Norman Cook says Big Beach Bootique 5 is the show he has always wanted to do but never had the budget or the time.

“If you think about the ones on the beach, especially the second one, compared with the size of the crowd, the production was sh**, it was shocking.

“There was one screen vaguely showing things not in time and a couple of searchlights.

“For this one, because we have the whole structure of the stadium, we can put lights all around it.

“It’s going to feel more like being in half an enormous nightclub.”

The lasers that bounce around clubs do so on mirrors.

How special the visuals are depends on the time the venue has to arrange the reflectors on the walls and ceiling and make them all line up.

To give the intimate nightclub feel for the 23,000 Amex crowd tonight and tomorrow, Cook’s production team will build mirrors on to the most extreme parts of the superstructure.

“We can turn the whole thing into a grid of lasers,” he explains, while adding the stage will be in front of the East Stand, the crowd on the pitch and in the West Stand, and the bars in the North and South stands.

Agiant screen has been shipped in from Canada for the stage.

“It’s 600sq metres of LED, which isn’t so much like watching a big film, it becomes the light source. There are some lasers, pyrotechnics, and definitely some bells and whistles.”

Clearly, Cook knows a DJ can only provide so much entertainment.

“You try to find the best records and the biggest tunes and the right way to play them.

But beyond that, and waving your arms around and trying to get the crowd up, there is only so much you can do.”

At most festivals there are normally bands before DJs. At the other Big Beach Bootiques there was only time for one or two short support sets to warm up the crowd.

“As a DJ at a festival you’re always cutting corners, but over the past few years I have enjoyed seeing how far we can push it. For BBB5 we only have DJs and the whole day to build it.”

David Guetta supported Norman in 2007.

He is now a bona-fide superstar DJ and featured on Jessie J’s recent number one Laserlight.

Cook admits he didn’t get all his first choices to play the Amex, but drum ’n’ bass and dubstep producer DJ Fresh and anthemloving electro wizard Nero lower down the bill might be the next Guetta.

Expect a party set from The 2 Bears, who after years in the industry, hosting raves in London, have just released their debut record, Be Strong.

The 24-year-old London DJ Maya Jane Coles makes straight-up house and is another up-and-coming name to look out for.

Cook will finally share a bill in Brighton with his old pal Carl Cox, from whom he admits he owes 50% of his DJing style (the other 50% he credits to John Carter).

That the showis in a football stadium is enough of a sporting reference for Albion fan Cook.

“We checked out the ticket sales and only 10% have come through the football club.

So that’s the 10% of Albion fans that are into my music; so the other 90% are not football fans so we won’t pander to them.

“And I don’t have to think about that difficult remix of Sussex By The Sea.”

Cook says the set is ready to go.

He has a bag full of records, old and new, “to make people dance and give them a bit of edge”, to fill his hour-and-three-quarters set before the 10.30pm curfew.

The bars will open afterwards for an extra hour for somewhere to wind down rather than queue for the park and ride.

“I don’t want to make a political point, but I would like to make a sarcastic thanks to British Rail for being so accommodating with trains,” says Cook, in light of Southern Rail’s decision to cancel all trains for the evening.

In winter 2007, at BBB3, Cook flashed a message on screen: “Yes to Falmer”. That day has arrived.

“There is still a market out there for people who want to go and party. They can’t take that away from us,” he says.

Starts 3pm, tickets £38.50 per person, per night.

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