The Many Scandals of Failed Music Festivals
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00:00 Intro
00:14 Woodstock 99
09:49 The Hudson Project
16:13 Fyre Festival
26:40 Burning Man 23 - บันเทิง
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Fucken oath
bruh that shit is insanely overpriced
Imagine advertising garbage like this. Sell out
lol that ad was so bad and i loved it
damn homie this shit is g a r b a g e
"The lockers had no locks, meaning they were just 'ers." Underrated joke.
Just say it was funny. No need to make up something about it being underrated lol
My favorite part was when he referenced “Korn” and showed a picture of corn on the cob.
@@daminoxI like when he said it was underrated. Underrated comment
@@jesseeatsbrains
Oh my God it's Korn
*URRRRRRRRTAUHTAunnnnnnn--*
My guy the video was oploaded not a full day ago and you call it underrated..
But my bad for thinking about buzzwords.
one time when i was 17 i went to a music festival and waited 10 hours to see King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in the front row, and the head security guard for the stage gave me a bunch of enamel pins with the band's art on them
hell yeah dude, after a chili peppers show at acl one of the stage techs gave me a pick from frusciantes mic stand
As someone who's part of a stage crew now and then, the best thing of the night is giving out stuff like that to fans and see how much it means to them, cause like...to make concerts and the good vibes happen is why I work that job ^^
That's really cool!
fuck yeah king gizzard is the goat
No he didn't.
My dad was at Woodstock 94. He says he understands why trench warfare diaries always talk about the horror of the mud LMAO
Trench warfare isn't really a LMAO about anything, ever
@@username.not.known2473
You’re right! It was hell! I am ashamed of humanity, and I hope to God we just force our world leaders to talk shit out over the phone from now on.
@@gerarddipI understood you weren’t laughing at war and just at what a b*tch being in the mud is. 🙄 Nine inch nails killed it at Woodstock. I bet he thinks so too. Rip dmx
Work construction and walk in mud all day long and be covered in it. After awhile its extremely frustrating. They movies don’t lie either: might as well walk in oil.
@@username.not.known2473LMFAO, you right, trench warfare ain’t a joke LMAO
I still use Fyre as 'this is how it's not done' to my undergrad events management and hospitality students. It's the gold standard example.
😂 👍 do you have a whole multimedia presentation that analyzes every step of what went wrong, or a playlist of TH-cam videos that break it all down? Although I would guess most of your students know what the Fyre fiasco was anyway.
100% correct, Datch. If somebody's going for a degree in either Hospitality or Event Management, Fyre is an excellent example of how to fuck everything up, lose all financial support and dignity, and look like a complete ass on television while lying about it all and attempting to place blame elsewhere. It really was a wonderful little shitshow.
@@Drew791 no, but now you've given me an idea 💡
@@datchucktaylor Nice! 👌
@@josephschultz3301so you telling people involved are actually being held accountable, in the sense people are literally learning in universities to not work with people like them?
I was at Woodstock 99 in Rome, NY. It was crazy. $20.00 slices of pizza and $10.00 bottles of water. Took hours to feed through the crowd to get to a specific stage. Lots of drugs, lots of "free love".
How much of that love was consensual?
@@skeletonbuyingpealts7134 I believe the term "over the head and under the feet" applies here. You missed the joke completely.
@@cardboardempire i missed the joke too tell me what it was (i am not asking i am commanding)
@@bingusbongus9807 if you're paying 20.00 a slice, there is no free love.
@@cardboardempire yeah i still dont get it sorry, why does pizza being 20 dollars stop sex from being free?
$9 water bottles at Woodstock '99 which took place in 90 degree heat at an Air Force base was some wild shit. Even wilder were the ATM's with a $20 transaction fee.
