 00:30:48,490
all the infrastructure that
we needed to be able to put on
465
00:30:48,530 --> 00:30:51,050
a show for free in Brighton.
466
00:30:51,090 --> 00:30:53,570
So he flew out, did the gig.
467
00:30:53,610 --> 00:30:55,930
I remember the
feedback at the time...
468
00:30:55,970 --> 00:30:59,250
I think there might have been 150
people there at this corporate gig.
469
00:30:59,290 --> 00:31:01,770
It was dead.
I mean, it's a corporate gig.
470
00:31:01,810 --> 00:31:03,970
A massive DJ playing
for people in suits.
471
00:31:07,610 --> 00:31:10,290
It has been a journey in 2002.
472
00:31:10,330 --> 00:31:13,450
This is a general
synopsis of what's going on.
473
00:31:13,490 --> 00:31:16,370
Show down in Seoul,
England v Sweden...
474
00:31:17,410 --> 00:31:20,130
AMES:Building up to that show
was just like any other show.
475
00:31:20,170 --> 00:31:22,650
It's in the cycle of gigs
that we were doing.
476
00:31:22,690 --> 00:31:24,930
It was just another show.
477
00:31:24,970 --> 00:31:27,450
Before Norman did
the show in Brighton,
478
00:31:27,490 --> 00:31:29,850
he was gallivanting around Japan
479
00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:32,450
as the official DJ for
England at the World Cup.
480
00:31:32,490 --> 00:31:35,090
So, leading up to it was
a really, really busy time.
481
00:31:36,330 --> 00:31:38,810
No gig today, so we can
have a wander around.
482
00:31:38,850 --> 00:31:42,610
And right now, we're off to Adidas to
go and meet David Beckham's boots.
483
00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:45,850
Joy! Joy!
484
00:31:47,530 --> 00:31:50,490
OK...
If you ask anyone who was
485
00:31:50,530 --> 00:31:55,250
the biggest DJ or
dance music producer,
486
00:31:55,290 --> 00:31:59,450
you would I reckon nine times out
of 10, people would say Fatboy Slim.
487
00:31:59,490 --> 00:32:01,850
Fatboy Slim.
Fatboy Slim.
488
00:32:01,890 --> 00:32:04,770
What?
(THEY CHEER)
489
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:19,530
MOORE:What Norman did, he laid the
foundations for stadium dance music.
490
00:32:19,570 --> 00:32:23,530
It was proving that a DJ
could sell out a venue
491
00:32:23,570 --> 00:32:26,730
rather than, say, a rock act.
That was an important thing.
492
00:32:26,770 --> 00:32:30,890
I really like this idea that you
could have a job in dance music.
493
00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:33,490
It could be serious, you can
take your career seriously,
494
00:32:33,530 --> 00:32:36,170
but you didn't have to
take yourself too seriously.
495
00:32:36,210 --> 00:32:39,690
The USP was, let's be
serious about our fun.
496
00:32:46,450 --> 00:32:49,290
STEVENS:In the last
multi-agency planning meeting
497
00:32:49,330 --> 00:32:53,250
in the run-up to the event,
I realised from the network
498
00:32:53,290 --> 00:32:56,290
that I was plugged into, in terms
of the clubbing and dance scene
499
00:32:56,330 --> 00:32:59,330
in Brighton, that we were
getting an awful lot of coverage.
500
00:32:59,370 --> 00:33:02,330
So, I kind of tentatively
raised my hand and I said,
501
00:33:02,370 --> 00:33:05,410
"Look, I think we're going to
have a lot more people coming
502
00:33:05,450 --> 00:33:07,890
"than we're planning for,
because it's getting
503
00:33:07,930 --> 00:33:10,690
"a huge amount of coverage".
And I just so clearly remember
504
00:33:10,730 --> 00:33:13,010
a senior council officer
turning to me and saying,
505
00:33:13,050 --> 00:33:16,130
"Don't be silly, Becky. This
isn't The Beatles. It's just a DJ."
506
00:33:23,010 --> 00:33:25,650
KAY:T4 was the show that
talked about the music.
507
00:33:25,690 --> 00:33:29,490
We were the ones that gave our
opinions and we rode that wave.
508
00:33:29,530 --> 00:33:32,050
If the NME was talking about it,
we would talk about it.
509
00:33:32,090 --> 00:33:35,530
So, Norman and that kind of music
was always on our playlist.
510
00:33:35,570 --> 00:33:38,890
And then it was like, "Oh, we're
going to do Big Beach Boutique.
511
00:33:38,930 --> 00:33:42,690
"Do you fancy it?" Yeah! Two-footed
challenge into that, please.
512
00:33:46,130 --> 00:33:48,890
WATTS:We'd hired all the
front suites of The Grand
513
00:33:48,930 --> 00:33:52,850
for family, friends, DJs. We
drove up on the Friday morning,
514
00:33:52,890 --> 00:33:55,890
so parked the car,
went up to see the room,
515
00:33:55,930 --> 00:33:58,770
had a heart attack because of
course, I organised the rooms.
516
00:33:58,810 --> 00:34:01,210
And oh, my God, the view!
517
00:34:01,250 --> 00:34:05,770
NORMAN: We'd hired a room so
that my parents and my son Woody,
518
00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:09,090
who would have been one,
had somewhere safe to watch.
519
00:34:09,130 --> 00:34:12,930
This is probably just about
the best view of Brighton,
520
00:34:12,970 --> 00:34:15,770
but one that locals
seldom get to see.
521
00:34:18,130 --> 00:34:20,970
Everything was all in place.
So, we went out for dinner
522
00:34:21,010 --> 00:34:23,330
with Garry and family,
as far as I remember.
523
00:34:23,370 --> 00:34:26,850
Then we went over to Norman's
house and Zoe's in Hove.
524
00:34:26,890 --> 00:34:29,170
First time I'd actually
properly met him.
525
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,920
We're all in there, it got to
about midnight and he said,
526
00:34:31,970 --> 00:34:34,930
"Oh, everyone, I want to play
the song that I've remixed
527
00:34:34,970 --> 00:34:37,170
"for the end song."
528
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,960
(REMIX PLAYS)
There's just something a lot more,
529
00:34:40,010 --> 00:34:42,490
like, hands in the air, beautiful.
530
00:34:46,010 --> 00:34:49,050
'I'd done a version of Pure Shores,
which we got pressed up
531
00:34:49,090 --> 00:34:51,770
'on an acetate, which
cost me like 80 quid,
532
00:34:51,810 --> 00:34:54,050
'so I was definitely
going to play that.'
533
00:34:55,050 --> 00:34:58,850
Probably edit their version
down, because it's a bit long.
534
00:34:58,890 --> 00:35:00,930
There's too many gaps in the middle.
535
00:35:00,970 --> 00:35:03,250
Edit it down, and then
just overlay that...
536
00:35:03,290 --> 00:35:06,770
(BEAT PLAYING)
Overlay that all over it.
537
00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:09,570
So definitely, it
needs a bit more thump.
538
00:35:09,610 --> 00:35:12,250
So, I've got it going now at 100 BPM.
539
00:35:12,290 --> 00:35:14,970
I get out the 100 BPM disc,
and then we just got
540
00:35:15,010 --> 00:35:17,370
a whole load of different beats.
541
00:35:19,730 --> 00:35:23,490
(BEATS PLAYING)
542
00:35:30,730 --> 00:35:33,050
You could just end up like that.
543
00:35:34,210 --> 00:35:37,490
Just start with the drum beat
and slowly bring it in.
544
00:35:37,530 --> 00:35:39,770
Yeah, that's doable.
545
00:35:48,330 --> 00:35:51,650
GARRY:I remember going
to bed on the Friday night,
546
00:35:51,690 --> 00:35:55,930
really in a state of high anxiety,
praying enough people would come.
547
00:35:57,090 --> 00:36:00,010
Because we'd risked
a lot to set this up,
548
00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:05,170
on the assumption it would be bigger
than the previous year in 2001.
549
00:36:06,770 --> 00:36:10,410
And of course, the next
morning was a beautiful day.
550
00:36:10,450 --> 00:36:13,650
But you never know it's going
to work until it's happening.
551
00:36:17,650 --> 00:36:21,090
ELLA SADIE GUTHRIE:
Sunrise or sunset, you ask me.
552
00:36:21,130 --> 00:36:23,690
As you get pebble
dust between your toes.
553
00:36:24,810 --> 00:36:27,690
I don't know. Both, I lie.
554
00:36:29,010 --> 00:36:31,410
I have never been an early riser.
555
00:36:32,570 --> 00:36:35,370
To let my body wake with
the dawn would be a betrayal
556
00:36:35,410 --> 00:36:38,250
of the dreams that hold me down
until at least 10am.
557
00:36:39,930 --> 00:36:42,570
The sunset is deeper.
558
00:36:42,610 --> 00:36:45,490
The last showdown of sky.
559
00:36:45,530 --> 00:36:49,090
Clint Eastwood firing the
last round from a revolver
560
00:36:49,130 --> 00:36:51,530
before the credits roll.
561
00:36:51,570 --> 00:36:54,530
A wrap party, a swan song.
562
00:36:55,690 --> 00:36:57,970
Do you feel lucky?
563
00:36:59,410 --> 00:37:02,410
WATTS:I'll never forget it.
I opened the window,
564
00:37:02,450 --> 00:37:06,330
looked outside, and I turned around
to my wife and I said, "Fuck.
565
00:37:06,370 --> 00:37:08,810
"Fuck!" She said, "What's wrong?"
566
00:37:08,850 --> 00:37:12,410
I went, "There's no cloud in
the sky, and there's 30,000 people
567
00:37:12,450 --> 00:37:15,050
"on the beach,
and it's not 9 o'clock".
568
00:37:26,690 --> 00:37:29,290
Come on!
The weekend has landed.
569
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:32,490
Just, it was just party time.
(LAUGHS) It was just party time!
570
00:37:32,530 --> 00:37:35,850
Car full of people.
Loads of tunes, windows down.
571
00:37:35,890 --> 00:37:38,370
Banging, weather was great.
Off we went.
572
00:37:39,370 --> 00:37:41,970
ADAM VAUGHAN:Our friends had
been to the first Big Beach.
573
00:37:42,010 --> 00:37:45,250
Some of them turned around to us
saying, "Oh, he's doing another one.
574
00:37:45,290 --> 00:37:48,250
"Do you wanna come
along?" Yeah, why not?
575
00:37:48,290 --> 00:37:50,850
Yeah! We'll see what this is about.
576
00:37:50,890 --> 00:37:53,610
Got nothing else to do.
What's the worst that can happen?
577
00:37:53,650 --> 00:37:56,130
Exactly. So we ended up
tagging along with them,
578
00:37:56,170 --> 00:37:58,730
and heading over to Brighton.
