Woodstock '99

Fred Durst, lead singer of Limp Bizkit, is carried on the shoulders of security and fans as he performs with his group at Woodstock '99 in Rome, N.Y., July 24, ...

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Netflix's latest hit documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 sheds light on the disastrous festival which took place just before the millennium.

The disaster started with the fact that due to recent storms, the whole festival site was full of thick mud. Held from from August 15th to August 18th 1999 in Bethel, New York, it was billed as “three days of peace and music” and unlike the 1999 festival, it was exactly that. The three-part limited series delves into the disaster, which was held in New York from July 22nd to July 25th 1999 and aimed to recreate the original Woodstock festival of 1969.

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It’s reported Woodstock 99 lead to the deaths of three people. Woodstock 99 has gone down in history as one of the biggest festival disasters there has ever been. Netflix has just released a three-part documentary series on the music festival Woodstock 99.

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I was 12 when it happened and remember seeing the reports on #MTV but had no idea." Viewers took to Twitter to express their shock at the horrifying yet intriguing documentary, with one person writing: "Just finished watching #TrainwreckWoodstock99 on Netflix and it is crazy! Like this story?

New Netflix documentary explores how 1999 festival Woodstock descended into violence, with numerous reports of sexual assaults and deaths.

In the original Woodstock festival, three people also died: two from drug overdoses and a third, who was aged 17, was run over and killed while sleeping in a sleeping bag, by a tractor that was collecting rubbish. The official synopsis of Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 reads: ‘Woodstock ‘99 was supposed to be a millennium-defining celebration of peace, love and great music. A 24-year-old man died from a heat-related illness, while one woman, 28, was hit by a car when she left the concert, and a 44-year-old man with a pre-existing heart condition died of cardiac arrest in a Woodstock camping site. Bonfires were set off after candles were given out during the Red Hot Chili Peppers set, and on the final night of the festival, a car went up in flames. While there were very few female performers over the weekend, with the line-up including the likes of Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, sexism was particularly rife. In 1999, 30 years after the original festival and five years after a revived festival, Woodstock festival took place in New York, with more than 400,000 people buying tickets.

New Netflix documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock '99, covers the doomed event and the people behind it.

but it wasn’t anything that gained enough momentum so that it caused any on-site issues, other than, of course, the women it happened to”. Was it the music acts, mostly nu-metal bands, inciting anarchy and violence in a volatile crowd? Was it the over-commercialisation and profit-at-any-cost ethos of a festival originally set up to promote peace and love?

In 1999 400,000 people descended on an airfield in New York state to celebrate “peace, love and great music”. Instead what happened was a weekend of violence ...

During Limp Bizkit it was reported that people were tearing wooden boards off the walls. Violence was present in many forms, and during several sets the crowd started rioting. MTV also reported that two women were allegedly gang-raped during Limp Bizkit and Korn’s sets. Very few women performed over the weekend. - Spitfire “Instead, the festival degenerated into an epic trainwreck of fires, riots and destruction.

Fatboy Slim has recalled the "terrifying" moment a van drove into the audience during his DJ set at Woodstock 1999.

“I did exactly what I was told and ran,” he said. Fatboy Slim said: “That’s just hideous to think that in the midst of all those people having fun and me wanting to make everybody love each other… Shit’s kicking off and it’s kind of not safe.” The vehicle had been stolen by a gang and was travelling through the rave hangar crowd towards the stage. He then recalled how some people began “throwing things” at him. “I’d been closeted in my dressing room all afternoon with people just going, ‘Oh it’s a bit chaotic out there’,” Cook remembered.

On the final night of the festival, state troopers and local New York police forces were called to help end the mass rioting.

Speaking on the documentary, he said: "That was literally the moment when everything started to look a bit less fun. In an interview as part of the documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock 99, Cook described the moment he was forced to flee for his life when things got out of control. Cook then spent the night at an airport until his flight the next day. "Then I got the tap on the shoulder, and it's like: 'We gotta stop the music. Brighton DJ Norman Cook was forced to run for his life after playing the terrifying Woodstock 99 concert. The festival was infamous for being a total abject failure.

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“I was convinced it was time to move into the new millennium, band-wise. I think we had a total of 300 bands that weekend, but I think it was too edgy. There was a lot of anger, and I think that came across.” Needless to say, this didn’t do wonders for the dental hygiene of some who drank contaminated water. These are symptoms of gingivitis and trench mouth is a particularly fast form of this condition. Well, Esquire reports the festival suffered issues surrounding access to water.

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Pitchfork (opens in new tab) reports that there were 1,200 admission to the onsite medical facilities during Woodstock 99. He also claimed that the medical tents were not well equipped to treat heat stroke patients. According to Syracuse, her lawyer, Joseph Cote said that organisers did not provide enough water and had inadequate medical supplies for the 400,000 fans who attended. Esquire (opens in new tab) reports that access to water was another concern, with 25 minute queues forming around water fountains. Yet sadly this didn't turn out to be the case for Woodstock's third and final outing - Woodstock 99 - taking place during a now infamous July weekend at a former air force base in Rome, New York. Sign up to the GoodTo Newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Over 400000 people attended the highly anticipated festival in Rome, New York, with Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Metallica, and Korn, taking to the main stage.

