fyre festival is going well

two and a half years later I finally saw the netflix doc and can I just say...

what was with that one attendee talking about beating up the tents around him because him and his friends didn't want neighbors

this was probs the most astonishing moment in the doc. fuck that dude. fuck all those people. it's hard not to say they deserved everything they got. this was altamont for the late-period capitalism generation.

I was a little disappointed 100s of them didn't die of cholera

This is going to go well

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/billy-mcfarland-prison-release-fyre-festival-new-entertainment-ventures

The lead organizer of the infamous failed 2017 Fyre festival will immediately begin new ventures in the entertainment industry after being released early from federal prison on Wednesday, according to his attorney.

Billy McFarland, 30, “has put together a team of professionals to brainstorm and come up with ideas in entertainment and other avenues to generate income”, ostensibly to pay back the $26m he was ordered to reimburse his Fyre festival investors after pleading guilty to defrauding them, said his lawyer, Jason Russo.

“His sole priority and focus is how can he make these people whole and get their money back for them,” Russo added. “That’s what he’s been focusing on.”

Scam-o-Rama

Shkreli released the same day, they should team up.

fuck me are they gonna get elected to office?

run doomsday sequence

O here we go

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/fyre-festival-sequel-billy-mcfarland-vows-fyre-festival-ii-1235579488/

“After 309 days locked in a 9 x 7 concrete box: books taken away; mail held; no phone calls, & 6 years on the sideline – there are few who understand the same level of consequence and failure, and absolutely no one who wants it badder.”

Just amazing. In the worst way.

Not the poster boy for deterrence

“McFarlane may have one of his would-be headliners in mind, although he seems to lack a direct line of contact. “Hey 50 Cent, wanna chat?” he tweeted. Fitty did not jump onto his Twitter account to respond.“

Scummy festival scammers on this side of the pond too.

Gutted to find out @dounetherabbit has been cancelled. We were promised full payment in advance. We’ve not been paid anything. Hung out to dry like loads of others. (Although some acts have been paid in full). This massively affects DIY bands like us. Fucking fed up. pic.twitter.com/ueMV8pLAoM

— The Lovely Eggs 🥚 📺 (@TheLovelyEggs) June 21, 2023

Some really interesting acts were slated to play that. Had no clue that Black Grape reunited

Maybe they didn't either

Lol. Hasn't Shaun Ryder just formed some new "super group"?

I didn't know Lung Leg had a stage act (music, I presume).

lung leg are a 90s Glasgow girl group named after the model, and one of my favourite bands.

I was surprised to see her name on a "family-friendly" festival.

Pet peeve: Bands who name themselves after a living person.

That festival is attached to Craig Murray (his son runs it I think and he's a director?), notable Scottish nationalist zoomer, Assange apologist and Salisbury poison denier. The circumstances in which he was sacked as Ambassador to Uzbekistan are certainly worth a read.

Black Grape actually released a new album in 2017, virtually no one heard of it, and for a while I suspected it was actually a different band called Black Grape. but nah, it's them, and the record is actually pretty decent, though idk who really needs to hear a new Black Grape record right now

shouldn’t have crossed goldie lookin chain

The Black Grape reunion album was produced by Youth, who also produced Gina Birch’s solo album, and she was on this bill, too.

It hit the top 30 in the UK!

Always a pleasant surprise to find that Shaun Ryder is still among the living.

different band called Black Grape. but nah, it's them,

reunion album was produced by Youth

might as well be a new band imo if the bloke that wrote all the music and played most of it, and all the musicians who played extra bits, aren't in this version

Let’s go!

https://www.stereogum.com/2233698/somehow-fyre-festival-2-tickets-are-for-sale-now/news/

If you got a spare $500, hey.

Can't stop the press from overanalyzing
It wasn't fuckin fraud, it was false advertising
All of you critics are the people I'm despising
Billy Mac's back, baby, and back to enterprising

White Star Line announces Titanic 2

from here on out it's Fyre Fest 2
starting today and tomorrow's anew
and I'm still loco enough
to serve you a sandwich that's covered in poo

Lol Neanderthal

I don't know that public shaming is always the best solution these days but, I don't know, I kind of feel like anyone who willingly purchases a ticket to this thing deserves what they get

Let's Be Legends...Again!

people will go to this thing because people like to promote their brand and they know if this thing goes ass-up again, they might get to be in a huge documentary that's all over Netflix that shows them as gigantic douches and promote whatever NFTs they want to trade.

plus so they can brag to everyone that they went to this pile of shit and survived

well except that the festival won't actually even kick off this time because nobody will let Billy Mac host it.

I am surprised that the terms of his early release didn't stipulate that he is not allowed to "pre-sell" $500 tickets for a speculative future event (or anything like that).

seriously!

like Snoop was told he couldn't hire ex-gang members after one stint in jail, but Billy is allowed to resume doing the thing that landed him in there?

that's more my point, the odds of people's ticket money at this point just completely vanishing into the ether, never to be seen again, are pretty high.

lineup includes

Firehouse
After the Rain (Nelson tribute band)
Paul Carrack (One Good Reason album in its entirety)
Joe Piscopo (stand-up and Sinatra song set)
a karate demonstration

karate demonstration actually just nth generation dub of scenes cherry-picked from Kickboxer, Karate Kid, and Ghost World viewed on Billy McFarland’s rehomed iPad, over his shoulder

Paul Carrack? Seriously?

Oh. Well-played.

An increasing number of people seem to have viewed Charlie Sheen's extended manic episode/public meltdown as aspirational and a valid business model.

Sadly I can’t find an Artie Lange “fiiiii-yah” gif through Google right now

lol anyone who saw the documentaries had to know this is exactly what he'd try to do after getting out

Credit this Fyre huckster this, at least he knows the value of brand recognition.

Paul Carrack has too much class

I’m hating living in this timeline

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/willy-wonka-event-uk-chocolate-experience-meth-lab-1235837133/

An “immersive experience” that promised to transport Willy Wonka fans into a “magical realm” has turned out to be such an epic letdown that customers called the police and compared the attraction to a meth lab.

The U.K. event was titled Willy’s Chocolate Experience and charged customers $44 each (photos below). The attraction was not affiliated with the Warner Bros. movie Wonka, though the event’s marketing came as close as possible to suggesting it was based on author Roald Dahl’s creation. The ad copy invited fans to journey to “a universe where confectionary dreams are brought to life” that included “mind-expanding projections, optical marvels and exhibits that transport you into the realm of creativity” and “wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every turn!”

The event organizers apparently used artificial intelligence to generate promotional images that suggested a very high-quality attraction, which looked just like the immersive and trippy Wonka-esque world that the ad copy promised. But the result was somewhat different, and ticket buyers needed pure imagination to think it looked anything like a fantastical chocolate factory.

As reported by The Guardian, customers showed up in Glasgow to find “a sparsely decorated warehouse with a scattering of plastic props, a small bouncy castle and some backdrops pinned against the walls.” Scotland police were even called to the scene, the event shut down and parents said their children were in tears.

apparently this was sold as a live Willy Wonka Experience but they used all AI images on the website to sell tickets and then people showed up and saw this and it got so bad people called the cops lmao pic.twitter.com/tfkyg0G0WG

— Chris Alsikkan (@AlsikkanTV) February 26, 2024

haha I saw that yesterday. I love how they are playing it off as if "things just went haywire at the 11th hour"