“And definitely it’s a predominantly – almost exclusively – white, male crowd that’s reacting in this way. “You can definitely see, certainly visually, parallels between the two,” says Wardle. Forget Fyre festival the closest equivalent I can think of is Four Hours at the Capitol, the recent anxiety-inducing documentary about the 6 January insurrection. When things get really dark – an attendee steals a van and drives it through the middle of the rave tent during Fatboy Slim’s DJ set, or the crowd start tearing down the sound tower – it is genuinely terrifying. A kind of collective frenzy takes hold from the middle of the second day, and the show demonstrates how dangerous a large group of people can be when they start acting as one. This one was a celebration of mindlessly aggressive nu-metal. The original Woodstock’s lineup included Ravi Shankar and Joan Baez. This one sold plastic water bottles at $4 a pop. The original Woodstock had free food kitchens. The original Woodstock? Held on a dairy farm.

Held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock, which has come to be seen as a benign force of positivity, Woodstock 99 became renowned for the consequences of its spectacularly bad decision-making. Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99, as it is aptly titled, is a three-part, chronologically told series about one of the most appallingly assembled music festivals in history. But something tells me that Fyre festival is going to be superseded, because Netflix is about to release a series about Woodstock 99. A film about a woefully organised festival that spiralled out of control with alarming ferocity, it was the sort of thing you had to watch through the cracks in your fingers. Kudos to This Must Be The Place and ACL for being proactive and looking to help save lives, I just wish it wasn't needed.Netflix’s Fyre festival documentary was one of those out-of-the-blue hits that seemed to dominate conversation for months when it was released in 2019. Sure, we should celebrate the fact that someone out there wants to save lives, but we should also be extremely fearful that it's something people feel is needed. The fact that it's even a thing is flat-out scary. Has the opioid problem in the country just completely grown out of control? I've never seen anyone have to set up a booth at a concert or festival to hand out something like this. I'm happy to see that ACL has invited them out, even though I'm not exactly thrilled they had to. So far, they've attended Lollapalooza, Bonaroo, and upwards of 20 other music festivals this year alone and have distributed over 34,000 Narcan kits to festival attendees. The group travels to some of the biggest music festivals across the country to help educate people on drug use, as well as provide something that could potentially save their life should they find themselves in that kind of need.

The non-profit organization This Must Be the Place will be in attendance this year, and they'll be handing out packs of Narcan nose spray for free to festival attendees. This year though, something is being added that COULD help things out a little bit. I've been to the festival many times, and while it's a relatively tame festival when it comes to the attendees, there is still plenty of drug use within the crowd. Thousands upon thousands of people are around and a fair amount of them partake in the extracurricular activities going on around them.Īustin City Limits Music Festival is one of them.

You're outside all day and night for 2-3 days straight. A popular place to use any kind of drug is at a music festival.

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