AS MANY of us are desperately missing going out to enjoy ourselves, today we look back at some times when we really went out to party – en masse.

Brighton and Hove’s adopted son Norman Cook hosted a series of Big Beach Boutique events as well as a huge bash at The Amex – maybe you or a loved one were there and can remember it?

A total of 40,000 people attended Fatboy Slim’s first Big Beach Boutique in 2001, followed by more than five times that number for 2002’s sequel, which literally brought the city to a standstill.

The 2007 New Year’s Day gig followed, when the big beat DJ suffered a series of electric shocks from his rain-drenched equipment.

Then in 2008 he held his fourth open-air show in Brighton.

Big Beach Bootique 5 was held at The Amex, with two gigs on consecutive nights in June 2012.

Back then he told The Argus’s Neil Vowles: “I allowed myself in the last half an hour on Saturday to take in the occasion.

“I went for a walk along the catwalk and took a mental snapshot that I will take with me to my grave.

“On Friday, I would enjoy the moment and then I would tell myself to concentrate.

“If I got carried away with the moment, I would mess it up.

“I had to do the opposite of pinching myself to tell myself this isn’t a dream, I have got a job to do.

“Friday night was very emotional, it was tense.

“I was most emotional near the end, it was a feeling of yes, I didn’t mess it up.

“It would have been bad after all this work if I had played a really bad gig.

“We didn’t know if it would all work, especially moving it from a beach.

“No one had done a rave in a football stadium before.

“When you are in uncharted territory, you just don’t know.

“I think we have proved that people can have fun in here, proved logistically that it can work.”