Music box woodstock 9911/6/2023 ![]() ![]() After being told, “Oh it’s a bit chaotic out there” (putting it mildly) during his headline set, a group of people stole a van and drove it into the middle of the tent, which was packed full of thousands of ravers. One terrifying part of the festival’s downfall occurred during Fatboy Slim’s set in the rave hangar. Bleak.Ĭourtesy of Netflix The truck crashing into Fatboy Slim’s truck Yes, that’s the same Trench Mouth that initially affected World War I soldiers when they experienced prolonged periods of trench warfare, meaning they couldn’t clean their teeth and ended up with painful and bleeding gums. As one festival-goer reveals, she woke up on the last day with “a very sore throat, cold sores all over my lips, ulcers all over my tongue and my gums and in my mouth,” adding that she couldn’t “eat, drink or talk… I found out I had something called Trench Mouth”. But after the festival cut corners on sanitation contractors, a health and safety inspector found that human faeces was leaking into the drinking and shower water, making a toxic “shit mud” that many people were happily splashing around in. With water at $4 ($7/£6 by today’s standards) a pop – rising to $12 at the end of the weekend by mercenary food traders – amidst heatwave conditions, it's no wonder there were 25 minute queues at the public water fountains on site. Netflix People were essentially drinking raw sewage, leading to outbreaks of trench mouth One of the organisers, John Scher, even now, 23 years on, doesn’t take accountability for the horrors that women faced in the festival: “Woodstock was like a small city, you know? All things considered, I’d say that there would probably be as many or more rapes in any sized city of that… 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.” It was a hysterical mother, talking about how her daughter had been raped.” One particularly harrowing moment is recalled by one of the festival staff after the weekend was over: “When I got back into the office, I started getting phone calls. The organisers dealt with this in the same way as everything else: downplay and deny. The assaults, and the lack of accountability from organisers even nowĪmid all the feral behaviour, there were four reported rapes and reportedly many cases of sexual assault over the weekend. ![]() I Was at Woodstock '99, and Everyone Was Angry.
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