fyre festival is going well

This is such a gift & has been just the lift I needed

They should have held it in the bwahahahamas,
Am
I
Right

Movie of this could be like Paul Greengrass doing Spring Breakers.

I'm drooling for the droll 5,000 word New Yorker piece on this mess.

"I don't know how everything went so left but I'm working to make it right" is giving me experiential benefits rn

I'm drooling for the droll 5,000 word New Yorker piece on this mess.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, April 28, 2017 3:05 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i'm praying at least one pub like new yorker, vanity fair or rolling stone that still has some resources sent someone to cover this thing

An Oral History of Fyre Fest

dsj1996: it was dark

bubblesandbirkins: we couldn't see anything

nycla: no sign of travis barker

http://imgur.com/a/hm8DE

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-hKynbUwAAJPF-.jpg:large

hahahaha

I'm drooling for the droll 5,000 word New Yorker piece on this mess.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, April 28, 2017 3:05 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is Thomas Wolfe available?

Lol Tom Wolfe, not Thomas Wolfe

Tweet Homeward, EDMBro

yeah i'm praying at least one pub like new yorker, vanity fair or rolling stone that still has some resources sent someone to cover this thing

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 28, 2017 4:16 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can say I was intrigued and reached out for RS in January. I asked what the capacity of the festival was and a publicist replied that it was 10,000(!) which is like 6,500 more than an ATP. I asked if I could get an interview with Ja Rule about it – he hadn't done any, I don't know if he ever did – and they said they didn't know who would be doing interviews and would circle back. They never circled back.

I did think it was weird that they were launching this very bespoke music festival and didn't want to talk to Rolling Stone about it.

That was the last I thought about it, so we didn't send anyone.

aw, man, would have totally read a fear and loathing with the feral dogs from whiney...oh well.

xpost Interesting. Do you remember how you heard about it? Was it the IG bombing?

just think of the photo ops with the dogs!!

aw, man, would have totally read a fear and loathing with the feral dogs from whiney...oh well.

― scott seward, Friday, April 28, 2017 3:57 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yes

The article about the dude's card/concierge service shows his business model is at least consistent

I'm drooling for the droll 5,000 word New Yorker piece on this mess.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, April 28, 2017 3:05 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i'm praying at least one pub like new yorker, vanity fair or rolling stone that still has some resources sent someone to cover this thing

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 28, 2017 4:16 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we need this but instead we will probably end up w/ a thousand thinkpieces on instagram culture and "influencers"

and looooooool @ the juicero image

lol

http://themuse.jezebel.com/fema-tents-government-cheese-and-feral-dogs-ja-rule-1794742843

"For Ja Rule at least, the festival started off promisingly..."

I know every failure sounds like a Trump venture in 2017 but this whole "we're going to have the best festival" followed by the actual work part being passed off to an underqualified employee (or not addressed at all) as you take pictures with supermodels advertising the best festival ever...

xpost Interesting. Do you remember how you heard about it? Was it the IG bombing?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, April 28, 2017 4:57 PM (thirty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I got an email from a publicist in January after the Kendall Jenner thing. I'm looking back at my emails now.

First thing I did was fwd to three coworkers with "This festival is insane"

Second email from me to two coworkers:

The more I research this, the more insane it gets…

Apparently this is the brainchild of Ja Rule?

Also, the pub told me cap is 10,000. They’re going to fly TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE to an island

Trying to get a Rule interview because this is the best/stupidest thing

I’m fully convinced there’s no way they can actually pull this off….

feral yet patient, the best kind of feral

was gonna be so cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5kY3RsmKo

we all weep now for getfuktantifacucks

lol nice promo

See the thing is about that promo -- having worked for years and years at UCI and all and seeing endless frat party announcements around the campus, it just reads like exactly that. "An epic event like no other," etc. Which I suppose explains who went to this thing.

Now I'm flashing back to a frat at my college who FILLED THEIR ENTIRE BASEMENT WITH SAND for some sort of beach-themed event.

aw, man, would have totally read a fear and loathing with the feral dogs from whiney...oh well.

― scott seward, Friday, April 28, 2017 3:57 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell yes

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, April 28, 2017 3:59 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

this all feels like Land of the Dead

Now I'm flashing back to a frat at my college who FILLED THEIR ENTIRE BASEMENT WITH SAND for some sort of beach-themed event.

― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Friday, April 28, 2017 4:35 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

imo fyre should have started with this idea and one band. no concert experience and jumping straight to secluded island festival was a bridge too far

perfect pr.
next year this will sell out.

we better get a new york post LYRE! headline out of this or the world truly has gone mad.

Hey, Whiney (or rather one of his writers) got some goods:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/fyre-fest-head-billy-mcfarland-we-were-a-little-naive-w479502

Today is definitely the toughest day of my life. I'd love the opportunity to go through and tell my story of how we got here and how I see it now and where it's going.

I was a computer programmer, and after computers, the two things I love most are the ocean and, for some reason, rap music.

Trying to imagine who's the best voiceover for this.

Stuart Smalley

Once we got flying lessons together, we got on these really bad 40-year-old planes and flew from New York to the Bahamas – not really knowing the Bahamas very well – ran out of gas and landed in the Exumas and both of us immediately fell in love.

Sadly, not with each other.

I mean:

We started this website and launched this festival marketing campaign. Our festival became a real thing and took (on) a life of its own. Our next step was to book the talent and actually make the music festival.

He seems to be blaming everything on the weather. First I heard of that being an issue.

Love how much he tries to cram in to the final paragraph:

There will be make-up dates, May 2018 in the U.S., free for everybody who signed up for this festival. We will donate $1.50 (per ticket) to the Bahamian Red Cross. It'll keep the theme of being on water and beach. It'll be not just music, but all forms of entertainment. The one change we will make is we will not try to do it ourselves. We will make sure there is infrastructure in place to support us.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

Separate RS story had this:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/fyre-fest-attendee-it-was-just-a-nightmare-w479493

Some who helped organize the festival took issue with the "out of our control" portion of the festival's statement. In early March, former Saturday Night Live talent associate Chloe Gordon traveled to the Bahamas to tour the site as a producer hired to work with the talent. "It was about two months out, and it was a mess," she says, adding that she quit after returning to New York. "They had already, when we got down there, hired and fired two full production teams. And they hadn't started planning anything. They basically just fired everyone along the way that told them it wasn't feasible."

He seems to be blaming everything on the weather

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/questions-about-the-bermuda-triangle-have-a-weather-explanation/

xpost with Malcolm's post there -- same person.

" They basically just fired everyone along the way that told them it wasn't feasible."

beautiful

This bit from the Gordon story says it all (and underscores my frat party comment):

On Wednesday, Ja Rule arrived for a “site visit.” I don’t know if he actually visited the “site” but he did spend a lot of time on a yacht, according to his Instagram. Meanwhile the event planners were holed up indoors putting together a game plan and a budget. With so little having been prepared ahead of time, the official verdict was that it would take $50 million to pull off. Planners also warned that it would be not be up to the standard they had advertised. The best idea, they said, would be to roll everyone’s tickets over to 2018 and start planning for the next year immediately. They had a meeting with the Fyre execs to deliver the news. A guy from the marketing team said, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

Oh damn, the following paragraph is even better:

At this point it was pretty clear that this was a mess and I shared my concerns with the man I reported to. But he assured me that the Fyre execs were legit, and said some socialite was underwriting the whole thing. The budget was okayed and we were told to carry on with our planning. That night Ja Rule gave a toast. “To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars.” If Ja Rule is punished for anything perhaps it should be that.