Music festival disaster: attendees compare EDM event to infamous Fyre Festival

Brut America

Long delays, overflowing toilets, shortage of food and water ...  The Elements Music and Arts Festival in Pennsylvania was advertised as "lakefront paradise." The reality was very, very different.

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00:00This is the biggest show I've ever been on.

00:04I just got out of Elements Festival.

00:06It was the worst festival experience I've ever had in my life.

01:00Getting into the festival took us about 10 hours, and we had to logger through mud, up

01:17and down hills.

01:18Well, we are at hour 9, and we are getting on a bus.

01:30They started to run out of food, the showers stopped working, guys popped out of the showers

01:47covered in suds because the water cut off.

01:54It is now 1.13 a.m.

02:04Our cars are stuck, multiple people's cars are stuck in the parking lot that they were

02:08forced on when they bought silver passes for $110.

02:12The main thing that inspired it was the need to have, I think, a community arts and experience

02:26driven music festival in the northeast of the United States.

02:29We decided to move from a one day festival into a multi-day, and boy, it was a crash

02:35course in logistics.

02:36There's a lot of things that we just didn't quite think of because it was a time of expansion.

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