That's the most American thing ever 😂
I think the $12 water bottles were the equivalent of $20 today as well 💀
@@ManyKudos So basically 40$ not to end up at the medic tent 💀
@@ManyKudos $22.15 US and the ATM fees are $36.91 US
Every music festival eventually becomes a late-stage capitalist hellscape, sometimes after the second or third one, sometimes during the planning stage for the first one, but it's always inevitable.
honestly atm fees should be illegal
Had a college professor who went to the very first Woodstock. When we asked what she did there she said, "I'd tell you but I'd never be able to teach again if someone higher up found out." We pressed a few more times but she never did say and the desire to know lives rent free in my head to this day. Cool teacher, though. Would cancel class if her favorite American football team was playing that night as we were her last class every other night.
Probably drank did drugs and had lots of group sex that's what most people did there.
@@nrgbunni.The fuck do you mean 'probably'?
@@nrgbunni.And then that generation has the fucking audacity to say our generation is crazy and has a shit fit when we call them out on that.
drugs and sex
Sex drugs and rock and roll baby!
I was at Burning Man '23 and yeah it wasn't as bad on the inside as the reporting made it seem. All our families thought we were dying and we were just chilling and lamenting the fact that we couldn't really leave our camp like we wanted to. Everyone brings more than enough food and water so we were never in danger of running out, and thankfully the portos only went like a day and a half before they got pumped again. We had to stay one more day than we had planned, but all things considered it wasn't too bad! Our camp did decide to take next year off though 😂
And here we see ebola's effect on hippies by producing incredible amounts of copium in the brain.
That’s a relief to know!!
Sounds a bit like Wacken which was also this year, kinda suprised it wasnt covered in this video
Yeah, honestly when I heard the news about it my first thought was “Burners know how to deal with this shit, they’ll be fine.” Of course there are always some people who are inexperienced or underprepared, but on the whole I wasn’t too worried.
Considering what happened before burning man. Glad to know it wasn't a total crap fiesta like the news made it out to be.
Yeaaaaars back there was an Aussie festival called Heatwave, started by a local dude who liked rapping in an American accent. It was meant to be a dusk-'til-dawn weekend, but they situated it near a retirement home. So the cops kept being called and it turned into 2pm-'til-9pm.
Then D12, the headliner, didn't show up.
Then they ran out of food and drinks to sell by day two of three.
Then one of the acts decided to just have his DJ play a set instead.
Then it rained on the last day and flooded everything out.
Then while the festival was in another state after, Kid Cudi got pissed off and started wrecking shit.
Then a while later, the promoter-rapper-guy was thrown off stage by the Insane Clown Posse.
Then a while after that, Xzibit threw a chair at him back stage and it was on TMZ for a bit.
Good times.
I have so much research that I definitely think there will be a part 2, don't be surprised if this appears in it!
Ahh yes patrick crafty. This was in south Australia so other than tmzs coverage of the xzibit drama i dont think anyone would have heard of it
@@ManyKudos Like @jaymack396 said up there, tis super niche but also strangely compelling with all the crap that went on and fell apart due to the festival in the years after.
Dude even tried to market it, acting like he loved the hate and making an album called "F*** You Patrick", which was what Xzibit got the crowd to chant.
It didn't work lol.
Edit: Also forgot, after D12 bailed he said that anyone who kept their Heatwave wrist-band would get free entry when he'd be able to get them down here for a show. He eventually did...like...five years later. Asked him 'bout the free entry with the wrist-band I'd kept, caught him off guard...got blocked haha.
Also also; hyped up folks saying how he was gonna try out for Big Brother due to living across the road from where they held auditions. He thought he was a shoo-in due to his reputation. But...he slept in, and missed the audition.
@@jaymack396
Probably the one time Adelaide will ever make it on TMZ. Gives off a feeling of...not pride...the opposite of pride. Shame?
Have noticed over the years that folks don't recognise him by "Patty", "Crafty" etc. as much as they once did. But if you say something like "Pastashaft" folks remember him instantly haha.
You hit the nail on the head 🤣
This pretty much sums up why I don't go to large festivals. Loud, too many people, dirty, and they can easily turn into basically a pit of depravity.
Missing the fun
@@chubbyanemone696 I am sure sliding in shit-infested mud is very fun.