579
00:38:02,730 --> 00:38:05,770
SIMON PEGG:Neither Nick or I
had a car, so we borrowed
580
00:38:05,810 --> 00:38:09,050
this knackered old Ford Sierra
to get down to Brighton!
581
00:38:09,090 --> 00:38:13,970
I don't even know if we were
supposed to drive it, really.
582
00:38:14,010 --> 00:38:18,210
I mean, I'm pretty sure we sorted
out the insurance, etcetera...
583
00:38:21,570 --> 00:38:26,090
GARRY:I got a call from my wife
at about half 10, 11 o'clock.
584
00:38:26,130 --> 00:38:30,410
She was driving down and she rang to
say that there must be some accident
585
00:38:30,450 --> 00:38:34,730
on the M23, because
there was a traffic jam.
586
00:38:34,770 --> 00:38:37,330
So I said, "Look,
don't worry Gill, just go.
587
00:38:37,370 --> 00:38:40,130
"We know the back roads, just
come off and go the back roads".
588
00:38:40,170 --> 00:38:43,010
Anyway, I got on with
preparing the show,
589
00:38:43,050 --> 00:38:46,690
not realising that the traffic jam
was people coming to the show.
590
00:38:48,370 --> 00:38:52,970
The closer we got, the more people
we could see that were going
591
00:38:53,010 --> 00:38:56,090
and we were passing people
on the motorway and waving.
592
00:38:56,130 --> 00:38:59,130
And there was a lot of music
coming out of different cars.
593
00:38:59,170 --> 00:39:01,650
There's a lot of, "Oi! Oi!"
There was a lot of that.
594
00:39:02,850 --> 00:39:05,330
AYIESHA ADDERLY:
All ready for our weekend.
595
00:39:05,370 --> 00:39:07,970
I woke up in the morning,
getting all this stuff together
596
00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:11,050
and for some reason, I just
thought I'd do a pregnancy test.
597
00:39:11,090 --> 00:39:13,690
And the pregnancy
test was positive.
598
00:39:13,730 --> 00:39:16,570
I phoned my mom and she's like,
"You're meant to be going out
599
00:39:16,610 --> 00:39:19,410
"this weekend, you're going to
have to change your plans!"
600
00:39:19,450 --> 00:39:24,090
I was like, "Yeah, shit! Yeah,
I'm meant to be going out."
601
00:39:24,130 --> 00:39:30,770
So, that was a massive,
amazing, amazing find,
602
00:39:30,810 --> 00:39:33,330
because I would have
been drinking alcohol.
603
00:39:33,370 --> 00:39:35,650
So, I had to make
sure I didn't do that.
604
00:39:37,010 --> 00:39:39,450
NICK STEVENSON:I'd just
started working at Mixmag.
605
00:39:39,490 --> 00:39:42,490
So, this was like the first month
that I was literally in the office,
606
00:39:42,530 --> 00:39:44,570
and left uni about
a month before that.
607
00:39:44,610 --> 00:39:47,730
So, I've moved from Bournemouth
up to London for my big new job
608
00:39:47,770 --> 00:39:50,970
and I got sent down to Brighton
to cover the beach party.
609
00:39:51,010 --> 00:39:54,290
I got the train down on my own from
London to meet my mates in Brighton.
610
00:39:59,090 --> 00:40:03,330
HELEN HOWELL:It was me,
my boyfriend at the time Sam,
611
00:40:03,370 --> 00:40:08,210
my best friend there Louise,
and maybe three other folks.
612
00:40:08,250 --> 00:40:10,570
And we're on the train.
613
00:40:10,610 --> 00:40:13,770
And it just felt like this
giant party on the train.
614
00:40:13,810 --> 00:40:16,730
You felt like you were
making friends immediately.
615
00:40:16,770 --> 00:40:21,050
Everybody's sharing their food
and their drinks, and other things.
616
00:40:22,690 --> 00:40:26,610
Lots of music going on the train,
people are dancing on the train,
617
00:40:26,650 --> 00:40:30,530
just riding high, huge
expectation for the day.
618
00:40:38,650 --> 00:40:43,530
KAY:It felt like Southern Railway
had got every train in the UK
619
00:40:43,570 --> 00:40:46,890
to just pick people up wherever they
were and drop them off in Brighton.
620
00:40:46,930 --> 00:40:50,130
Honest, I think we did
a couple of links for T4
621
00:40:50,170 --> 00:40:53,290
outside Brighton Station,
and we just couldn't move
622
00:40:53,330 --> 00:40:56,330
for people coming at us. Not
going that way towards the station,
623
00:40:56,370 --> 00:40:58,730
just coming off.
It was insane.
624
00:41:05,330 --> 00:41:08,210
DANCE SYSTEM:We all lived a
little bit outside of Brighton.
625
00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:11,810
So on the day of the party,
we had no idea how big it was.
626
00:41:11,850 --> 00:41:14,890
So, I drove my car
with four of my mates.
627
00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:18,410
Basically, there was queues
going all along the Downs,
628
00:41:18,450 --> 00:41:20,810
and we couldn't get through,
there was traffic.
629
00:41:20,850 --> 00:41:22,930
It was like, "Fuck this."
630
00:41:22,970 --> 00:41:25,650
We drove on the other side
of the road, all the way through!
631
00:41:25,690 --> 00:41:28,130
I was like, "Fuck it, no cars
are coming the other way.
632
00:41:28,170 --> 00:41:30,730
"We've got to get there.
We have to get there."
633
00:41:30,770 --> 00:41:33,330
HOWELL:We got there early
enough to where we could find
634
00:41:33,370 --> 00:41:35,650
everything we needed.
We actually got food.
635
00:41:35,690 --> 00:41:38,090
We had sunscreen,
we had enough water,
636
00:41:38,130 --> 00:41:40,490
and we just chilled on the beach.
637
00:41:40,530 --> 00:41:42,890
But quickly, that changed.
638
00:41:42,930 --> 00:41:46,490
Within the course of an hour
or two of us arriving there
639
00:41:46,530 --> 00:41:48,730
in the late afternoon, it's like,
640
00:41:48,770 --> 00:41:51,410
"Oh, shit, I'm having trouble
moving through the street.
641
00:41:51,450 --> 00:41:54,290
"We're going to have
to hunt for a bathroom."
642
00:41:57,530 --> 00:41:59,890
FROST:There was so
much fucking traffic.
643
00:41:59,930 --> 00:42:03,610
There was nowhere to park.
And then we went right up
644
00:42:03,650 --> 00:42:05,850
toward Hove, just
keeping on driving.
645
00:42:05,890 --> 00:42:08,290
But everywhere was
just fucking cars,
646
00:42:08,330 --> 00:42:10,410
like abandoned cars everywhere.
647
00:42:10,450 --> 00:42:12,850
People had just parked
anywhere they could.
648
00:42:12,890 --> 00:42:16,770
PEGG:We just thought, "Fuck it,
let's just get a ticket!"
649
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:19,170
So, I think we just left it.
650
00:42:19,210 --> 00:42:21,290
(LAUGHS) We abandoned it!
651
00:42:21,330 --> 00:42:23,450
We might as well have
just torched it there,
652
00:42:23,490 --> 00:42:27,250
although we needed it to get back.
But we put it on a kerb,
653
00:42:27,290 --> 00:42:29,930
got out of the car and
headed down to the beach.
654
00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:33,610
STEVENS:I remember
getting a call from a friend
655
00:42:33,650 --> 00:42:36,130
who was driving down
from London, saying,
656
00:42:36,170 --> 00:42:38,930
"Becky, you need to shut the road,
you need to shut Brighton.
657
00:42:38,970 --> 00:42:42,010
"We're in a traffic jam. It's going
all the way back past Gatwick,
658
00:42:42,050 --> 00:42:44,370
"and it's crazy". (LAUGHS)
659
00:42:44,410 --> 00:42:47,770
I was like, "Yeah, I'm not
sure I've got that authority,
660
00:42:47,810 --> 00:42:49,970
"but I'll pass that on!"
661
00:42:51,170 --> 00:42:54,130
SIMM:I remember arriving into
Brighton and just thinking, wow!
662
00:42:54,170 --> 00:42:56,330
It's like the whole city
had been closed down.
663
00:42:56,370 --> 00:42:59,410
Everybody was hiding in their
houses and it was just a huge rave.
664
00:42:59,450 --> 00:43:01,770
So, it was quite
mind blowing, actually.
665
00:43:01,810 --> 00:43:04,370
It was quite a sight to behold.
666
00:43:11,130 --> 00:43:14,090
# The weekend starts here. #
667
00:43:27,290 --> 00:43:29,010
KEVIN CLAXTON:Lots of police
officers in Brighton & Hove,
668
00:43:29,050 --> 00:43:31,530
as I did, didn't live
in the city at the time,
669
00:43:31,570 --> 00:43:33,730
and we had to travel
into the city.
670
00:43:33,770 --> 00:43:36,210
We were all told to come in
at 4 o'clock for a briefing
671
00:43:36,250 --> 00:43:39,290
by the command team.
Straight away, it was apparent
672
00:43:39,330 --> 00:43:44,330
just driving into the city,
that the estimates of 50,000 people
673
00:43:44,370 --> 00:43:46,890
were going, were not right.
674
00:43:46,930 --> 00:43:50,050
This is not the day we planned for.
675
00:43:50,090 --> 00:43:52,250
It's gone wrong.
676
00:43:54,290 --> 00:43:56,690
Right, you're happy?
Yeah, more than happy.
677
00:43:56,730 --> 00:43:58,370
'During the day, we'd
done some vox pops,
678
00:43:58,410 --> 00:44:01,410
which is the voice of the people.
With vox pops, you always try and be
679
00:44:01,450 --> 00:44:04,170
quite cheeky or irreverent,
and just ask stupid questions.
680
00:44:04,210 --> 00:44:07,090
I've got some very tedious Fatboy
Slim questions to ask you now.
681
00:44:07,130 --> 00:44:09,410
OK. What's Norman Cook's...?
682
00:44:10,730 --> 00:44:13,730
Might want to do that again.
What's Norman Cook's real name?
683
00:44:13,770 --> 00:44:16,250
'The beachfront was packed
and everyone was up for it.
684
00:44:16,290 --> 00:44:19,130
'Everyone just couldn't wait,
because they all knew the music
685
00:44:19,170 --> 00:44:22,250
and there was a huge air of
anticipation for him just dropping,
686
00:44:22,290 --> 00:44:24,730
"Check it out now,
the funk soul brother!"
687
00:44:24,770 --> 00:44:27,970
Yes! I'm checking it out
on the beach!
688
00:44:28,010 --> 00:44:30,210
It was just nuts.
689
00:44:32,930 --> 00:44:36,410
There was a real energy,
a real momentum for people
690
00:44:36,450 --> 00:44:39,290
to have a good time.
And I won't lie.
691
00:44:39,330 --> 00:44:42,530
There was a couple of points
when we were recording
692
00:44:42,570 --> 00:44:45,250
and you get the odd idiot
jump in and grab the mic.
