Ultimate Ultra Music Festival Survival Kit - Page 1 - Music. There's this shared fantasy among neo-hippies, blissed-out druggies, and naive first-time festival-goers that three-day music extravaganzas like Ultra are all about fun and friendship.
But here's the real deal: The music festival experience can be an arduous and often dangerous 72-hour trip into a deep, dancey heart of darkness. And like any large-scale gathering of unpredictable human creatures, the whole thing has the potential to tip over into total chaos with nary a moment's notice. You might buy a bad batch of drugs. Nick Franklin. Statistics.