etflix’s Fyre festival documentary was one of those out-of-the-blue hits that seemed to dominate conversation for months when it was released in 2019. A film about a woefully organised festival that spiralled out of control with alarming ferocity, it was the sort of thing you had to watch through the cracks in your fingers.
“It was almost like a perfect experiment,” says Tim Wardle, the show’s executive producer, of the conditions that led to all the chaos. “You could almost look at it as an inadvertent psychological experiment.” What’s so incredible is the speed at which all the contributing factors – the heat, the dehydration, the violence, the drugs – went berserk.
The festival also took place in the infancy of the internet, Wardle points out. “You don’t have people with cameraphones, and there are very few with cellphones. There isn’t the crazy amount of footage you’d have if the festival took place today. But it was also being covered by every rock photographer on the planet. And there were loads of different outlets filming it as well.”This means that, when things do start to go south, we get to see it from most angles.
Towards the end of the set, the Woodstock organisers – in a truly idiotic attempt to revisit the spirit of 1969 – handed out thousands of lit candles, for a planned vigil against gun violence. Inevitably, the furious crowd decided it would be better to use it for the purposes of arson. This collided with the Chili Peppers’ attempt to revisit the spirit of 69 by performing Jimi Hendrix’s Fire. You couldn’t write a more perfectly sequenced disaster.
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