693
00:44:45,290 --> 00:44:47,530
And I'm thinking,
there's a possibility
694
00:44:47,570 --> 00:44:49,770
this could get out of hand.
695
00:44:49,810 --> 00:44:53,130
BECKY STEVENS:People just kept
coming and coming and coming.
696
00:44:53,170 --> 00:44:56,650
And things started to
already get quite tense
697
00:44:56,690 --> 00:44:59,610
and stressful down there.
People couldn't get to the toilets.
698
00:44:59,650 --> 00:45:03,010
People couldn't move. The
beach was really, really full
699
00:45:03,050 --> 00:45:07,210
directly in front of the stage,
and it narrows slightly in places.
700
00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:09,850
So, people were
spreading to the east,
701
00:45:09,890 --> 00:45:12,290
but lots of people
were coming from the west
702
00:45:12,330 --> 00:45:15,490
or still coming off the trains from
London and coming straight down,
703
00:45:15,530 --> 00:45:19,090
directly into the main
footprint of the event site.
704
00:45:22,210 --> 00:45:25,730
ADDERLY:We were late, as per
usual, I'm always running late.
705
00:45:25,770 --> 00:45:28,530
And it was just mayhem.
706
00:45:28,570 --> 00:45:31,690
But I didn't think it in a
bad way. I really liked it,
707
00:45:31,730 --> 00:45:34,050
I really enjoyed how it felt.
I really loved that
708
00:45:34,090 --> 00:45:36,610
kind of like excitement.
709
00:45:36,650 --> 00:45:40,290
There was an edge, but
it didn't feel dangerous.
710
00:45:40,330 --> 00:45:44,530
We got to the bottom of West Street
just by where the cinema is,
711
00:45:44,570 --> 00:45:46,690
and it was just rammed.
712
00:45:46,730 --> 00:45:49,250
It was chocka all the
way down to the seafront.
713
00:45:50,370 --> 00:45:53,210
There was no way that we
could've got onto the beach.
714
00:45:54,210 --> 00:45:56,730
NICK STEVENSON:It was so
packed when we got down there.
715
00:45:56,770 --> 00:45:59,290
Trying to find someone,
and this is pre-smartphones,
716
00:45:59,330 --> 00:46:02,250
you couldn't drop a pin back then.
This was literally me being
717
00:46:02,290 --> 00:46:05,330
on the beach, counting how many
windows across on one of the hotels
718
00:46:05,370 --> 00:46:09,090
I was to say, "Look, I'm six windows
across on the blue building,
719
00:46:09,130 --> 00:46:11,210
"underneath the stones."
720
00:46:11,250 --> 00:46:13,810
I think a lot of people were
doing that around me as well.
721
00:46:13,850 --> 00:46:16,770
So, it was quite a well-trodden
path to not finding your mates.
722
00:46:18,250 --> 00:46:20,890
KAREN BATEMAN:I had friends
living down here at the time.
723
00:46:20,930 --> 00:46:24,370
So I was looking for them, and of
course, no chance of finding them.
724
00:46:24,410 --> 00:46:29,610
So, we just found a little spot
going down towards the West Pier,
725
00:46:29,650 --> 00:46:31,970
and that was it.
Got ourselves settled,
726
00:46:32,010 --> 00:46:34,210
a few beers, ready for the evening.
727
00:46:35,730 --> 00:46:38,410
When I first arrived in this room,
I was looking out going,
728
00:46:38,450 --> 00:46:40,770
"This is brilliant,
there's so many people!"
729
00:46:40,810 --> 00:46:44,570
And then it went from, it's so many
people to there's SO many people.
730
00:46:44,610 --> 00:46:47,690
And then, the first...
731
00:46:49,330 --> 00:46:52,010
Every hour, I'd be chatting
to people and they're like,
732
00:46:52,050 --> 00:46:54,490
"There's so many people."
733
00:46:55,650 --> 00:46:58,090
15? Right, cool.
734
00:46:58,130 --> 00:47:00,610
(CHEERING)
735
00:47:01,690 --> 00:47:04,770
'I remember, I was waiting
and him walking in.
736
00:47:04,810 --> 00:47:07,250
'And he looked really agitated,
737
00:47:07,290 --> 00:47:10,330
'Which made me a little nervous
because I'd only been doing telly
738
00:47:10,370 --> 00:47:12,690
'for maybe two or three years.
739
00:47:12,730 --> 00:47:15,130
We both turned around
at the same time,
740
00:47:15,170 --> 00:47:18,210
and I said something along the
lines of, "Wow, look at this."
741
00:47:18,250 --> 00:47:20,530
And we're both kind of like...
742
00:47:21,530 --> 00:47:25,330
We are going to dance tonight.
It's Mr Norman, Fatboy Slim, Cook!
743
00:47:25,370 --> 00:47:27,530
Good evening.
How are you doing, Norman?
744
00:47:27,570 --> 00:47:30,970
I actually feel am scared.Can I just
say, look at what you've created!
745
00:47:31,010 --> 00:47:33,770
I know, it's a monster
that's gone out of control.
746
00:47:33,810 --> 00:47:36,410
CHRIS COCKING:I remember
absolutely shitting myself
747
00:47:36,450 --> 00:47:39,890
walking out of the briefing.
The briefing was in a small cafe
748
00:47:39,930 --> 00:47:42,450
in arches on the bottom
of the seafront,
749
00:47:42,490 --> 00:47:45,490
and I basically had to fight my way
through to get into the briefing.
750
00:47:45,530 --> 00:47:47,890
On the briefing on the way out
they basically went,
751
00:47:47,930 --> 00:47:50,170
"Right, you're on this point.
Get to it."
752
00:47:50,210 --> 00:47:52,690
Pretty much having to fight
my way through the crowd
753
00:47:52,730 --> 00:47:55,250
to get to the point. And
that was four-and-a-half hours
754
00:47:55,290 --> 00:47:57,370
before the gig was
even due to start.
755
00:47:57,410 --> 00:47:59,770
So I knew at that point,
it was going to be massive.
756
00:47:59,810 --> 00:48:02,170
And it was the first
big gig I'd worked at,
757
00:48:02,210 --> 00:48:04,610
so for me, it was a
real baptism by fire.
758
00:48:06,530 --> 00:48:10,490
CLAXTON:We were probably deployed
out into the city in the event area
759
00:48:10,530 --> 00:48:12,930
some time around 6pm.
760
00:48:12,970 --> 00:48:18,130
Almost immediately, our
team's officers were lost.
761
00:48:18,170 --> 00:48:20,290
You couldn't see anyone.
762
00:48:20,330 --> 00:48:22,810
It was difficult to get
hold of people on the radio.
763
00:48:22,850 --> 00:48:25,890
I realised and I spoke to
my sergeants and made sure
764
00:48:25,930 --> 00:48:29,490
they understood that regardless of
the orders we've been given earlier,
765
00:48:29,530 --> 00:48:33,050
it was now about keeping people
safe and keeping ourselves safe.
766
00:48:35,210 --> 00:48:38,370
They had loads of stewards
positioned on the high tide line
767
00:48:38,410 --> 00:48:41,010
of the beach to stop people
going beyond that point,
768
00:48:41,050 --> 00:48:43,370
because we knew the
tide was due to come in.
769
00:48:43,410 --> 00:48:47,130
And I understand that around up to
80 stewards resigned on the spot
770
00:48:47,170 --> 00:48:50,010
who were supposed to be
maintaining the high tide mark.
771
00:48:50,050 --> 00:48:52,770
And I remember control going,
"Where are all the stewards?"
772
00:48:52,810 --> 00:48:55,610
And asking me, "Where have the
stewards gone?" And I'm going,
773
00:48:55,650 --> 00:48:58,410
"I don't know," because he was
asking me to look and spot them,
774
00:48:58,450 --> 00:49:01,170
and I had a bird's eye view and
I couldn't see a single steward
775
00:49:01,210 --> 00:49:03,890
on the high tide mark.
STEVENS:We went and stood on
776
00:49:03,930 --> 00:49:07,450
the groyne with Kevin Claxton, who
was the bronze police officer.
777
00:49:07,490 --> 00:49:10,050
And I remember us
looking down the beach
778
00:49:10,090 --> 00:49:12,570
and it was absolutely
full of people.
779
00:49:12,610 --> 00:49:15,090
And we looked at each
other and we were like,
780
00:49:15,130 --> 00:49:17,530
"What are we going to do?"
781
00:49:17,570 --> 00:49:21,890
GARRY:We had a sort of emergency
meeting with the chief of police,
782
00:49:21,930 --> 00:49:25,690
who was considering
cancelling the event.
783
00:49:25,730 --> 00:49:30,450
Norman was very concerned
about anyone being hurt
784
00:49:30,490 --> 00:49:32,970
or anything going wrong.
785
00:49:33,010 --> 00:49:35,410
He was very conscious of that.
786
00:49:35,450 --> 00:49:38,570
But we were also thinking,
we've spent our whole lives
787
00:49:38,610 --> 00:49:41,730
building up to this moment.
We can't not deliver.
788
00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:47,450
NORMAN: I could see from the
police's faces, they're like,
789
00:49:47,490 --> 00:49:50,970
we are overwhelmed here.
So, I was like, OK.
790
00:49:51,010 --> 00:49:54,370
I've prepared myself mentally that
it's going to be snatched away!
791
00:49:54,410 --> 00:49:57,850
I think they took me into one of
the porta-cabins and they sat me down
792
00:49:57,890 --> 00:50:02,250
and said, "Right, we're going to go
ahead with it, but only..."
793
00:50:02,290 --> 00:50:05,450
And I said, "Only cos it's
more dangerous not to do it?"
794
00:50:05,490 --> 00:50:08,090
Because you've got
all those people there,
795
00:50:08,130 --> 00:50:11,170
and they've all been drinking
all day, and they're happy!
796
00:50:11,210 --> 00:50:13,770
And if you shut the place down,
they'll be unhappy
797
00:50:13,810 --> 00:50:16,130
and it could be ugly.
And they said, "Yeah".
798
00:50:16,170 --> 00:50:19,210
ANNOUNCER:This is a
public safety announcement.
799
00:50:19,250 --> 00:50:22,050
(CROWD JEERING)
We're sorry to disrupt
800
00:50:22,090 --> 00:50:26,090
your enjoyment of the evening,
but we are endangering the lives
801
00:50:26,130 --> 00:50:29,290
of people at the top of the groyne.
802
00:50:30,330 --> 00:50:33,450
STEVENSON:I remember there were
announcements, something like,
803
00:50:33,490 --> 00:50:36,650
"Please relieve the groyne," which
if you don't know what a groyne is,
804
00:50:36,690 --> 00:50:39,330
it's like a thing that
separates the sand on the beach,
805
00:50:39,370 --> 00:50:41,770
everyone's looking at
each other like, "What?"