Sounds awesome 👌🏻
medium and small festivals are the real fun ones where you can have life changing positive experiences. A venue should never have more than 20,000 people in one place. After that it becomes overcrowded or the venue has to be gigantic. @@chubbyanemone696
getting punched randomly doesn't seem too much fun
the netflix doc on woodstock 99 made me once again realice how shitty humans can be. one of the guys in charge saying some bs like "if we compare the number of people to a city of the same size, the number of confirmed rapes is low"
look at burning man
Don’t forget how shitty and rude the bands were at ‘99.
I was at the Indy 500 when a massive rainstorm blew through for 15 minutes, knocked down everyone’s tents, and fucked off. It was a life-changing experience: namely, it changed the future portions of my life by removing any instances of me going to the Indy 500 again.
Alien Scout: They’re doing it again.
Alien Captain: Trigger the downpour.
I have a friend that's been going to Burning Man off and on since the 90s. The stories she tells about it are genuinely amazing. It sounds like it used to be mainly for people who understood the spirit of the festival and would come together to work through things, party, and experience that sense of community. Then the price point to go got ridiculous and it started attracting more opportunistic types that used it to network about their "disruptive" tech ideas and treat it like Coachella in the desert. The stories she tells from the 90s and early 2000s festivals compared to more modern ones are like night and day.
Maybe rich people shouldn't have festivals
@@bayardkyyako7427 Maybe we need facilities to contain them and their dystopian ideas?
Omg, I just realised our children will one day talk about Fyre Festival like we talk about Woodstock 99.
"automated teller machine machines" gave me a fuzzy little smile
Don't buy a $30 stick of tasty air: buy cinnamon sticks. You can get them anywhere, they're cheap, you can suck on them or chew on them, and it works off the exact same psychology as the tasty air stick without making you look like a jack-a**.
Was just having the most shit day at work, seeing a new video of yours is like a warm blanket and the feeling of childhood comfort. Thank you.
I got you some hot cocoa too
Hope your day got worse 👍
@@ManyKudos with cream? 🥺
@@IntercactusYKWNo 'cream', pervert.
You can have some very well curdled, beatened and processed milk with sugar tho.
If i had a nickel for everytime a New Zealand born, Australian TH-camr analysed the problems with Fyre Festival and mistranslated Ja Rule's name in a European language, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
Credit for me thinking of this comment goes to @ShinTobyTeh
hey at least you credit your inspiration unlike the plagiarist internet historian!
@@iamjustkiwi LMFAO
@@iamjustkiwi Even with all that I was shocked to see how iilluminaughtii's plagiarism on her Fyre Fest video was even more blatant
He said it right though... I think my Ben you’re the one who’s been saying it wrong. Probably using a y instead of j. Thinking you’re right because you speak a second language.
Sounds like a whole 20-30 min video could be made just from Woodstock Festivals.
worked at daisy festival in vegas when i was around 16 with some family friends, we were told we would be paid about 100$ each for helping put up props and electrical equipment. We worked from probably from the morning (7am maybe 10 it's been a long time) to 1am the next morning, water was provided yet food as far as i remember was not. It was the most grueling work for a kid who thought it would be a nice way to make a little bit of money. The next day my friends mom talked to the guy who hired us about the pay, he tried to down play the pay that we weren't going to be paid each 100$ and it would be less since we didn't stay the full day.
Is this the origin story for the villain known as Hitman Money Maker?
@@daminox Yep it is. See the movie in cinema coming soon
How on Earth does one festival fuck it up so bad they have people dying of heatstroke _and_ frostbite?
He said hyperthermia, I think, sounds similar in that accent
Looked it up, was in fact hyperthermia
I'm still waiting for the "Many Scandals of ManyKudos" video where you show us all your embarrassing childhood photos, scandalous stories and evidence of any crimes.
That Fum thing is so contradictory, instead of helping you abdicating from a bad habit by resisting the impulse of consuming something in the first place, it will only make stronger by reinforcing the triggers. What will happen at the moment you cant suck the scent from that again? You'll be able to resist the urge to get a treat? Wtf.