Three people also died at the original Woodstock festival in 1969. That year, 5,000 people were treated at medical tents and 800 were taken to hospital, according to the South Florida Sun. Over 400,000 people were in attendance. The event was home to serious violence and riots, sexual assault against women, fires, looting, and more. He died on Monday, July 26 after being in a coma for two days. First, there was Woodstock 1969, a festival celebrating peace, love, and music at the height of the Vietnam War. It was followed by Woodstock '94, which was a complete and utter mudbath, with more than double the attendees turning up.

Jonathan Davis, who's interviewed, remembers being nervous and excited beforehand, feeling like, "This was massive." Then when he came out onstage, he was blown ...

Korn's stunning 13-song set culminated in a no-hold-barred performance of "My Gift to You," which they opened with the intro to Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" and ended with Davis collapsed on the stage, having given his all but still roaring. As all the talking heads in Netflix's new docuseries Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 agree, Korn was the band that the majority of the estimated 400,000 festivalgoers were most stoked to see. In 1999, Korn were on top of the world.

Korn frontman Jonathan Davis has opened up on witnessing first-hand the chaos of Woodstock '99, one of the most infamous music festivals of all time.

By the time Korn hit the stage, tensions were already rising across the festival, and one of the weekend's biggest crowds had gathered to see the nu metal giants. New Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 delves into the problems that faced the festival from early on, attempting to unwrap the issue of how things got so bad in the first place. Taking place over four days in July 1999, the event was put on to mark the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock and featured a stacked bill that included Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many more.

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The documentary reaches its riotous denouement with huge fires being lit across the site using candles handed out for a ‘vigil’ during Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ‘Under The Bridge’, lighting towers being pulled to the ground, wooden walls kicked down to burn, vendor stalls looted and kerosene stores exploding – “we’re making the biggest noise now!” yells one gurning shithead as a fuel dump goes up like Apocalypse Now with its helmet on backwards. It’s all told in classic countdown-to-disaster style, with the major organisers such as late Woodstock legend Michael Lang and promoter John Scher still playing down events and the backstage doom-mongers getting plenty of belated told-you-so moments. In ’69, for instance, rebelling against a repressive status quo meant permissiveness; in ’99, rebelling against a permissive status quo meant violence.

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The delay tower as you can see is on fire - it's not part of the show, it really is a problem." The band's set was stopped as an announcement was made from the stage: "As you can see if you look behind you, we have a bit of a problem. From a distance it looked just like some sort of party." But five years later, the original Woodstock promise of "three days of peace and music" was in short supply. During Fatboy Slim's set on Saturday night, a stolen van was spotted driving through the dance area and into where the audience were stood. Aside from the dangerously hot weather, the site was overcrowded with an estimated crowd of 400,000 people, forcing many festival-goers to pitch their tents on the tarmac.

IF the original Woodstock in 1969 was the realisation of the baby boomer generation's hippie, free-loving utopian dream,...

The opening scene begins with the smoky aftermath of the final night and the quote from a journalist asking "is this Bosnia?" While it's a tad melodramatic, the festival experience Trainwreck illustrates almost feels like a war zone. Trainwreck: Woodstock '99's three episodes track the three days of the festival, interspersed with flashbacks to the event's marred planning. It was miles away from the free food kitchens of the original Woodstock. For the 30th anniversary edition of Woodstock in 1999, organisers, including the festival's original co-founder, Michael Lang, were determined to make a profit. Fast forward to 1994 and Woodstock returned for its 25th anniversary, but due to poor planning and broken fencing allowing thousands of punters to gain free entry, the festival was deemed a commercial disaster. IF the original Woodstock in 1969 was the realisation of the baby boomer generation's hippie, free-loving utopian dream, then the 1999 reboot of the iconic music festival is the story of how greed corrupts.

The three-part series looks into what went wrong in the making and execution of the 1999 music & art festival.

Lots and lots of angst." I knew that they were full of shit," Blaustein said of the Woodstock organizers. For one unnamed patroller, Woodstock '99 was simply a place for "money and sex and b*tches . . ." The demonstration was meant to spotlight a new generation of youth taking a stance against gun violence. So unbeknownst to few boisterous festivalgoers, the "mud" they were fooling around in was actually feces. Joe Paterson, a public health investigator, examined samples of the drinking water available at Woodstock '99 and found that they were all severely contaminated with feces. They were breaking it up into small pieces, I guess, just to have a piece of Woodstock." Netflix's latest documentary, "Trainwreck: Woodstock '99," explores what went wrong in the making and execution of the 1999 shindig. One of those peace patrols was Cody, who was 18 years of age at the time. Crowds of men groping and sexually harassing young women took place without repercussions, mainly because the security at Woodstock '99 was both insufficient and inexperienced. Many attendees recalled the horrid, overbearing smell and said they had to step in urine and feces while using the bathrooms. But despite the high hopes, Woodstock '99 was tarnished by poor venue facilities, riots, vandalism, assault, destruction and corporate greed, making it one of the most infamous festivals in music history.