806
00:50:41,810 --> 00:50:44,170
"Who's groin are
we relieving again?"
807
00:50:44,210 --> 00:50:46,770
ANNOUNCER:..of the police
and the stewards,
808
00:50:46,810 --> 00:50:50,250
and start to pull away
from that groyne area.
809
00:50:51,490 --> 00:50:54,490
CLAXTON:We were trying to
stop people getting backstage,
810
00:50:54,530 --> 00:50:58,490
and so we were stood on this
slippery, green, covered-in-seaweed
811
00:50:58,530 --> 00:51:01,530
groyne as the tide went out.
812
00:51:01,570 --> 00:51:05,570
All along the beach, there were
people urinating in the sea,
813
00:51:05,610 --> 00:51:09,130
mostly men, but not all.
And then a yard in front of them,
814
00:51:09,170 --> 00:51:11,250
there were people
swimming in the sea.
815
00:51:11,290 --> 00:51:13,570
And you just think,
"This can't be going on.
816
00:51:13,610 --> 00:51:15,770
"It's not real.
It can't be happening."
817
00:51:16,770 --> 00:51:19,330
COCKING:They had to get
police in to stand on the groyne
818
00:51:19,370 --> 00:51:21,970
to stop people getting
to the edge and falling off.
819
00:51:22,010 --> 00:51:25,050
And they put on riot gear for
their own safety and protection.
820
00:51:25,090 --> 00:51:27,770
And I was reporting through
things that were going on.
821
00:51:27,810 --> 00:51:30,690
Then suddenly, I turned around
and they'd all disappeared.
822
00:51:30,730 --> 00:51:34,330
I remember going through to control,
"Where have the riot police gone?
823
00:51:34,370 --> 00:51:38,290
"What's happened?" And after a bit
of going on different frequencies,
824
00:51:38,330 --> 00:51:40,730
he came back and said,
apparently they've been told
825
00:51:40,770 --> 00:51:42,890
to withdraw for their own safety.
826
00:51:53,330 --> 00:51:55,250
VERNON KAY:I'm having
one of them Ibiza moments.
827
00:51:55,290 --> 00:51:58,810
The sun's setting behind us,
everyone's enjoying the atmosphere,
828
00:51:58,850 --> 00:52:01,290
and I've bumped into John Simm,
star of Human Traffic.
829
00:52:01,330 --> 00:52:03,690
Are we having it
large, John, or what?
830
00:52:03,730 --> 00:52:06,890
We're having it big stylee, aren't
we?Oh, yes. Or what, aren't we?
831
00:52:06,930 --> 00:52:09,490
Or what? What do you think of
the whole event and the whole
832
00:52:09,530 --> 00:52:12,490
atmosphere at the moment? it's
pretty mad, innit?Unbelievable.
833
00:52:12,530 --> 00:52:14,930
I've never seen so many
people in my life, folks.
834
00:52:14,970 --> 00:52:17,490
Unbelievable! There's
more people than pebbles.
835
00:52:17,530 --> 00:52:20,050
And what's happening is that
I've not seen any violence
836
00:52:20,090 --> 00:52:22,250
and no trouble.
Everyone is up for it
837
00:52:22,290 --> 00:52:25,570
and everyone's here for the music.
That's how it should be. Absolutely.
838
00:52:25,610 --> 00:52:28,170
I have no recollection
of that whatsoever!
839
00:52:30,050 --> 00:52:32,890
ANNOUNCER:This is a
public safety announcement.
840
00:52:34,490 --> 00:52:38,810
The gentlemen climbing lampposts
must return to the ground.
841
00:52:39,930 --> 00:52:43,770
The show will stop
until all the people...
842
00:52:43,810 --> 00:52:47,770
NORMAN: I read various riot acts
about what I could or couldn't do.
843
00:52:47,810 --> 00:52:50,290
And if they told me to switch
off the music, they said,
844
00:52:50,330 --> 00:52:52,890
"You don't argue with us,
you just switch off the music."
845
00:52:52,930 --> 00:52:56,090
Which is not the best
frame of mind to be in!
846
00:52:57,170 --> 00:52:59,690
LEE CHARTERIS:I sat with
Norman a little bit and we knew
847
00:52:59,730 --> 00:53:02,050
everything was ready to go.
When he wanted to play,
848
00:53:02,090 --> 00:53:04,210
we could go over
the street and play.
849
00:53:04,250 --> 00:53:06,530
I came to the hotel,
I took Norman's record bag.
850
00:53:06,570 --> 00:53:09,250
Norman and the record bags
stayed apart from each other
851
00:53:09,290 --> 00:53:12,610
absolutely the minimal amount
of time. So I came to the hotel,
852
00:53:12,650 --> 00:53:15,490
did one trip with the records,
and then came back.
853
00:53:15,530 --> 00:53:17,810
(CHATTER)
854
00:53:19,690 --> 00:53:22,690
The walking over the street
came later, because ultimately,
855
00:53:22,730 --> 00:53:26,170
we were like, "How the hell are we
going to get from here to there?"
856
00:53:26,210 --> 00:53:28,810
And it was decided that
the element of surprise
857
00:53:28,850 --> 00:53:30,930
is what would get us
across the road.
858
00:53:30,970 --> 00:53:33,450
But as soon as we walked down
the steps of the hotel,
859
00:53:33,490 --> 00:53:37,330
it was just a mob!
And it took us 15 minutes
860
00:53:37,370 --> 00:53:40,490
to get to the backstage,
which is a two-minute walk.
861
00:53:43,490 --> 00:53:47,370
NORMAN: Looking back, I don't
remember much about the actual gig.
862
00:53:47,410 --> 00:53:50,090
I must have been
completely on autopilot.
863
00:53:50,130 --> 00:53:53,250
But it wasn't the most relaxed
I'd been, because I was aware
864
00:53:53,290 --> 00:53:57,090
that we were potentially,
if anything went wrong,
865
00:53:57,130 --> 00:54:00,730
we could be in a lot
of trouble, safety-wise.
866
00:54:00,770 --> 00:54:05,570
But what I do remember is just
feeding off the energy of the crowd.
867
00:54:05,610 --> 00:54:09,210
(CROWD CHANTING)
Fatboy Slim! Fatboy Slim!
868
00:54:13,890 --> 00:54:17,650
There's one shot where you can see
I'm just looking at the stage,
869
00:54:17,690 --> 00:54:22,130
looking around, and you can
see like the muscles in my neck,
870
00:54:22,170 --> 00:54:25,370
and my cheek twitching
with the stress of it all.
871
00:54:26,610 --> 00:54:30,530
Then, you suddenly see my eyes
light up as I see a friendly face.
872
00:54:30,570 --> 00:54:34,090
This old friend of mine called Al,
and I just go and give him a big kiss
873
00:54:34,130 --> 00:54:36,610
and everything's alright again.
874
00:54:39,130 --> 00:54:41,850
KAY:People screaming and
whooping and hollering,
875
00:54:41,890 --> 00:54:44,810
the odd cheeky comment,
which you give a bit of banter,
876
00:54:44,850 --> 00:54:47,770
which is all good fun.
And I just remember thinking,
877
00:54:47,810 --> 00:54:50,410
I can't wait for this to start.
878
00:54:54,690 --> 00:54:56,770
(CHEERING)
879
00:54:56,810 --> 00:54:59,290
WATTS:Atmosphere was electric.
It was buzzing.
880
00:54:59,330 --> 00:55:02,210
I don't think I've ever experienced
something like that at all.
881
00:55:02,250 --> 00:55:04,690
It was just, "Fuck,
we're going to do this.
882
00:55:04,730 --> 00:55:07,290
"We're going to do it."
(BEAT PLAYING)
883
00:55:10,810 --> 00:55:13,450
VAUGHAN:I remember
getting our spot on the beach.
884
00:55:13,490 --> 00:55:16,250
And there'd been a buzz
with anticipation as well,
885
00:55:16,290 --> 00:55:19,090
because being 19 and
not really venturing
886
00:55:19,130 --> 00:55:22,050
too far out of our
comfort zone as well.
887
00:55:22,090 --> 00:55:27,690
Really, I think it was the
first gig we'd really gone to.
888
00:55:27,730 --> 00:55:31,290
And Rich had made a flag.
889
00:55:31,330 --> 00:55:33,930
I'm pretty sure he unveiled it
when we got down there.
890
00:55:33,970 --> 00:55:36,930
Said, "I've just brought this."
He just unveiled this Union Jack
891
00:55:36,970 --> 00:55:39,450
with "Normstock II" written on it.
892
00:55:56,650 --> 00:55:59,090
SYSTEM:Tim Deluxe It Just Won't Do
893
00:55:59,130 --> 00:56:01,250
was the song of the
summer at that point.
894
00:56:01,290 --> 00:56:03,850
And for him to open with
that was just like,
895
00:56:03,890 --> 00:56:07,850
"OK, he's not fucking around here.
This is just going to be a party."
896
00:56:07,890 --> 00:56:10,690
# My eyes, they can look see
897
00:56:11,850 --> 00:56:14,930
# Other guys, that are cuter
898
00:56:16,050 --> 00:56:18,570
# And my ears, they can look hear
899
00:56:19,690 --> 00:56:22,570
# My friends say I should walk away
900
00:56:22,610 --> 00:56:26,290
# But my heart, it won't do, babe
901
00:56:26,330 --> 00:56:29,330
# It won't do, without you
902
00:56:30,490 --> 00:56:33,850
# My doggone heart,
it won't do, babe
903
00:56:33,890 --> 00:56:36,730
# It just won't do without you
904
00:56:37,890 --> 00:56:41,010
# My knees, they don't go weak
905
00:56:41,050 --> 00:56:44,530
# They don't go giddy-up
When you don't call me
906
00:56:44,570 --> 00:56:47,370
# And my head
It doesn't spin
907
00:56:48,610 --> 00:56:51,970
# So don't try me,
with your sweet nothings
908
00:56:52,010 --> 00:56:54,970
# But my heart, it won't do, babe
909
00:56:56,130 --> 00:56:58,890
# It won't do, without you
910
00:57:00,010 --> 00:57:03,090
# My doggone heart,
it won't do, babe
911
00:57:03,130 --> 00:57:06,490
# It just won't do, without you...
912
00:57:08,490 --> 00:57:11,730
STEVENSON:I remember just being
caught up in it all a lot,
913
00:57:11,770 --> 00:57:14,610
and trying to enjoy myself
as well as trying to remember
914
00:57:14,650 --> 00:57:18,090
what was happening. This was a
very important moment, and I had
915
00:57:18,130 --> 00:57:20,770
a very important job to do
to try and capture it all,
916
00:57:20,810 --> 00:57:23,010
and remember it all.
