TELEVISION
MONDAY OCTOBER 11
MUSIC: WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE AND RAGE (SoHo, 9.30pm; Neon, October 15).
Made for HBO, this documentary revisits Woodstock ’99 on a sunbaked former USAF base in upstate New York. It was the corporate revival of the 1969 event, but it turned into a nightmare for many of the 400,000 in attendance over the four days. Three people died, some due to the heat, and there was widespread sexual assault, rioting, looting and arson. So no, this doesn’t feature much on the music or the as a tribute to the guitar hero of the original festival only for hordes of angry young men to take it as a cue to torch anything flammable. As director Garret Price says at the start: “It would have been really easy to structure this as a comedy, but it played out much more like a horror film.”
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