Woodstock 99

How many people died at Woodstock 99? The 2022 Netflix documentary Trainwreck looks back on the infamous festival.

Red Hot Chili Peppers closed out the weekend on Sunday night and candles were handed out to the crowd in the hopes of starting a candle-lit vigil against gun violence. Not only that, but there were also 1,200 admissions to onsite medical facilities, 44 arrests, and numerous accounts of sexual assault. Now, it’s time to focus a lens on the notorious Woodstock 99 festival.

In a new Netflix documentary, DJ Norman Cook is told about the chaos that unfolded during his headline performance.

Looking devastated, he says: “That is just hideous to think that in the midst of all those people having fun, and me wanting to make everyone love each other, that was going on literally under our noses.” “That was literally the moment when everything started to look a bit less fun,” he said. When stage manager, A.J. Srybnik, finally got to the van, he found someone wielding a “rusty old” machete, and an unconscious teenage girl with her clothes pulled off alongside a boy pulling up his pants. Aptly, Cook launched into his set with Fucking In Heaven, and had only got a few tracks in when he noticed something large moving into the hangar. In the documentary, one member of staff working that night said: “I remember shining my flashlight on the floor and literally seeing people on all fours having sex”, while another said it was more debauched than the dark room at Berghain: “I saw from the stage one wall of the hangar several naked people lined up with their hands up against a wall and a line of people behind them… And while people are still talking about it 23 years later, unfortunately, it’s not for the reason he hoped.

This tense, brisk watch inspires a sense of dread as it lays bare the rape, riots and arson that destroyed a 1999 festival. Sadly, the deeper questions ...

In the end, it doesn’t have the heart to go there in any depth, following the adrenaline-inducing spectacle of the fires and the riots instead. Was it the culture, or the environment? The biggest questions are why it turned, and why in such a particular and grotesque way. The crowd was – by many accounts and from the plentiful footage of the time – macho and aggressive, a “frat boy” culture dominating the event. A cardboard sign saying “show us your tits” – which someone had taken the time to make – is waved at female artists from the crowd. Each episode follows a day of the festival, from an optimistic start on Friday through to the apocalyptic scenes in the early hours of Monday morning, using a ticking clock to count down to each fresh catastrophe.

Its tone captures a bittersweet rush that you must have had to be there to truly get.

So much in this story could have been prevented, and predicted, and this documentary shows its collapse with one compelling passage after the next. The purpose of going to this story is to be amazed at how obvious these developments are. Trainwreck" is quickly paced with one episode for each day; its different themes, pop culture references, name-drops, and general schadenfreude always pop, but that acute nature can make it guilty of glossing over some of the more significant or curious pieces in the big picture. The series is especially compelling with behind-the-scenes footage, starting with VHS footage of planning meetings that went from nostalgic optimism to complete negligence. Similarly, this documentary is dedicated to humanizing those who were treated as animals and then perceived as such when they started to rebel, destroying the grounds by its closing Sunday night. They hired a bunch of popular acts who are paid to be angry (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock) and then they gave thousands of concertgoers numerous reasons to be angry at them.

A Netflix documentary, 'Trainwreck: Woodstock '99' explores what went wrong at the copycat festival. Here's everything to know: arrests, deaths, ...

Reports from the 1999 concert revealed that there was a general lack of access to clean water, trash everywhere, and rampant reports of crimes like sexual assault, looting, and vandalism. Some people even died at the concert. According to The Baltimore Sun, more than 700 people had been treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration halfway through the weekend concert. And two decades later, in 1999, fans attempted to recreate another version of the iconic concert—dubbed Woodstock ‘99. But this time, it was a total disaster. This led to some people developing trench mouth. They were holding her arms; you could see she was struggling.”

In a new Netflix documentary, the veteran DJ talks about the "terrifying" moment a van drove into the crowd during the infamous festival.

"That was literally the moment when everything started to look a bit less fun.” he says. You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us. "I was floored," Srybnik says, realising he had just witnessed a serious sexual assault. "Then I got the tap on the shoulder, and it's like: 'We gotta stop the music. The vans gotta go, and I said 'Aw, not tonight. "I'd been closeted in my dressing room all afternoon with people just going, oh it's a bit chaotic out there" he recalls.

Limp Bizkit's Woodstock 99 performance receives a lot of spotlight in the Netflix documentary Trainwreck but what have they said about it?

“It’s easy to point the finger and blame [us], but they hired us for what we do — and all we did is what we do. Well, Limp Bizkit’s Saturday set is described in the documentary as being the moment the hand grenade went off. Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 is a three-part documentary series that shows interviews with those involved reminiscing the event, mixed with archival footage of what went down at the festival in July 1999.

Were there any deaths at the trainwreck festival of Woodstock 99? A look into who died at the event, which is missed out from Netflix documentary series.

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.

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.

Find out what Netflix viewers are saying about the shocking new docuseries, Trainwreck: Woodstock 99…

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?

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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.