917
00:57:23,050 --> 00:57:26,650
# My mind is buggin' out
When you think you're it
918
00:57:26,690 --> 00:57:32,050
# See me run, lickety-split
And my toes, watch them curl
919
00:57:33,130 --> 00:57:36,930
# So don't call me babe,
cos I ain't your little girl
920
00:57:36,970 --> 00:57:40,210
# But my heart, it won't do, babe
921
00:57:40,250 --> 00:57:43,690
# It won't do, without you
922
00:57:43,730 --> 00:57:46,610
# My doggone heart,
it won't do, babe
923
00:57:47,770 --> 00:57:50,450
# It just won't do, without you
924
00:57:51,850 --> 00:57:57,170
# La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la... #
925
00:58:06,290 --> 00:58:08,690
STEVENS:The toilets that
we had on the Kings Road,
926
00:58:08,730 --> 00:58:12,290
they had people in front of them.
It was probably about 10, 20 deep.
927
00:58:12,330 --> 00:58:15,970
And I saw, there was a guy
dancing on top of the toilet.
928
00:58:16,010 --> 00:58:18,330
One of the
senior council officers said,
929
00:58:18,370 --> 00:58:20,970
"Oh, you need to tell him to
get down!" And at that point,
930
00:58:21,010 --> 00:58:23,610
he just dropped into the loo!
(LAUGHS)
931
00:58:23,650 --> 00:58:26,330
And they said to me, "You
need to go and get him out."
932
00:58:26,370 --> 00:58:29,290
I was like, "That's not happening!"
(LAUGHS)
933
00:58:29,330 --> 00:58:33,410
So, I think that man must've
spent the whole gig in the toilet,
934
00:58:33,450 --> 00:58:36,010
because there was no way
those 20 people in front
935
00:58:36,050 --> 00:58:38,210
were going to get out the way.
936
00:58:40,410 --> 00:58:44,330
ALEX BRIAULT:We had a boat donated
by a guy called Jack Stewart,
937
00:58:44,370 --> 00:58:48,170
and it was a lovely big fishing boat
and it was put out on the beach.
938
00:58:48,210 --> 00:58:52,210
And he rang me at about
6 or 7 o'clock, saying,
939
00:58:52,250 --> 00:58:55,370
"You've got to get down here and do
something to protect this boat".
940
00:58:55,410 --> 00:58:59,410
I was at the far end of town. There
was billions of people in the way.
941
00:58:59,450 --> 00:59:02,810
I couldn't possibly have got there.
And I spoke to him the next day,
942
00:59:02,850 --> 00:59:05,250
and he said he'd spent
the whole night on the boat
943
00:59:05,290 --> 00:59:07,370
trying to encourage
people not to get on it.
944
00:59:07,410 --> 00:59:09,610
But of course, everyone
was trying to get a view.
945
00:59:09,650 --> 00:59:12,210
And sadly, it did get,
sort of, smashed to bits.
946
00:59:22,090 --> 00:59:26,170
It got really stressful.
There were people who had obviously
947
00:59:26,210 --> 00:59:30,690
consumed lots of alcohol and drugs,
and they were not in a good way.
948
00:59:30,730 --> 00:59:33,610
It was relentless. The medics,
there was nothing they could do
949
00:59:33,650 --> 00:59:36,450
and there were just people
coming at them all the time saying,
950
00:59:36,490 --> 00:59:39,290
"Help me, help me!"
And we had nowhere to put them,
951
00:59:39,330 --> 00:59:42,850
because our medics tent had
basically been taken over.
952
00:59:50,970 --> 00:59:53,810
SYSTEM:It felt like something
really special was happening.
953
00:59:53,850 --> 00:59:58,290
My friend got punched,
because some guy was like,
954
00:59:58,330 --> 01:00:01,330
"Oi, which way you going?" And
he was like, "Calm it, mate".
955
01:00:01,370 --> 01:00:04,170
The he got punched.
He was like, "All right."
956
01:00:04,210 --> 01:00:09,170
# Oh, I'm wicked and I'm lazy
957
01:00:11,890 --> 01:00:17,290
# Oh, oh, don't you
want to save me? #
958
01:00:42,050 --> 01:00:45,450
EATS EVERYTHING:To watch a
bloke commanding, like that...
959
01:00:45,490 --> 01:00:48,370
It was monumental.
We couldn't even get...
960
01:00:48,410 --> 01:00:52,010
I was like, a thousand
people at least back.
961
01:00:52,050 --> 01:00:54,490
You couldn't get anywhere near it.
962
01:01:00,770 --> 01:01:03,770
CHRIS COCKING:At one point, we
nearly lost the sound desk
963
01:01:03,810 --> 01:01:07,330
because just the weight of people
meant the Heras fencing broke down,
964
01:01:07,370 --> 01:01:09,930
and the people on the sound
desk were coming up to me,
965
01:01:09,970 --> 01:01:12,490
because there were just people
dancing right next to it,
966
01:01:12,530 --> 01:01:15,250
going, "Get them away!" Because
if the sound goes down,
967
01:01:15,290 --> 01:01:18,290
that's it, the gig's over. And I
was frantically radioing through
968
01:01:18,330 --> 01:01:20,810
going, "I need security here,
I need security here.
969
01:01:20,850 --> 01:01:23,050
"We're going to lose
the sound desk".
970
01:01:23,090 --> 01:01:25,650
And control going, "I'm
completely sympathetic to you,
971
01:01:25,690 --> 01:01:28,690
"but we can't get in through the
crowd. The crowd is just too big".
972
01:01:46,730 --> 01:01:50,290
KAREN BATEMAN:I had quite
a low waist pair of trousers on,
973
01:01:50,330 --> 01:01:54,250
as my G-string... (LAUGHS)
Popped out the back,
974
01:01:54,290 --> 01:01:57,410
and Graham's brother Neil
lent over and did a little ping!
975
01:01:57,450 --> 01:02:00,410
So I turned around and went,
"Oi, cheeky!" And that was it.
976
01:02:00,450 --> 01:02:02,810
We just started talking.
977
01:02:02,850 --> 01:02:07,410
GRAHAM PEARSON:I'm a shy person
and Karen is very easy to talk to.
978
01:02:07,450 --> 01:02:11,850
And yeah, I was pretty much
grabbed from the start really.
979
01:02:11,890 --> 01:02:14,570
I didn't come down with
very high hopes for the day,
980
01:02:14,610 --> 01:02:17,970
and then I found myself
having this fantastic experience.
981
01:02:47,930 --> 01:02:50,490
WATTS:Oh. It was magical.
That's all I can say.
982
01:02:50,530 --> 01:02:53,530
And some of the setlist he played,
he plays It Just Won't Do.
983
01:02:53,570 --> 01:02:58,490
He plays 77 Strings, Sexiest
Man in Jamaica, Mint Royale.
984
01:02:58,530 --> 01:03:01,170
But then, he plays Camisra.
985
01:03:02,730 --> 01:03:05,370
(CROWD CHEERING)
986
01:03:17,770 --> 01:03:20,370
PEGG:defining moment in
that set for Nick and I
987
01:03:20,410 --> 01:03:23,650
was that he played Camisra,
Let Me Show You.
988
01:03:23,690 --> 01:03:26,090
And that was the track
we used in Spaced.
989
01:03:27,970 --> 01:03:30,210
We and Nick, "We love
this" blah, blah, blah,
990
01:03:30,250 --> 01:03:33,450
and we started jumping up and down
and dancing, and whoever was with us
991
01:03:33,490 --> 01:03:36,090
turned and said,
"He's playing this for you".
992
01:03:36,130 --> 01:03:41,730
I mean, Nick and I couldn't have
been more wreathed in giant smiles.
993
01:03:41,770 --> 01:03:44,690
It was this perfect night.
994
01:03:44,730 --> 01:03:49,690
And everything was perfect,
the vibe and the music.
995
01:03:49,730 --> 01:03:53,810
And then, the superstar DJ on
the stage was playing a track
996
01:03:53,850 --> 01:03:56,250
just for me and Nick
as we were there.
997
01:03:56,290 --> 01:03:58,650
It just doesn't get
much better than that.
998
01:04:00,610 --> 01:04:04,330
FROST:Wow, it was amazing.
We were just fucking thrilled.
999
01:04:04,370 --> 01:04:09,490
And then, that kicked off
just the best night, you know?
1000
01:04:49,210 --> 01:04:53,250
HOWELL:I had no way of
conceiving how massive the crowd was
1001
01:04:53,290 --> 01:04:57,490
at that point. You're just in your
little space in your little moment.
1002
01:04:57,530 --> 01:05:01,850
Sam was over six feet tall, so I'm
like, "Let me get on your shoulders,
1003
01:05:01,890 --> 01:05:04,210
"I wanna see what's going on!"
1004
01:05:04,250 --> 01:05:07,730
And getting up there, I
couldn't see the end of people.
1005
01:05:07,770 --> 01:05:11,170
It's hard to put it into words,
but it felt like you were part of
1006
01:05:11,210 --> 01:05:14,330
this giant organism
that is just beyond you,
1007
01:05:14,370 --> 01:05:16,930
and you're just this
one little part, you know?
1008
01:05:16,970 --> 01:05:19,810
I remember feeling
overwhelmed with joy,
1009
01:05:19,850 --> 01:05:22,690
in being able to share
this moment with other people.
1010
01:05:31,570 --> 01:05:34,810
CLAXTON:The decision was
taken with the event organisers
1011
01:05:34,850 --> 01:05:37,090
to finish the event early.
1012
01:05:37,130 --> 01:05:39,490
I believe it finished
some time after 10pm.
1013
01:05:41,410 --> 01:05:44,490
(CHEERING)
1014
01:06:00,250 --> 01:06:04,250
STEVENS:I was very, very grateful
when I heard Pure Shores coming on.
1015
01:06:04,290 --> 01:06:07,170
And I still get
goosebumps when I hear it.
1016
01:06:07,210 --> 01:06:10,650
And I just thought, "Oh, thank
God, it's gonna be over now."
1017
01:06:11,730 --> 01:06:13,930
# ..searching places to find
1018
01:06:13,970 --> 01:06:16,850
# A piece of something to call mine
1019
01:06:18,250 --> 01:06:21,170
# A piece of something
to call mine...
1020
01:06:22,770 --> 01:06:25,290
ADDERLY:I thought
it was just amazing.
1021
01:06:25,330 --> 01:06:28,530
Had a good dance. I didn't dance
as much as I would have liked to,
1022
01:06:28,570 --> 01:06:31,130
because there wasn't
enough space. But it was just
1023
01:06:31,170 --> 01:06:33,250
one of the best evenings.
1024
01:06:33,290 --> 01:06:35,850
# ..is the place I can call mine
1025
01:06:37,370 --> 01:06:40,330
# Is the place I can call mine
1026
01:06:42,170 --> 01:06:44,290
# Coming closer to you
1027
01:06:44,330 --> 01:06:47,770
# I'm moving, I'm coming
Can you hear what I hear?
