Well done, Keith Taylor (July 19) for trying to stand up to a barrage of heckling during Brighton and Hove City Council's debate on the Fatboy Slim gig.

As for culture councillor Ian Duncan, what culture is he from? Obviously a gullible one if he thinks we believe his facts.

No deaths during the event? I am sure many a murderer will now be using that excuse: "Sorry, your honour, I may have whacked the fella with a brick but he died three hours later so I had nothing to do with his death."

Eleven ambulance trips made? Well, try getting an ambulance to and from the beach in that chaos. The ambulance crews probably treated people there because they couldn't get out.

Only eight arrests? Brilliant? So how many unreported crimes? How many people didn't realise they had had things stolen until too late? How many couldn't be bothered to report their incidents to an already overstretched police force or find a copper?

One-hundred-and eighty toilets? Well, why did the area still stink of urine and why did a friend of mine have to wade through a river of the stuff?

Good weather and enormous promotion had brought huge crowds, said Councillor Duncan. I know there's nothing you can do about the first but shouldn't you or someone at the council have had some say in the promotion?

What I saw on Saturday and the following days was a constant stream of drunken, rowdy and not all good-natured revellers invading our city, then leaving behind a massive amount of rubbish.

What's more amazing is knowing the council won't allow the well-organised, culturally diverse and star-studded Essential Festival to take place on the beach. Now that would have been something to be proud of.

Why is the council so eager to cover up the mess of "that weekend" and why treat Fatboy as some kind of superman and ambassador for our city?

-Gareth Money, St Georges Road, Brighton