Not sure why? Ever heard of showers, wcs, etc? I addmitedly attend smaller festivals (tens of thousands not hundreds) but they are just so plush... High quality food, great music, open air, people. And at night I go to sleep in my hotel to come back fresh and relaxed next morning.

Sure, they obviously want to - there's money in festivals - but that's not the point, previous poster made it look as if there were no open air festivals due to poor organisation of one that has happened many decades ago.

There some examples of accidents, but also thousands of festivals without any. Not to mention that similarly there's plenty of accidents in closed venues. Call me crazy but It's almost as if there was a general rule: large gathering of people, electricity, equipment, temporary structures equal heightened risk of accident.

You surely are aware that there are hundreds of large scale open air music festivals happening every year all around the world which don't end with people dying of heat stroke or lack of facilities?

Woodstock was a shitshow in that respect because it was planned for 50k and 400k attended.

Nowadays there are festivals with over half a million attendees that happen on annual basis. I believe the tomorrowland comes close to 600 000 attendees.