Portush Beach Party: june 17th 2006

British DJ FATBOY SLIM has confirmed he will play a dance music marathon on a beach in Northern Ireland in June (06). Slim, aka NORMAN COOK, will spin seven hours of worth of discs at Portrush Strand, County Antrim, to thousands of fans. Promoter GARY MCGUIGAN, says, “Fatboy Slim is bringing with him a 40 foot by 40 foot video wall, which has been used at Mount Fuji, Electric Picnic in Dublin and Rio de Janeiro – so we are really getting a world-class act here.” Security is being stepped up for the beach party after a previous Fatboy Slim event went disastrously wrong: in July 2002, a free beach party in Brighton, England saw one man dying of a heart attack and a woman falling to her death in the unruly crowds.

source: Contactmusic.com