😂 👍 do you have a whole multimedia presentation that analyzes every step of what went wrong, or a playlist of RU-vid 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.
@@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?
@@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.
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
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 ^^
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".
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.
$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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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**.
Yeah a scam sponsor on an otherwise good video is always fun 🙄. At least it isn’t that awful therapy bs that sells data and lets unqualified people steal real online therapist’s profiles
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.
@@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.
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
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"
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.
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.
If i had a nickel for everytime a New Zealand born, Australian RU-vidr 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Im from Upstate NY and in 2019 someone tried to organize a woodstock event in Watkins Glen, which is a fairly small city. They listed like over 100 artists over 3 days on 3 stages. People started to crunch the numbers of performance times and the consider how small Watkins Glen is, and lets just say most locals figured out quick that it wasn't going to happen.
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
(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
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.
I survived TomorrowWorld 2015! We camped out and it was wet as hell but had found a spot in some higher ground somehow…. We had no idea what had happened on day 3 other than a chunk of artists had pulled out
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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"
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
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.
This is the second time I’ve seen a New Zealand RU-vidr make fun of Ja Rule’s name by mistranslating it with an European language in a video about scandalous music festivals.
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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
I dont know if anyone has mentioned the legendary terrible Bull Island music festival, which happened in the middle of nowhere on the border of Indiana and Illinois in September 1972. Had a lot of the same problems Woodstock 99 did, plus bands not showing or skipping out. Three people drowned, the stage was torched, and being the early 70s there were "so many drugs the cows got high."
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 😂
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.
A couple of weeks ago some colleagues from my Local scene in Puerto Rico got the chance to play at the Hell and Heaven fest in Mexico. All seemed good until they received torrential rain the whole week running up to the first date of the fest that made the area an impenetrable Mud Pit and worse yet the day before about half of the Headliners dropped-off. At least they got a bit of a crowd to see them, but shame of an event.
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 😢
When they had the music festival out in Coachella, they were looking for volunteers. It was not Coachella, but a classic rock one Being in the military, I thought it would be cool. But, we would be security and parking was about 2 miles away. A really meager “lunch” was provided. Also, you were required to have your back to the stage the whole time I didn’t do it
I was at Burning Man 2023. Going into Burning Man you MUST be ready for harsh conditions and radical survival. It has always been disclaimed. You are expected to take care of yourself from water to food and shelter. So yes it got muddy this yea and it was AMAZING. This was my 3rd burn and by far my favorite. DO NOT go to Burning Man if you're expecting easy conditions and to be taken care of. It is NOT a festival. It is a social happening, a city made by the participants who work hard to make it happen. No one is creating all of this so a bunch of sparkle pony festival rats could just roll in in their lux RVs, take in everything everyone else put out there, and then give nothing back but whiney complaints about how their experience was ruined. This rain was actually a good thing. It is going to prevent the likes of these whimps and influencers from coming back to the burn and we want that. I can't wait for next year, rain or shine
Bahamas can be very rough. Pirates have loved it since the 1500s for a reason. Remote, short of water, and often hurricaney. And a resource-short government.
I wouldn't honestly call a festival of peace and love being held on a former or current military base to be ironic, its quite a symbolic statement to repurpose something once used for the thing you are against for a better purpose. Such as a military base for something peaceful and entertaining, or a road for a public gathering space.
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
I was like 7 or 8 when Woodstock 99 happened, and the one thing I do remember hearing about reports of it at the time was how disastrous it was. This video with the heavy metal playing in the background as there’s footage of people lighting huge fires really sets the mood for what I remember hearing about it.