I literally don't understand that thing, what a load of junk
I get that quitting smoking can be pretty hard for people but cold Turkey and urge surfing is so much cheaper than breathing flavored air
That shit blew my mind.
These pieces of junk have been around a century and haven't helped a soul.
"Famed magnet researchers, Insane Clown Posse" Haha! Love it.
"Trees and planes have a bitter rivalry, dating back centuries'" That's the kinda technically true story telling i live for!
My mum was born in August 1969. Grandma never forgave her for making her miss Woodstock
Are you grateful for your grandma that you exist today?
Even though it was your grandma that got bred of her own accord 9 months later, totally your mums fault.
@@spacejihadist4246 I mean, yeah, but I totally get it, it was Woodstock! (/s)
@@NinoCristianini He said 1969 not 2014 lmao, women barely had the right to leave the kitchen back then.
Story Time from an old head: Look up Sasquatch 2006. It's a a large 3-day festival that still happens at the Gorge in Washington state that goes over the Memorial Day weekend (an end of May US holiday for military fellatio and kinda summer primer). Basically what happened at the Hudson Project happened at this Sasquatch. During the day on Saturday a storm hit, it hailed 25-30mm diameter stones and then dumped rain. The lightening and thunder during Iron and Wine people ignorantly cheered for, including the myself as the acid started creeping. I think Nico Case was who was playing when the storm and the acid started revving. People were crowded under the umbrellas and parasols people brought for the sun. There were streams soaking our feet, the entire general area was a lake. There was no warning, as it was during the flip phone era, and they didn't tell the crowd they were allowed to leave and comeback to change or something, not over the sound system or anything just "get under cover away from electronics". We left just because we were going to catch pneumonia (which many people that stuck it out got sick), so we were stoked we got to come back to see the Flaming Lips. The over square mile campground was a muddy mess, our tent and bedding was flooded, and all of the port-o-potties overflowed. We got back to the amphitheater when the shins were ending and I was beginning to peak on my acid when Ben Harper fucked us all over. Tons of people were on drugs and it turned a little into a riot that night after Ben Harper cut in the set list before the Flaming Lips and cut into their set time by noodling on his guitar over the time limit. I meant to peak during the Lips but Harper fucked that up, and it wasn't just me. There was even an "I, anonymous" article in the Seattle Stranger called "Fuck You Ben Harper" the week after the festival. Anyway, the next day the whole campground was still a disaster. Me and my girlfriend at the time gave up sleeping in the tent after 4hrs freezing, went to the nearest hotel we could find in Ellensburg and slept the whole morning and then went to go see Beck that afternoon/early evening. Beck had the most fucked up set without the storm. He'd start a song and then just trail off in the middle, set that guitar down while the band confusingly stopped and Beck would start another song and he'd trail off in the middle... it happened a bunch of times. The bassist, seemingly sick of this, presumably because this wasn't the first time, slammed his bass down screaming "FUCK IT" with all the bass strings clanging and the set ended. Weirdest shit ever. Anyway, it'd be amusing if you did that festival if this is a new series. It really was just about as much of a disaster as the Hudson Project.
So I watched some videos of the storm and the hail was more like 10-15mm it looked like. Funny how many people were laughing during the hail, and then when they all realized they were cold and soaked, the gravity of the situation starts to hit and they start looking a little helpless. I think all of us went through that range of emotions that day.
Love the Gorge. Most beautiful venue on earth.
tl;dr
Literally the first two sentences sum it up @@krodmandoon3479. Living life in fear of what is hidden in a paragraph seems torturous. Phobia of paragraphs just sounds awful.
Who would've thought that the most dangerous thing at festivals like these would be mud? (Well that and, all the drugs, of course.) Though the last story was actually kind of touching in how everyone came together as a community to not only survive, but have as good a time as possible. You'd think Burning Man's emphasis on attendees being self relient and providing there own supplies would make getting stuck in such a muddy mess a disaster, but it seems to have helped them to a degree. Amazing video, as always.
Those who attend Burning Man are built different.
