Fatboy Slim is releasing a brand new documentary about “the most important out of doors occasion the UK has ever seen.”
The movie covers Slim’s notorious 2002 Massive Seaside Boutique II occasion that was described because the “greatest out of doors occasion the UK has ever seen”. The free occasion, unfold over two days, was initially deliberate for 40,000 folks however over 250,000 turned up on Brighton seashore on day two and adjusted the best way UK occasions have been subsequently run.
Talking concerning the movie, Fatboy Slim aka Norman Cook dinner mentioned: “It has been great with the fullness of time and a few hindsight, to revisit such a seismic occasion in each mine and my hometown’s historical past. Warts and all, the story informed in full…Watch, sleep, rave, repeat.”
A synopsis of the movie reads: “Now, 20 years on, Norman, and those that have been on the entrance line of this seismic historic second, discuss us by means of the method and the obstacles; the immense difficulties and struggles that the native police confronted with such an surprising quantity of descendants on town, the councillors and residents that opposed the controversial occasion and plenty of of those that participated in what Norman has described as a ‘Woodstock second’.
“Proper Right here, Proper Now options interviews with those that have been there on the Brighton sands and witnessed it first-hand together with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Vernon Kay and John Simm, all giving accounts of their private experiences of the era-defining gathering. The gang was greater than 4 instances the anticipated measurement and on the time, doubling Brighton’s inhabitants for the day.”
Fatboy Slim: Proper Right here Proper Now could be seen on Sky Documentaries and NOW from February 4 at 10pm
Earlier this month, it was revealed that David Byrne and Fatboy Slim are set to debut their musical Right here Lies Love on Broadway.
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The musical is predicated on the pair’s double album of the identical identify, which was launched in 2010 and paperwork the lifetime of Imelda Marcos, the previous first girl of the Philippines.
It was beforehand held on the Massachusetts Museum of Up to date Artwork in 2012, New York’s Public Theater in 2013, London’s Nationwide Theater in 2014, and the Seattle Repertory Theater in 2017.
The brand new Broadway manufacturing is being developed and directed by Alex Timbers and choreographed by Annie-B Parson and is ready to make its Broadway debut in the summertime.
“As a group of binational American producers – Filipinos amongst us – we’re thrilled to convey Right here Lies Love to Broadway!,” the producers shared in a press release by way of Pitchfork. “We welcome everybody to expertise this singularly exuberant piece of theatre. The historical past of the Philippines is inseparable from the historical past of the US, and as each evolve, we can’t consider a extra acceptable time to stage this present. See you on the dance ground!”
Fatboy Slim can also be set to headline this yr’s Wilderness Pageant alongside The Chemical Brothers and Christine and The Queens.
