A free party was being held that evening, and O'Neill knew his shop, Bone Idol, would see a good day's trade.
Meanwhile, in a large white house on Hove beach, DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim , was waking up in a town that still loved him - and his knack of putting on a good party. Some were already calling this party 'Normstock'.
Others talked of Glastonbury-by-Sea. Last year more than 60, people turned up at Brighton beach to watch Big Beach Boutique I, a free and barely advertised concert thrown by Cook, the millionaire super star DJ who also owns his own record label called Skint.
This year it was bound to be even bigger, but few realised just how big - until it was too late. As a heatwave swept the south of England, Brighton was swamped by more than , people, doubling its population and bringing the seaside resort to the brink of disaster. In retrospect, it is no surprise that so many revellers turned out. London buses had carried adverts for it, and Britain's youth grapevine was humming.
The music was not due to start until 6. Off-licences and beach bars were doing a roaring trade, some of them closing early after selling their entire stock of alcohol. The traffic was building up on the A23 into Brighton ,and all the city centre car parks were full. At 3pm he looked out from a vantage point on the seafront Brighton Centre at a growing swell of people moving toward the beach.
He realised he was about to play to the biggest crowd he had ever seen. Three hours later, Chief Inspector Peter Mills left his home near the Sussex village of Heathfield and headed to work, full of confidence in the safety operation he had helped plan for the beach party.
Like last year, he thought, 50 officers would be sufficient to look after up to 60, revellers. Minutes into his mile journey into Brighton he began to feel uneasy. As he passed through Lewes at 6. Only on reaching Brighton was the full, frightening picture revealed: his officers were outnumbered by 5, to one.
Dozens have since had trauma counselling. It was clear that a lot more people had turned up than we ever expected. Nobody ever thought, never mind prepared for the fact, that we would get , Within minutes, police operators were placing urgent calls for back-up - officers were mobilised from across the Sussex force area. In London, the Metropolitan Police offered its assistance.
By now, many in the crowd had been drinking heavily for several hours. Although the mood remained good-natured, senior police knew there was no way officers could deal with the escalating drunkenness and spate of petty thefts.
As the tide of people swelled even further, there was little police could do to stem the numbers. Tuesday 21 September Wednesday 22 September Thursday 23 September Friday 24 September Saturday 25 September Sunday 26 September Monday 27 September Tuesday 28 September Wednesday 29 September Thursday 30 September Friday 1 October Saturday 2 October Sunday 3 October Monday 4 October Tuesday 5 October Wednesday 6 October Thursday 7 October Friday 8 October Saturday 9 October Sunday 10 October Monday 11 October Tuesday 12 October Wednesday 13 October Thursday 14 October Friday 15 October Saturday 16 October Sunday 17 October Monday 18 October Tuesday 19 October Wednesday 20 October Thursday 21 October Friday 22 October Saturday 23 October Sunday 24 October Monday 25 October Tuesday 26 October Wednesday 27 October Thursday 28 October Friday 29 October Saturday 30 October Sunday 31 October Monday 1 November Tuesday 2 November Wednesday 3 November Thursday 4 November Friday 5 November Saturday 6 November Sunday 7 November Monday 8 November Tuesday 9 November Wednesday 10 November Thursday 11 November Friday 12 November Pure Shores.
Release Date October 15, Genre Electronic. Fatboy Slim. Fatboy Slim feat: Groove Armada. Fatboy Slim feat: Danmass. Fatboy Slim feat: Lo Fidelity Allstars. Fatboy Slim feat: Tim Deluxe. Crazy Talk H. Fatboy Slim feat: Space Cowboy. Fatboy Slim feat: Mint Royale.
Hi Jackers Jark Prongo. I talked to Paul McCartney who was my neighbour at the time. He said, "Get in a car and leave the country, come back when it calms down. Everything went smoothly apart from the weather which was very bad, freezing sleet coming in horizontally, although there were still lads down the front with their tops off in some rave version of the Dunkirk spirit. Even the covered stage was being soaked and I kept getting electric shocks from the equipment.
To be honest, though, it was keeping my hands warm. There had been a three-year gap trying to work out a safe way forward and it was just ironic that, in the end, everybody was safe apart from me.
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