@@watershipup7101You got that right.
No, the event sucked.
You have a point.
@@BodybuildingNews I mean, don't get me wrong, it was a disaster, but it did bring out the good in a lot of people.
I cant believe you didnt mention the 3 eyed dino shrimp that were revived by the flooding and spawned after burning man 23, the one specifically about celebrating animals. Thats just poetic.
I just looked that up and it sounds like the only thing that made the situation worthwhile. They essentially got to see mini horseshoe crabs unexpectedly.
" What if we added mud? " Then you will summon the mud wizard and they'll clown on police.
one thing that always bothered me about the reaction to Fyre was how media latched onto the ticket prices and made it a whole "these millennials and nepo babies and rich kids" thing. Like, yeah, some of those tickets are fucking wild but three grand for (what was supposed to be) high-end accommodation, transportation, food AND a music festival in the Bahamas for you and three mates? That is a deal that's also affordable even if you're not the son of a CEO. Turning the response into a "well their rich kids so fuck em" was so shitty even if its not surprising for how shitty american media is.
Fyre really sold the fantasy of being rich more than actually fulfilling it (the rich kid jokes were too easy to pass up on though, forgive me)
The kids brought the warm feelings of imagining a great time for the months leading up to the shitshow? Well that's worth 3k then
I'm gonna be honest if you can afford a $3,000 for a 2 day musical festival then even if you're not a wealthy CEO you're still the kinda upper middle class person that a lot of poorer people are still going to dislike and not have sympathy for. That's the kinda of money for an event that most people either can't afford at all or would only spend on "important" events like weddings.
You barely added anything to everything reported about Woodstock 99 but you took months to make a new video. You didn’t give any new insight to anything.
@@ManyKudosI was watching mtv when the riots and fire happened. This is soooo much worse than the fire festival.
The Fyre tickets weren't 12 thousand dollars, they were 12 HUNDRED. The media tacked an extra zero on somewhere along the line. At at that pricepoint, all that shit for barely over a grand is not just a decent deal, its outright stupid cheap. And also not at all possible.
Man, these festival stories are like a rollercoaster of chaos and camaraderie. From the Woodstock '99 mud madness to the Fyre Festival fiasco, it's amazing how these events can go from euphoria to mayhem. And hey, Burning Man '23 sounds like a wild experience, with families thinking their loved ones were in danger while they were just chilling in the desert. Festivals truly have a way of creating unforgettable stories and bonding moments, for better or for worse. ManyKudos for bringing these tales to light with your signature humor and storytelling.
Hearing a Kiwi say words like "festival" always brings a smile to my face. Top tier accent. Sunds suu frundly ay.
I found out recently that Kiwis call speed bumps "judder bars", how good is that
Just say it out loud in a Kiwi accent and it will brighten your day
@@bluegum6438
Sounds like the name of a monster from a Roald Dahl book.
I love it.
Woodstock 99: Maybe some security guards didn't let in food and drink, but we carried in 5 one gallon water jugs (one filled entirely with vodka), as well as a large flashlight full of drugs. They definitely prohibited outside alcohol (and drugs obviously), but didn't really give af. I was 19 at the time, and that was one of my all time favorite festivals/adventures. The band lineups were amazing by 1999 standards, and maybe it was the gallon of vodka and drugs, but my friends and I had a fantastic time. 🤷🏼♂️
Edit: Something that all the Woodstock 99 documentaries miss is that there were tons of unofficial "vendors" in the parking areas, which were outside the admission gates and pretty uncontrolled. Attendees could come and go freely. So we bought water and mystery meat on a stick from out there. Much cheaper than the vendors inside. Also, you could go sit/sleep in ur car to get away from the heat and chaos.. or could just go out to drink/etc and come back in.
