This HBO production explores the chaos of Woodstock 99, a moment of time you can experience from the comfort of your own home.
HBO’s latest concert chaos doco Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage may sound a lot like Netflix’s FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, but director Garret Price makes it resoundingly clear that they’re not revisiting this moment of history for laughs. This is a horror story.
The three-day music festival marked the 30th anniversary of the iconic 1969 festival—a time often looked back on with rose-tinted glasses. While the 1999 fest attempted to echo the unity and counterculture idealism of the original concert, it instead devolved into riots, looting and sexual assaults.
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage looks at all the factors that played into this disaster, from white male anger simmering within the MTV generation to the literal heat contributing to mass dehydration. Bands from the line-up, including Korn and The Offspring, chime in with their memories and experiences of the festival.
Kiwis can watch the mayhem unfold from the comfort and safety of their own homes on Neon, where Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage is currently streaming.
