JUST FINISHED WATCHING: TRAINWRECK: WOODSTOCK '99

Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

TRIVIA: At 01:17, a young man shouts into the camera "Woodstock '99, baby!" This is Mike Mizanin, better known as The Miz, who at the time was an aspiring reality television star but would eventually become a professional wrestler, winning the WWE Championship on 2 occasions and wrestling in the main event of Wrestlemania in 2011.

Michael Lang, the organizer and founder of Woodstock, passed away 7 months before this documentary aired from a rare form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

MY VERDICT: I knew a few things about this mess of a festival but this documentary series really delves into all the details, as well as the possible reasons for the eventual uproar, and some of them are truly shocking. A must watch if you’re a fan of the new genre that seems to exist now ‘when festivals go wrong.’ (if you are a fan of this then watch one of the Fyre Festival documentaries too – a mess but in a completely different way.

Watch this here…