Ive gone to some internet famous hot messes and had a blast at all of them
Haha the old gallon trick. Did that one at Louder Than Life this past September. Works a treat and you're the envy of everyone around you
"Joe Biden was warned of the situation and responded by drone striking a hospital in the middle east" is pure genius and totally on the money too
When venture capitalists start telling you they think something is a scam and wouldn't spend money on it; you know something's wrong with it
There are tons of festivals that have been ruined by bad weather so the outdoor festival visitors around the world should just accept that as a feature and not a bug. I live in Finland and here it is news if a festival weather was absolutely optimal for everything. Because the Finnish summer can be freezing, scorching or just rain and mud. So the bands and the visitors should always take a winter clothes, beach gear and rain clothes with them. 😅
The weather, sure. The reaction - or lack of - to the weather - absolutely not. If a festival can't get vehicles out or in (including ambulances) because they haven't invested in infastructure, that's totally on the festival organisers.
I still fucking love Finland
I went to The Hudson Project and other than the last day being cancelled, it was one of my top favorite festivals I've ever attended. The line-up was next-level and incredibly diverse, the vibes were amazing, and everyone sliding down the giant mudslide was one of my most memorable festival moments. Shout out to the guy who was butt naked sliding around in the mud. Only downside was the police presence. It was especially weird watching 3 police officers on horses walk right by my campsite while I was in a k hole
Edit: One thing to add is that it started pouring down in the middle of Big Gigantic's performance. But then after a while, the rain had suddenly stopped and there was a beautiful rainbow right over the stage. Seeing that while they performed was one of the most beautiful moments of my life
Casually saying “Automated Teller Machine Machines” like it was nothing just made me sub
Hearing the temperatures of a great American desert in Celsius brought out a level of patriotism I didn't know I had in me
It’s ~118*F. 0*C is freezing.
I never expected *MUD* to be such a constant threat like this.
Could've called this episode "Muddy Scandals"
This is the second time I’ve seen a New Zealand TH-camr make fun of Ja Rule’s name by mistranslating it with an European language in a video about scandalous music festivals.
Who is the other NZ youtuber?
Edit: oh wait you mean Internet Historian?
@@Sk0dieDing Ding Ding
Cant make a scandalous music festival video list without the good old fyre festival which no doubt everyone has heard of. I Didnt know about the other festivals though so it was good to get your account of what happened and your delivery was quite funny/entertaining.
If you hadn't heard of Woodstock '99, then you don't get to act like a know-it-all 😂
@@theMoporter I'm not acting like a know it all and I had seen some footage of people rioting and starting fires before but wasn't aware it was called Woodstock 99.
(Dis)Honorable mention: the 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Festival. Where shit went sideways so bad, the Grateful Dead straight-up refused to perform. 4 people died that day.
A few more to consider if you do a part 2:
Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (don't let the name throw you off, this one is WILD)
TomorrowWorld 2015 (turns out, rain exists)
Electric Zoo 2023 (just a massive bruh moment)
Woodstock 2019 (how NOT to have a festival, literally)
Bonnaroo 2021 (postponed over a year because of covid, then the hurricane hit)
The fact that Electric Zoo and Burning Man both happened on the exact same weekend is wild. That was just NOT a good time to be at a festival. Either you were being scammed or you were being nature's bitch
dont forget Nova Festival 2023
Should also add Blue Ridge Rock Festival that occurred over the weekend of September 8th in 2023 in Virginia. What a CF that turned out to be! I've heard stories of people being stuck in traffic for 13 hours for that. And of course, the weather (it was extremely hot and humid that weekend, then thunderstorms). Thankfully, even though where the BRRF was held was only a little over an hour or so from where I live, I was in Atlanta at ProgPower USA (a festival that is extremely well run) instead.
There was some audio equipment that was “tactically acquired” from Woodstock 99 during the Sunday night riots. It showed up online for sale around 05-06 the. Disappeared for a while and then I think it showed up again around 2017 or so. Funny enough they were using it’s stolen status as a selling point lol
The only thing that is more fun than playing in the mud, is playing in the mud to live music while high as balls.
It's always an exciting time when a new ManyKudos video comes out!
Much more consistent than that other guy, Interweb Librarian, or whatever their name is.
