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Big Beach Boutique 2 - Brighton Beach
Brighton's Big Beach Boutique caught the imagination in a way that no one could predict. A free party with the world's biggest DJ, Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook) drew people from all over the South East on one of the finest  Saturdays of the summer. Bigger than anything Brighton had experienced before, the UK's newest city reacted in an exceptional way to this exceptional event. Held the same weekend that three million partied at the Berlin Love Parade, this was Europe's biggest beach party with over 150,000 in attendance.
Although the numbers were huge, the emergency services and local authority across the city responded superbly to this extraordinary event. Big Beach Boutique II was a party that took place in very good spirits with no more arrests that any other Saturday night. Saturdays in Brighton can often attract 100,000 under normal conditions and the city is well placed to deal with events of this kind. The contingency plan to clean up the beach and the streets is now swinging into action. Norman Cook is spending extra funds on the clean up operation and the program will be completed by Monday afternoon. Within ten hours of the end of the event, 60 tons of rubbish had been cleansed and it proceeds in earnest.
Norman Cook comments: "This was without doubt the biggest gig of my career. Brighton has responded superbly. I would like to thank the emergency services on the night and everyone involved in the clean-up operation. We now have to return the city I love to how it should be seen."
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