fyre festival is going well

fyre festival of pizza

(for obvious reasons this is a bad analogy, but all the same a funny story)

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21430552_992738154270_5004130556004658974_n.jpg?oh=464ffad8de3092ec018b55db5630afb2&oe=5A54ECDA

To make matters worse, the event organizers also appeared to have sold tickets to a "Hamburger Festival," that was scheduled for the same exact time and place as the Pizza Festival. That event promised "mountains of french fries, oceans of ketchup and waterfalls of beer," with admission prices ranging between $35 and $69.

there is some traveling roadshow called "the taco festival" and I've been trying to figure out what its provenance actually is!

I'm slightly less skeptical in that it looks like they're coordinating with local taco places/food trucks to be at their festival, and there are actual sponsors, but their social media presence is 99% horrible taco memes and generic "people having fun outdoors drinking" pictures

I would not be completely surprised if there's a post-event backlash after people get ripped off

lol love it

lol the pizza/burger festival sounds like a fairly charming grift really, has a touch of old new york about it

$35 for the "hamburger festival" is lol

hahahaha

"Those people were sitting, waiting in line to get the burgers that were not there," Burke recalled. "And when they tried to eat pizza, the people were like, 'No, no, that's for the pizza people.'"

this kinda thing happens in the UK too but inevitably less absurd and more just pathetic http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/14/cheddarmageddon-descends-as-cheese-festival-runs-out-of-cheese-6850988/

lol, that was exactly what I was thinking of. A few of my friends went to that.

"It was my girlfriend's birthday so I got the VIP tickets, so I spent $150 total for the two tickets," Burke told Gothamist.

wtf spending this kind of money on a pizza party?

Aputumpu—described on Facebook as an "an archive of bands" that "throw parties, concerts and festivals in Brooklyn" and listed as the event's organizer—later told the same attendee seen in the Facebook screenshot above that the "deliveries were just late mane (sic)."

just a little late, mane

The Real England version of this is the annual 'Christmas wonderlands' of mud and mangy reindeer.

Fyre Festival: the High Class Version

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/09/13/ambitious-rhode-island-music-fest-ends-chaos/8haudXCj8N05mbm0G63mtI/story.html?event=event25

Globe paywall blocked me, so here's the Vulture writeup.

D'oh -- http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/heres-the-fyre-festival-of-classical-music.html

my theory:

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1242-how-to-organize-your-own-music-festival/

only a handful of people actually read this but everyone that did went out and started their own music festival

And now

http://pagesix.com/2017/09/14/this-party-is-being-dubbed-the-fyre-festival-of-fashion-week/

Wednesday night’s bash, which was held at the PUBLIC hotel, was nearly impossible to get into — even for invited guests including “The Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsay, Instagram star Josh “the Fat Jew” Ostrovsky and “Sex and the City” costume designer Patricia Field

Okay you can stop right there.

BTW I still can't believe the actual Fyre Festival Instagram remains up!

https://www.instagram.com/fyrefestival/

lost my shit at "'Sex and the City' costume designer"

looooool "Paris Hilton DJ set" was a draw for this? loooooooooooool

I mean that surely had to be a case where you wanted to get in there BECAUSE it was cheap and low-rent.

News! Kinda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/arts/fyre-festival-organizer-pleads-not-guilty-to-fraud-charges.html

Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur who became a lightning rod in April after his ambitiously marketed Fyre Festival devolved from a would-be luxury getaway into a jamboree of schadenfreude and cold cheese sandwiches, pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in United States District Court in Manhattan on Monday. Mr. McFarland, 25, who was arrested and charged in June, is accused of misrepresenting financial information about his company to investors who paid him $1.2 million....

Mr. McFarland, who was released on bail in July, waived his right to be charged in an indictment by a grand jury. He may still change his plea at any time before trial, including as part of a deal with prosecutors to reduce his charges. If he is found guilty, Mr. McFarland could face a maximum sentence of 20 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPg5ftCMv8

A sort-of update. (Main bro and Ja Rule could yet be made the responsible debtors in the bankruptcy case.)

http://ampthemag.com/the-real/fyre-fest-bankruptcy-trustee-wants-mcfarland-ja-rule-take-responsibility-disastrous-event/

cheddarmageddon 2:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/GiantCheeseboard?src=hash

I can’t brielieve how awful #GiantCheeseboard was.I’m stilton fuming. I’ve mulled this over and theres good reason to wine about it. I thought it would be much feta, I expect a briefund #justiceforcheese @mailonline @standardnews @MetroUK @LondonTown @JacobsSnacks @TimeOutLondon

— IAmMadden (@IAmMadden) December 16, 2017

Glad GOP tax cut will free up more $ for exploitation of rich kids #fyrelegends

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUPU7RxVoAA7LxI.jpg:small

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bjykx4/fyre-festival-attendees-are-worried-theyre-getting-scammed-again (via maura)

someone's selling the fyre mailing list as "the chump list" on the darknet

Beautiful.

I mean that speculatively

dream crusher

the trouble with tribble

https://pagesix.com/2018/03/05/disgraced-fyre-festival-organizer-spent-150k-on-a-yacht-for-blink-182/

And bro will be in court tomorrow.

And he pled guilty!

http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/fyre-festivals-billy-mcfarland-pleads-guilty-faces-40-year-sentence-1202719944/

it was sad, he was a legend

No, he definitely achieved that now.

"40 years in one of your own sad tents, with a cheese sandwich."

What a luxury sentence!

Maybe Blink-187 will visit him.

Does he not remind anyone else (not in deeds) of a certain ilxor of a certain era? I

ew

man said ilxor killed Yerac in mid sentence that's fucked up

work sucks, i know

Ha, I wrote this last night and obviously got bored of what I was saying mid-way through. I think it's the eyes.

I want this immediately.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/live-feed/hulu-lands-fyre-festival-debacle-docuseries-1102725?__twitter_impression=true

Keep trying there.

https://theblast.com/fyre-festival-billy-mcfarland-ryan-leslie-no-jail/