This is an almost uselessly low bar.
Maybe the original festival had some similar instances but the intensity and frequency of them was considered much greater in '99.
This is a great documentary if you want to see video footage of just how much of a disaster it was.
on the other hand, sometimes things just get out of control. A decade or two ago I was at lollapoloza (not very big) in Dallas at a large amphitheater and for some reason everyone started lightning these huge bonfires all over the place and it just went downhill from there. It just got totally out of control.
But I mean, come on. People weren’t setting fire to shit. There wasn’t this massively widespread destruction of property, riots or violence in the original Woodstock. It was just sketch. There’s a huge difference.
This statement implies that the two were in some way connected.
A lot of the demonisation of travellers at the time was apocryphal in the end. It feels like a community that is well and truly over except for the kind of Native Reservation that is Croissant Neuf, a place where middle class teenagers can gawp at the dreadlocked cider drinking crusty savages.
You missed Reading off your list. The first time I went to that festival, in the 2000s, was fascinating. I remember being astonished at how combustable solid human waste was when confined in a long drop toilet. Once the “water” content had been boiled off by the initial tire fire it would really start to burn. Jaw dropping.
By "Travellers" do you mean, 'new age travellers' (aka hippies) or the thieving scrotes who live a 'traditional way of life' badly tarmacing driveways?
The former still attend Glastonbury for free (they clean up the site for 'free' entry); the latter are a menace who started to show up and whom I'm glad the fence has now kept out.
If you disagree with it, post a response, don't just lazily click downvote. This isn't Reddit. Downvoting is for replies that distract from the conversation, not for replies you don't agree with FFS.
Either way, these large festivals are almost a self-parody at this point and all have stories about how the venues were unprepared, the festival goers using them as justification to do all sorts of illegal things and just a general shit show.