Tickets for Fatboy Slim’s summer beach party have gone on sale to people living outside Sussex.

The majority of the 22,000 tickets for Hove DJ Norman Cook’s gig in Madeira Drive on Brighton seafront on September 27 have been sold but organisers said some were still available.

Tickets were initially available to people with credit cards registered to a BN postcode, an area stretching from Littlehampton to Eastbourne.

Now organiser Loud Sound has allocated 2,000 tickets to non-Sussex residents after Fatboy Slim’s website was inundated with messages from fans across the country wanting to attend.

Jim King, of Loud Sound, said: “We have had scores of emails and phone calls asking for tickets and we thought it would be a good idea to open it up.”

Big Beach Boutique 4 will be the first gig the DJ has staged on Brighton seafront in the summertime since a free gig in 2002, which attracted 250,000 fans.

He held a trial concert at the Madeira Drive site on New Year’s Day 2007. Almost 19,000 revellers braved torrential rain and strong winds to join in.

Cook has promised a spectacular audio and visual show in September with a line-up including major acts.

Organisers are considering making Big Beach Boutique 4 a two-day event, depending on demand for tickets, and Brighton and Hove City Council has granted permission for another gig to take place the night before.

Although Fatboy Slim fans across Britain are pleased they can attend the event, some people hoped it would remain only for Sussex residents.

Frank Watterson, 27, of St Mary Magdalene Street, Brighton, said: “I thought this was a Brighton residents-only gig.

“I loved the last concert when it was full of Brighton people but the [previous] one was carnage because people from all over the country arrived on the beach. The atmosphere is always better when it’s full of locals.”

For details on how to buy tickets for Big Beach Boutique 4 visit www.myspace.com/ fatboyslim.