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Right Here, Right Now

2023 · 1h 30m · Documentary, Music

IMDb 7.2

If you were there or you're into British music history, absolutely watch this—it's a fascinating deep-dive into how a free concert became a defining cultural moment and changed event management forever. Even if you weren't at Brighton Beach in 2002, the solid 7.2 rating and the wild logistics story (250,000 people showed up uninvited!) make this a genuinely gripping doc worth your time tonight.

Plot

On July 13, 2002, Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, performed the second of his free open-air concerts, The Big Beach Boutique II, in front of a record-breaking crowd, making history – both good and bad. Organisers and police were expecting forty thousand people but more than a quarter of a million turned up on Brighton Beach for the free event, changing the way UK events were run forever. Now, 20 years on, Norman, and those who were on the front line of this seismic historical moment talk us through the process and the obstacles; The immense difficulties and struggles that the local police faced with such an unexpected amount of descendants on the city, the councillors and residents that opposed the controversial event and many of those who participated in what Norman has described as a “Woodstock moment”.

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