Literally the same person
Internet historian? The one whose most popular video about a guy stuck in a cave was entirely plagiarized from someone else's article online who also courts an antisemitic and hateful audience? I think that's the guy, a real charmer, him.
@@iamjustkiwi ok
My friends who went to EDM festivals talk about them like they are veterans
Went to a good few Scottish middle-aged hippy festivals as an older kid/teen. For obvious reasons, they were pretty chill. It was really boring for an introverted nerd who doesn't like loudness, but it felt safe (besides tent pegs). Wildest thing that happened in my presence was my dad being given what he thought was a line of coke to deal with a hangover, but it was, in fact, probably special K. Except, I didn't know about that at all, so I had no idea and thought it was just "con flu". Not a great morning for him.
A few weeks after Burning Man '23, the BALLS experimental rocket launch event (yes that's the real name) scheduled in Black Rock Desert almost had to be canceled as well due to the mud. I got to go to the launch (and the desert was just like you described it) but I only heard bits and pieces about the mess beforehand, so it's cool to hear the full story here. Thanks for another great video!
I used to work security for festivals and you could do a whole video on just them. The shit I used to see when working security, I once saw an 18 year old get jumped by 3 men all easily over 35-40 years old because he had a single dose of Molly on him and I mean jumped. They laid into him and when I tried getting them off I was threatened despite being a fellow member of security. I love music festivals but the security teams can absolutely ruin one one their efforts alone.
The guy pictured as a Silicon Valley dude during the Burning Man festival is actually Neil Katyal, the former US solicitor general and who was later instrumental in protecting American elections at the Supreme Court
Not even movie theaters will stop you from bringing in water, and their revenue is mostly from food and drinks.
Little did the people who had their fyre festival flight cancelled were the luckiest of the attendees
My parents once took a whole chicken to a Queen concert but since they weren't allowed to take in knives, they stuffed the carving knife up the chicken's bum.
WTF did I just read
Once, at a festival, my brother and I called Miley Cyrus' brother a wanker.
His band Metro Station were playing, we'd pushed to the front ready for the act after them. During the set Trace Cyrus tried to do the thing where you throw your guitar over your shoulder and it goes round your back on the strap but he got all tangled up in the cable, his guitar tech was trying to help him out and Trace, obviously embarrassed, was trying to push the tech off him and fighting him, being an arse so when the song finished we both shouted together "you fucking wanker!" He definitely heard us and glared right at us, I only found out later who he was which made it even funnier lol
Stayed a weekend at the Shakori Hills music fest twice. Was given some special blueberry muffins, ate them with my boyfriend, we took an edible nature tour, then sat in the grass and watched a band called The Spirit Family Reunion play sitting feet in front of us. 😭 Take me back!!
The fact that the main issue with many of these was rain would make you imagine by this point, someone would figure out a solution.
Not considering the weather is what killed Splendor in the Grass last year (naturally renamed to Splendor in the Mud). The entire fcking festival ground was underwater due to rain, but the organisers refused to cancel, leading to traffic with 15+ hour wait times trying to get into what was rapidly turning into a small inland sea.
23:45 This part had m crying laughing. Holy shit, your editing is spot on, dude.
I was in the right age group to want to attend Woodstock 99, but I was far too poor to afford it, and thought it sounded like a horrible proposition anyway. What I heard about afterwards only validated that opinion.
29:32 You’re telling me NO ONE. Thought to call it Extinguished Man??
My Dad was like 7yrs. when he attended Woodstock in 1969 with my Grandmother, and he still raves about this one.
Ironic how Woodstock was about peace and love, but the concert was not peaceful
You could 100 percent do a part 2 on this one.
Fyre Fest annoys me more because of all the Reddit and Twitter tards going "Oh yeah they deserved it lol" and the fact that people actually bought the fake tweets calling it a "social experiment" which actually got some people going "Oh that's fine actually sure scam people"
I have a friend who went to burning man this year. He was incommunicado for some time after but finally popped up perfectly fine and ready to go back next year. Couldn’t be me but god bless
You know it’s gonna be a great video when it starts with the word “Fistivals”
Let us also not forget that free open air festival organised by the Rolling Stones where they had the glorious idea to hire the Hell's Angels as security and pay them in beer.
