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Airdate: Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now

Twenty years on, this doco looks back at the biggest beach party the UK had ever seen: The Big Beach Boutique II.

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Music documentary Fatboy Slim: Right Here, Right Now will premiere this week, taking viewers back to 2002 and the biggest beach party the UK had ever seen: The Big Beach Boutique II.

Fatboy Slim, AKA Norman Cook, said: “It has been wonderful with the fullness of time and some hindsight, to revisit such a seismic event in both mine and my hometown’s history. Warts and all, the story told in full… watch, sleep, rave, repeat.”

With the iconic Fatboy Slim as DJ, 40,000 ravers were expected on the beach in Brighton that day; when more than a quarter of a million turned up, chaos ensued.

Twenty years on, the 90-minute special tells the story of the epic event and a turning point in dance music, live events and British cultural history. Through moving interviews, exhilarating archive and visual alchemy, the film captures the hedonism of the late 90s and early 00s and the last hurrah of the rave movement before it ascended from the underground to the mainstream.

The documentary is produced by Beyond TNC and BMG Films, with international distribution handled by Banijay Rights.

Saturday May 6 at 9.30pm on FOX Docos / Binge

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  1. I’m impressed…Foxtel have had some great music on Fox Docos lately. I recorded Tina Turner in Spain, Bob Dylan, Devo and Devolution, Thin Lizzy, Leonard Cohen and coming up is Blondie in concert. It’s been a change from the usual shuffle they’ve been doing.

  2. Fantastic. Big Norman Cook fan here. His debut album under the Beats International moniker remains an all time favourite but his various guises have all had something magical about them.

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