John and Jack return from their summer break, tanned and thriving, only to take a trip to the beach. Which beach? Brighton Beach, for Fatboy Slim’s Big Beach Boutique II. The good news? You’re invited! The bad news? So is everybody else, and there are already 250,000 people in the mix, all of them gurning, pissing in the sea and singing along to The Sexiest Man In Jamaica.

With a quarter century’s worth of distance, Detritus revisits the free party to end all free parties, as Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, aka Quentin Leo Cook, aka DJ Quentox, aka Cheeky Boy, brings chaos to his beloved Brighton seafront, utilising only the biggest of Big Beats. Closely studying the primary sources of Channel 4’s frenetically edited 2002 live footage, as well as the 2023 documentary ‘Right Here, Right Now’, alongside a backlog of misty-eyed Reddit memories, ...