Fyre Festival
Last week, Billy McFarland, the primary organiser of Fyre Festival, announced he was starting a new tell-all podcast called Dumpster Fyre to share his side of the story regarding the ill-fated party. Two years into a six-year prison sentence for fraud, McFarland said he’d recorded the podcast using his allotted 15 minute phone call each day. […]
In the bad dream that just won’t stop that is Fyre Festival, merch from the event is now being auctioned off by US Marshals. All the confiscated merch items, including wrist bands, trackies, hoodies, and FYRE tokens are being auctioned online right now. If you need a refresher, Fyre Festival was Billy McFarland’s luxury music […]
Andy King, the man who was literally prepared to suck a dick to save Fyre Fest, is bringing us a virtual music festival to celebrate the literal disaster’s third anniversary. And to be honest, with his level of commitment, we reckon it’ll be good. It’s a virtual three-dayer and the lineup is gorg. He’s got […]
After the release of Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, the documentary about the doomed island festival and the follies of hubris, event producer Andy King’s story about taking one for the team earned him a kind of viral fame. He even came to Australia late last year as part of the BIGSOUND 2019 lineup. […]
The trustee in the Fyre Festival bankruptcy case has filed a number of lawsuits attempting to regain funds for investors, alleging that the transfers were part of organiser Billy McFarland’s plan to defraud investors and should, as such, be voided. As Variety reports, agencies such as CAA, UTA and ICM Partners have been named as […]
In a sentence this writer truly cannot believe he is writing, everyone’s fave team player Andy King is heading to Australia to keynote BIGSOUND 2019 and suddenly everything feels right again. In case you have forgotten or, god forbid, never heard about it at all, Andy King became famous after Netflix’s documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party […]
On Wednesday, a federal court in the US dismissed the class-action lawsuit against Ja Rule that alleged he had falsely promoted Fyre Festival. The American rapper was a founder and promoter of the 2017 event. Festival attendees filed a lawsuit against Ja Rule (Jeffrey Atkins) and Grant Margolin (Fyre Festival Chief Marketing Officer). The lawsuit […]
Of all the craziness surrounding the now-infamous Fyre Festival, the one thing that Billy MacFarland got right was that first promo video. A sweeping overhead shot of islands, models, pigs and booze, was enough to convince stacks of people to buy tickets to the festival. Now you can own that island. Yep, the one that they […]
A music festival in Belgium that was cancelled on the day it should have started is already being compared to the infamous Fyre Festival. VestiVille should have kicked off on Friday, with billed headliners including A$AP Rocky, Migos, Lil Pump, Cardi B, Future and Ja Rule, but punters arrived to find it had been cancelled. […]
Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus has finally spoken out about the absolute disaster that was Fyre Festival, as the band were slated to headline the event’s lineup. Speaking to NME, Hoppus revealed that the band pulled out of the festival before it took place as they were pretty sure that something wasn’t right. Hoppus, like the rest of […]