1028
01:06:47,810 --> 01:06:51,690
# It's calling you, my dear
Out of reach
1029
01:06:51,730 --> 01:06:54,130
# Take me to my beach
1030
01:06:54,170 --> 01:06:59,770
# I can hear it calling you
I'm coming, not drowning
1031
01:06:59,810 --> 01:07:02,210
# Swimming closer to you
1032
01:07:03,370 --> 01:07:06,850
# I'm moving, I'm coming
Can you hear what I hear?
1033
01:07:06,890 --> 01:07:10,170
# It's calling you, my dear
Out of reach
1034
01:07:11,370 --> 01:07:13,530
# Take me to my beach
1035
01:07:13,570 --> 01:07:16,490
# I can hear it calling you
1036
01:07:16,530 --> 01:07:18,890
# I'm coming, not drowning
1037
01:07:18,930 --> 01:07:21,730
# Swimming closer to you... #
1038
01:07:21,770 --> 01:07:25,090
COCKING:There was a general
consensus that the vibe of the gig
1039
01:07:25,130 --> 01:07:27,370
was Fatboy Slim, it
was more chilled out,
1040
01:07:27,410 --> 01:07:30,130
meant that a norm developed
where people were more tolerant
1041
01:07:30,170 --> 01:07:34,690
and more accepting, and it was a
kind of more convivial atmosphere.
1042
01:07:34,730 --> 01:07:37,410
I remember talking to a senior
security person afterwards
1043
01:07:37,450 --> 01:07:39,810
and he did say to me, "If
that had been an Oasis gig,
1044
01:07:39,850 --> 01:07:42,210
"we would have been fucked."
1045
01:07:50,850 --> 01:07:54,690
SIMM:I remember it being kind of
chaotic, looking out, thinking,
1046
01:07:54,730 --> 01:07:59,050
"Wow, where are all
these people gonna go now?
1047
01:07:59,090 --> 01:08:02,370
"How are you getting home?"
Jesus!
1048
01:08:03,570 --> 01:08:06,730
And thinking, "I'm so glad I don't
have to try and get back to London."
1049
01:08:18,970 --> 01:08:21,570
HELEN HOWELL:I know someone
in the group had a plan.
1050
01:08:21,610 --> 01:08:26,810
We rushed through the crowd
and ran to the train station.
1051
01:08:26,850 --> 01:08:30,090
We were able to get on a train.
1052
01:08:30,130 --> 01:08:33,450
When we were waiting
for the train to take off,
1053
01:08:33,480 --> 01:08:36,320
there were these hordes
of people that just climbed
1054
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:39,600
on top of the train, because
there was no more space.
1055
01:08:39,650 --> 01:08:43,450
And they were prying at the doors,
and they were shaking the train.
1056
01:08:43,480 --> 01:08:48,040
And it took forever for staff
to get them off of the train.
1057
01:08:49,050 --> 01:08:51,850
It was definitely one of those
scenarios where the potential
1058
01:08:51,890 --> 01:08:54,890
for danger was very much present.
But that whole day
1059
01:08:54,930 --> 01:08:58,450
just feels like a dream to me.
Like, everything went so well
1060
01:08:58,480 --> 01:09:03,000
that I was like, "Oh, we got on the
train and we're safe and we're here.
1061
01:09:03,050 --> 01:09:06,050
"We're going to get home!
Ha ha, there's people on the train."
1062
01:09:06,090 --> 01:09:09,650
And not really being aware of,
"Oh, shit, this is a shit show!"
1063
01:09:09,690 --> 01:09:12,930
ANNOUNCER:Ladies and gentlemen,
fantastic evening.
1064
01:09:12,970 --> 01:09:16,690
And now, we want you
to go home safely.
1065
01:09:16,730 --> 01:09:19,090
Fantastic evening.
1066
01:09:19,130 --> 01:09:22,010
Please leave Brighton
safe with good memories.
1067
01:09:22,050 --> 01:09:26,690
Please do not push,
please do not push.
1068
01:09:26,730 --> 01:09:29,890
Listen to the police
and the stewards.
1069
01:09:31,130 --> 01:09:33,970
KEVIN CLAXTON:By this time,
we were already tired.
1070
01:09:34,010 --> 01:09:36,610
It had been a hot,
sticky, difficult evening.
1071
01:09:36,650 --> 01:09:39,210
We'd run out of drinking
water a long time ago,
1072
01:09:39,250 --> 01:09:42,090
and there's no time
to refresh or whatever.
1073
01:09:43,530 --> 01:09:48,650
We had real trouble getting
people safely off the beach.
1074
01:09:48,690 --> 01:09:52,450
I saw people slipping and
falling underneath people
1075
01:09:52,490 --> 01:09:54,650
and getting trodden on.
1076
01:09:54,690 --> 01:09:56,970
ANNOUNCER:..start
making your way home.
1077
01:09:57,010 --> 01:09:59,250
But please don't push.
1078
01:10:00,650 --> 01:10:03,650
Listen to the police
and the stewards.
1079
01:10:03,690 --> 01:10:06,690
ADAM VAUGHAN:Remember having
to walk through the crowd,
1080
01:10:06,730 --> 01:10:10,530
holding hands in a chain,
so we didn't lose each other.
1081
01:10:10,570 --> 01:10:13,690
Buzzing still!Yeah.
Such a great day.
1082
01:10:13,730 --> 01:10:16,730
Yeah, with a suntan as well.
1083
01:10:16,770 --> 01:10:19,810
Been on the beach so long!
Yeah, some tan lines.
1084
01:10:19,850 --> 01:10:23,210
Just the sea of people...
Trying to get home!
1085
01:10:24,450 --> 01:10:26,970
ANNOUNCER:Please take their advice.
1086
01:10:30,810 --> 01:10:33,450
CLAXTON:There were tens
of thousands of people
1087
01:10:33,490 --> 01:10:35,810
moving off the beach into the town.
1088
01:10:35,850 --> 01:10:38,730
Lots had come by rail,
and we knew that there weren't
1089
01:10:38,770 --> 01:10:42,010
a lot of trains laid on to
take people away afterwards.
1090
01:10:42,050 --> 01:10:45,570
And very quickly, the gates
to the railway station
1091
01:10:45,610 --> 01:10:48,250
were shut by the railway company.
1092
01:10:49,770 --> 01:10:53,770
We tried to get a few trains in
and we did get some trains in.
1093
01:10:53,810 --> 01:10:58,370
We had buses laid on to take people
I think at least as far as London.
1094
01:10:58,410 --> 01:11:00,690
There was a huge
operation that went on
1095
01:11:00,730 --> 01:11:03,090
to try and get people
safely out of the city.
1096
01:11:05,330 --> 01:11:08,650
ROB CARRON:At that point, the last
buses were in the garage by 12:30.
1097
01:11:08,690 --> 01:11:12,610
That particular night, there
were no night buses as such.
1098
01:11:12,650 --> 01:11:15,170
I think we invented 'em that
night to get them through,
1099
01:11:15,210 --> 01:11:17,570
due to the number of people
that were still around.
1100
01:11:17,610 --> 01:11:20,410
We got calls out to the drivers
to say, "Those of you that want
1101
01:11:20,450 --> 01:11:23,570
"to do extra for us tonight, if you
want to do an extra round trip,
1102
01:11:23,610 --> 01:11:26,330
"you'll be paid accordingly
and it'll all be moved on."
1103
01:11:26,370 --> 01:11:29,090
From there, we had to make sure
we can get as many people on
1104
01:11:29,130 --> 01:11:32,290
as what we could, and try to
ensure that those more vulnerable
1105
01:11:32,330 --> 01:11:34,450
were getting on to get home.
1106
01:11:35,450 --> 01:11:38,410
KAREN BATEMAN:I was meant to go back
to London and it was a bit like,
1107
01:11:38,450 --> 01:11:41,050
"Wow, I don't think I'm going
to get a train at the moment,
1108
01:11:41,090 --> 01:11:43,330
"so we'll just hang out
on the beach."
1109
01:11:43,370 --> 01:11:46,410
Damien disappeared off somewhere,
I hung out with Graham and Neil.
1110
01:11:46,450 --> 01:11:48,850
We had a couple of beers on
the beach, and then we had
1111
01:11:48,890 --> 01:11:51,050
a bit of a wander around.
1112
01:11:51,090 --> 01:11:53,370
You couldn't move,
but the buzz was unreal.
1113
01:11:53,410 --> 01:11:55,930
The amount of people that
were there, the conversations
1114
01:11:55,970 --> 01:11:58,770
taking place, the happiness
and the madness of people.
1115
01:11:58,810 --> 01:12:01,050
It was just absolutely mental!
1116
01:12:01,090 --> 01:12:03,930
The last time I saw anything like
that was when I went to Wembley
1117
01:12:03,970 --> 01:12:06,810
for the Brighton-Man United
cup final. And that's the only time
1118
01:12:06,850 --> 01:12:09,650
I've seen that amount of people.
Some drivers had never driven
1119
01:12:09,690 --> 01:12:12,290
certain routes before,
because they'd just now appeared
1120
01:12:12,330 --> 01:12:15,050
because we got some drivers
to stay on and do extra services.
1121
01:12:15,090 --> 01:12:17,930
And we almost came to a
decision that if you don't know
1122
01:12:17,970 --> 01:12:21,410
where you're going, effectively
you know your end goal,
1123
01:12:21,450 --> 01:12:24,410
get yourself there, and
get back as soon as you can!
1124
01:12:24,450 --> 01:12:28,090
Cos I can't see the pavement yet.
There's still that many people!
1125
01:12:29,210 --> 01:12:33,610
Thankfully, it was a
brilliant, a peaceful party.
1126
01:12:33,650 --> 01:12:37,010
There was no aggravation,
no argument, no trouble.
1127
01:12:37,050 --> 01:12:40,410
It was great fun.
It was a massive challenge.
1128
01:12:40,450 --> 01:12:43,890
And it still ranks as one of
my highest memories in my job.
1129
01:12:47,810 --> 01:12:51,490
(HUMMING)
Oh, is that a video camera?
1130
01:13:02,570 --> 01:13:05,490
BATEMAN:It was time, it was starting
to get a little bit lighter.
1131
01:13:05,530 --> 01:13:07,930
We walked back up
towards the train station.
1132
01:13:07,970 --> 01:13:12,210
Graham and Neil walked back up
with me and, as I was going,
1133
01:13:12,250 --> 01:13:15,570
Neil said, "Oh,
can I take your number?"
1134
01:13:15,610 --> 01:13:18,210
(LAUGHS)
1135
01:13:18,250 --> 01:13:20,610
I owe my brother a lot!
1136
01:13:22,130 --> 01:13:25,450
More than I can say.So I quickly
scribbled it down and was like,
1137
01:13:25,490 --> 01:13:29,290
"Yeah, be great to hear from you,"
looking at Graham!
1138
01:13:29,330 --> 01:13:32,050
(LAUGHS)
And that was it.
