In a new Netflix documentary, DJ Norman Cook is told about the chaos that unfolded during his headline performance
, there was one Brit in the midst of all the chaos wondering what the hell he’d walked into: Fatboy Slim.
Set to play the headline set of the Saturday night at the 30th anniversary revival of the original peace ‘n’ love hippie festival based in upstate New York, it should have been one of the most momentous performances of his life. And while people are still talking about it 23 years later, unfortunately, it’s not for the reason he hoped., Fatboy Slim – real name Norman Cook – describes exactly what happened on the night of his scariest ever set.
When stage manager, A.J. Srybnik, finally got to the van, he found someone wielding a “rusty old” machete, and an unconscious teenage girl with her clothes pulled off alongside a boy pulling up his pants. “I was floored,” he said. “It literally took the life out of me.” He had just witnessed the aftermath of a sexual assault, and the girl was taken off in an ambulance.Stuck in a hellish scenario, Cook’s management made the decision to get him out of there.
Had he stayed, he would have seen the full-on violence and devastation of the Sunday night, where people went rampaging through the site, setting fire to and trashing everything they could get their hands on. There were also many more sexual assaults reported. Cook is told about the true nature of what went on the rave hangar in the documentary series, presumably for the first time. Looking devastated, he says: “That is just hideous to think that in the midst of all those people having fun, and me wanting to make everyone love each other, that was going on literally under our noses.”This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses.
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