May 15, 2019

Spin: Why haven't investors of Woodstock 50 learned anything from Fyre Festival?

Woodstock 50 organizers ignored recommendations from partners and regulators about things like the festival’s proper size, budget, number of stages, transportation plans, Spin comments after documents have been made public about the legal battle between the apparently doomed festival and the event’s erstwhile investor Dentsu Aegis. Documents show that Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang declined to reduce the festival’s capacity to 65,000, despite the production company Superfly’s insistence that Lang’s desire for a 90,000-plus event was not safe or plausible. Festival organizers know that any mishaps will be documented in real time on social media and inevitably compared to Fyre Festival, which already happened to Ultra Music with bus problem, and Coachella with fire (literal).