1139
01:13:32,090 --> 01:13:34,690
I went off into the night,
into the early morning,
1140
01:13:34,730 --> 01:13:39,090
got back to West London, showered,
straight back into Central London
1141
01:13:39,130 --> 01:13:43,410
and did a day's work at my desk,
going, "Oh, my God, what a night!"
1142
01:13:43,450 --> 01:13:45,810
Can't believe you did that.
1143
01:13:45,850 --> 01:13:49,330
CLAXTON:All of us who started that
evening at sort of four o'clock
1144
01:13:49,370 --> 01:13:52,490
the previous afternoon,
didn't generally get off
1145
01:13:52,530 --> 01:13:55,330
until five, six, seven
o'clock in the morning.
1146
01:13:55,370 --> 01:13:58,010
I decided to try and
drive along the seafront,
1147
01:13:58,050 --> 01:14:00,090
which I did with some difficulty,
1148
01:14:00,130 --> 01:14:02,330
because of the
rubbish and everything.
1149
01:14:02,370 --> 01:14:04,450
The whole beach between the piers
1150
01:14:04,490 --> 01:14:07,050
just looked like
some huge refugee camp.
1151
01:14:09,050 --> 01:14:11,770
BECKY STEVENS:There were
just cars abandoned everywhere.
1152
01:14:11,810 --> 01:14:14,050
There were just clothes,
there were shoes.
1153
01:14:14,090 --> 01:14:17,850
It was like people had just
disappeared and left everything.
1154
01:14:17,890 --> 01:14:21,290
There were bodies of people lying,
just sleeping on the ground.
1155
01:14:21,330 --> 01:14:24,250
I ended up not going home,
because I realised my housemates
1156
01:14:24,290 --> 01:14:28,370
were having a party and I went to
my mum's instead and hid there,
1157
01:14:28,410 --> 01:14:31,530
while trying to work out
what on earth...
1158
01:14:31,570 --> 01:14:34,930
I just felt like I'd
destroyed my hometown.
1159
01:14:34,970 --> 01:14:38,770
It felt so awful what
happened to the city.
1160
01:14:38,810 --> 01:14:41,050
And that was so sad,
because it should have been
1161
01:14:41,090 --> 01:14:43,330
such a good thing to celebrate.
1162
01:14:44,410 --> 01:14:48,690
I drove along there, and
then ended up back at home.
1163
01:14:48,730 --> 01:14:51,650
And I remember standing there,
and then looking down
1164
01:14:51,690 --> 01:14:54,330
and realising that I still
had my full uniform on.
1165
01:14:54,370 --> 01:14:56,810
I had all my kit on...
1166
01:14:58,010 --> 01:15:00,930
Kit that I should have
left at the police station.
1167
01:15:00,970 --> 01:15:03,050
And just thinking...
1168
01:15:04,210 --> 01:15:06,570
"I don't know what's gone on,
1169
01:15:06,610 --> 01:15:09,410
"I just don't know how
we've got through that."
1170
01:15:20,610 --> 01:15:23,810
GARRY:The following morning,
I had my kids with me.
1171
01:15:23,850 --> 01:15:26,610
The tidy-up was going on.
1172
01:15:26,650 --> 01:15:30,210
We jumped on our bus and we headed
down on holiday for two weeks.
1173
01:15:30,250 --> 01:15:34,410
So, the thing I remember most about
that was getting a phone call
1174
01:15:34,450 --> 01:15:37,810
from Zoe saying,
"Why aren't you here?
1175
01:15:37,850 --> 01:15:40,410
"Why aren't you dealing with this?"
1176
01:15:40,450 --> 01:15:44,010
We had no crisis
management strategy.
1177
01:15:44,050 --> 01:15:46,370
So, there was an aftermath.
1178
01:15:47,810 --> 01:15:50,930
ALEX BRIAULT:I also had another job,
where I worked out of town
1179
01:15:50,970 --> 01:15:54,650
and had to get up early.
I had a pick-up truck at the time,
1180
01:15:54,690 --> 01:15:58,410
and I remember driving through
the rubbish along the seafront.
1181
01:15:58,450 --> 01:16:01,490
And the rubbish being as high
as the wheels of my truck.
1182
01:16:02,610 --> 01:16:04,930
BECKY STEVENS:
So, woke up the next morning.
1183
01:16:04,970 --> 01:16:09,490
I spoke to my boss, and he told me
that a clean-up was starting,
1184
01:16:09,530 --> 01:16:11,690
but he told me to stay at home.
1185
01:16:11,730 --> 01:16:14,210
So, I didn't need to
come down to work on it.
1186
01:16:14,250 --> 01:16:16,650
But I felt incredibly guilty,
1187
01:16:16,690 --> 01:16:20,650
because I felt like
I had done this to my town.
1188
01:16:20,690 --> 01:16:24,210
So, I did go down later on and
I went and helped pick up rubbish.
1189
01:16:27,050 --> 01:16:31,170
Of course, what happened was that
then, the sun didn't stop shining.
1190
01:16:31,210 --> 01:16:34,050
So, we could have done
with some rain to wash away
1191
01:16:34,090 --> 01:16:37,010
the lovely smell of urine
that was over the whole beach.
1192
01:16:37,050 --> 01:16:39,890
So, it absolutely stunk
for about two weeks.
1193
01:16:41,290 --> 01:16:44,650
NORMAN: I was mortified. I thought
everyone was going to love me
1194
01:16:44,690 --> 01:16:47,650
for what we'd done. And the
idea they would all hate me...
1195
01:16:49,170 --> 01:16:51,570
Literally, don't shit
on your own doorstep.
1196
01:16:51,610 --> 01:16:54,090
So, I immediately said,
"Just whatever it takes,
1197
01:16:54,130 --> 01:16:57,210
"I'll pay for the clean-up."
Broken glass and piss...
1198
01:16:58,290 --> 01:17:02,330
The two things you don't want in
your life when you go to the seaside.
1199
01:17:04,050 --> 01:17:07,370
NICK STEVENSON:This was written
20 years ago this week, I think.
1200
01:17:07,410 --> 01:17:10,530
I know we held the magazine back
because we wanted to get this in.
1201
01:17:10,570 --> 01:17:13,490
Cos print magazines,
the deadlines are really tight.
1202
01:17:13,530 --> 01:17:16,090
And to get something in
that's new is really difficult.
1203
01:17:16,130 --> 01:17:19,330
So, we held back this double page
spread to get the story in.
1204
01:17:19,370 --> 01:17:22,650
Well, first of all, the headline,
Fatboy Slim Is Fucking In Trouble.
1205
01:17:23,730 --> 01:17:27,890
When this was happening,
all the papers, the kind of buzz
1206
01:17:27,930 --> 01:17:32,170
and the media around it was
a sort of negative reaction
1207
01:17:32,210 --> 01:17:34,970
to what had happened, in a way.
People weren't necessarily
1208
01:17:35,010 --> 01:17:37,290
celebrating what had
happened positively.
1209
01:17:37,330 --> 01:17:40,290
They were talking about how Fatboy
Slim has to leave the country,
1210
01:17:40,330 --> 01:17:43,610
they've caused such a massive mess,
or people have been injured.
1211
01:17:43,650 --> 01:17:47,050
WATTS:We got into the office on
Monday and had a sort of debrief,
1212
01:17:47,090 --> 01:17:49,450
and that's when the press
had started to come out
1213
01:17:49,490 --> 01:17:52,250
that someone had died
of a heart attack.
1214
01:17:52,290 --> 01:17:54,570
There was lots of aggro.
1215
01:17:54,610 --> 01:17:57,850
A lot of false reporting,
but we didn't feel euphoric.
1216
01:17:57,890 --> 01:18:00,050
We felt broken.
1217
01:18:01,410 --> 01:18:05,450
Most people had a good time.
There was a few injuries.
1218
01:18:05,490 --> 01:18:08,930
But considering that amount of
people - there were six arrests,
1219
01:18:08,970 --> 01:18:11,170
which is apparently
less than there normally is
1220
01:18:11,210 --> 01:18:13,370
on a Saturday night in Brighton.
1221
01:18:13,410 --> 01:18:15,970
GARRY:There was a lot of
distress amongst the services,
1222
01:18:16,010 --> 01:18:18,570
amongst the police and
amongst the ambulance services,
1223
01:18:18,610 --> 01:18:20,850
because they had no
control over the situation.
1224
01:18:20,890 --> 01:18:23,850
There was a lot of anxiety there,
and that fed into the media a bit.
1225
01:18:23,890 --> 01:18:26,290
They were available to
comment on the event.
1226
01:18:26,330 --> 01:18:30,370
They weren't commenting upon it
as a musical experience,
1227
01:18:30,410 --> 01:18:33,770
a cultural experience.
They were commenting on it
1228
01:18:33,810 --> 01:18:38,970
as an averted disaster, like a
Hillsborough that nearly happened.
1229
01:18:50,530 --> 01:18:54,610
An Australian nurse died.
She fell off the escarpment.
1230
01:18:55,650 --> 01:18:58,850
She'd been at a
party after the event,
1231
01:18:58,890 --> 01:19:01,450
and had an accident
falling off the scarp.
1232
01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:07,530
NORMAN: It was a horrible thing,
that someone had to die that night.
1233
01:19:07,570 --> 01:19:10,450
And the poor girl, Karen, the nurse.
1234
01:19:11,450 --> 01:19:15,090
I managed to get in touch with her
parents, and I spoke to her mum
1235
01:19:15,130 --> 01:19:20,090
and I just said, "Look, I'm so
sorry." And she said, "Don't worry.
1236
01:19:21,290 --> 01:19:25,170
"It was going to happen.
She phoned me earlier that night
1237
01:19:25,210 --> 01:19:27,690
"and said, I'm having
the best night of my life."
1238
01:19:27,730 --> 01:19:30,370
And she said, "Thanks for
making the last night of her life
1239
01:19:30,410 --> 01:19:33,010
"the best night of her life,"
which really got me.
1240
01:19:33,050 --> 01:19:35,050
But yeah...
1241
01:19:37,210 --> 01:19:40,890
I still feel, because I was
the reason she was in Brighton
1242
01:19:40,930 --> 01:19:43,610
that night, I feel somewhat
responsible for her death,
1243
01:19:43,650 --> 01:19:46,130
and that will always haunt me.
1244
01:19:52,530 --> 01:19:55,850
CLAXTON:The city had to learn
from the events of that evening
1245
01:19:55,890 --> 01:19:58,970
that had things gone more wrong,
it might have been that
1246
01:19:59,010 --> 01:20:02,090
several people could have
been put more in harm's way.
1247
01:20:03,410 --> 01:20:06,290
My own organisation, the police,
we had a big debriefing
1248
01:20:06,330 --> 01:20:08,770
where events were openly discussed.
1249
01:20:10,490 --> 01:20:16,730
There was a council enquiry
which I went to and spoke at.
