There were countless sexual assaults over the long weekend and eight reported rapes. 'The laws of normal society just don't apply here,' one man explained during an interview at the festival that was featured in the documentary 'We got off the bus, and I was like, "Something's not right."' I can tell you a hundred feet away what the energy in that venue's gonna be like,' the musician Moby said in the film. 'There is a sixth sense that you develop when you spend your life going to venues. The film also relies on archival footage from the festival itself to paint a clear picture of anarchy, violence, and toxic white masculinity. 'It was not your parents Woodstock,' one man explained in the trailer for the documentary, which features interviews with attendees, journalists who covered the event, and musicians who performed. Held 30 years later, it was billed as another three days of peace, love, and music - it was anything but. Woodstock '99 was an attempt to pay homage to the counterculture idealism that made the 1969 festival a pivotal moment in musical history. The nightmarish musical festival kicked off on July 22, 1999, with about 220,000 music fans arriving at a former Air Force base outside of Rome, New York, which was roughly 100 miles from the site of the original Woodstock. Published: 00:18 BST, 24 July 2021 | Updated: 00:55 BST, 24 July 2021Īfter a long weekend of violence, vandals lit fires on the last night of the show
Roughly 10,000 people needed medical treatment, 44 were arrested, and two died at Woodstock '99.The violence came to a head on the last night when rioters lit bonfires, flipped cars, and tore down booths.There were countless sexual assaults and eight reported rapes, with one body-surfer allegedly being gang-raped in the mosh pit.Concertgoers rolled around in puddles of human feces they thought was mud.People were passing out because of heat exhaustion and dehydration, while the porta-potties quickly became clogged and overflowing with waste.Temperatures soared to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and festivalgoers were left to bake on the tarmac with bottles of water costing $4 apiece.Woodstock '99 kicked off on July 22, 1999, with hundreds of thousands of music fans arriving at a former Air Force base outside of Rome, New York.The music festival was an attempt to pay homage to the counterculture idealism that made the original Woodstock in 1969 a pivotal moment in musical history.HBO's Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage takes an in-depth look at the carnage from the three-day event with interviews and archival footage.The day the '90s died: Horrific footage from new Woodstock '99 documentary shows how the music festival erupted into chaos - with mosh pit gang rapes, riots, and fans rolling around in FECES
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