I am always very happy when you upload
thanks for your work, ManyKudos!
Another great video. Thanks for all the great hard work.
There was Rock Otočec Festival in my country 1997-2013. In the first few iterations it was struck by bad weather, consequentially, there was tons of mud and combine that with alcohol, even mud can be fun. I think it was 2000 when it was sunny and warm all the time, but there was a problem. People wanted mud! The organizer called Fire department and they brought water to make a mud puddle. It became a tradition and it led to developement of various games in mud, Miss Wet T-shirt............
I feel like Roskilde 2000 deserved spot on the list, where 9 people died during a Pearl Jam concert. Maybe there is too little meat to the story, but it was certainly a tragedy 😢
Music festivals are some of the best and worst times you can have tbh
he’s sweating from the nicotine withdrawal lol
Great video. I like the longer epsiode style. Hope you do more.
Billy's very first and critical mistake was to have made a festival for an unproven service in the first place. He and Ja should have first done a more industry lead conference with entertainers and music companies to explain and promote fyre to the people who made up the entire fucking point of The damn app. And i wanna give some credit to Ja because after Billy went to prison, Ja was still comitted to setting up an app for booking performances and entertainment for private parties, which he did with someone else
you actually think Billy cared about the festival? lmao that scumbag literally only cared about making money and becoming famous. he's a loser and a scammer
Yes, but fundamentally Billy has ALWAYS and ever since been a scam artist. The app itself may have always been intended as a scam, on Billy's part at least. From some background stuff, the festival definitely was, like it was never going to be possible to deliver on the promises made even given more time to organise and more budget. The logistics required were not possible with Exuma's infrastructure (let alone with what was in the original even more remote location).
Manykudos delivers yet again, keep it up lad
I feel both fortunate and unfortunate I live in Singapore.
You Mercians are just built different.
Moral of the story: Rain will fuck up every festival with time
Psychopathic Records should be consulted by anyone who hasn’t run a festival before, since ICP has been doing it yearly for over 2 decades
bro really tried to "copy the homework and change it a bit" from Internet Historian
Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023 in Virginia. Truly one of the worst-managed festivals ever. A four-day festival that shut down a day and a half early after a vicious thunderstorm on the first day and a near-complete lack of water, toilets, and pretty much everything except massively overpriced food. The festival supposedly shut down in the middle of the third day because "the threat of severe weather"...what actually happened is that the staff working at the venue (Virginia International Raceway) walked out en masse. Oh, and there weren't enough shuttle buses and the parking was 5 miles away so it was taking literally eight hours to get people to their cars in the middle of a torrential thunderstorm.
Great vid man
This is actually insanely helpful, so thank you. I was a child when Fyre Festival happened, and I was barely even an egg in my mum when that Woodstock happened, so I had zero clue what happened. I found it really hard to find decent TH-cam videos on it because the general consensus was that it had already been talked about to death. I really appreciate this, so thank you! Now I know what happened 😼😼
I'd recommend Internet Historians video of Fyre Festival
Netflix has amazing documentaries on Woodstock '99 and the Fyre Festival. I'd recomment you to watch them.
Trenchmouth sounds like a nightmarish condition to be afflicted with
This is soooo good!
love ur videos, kudos
I miss Ozzfest. I went 4 years in a row and it was a blast. That was before I could even drink.
28:19 the fact that I know all of his research on this was from american publications and bro still converted to metric system but left it out just to spite americans lmfao
yay new video
Thanks many kudos, hope to see you on incognito mode soon again, you’re one of the best guests
Imagine going to a giant gathering of a bunch of sweaty drunk dickheads to buy overpriced food and merch.
So anyways I'm excited to go to more comic conventions next year.
The Weird Al/Michael Jackson joke made me laugh more than I'd like to admit... but that made me see that you and weird Al kinda resemble each other 😂
The biggest music festival scandal is attendees thinking that other people care