1250
01:20:16,770 --> 01:20:20,890
The city as a whole,
collectively, came to the view
1251
01:20:20,930 --> 01:20:25,010
that an event of that size
needed better planning,
1252
01:20:25,050 --> 01:20:28,890
and at that scale, shouldn't be
allowed to happen on the beach.
1253
01:20:29,970 --> 01:20:34,250
What happened on that night was a
brilliant event for lots of people,
1254
01:20:34,290 --> 01:20:36,690
but it wasn't a great
event for everybody.
1255
01:20:36,730 --> 01:20:39,090
And it was a traumatic time.
1256
01:20:39,130 --> 01:20:42,810
And I think history
shouldn't lose sight of that.
1257
01:20:58,330 --> 01:21:01,130
NICK STEVENSON:This kind of thing
of having a big free party
1258
01:21:01,170 --> 01:21:03,530
used to be the norm in the UK.
This was part and parcel
1259
01:21:03,570 --> 01:21:06,170
of going out at the weekend.
This was the late '80s
1260
01:21:06,210 --> 01:21:08,690
and early '90s was about.
A lot of my generation grew up
1261
01:21:08,730 --> 01:21:11,490
when we hadn't ever got to
experience the free party scene.
1262
01:21:11,530 --> 01:21:14,130
So, we don't know what it's like
to turn up to a free party,
1263
01:21:14,170 --> 01:21:17,450
and just dance. So it's kind of
weird in a way, that suddenly,
1264
01:21:17,490 --> 01:21:20,210
out of nowhere, there's
this massive free event
1265
01:21:20,250 --> 01:21:23,130
that everyone can turn up to,
and it's just liberating
1266
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:25,850
and everyone's having a great time.
And then immediately,
1267
01:21:25,890 --> 01:21:28,370
the morning after, you're like,
actually, we're never
1268
01:21:28,410 --> 01:21:30,610
going to get to do that ever again.
1269
01:21:35,970 --> 01:21:38,290
COCKING:The problems that
there were on the day,
1270
01:21:38,330 --> 01:21:41,330
and there were massive problems,
were to do with infrastructure.
1271
01:21:41,370 --> 01:21:44,290
Myself and other people who work
in the field of crowd psychology
1272
01:21:44,330 --> 01:21:47,890
use this as an example to show,
yes, this was a near catastrophe,
1273
01:21:47,930 --> 01:21:51,010
but the catastrophe was to do with
the infrastructure collapsing.
1274
01:21:51,050 --> 01:21:53,530
It was absolutely nothing
to do with crowd behaviour,
1275
01:21:53,570 --> 01:21:56,210
and it's a very good example,
I would say, of the crowd
1276
01:21:56,250 --> 01:21:58,850
actually preventing disaster,
because there were times
1277
01:21:58,890 --> 01:22:01,170
when we had to work with the crowd.
1278
01:22:04,690 --> 01:22:07,090
STEVENS:One of the
things that came out
1279
01:22:07,130 --> 01:22:10,290
after the Big Beach Boutique concert
was that there were going to be
1280
01:22:10,330 --> 01:22:13,010
no more free, unticketed
events in the UK.
1281
01:22:13,050 --> 01:22:15,490
We were incredibly lucky that day,
1282
01:22:15,530 --> 01:22:18,370
but it was only a short amount of
time that there would have been
1283
01:22:18,410 --> 01:22:20,610
another free ticketed
event, where something
1284
01:22:20,650 --> 01:22:23,810
could have gone really wrong. So,
I think without Big Beach Boutique
1285
01:22:23,850 --> 01:22:26,570
kind of setting the line
and making sure that we...
1286
01:22:26,610 --> 01:22:29,330
It really helped the
industry improve dramatically,
1287
01:22:29,370 --> 01:22:31,890
and it has meant that
we've gone on in the UK
1288
01:22:31,930 --> 01:22:34,530
to have some of the best
and safest events in the world.
1289
01:22:38,610 --> 01:22:41,490
GARRY:I think one of the
nice things I remember was...
1290
01:22:41,530 --> 01:22:44,330
Well, the phone didn't stop
ringing from all over the planet.
1291
01:22:44,370 --> 01:22:46,970
We started to play
beaches all around the world.
1292
01:22:47,010 --> 01:22:52,730
So, Big Beach Boutique happened
in Rio on an even bigger scale.
1293
01:22:52,770 --> 01:22:55,930
It happened in Japan.
By then, it was selling tickets
1294
01:22:55,970 --> 01:22:58,370
and it was a
different kind of model.
1295
01:22:58,410 --> 01:23:03,410
It wasn't the kind of free spirited,
spontaneous, acid house spirit.
1296
01:23:03,450 --> 01:23:06,490
It was a bit more organised.
1297
01:23:06,530 --> 01:23:11,010
And it just took Norman to
another level internationally.
1298
01:23:14,970 --> 01:23:18,090
STEVENSON:This party in Brighton
was a milestone in dance music.
1299
01:23:18,130 --> 01:23:20,810
It was a change in
how people perceived DJs
1300
01:23:20,850 --> 01:23:23,970
and what they could do.
It was not just a turning point
1301
01:23:24,010 --> 01:23:28,210
for dance music and DJs, but also
for music culture in general.
1302
01:23:28,250 --> 01:23:31,090
I think an acceptance that
dance music is more than just
1303
01:23:31,130 --> 01:23:33,210
sweaty nightclubs
or underground raves.
1304
01:23:33,250 --> 01:23:35,730
It was something for everybody.
1305
01:23:39,530 --> 01:23:41,890
NORMAN: For me, it opened more doors,
1306
01:23:41,930 --> 01:23:44,570
just in my relationship
with the city.
1307
01:23:44,610 --> 01:23:49,570
I kind of thought there
might be sections of the community
1308
01:23:49,610 --> 01:23:54,330
down here who would hate me,
after we almost destroyed the city.
1309
01:23:54,370 --> 01:23:56,650
But everyone seemed to love me.
1310
01:23:56,690 --> 01:23:59,770
And from then on, everybody
I meet walking down the street,
1311
01:23:59,810 --> 01:24:02,450
the first thing they'll say is,
"When are you going to have
1312
01:24:02,490 --> 01:24:04,770
"another beach party?"
1313
01:24:06,610 --> 01:24:09,450
Fatboy Slim!
(WHOOPING)
1314
01:24:09,490 --> 01:24:11,970
Thank you so much, Fatboy Slim!
1315
01:24:12,010 --> 01:24:14,490
Fatboy Slim! Yes, man!
1316
01:24:15,690 --> 01:24:18,930
# I have to celebrate you, baby
1317
01:24:20,050 --> 01:24:23,810
# I have to praise you like I should
1318
01:24:24,970 --> 01:24:28,010
# I have to praise you
like I should...
1319
01:24:30,570 --> 01:24:34,210
NORMAN: I'm still doing this
because I genuinely love it.
1320
01:24:35,330 --> 01:24:38,410
I love hearing tunes,
and just instantly
1321
01:24:38,450 --> 01:24:40,810
wanting to share them
with other people.
1322
01:24:40,850 --> 01:24:43,730
And something very, very
powerful happens at raves,
1323
01:24:43,770 --> 01:24:49,250
and at parties, where it
becomes stronger than the music,
1324
01:24:49,290 --> 01:24:52,010
becomes stronger than the
sum of the people who are there.
1325
01:24:52,050 --> 01:24:56,730
Something happens where the room
just becomes this one mass of energy,
1326
01:24:56,770 --> 01:25:00,250
and that's what gives me my energy.
I kind of feed off that.
1327
01:25:01,410 --> 01:25:05,330
It's something that drives me along
and something that I am very grateful
1328
01:25:05,370 --> 01:25:07,730
that I've been allowed
to do for so long.
1329
01:25:16,730 --> 01:25:20,610
STEVENS:So, I teach event safety and
crowd management at universities.
1330
01:25:20,650 --> 01:25:23,970
I often use Big Beach Boutique
as an example of an event
1331
01:25:24,010 --> 01:25:27,290
that obviously, where
things kind of did go wrong,
1332
01:25:27,330 --> 01:25:30,330
but what we can learn from it and
what we take away from it.
1333
01:25:30,370 --> 01:25:33,650
Some of them have never heard
of Big Beach Boutique before.
1334
01:25:33,690 --> 01:25:36,490
I tell them about it and
they are always blown away
1335
01:25:36,530 --> 01:25:39,530
by the scale of what
happened and the size of it.
1336
01:25:39,570 --> 01:25:42,250
# ..I have to praise you
like I should
1337
01:25:44,010 --> 01:25:46,450
# I have to praise you...
1338
01:25:46,490 --> 01:25:49,490
When you're there in the moment,
you don't always think about it.
1339
01:25:49,530 --> 01:25:52,010
But it's only looking back
on it now, you kind of think,
1340
01:25:52,050 --> 01:25:55,970
"Wow, that was a huge cultural
milestone in our country,
1341
01:25:56,010 --> 01:25:58,850
"in our country's history,"
and I was there.
1342
01:26:04,570 --> 01:26:09,290
That for me was the point
in my life where I was like,
1343
01:26:09,330 --> 01:26:12,370
"I want to do this,
I've got to get into this.
1344
01:26:12,410 --> 01:26:17,010
Goosebumps already, just thinking
about that day, and thinking...
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This is just some guy
playing records, you know?
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But look how happy. I could
do that... How hard can it be?
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I was 30 years of age
and I'd been quite unhappy
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for 10 years, really.
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Fighting... I was shy,
lonely, and I had depression.
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This day has completely
changed my life.
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01:26:48,970 --> 01:26:52,850
Completely turned it around
from a very, very bad place.
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It's hard to put into words. It's
just like pure elation, you know?
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01:27:08,890 --> 01:27:12,850
It's this full spread
of me on Sam's shoulders.
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It was such a beautiful day,
and I felt like that picture
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01:27:17,570 --> 01:27:21,290
really captured my time that day,
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and how a lot of
people must have felt.
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01:27:35,010 --> 01:27:38,810
From a little thing this big.
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01:27:38,850 --> 01:27:44,690
Grown up to be this
fantastic, amazing, kind,
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generous rugby player.
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Yes, he's doing really well now.
He's my little miracle.
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NORMAN: I think it's apt that
it took 20 years for the council
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to allow us back on the pebbles.
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The first rule was
it can't be free any more.
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01:28:17,450 --> 01:28:21,530
I would love to do this for free,
I don't do this to make money.
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01:28:21,570 --> 01:28:25,570
I do this because I love this city
and I get so much pride in doing it.
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But in order to control it,
you have to fence it in
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and have a certain amount of people.
You can't just invite the world.
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01:28:32,010 --> 01:28:34,250
That was one lesson we learnt.
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(CHEERING)
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# I have to praise you
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01:28:45,130 --> 01:28:47,930
# I have to praise you
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01:28:53,730 --> 01:28:56,290
# I have to praise you
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# I have to praise you...
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