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Old 04-28-2017, 01:43 PM   #1
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Fyre Festival: "Luxury" Music Fest turns into 3rd world country chaos

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/a...e-bahamas.html

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A supposedly opulent music festival on a private island in the Bahamas, which was promoted as an unprecedented V.I.P. event by Instagram influencers including Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski, descended into dysfunction and disarray as soon as it began on Thursday and has since been postponed indefinitely, organizers said.

The inaugural Fyre Festival, founded by the rapper Ja Rule and the tech entrepreneur Billy McFarland, was set to feature performances by G.O.O.D. Music, Blink-182, Migos, Lil Yachty, Major Lazer and more — plus “first-class culinary experiences and a luxury atmosphere,” with ticket packages reaching six-figures for chartered yachts and private planes.

But when guests arrived for the first weekend on Thursday, they found grounds that were woefully lacking in the promised amenities and organization, according to accounts on social media that highlighted the soggy tents, bad food and general disappointment verging on panic.

Read the whole article. It's just madness what is going on down there right now.

Lot of angry festival-goers posting in Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fyrefestival/
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  • Old 04-28-2017, 01:44 PM   #2
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    Re: Fyre Festival: "Luxury" Music Fest turns into 3rd world country chaos

    weve been discussing this in the WIY thread today... crazy stuff
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    Old 04-28-2017, 02:02 PM   #3
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    Luxurious!!!

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    Old 04-28-2017, 02:03 PM   #4
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    Was hoping it was the cheese sandwich.

    Culinary luxury indeed.
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    I heard Caitlyn was wasn't invited.
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    Old 04-28-2017, 02:52 PM   #6
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    I saw blink 182 last year, not that I wanted to but went open minded. I'd rather listen to someone dry heave while cats fuck in the backround.
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    Old 04-28-2017, 03:22 PM   #7
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    Damn this is madness, I don't do many festivals...this builds my case.

    Reminds me of that terrible Many Rivers to Cross Festival that Dave and Tim were at late last year.
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    what a joke
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    Re: Fyre Festival: "Luxury" Music Fest turns into 3rd world country chaos

    What a mess.

    Puts my worst festival experience — which was an unorganized disaster, but still managed to deliver all of the top-line artists it promised — to shame.
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    What a mess.

    Puts my worst festival experience — which was an unorganized disaster, but still managed to deliver all of the top-line artists it promised — to shame.
    What festival was that?
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    Old 04-28-2017, 06:21 PM   #11
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    Re: Fyre Festival: "Luxury" Music Fest turns into 3rd world country chaos

    Thought about making this thread this morning, but I was too distracted by the sub reddit So much gold in there. Tons of Lord of the Flies jokes.
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    Old 04-28-2017, 06:34 PM   #12
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    What festival was that?
    This rap/EDM/reggae fest in 2015 called Bay Area Vibez. With a Z.

    Beautiful location but I knew things were off to a shaky start when they didn't hand you a schedule on your way in the door. About halfway through the first day, there was about an hour when no one played. When things resumed, they started packing up the second stage and moved everyone to the main. Shorter sets, but almost everyone still played. I think a couple of the reggae acts dropped out.

    On day two, they had acts playing into each other's sets — and remember, there's only two stages about a football field apart. So it was kind of a mess.

    The worst part was their socials just kept acting like everything was fine. The communication was shit.

    It was a one-and-done fest. I wasn't surprised.

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    Old 04-28-2017, 06:39 PM   #13
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    I also went to one last year — Treasure Island festival — that was a great fest for the first nine years but was in the middle of a bad couple of days of wind and rain last year. Artists' planes couldn't land, so there was three hours one day where it was like, "Nothing's happening ... "

    They announced an hour delay and then kept pushing the time back.

    The next day, things stalled for two hours because James Blake was (understandably) concerned about his elaborate light show falling on his head in the high winds and killing him. He canceled that night and did a free, off-site, indoor makeup show the next day for ticket holders, which I thought was awesome.
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    Just reading about this now, funny
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    I have no sympathy for the dumbfuck(s) who reportedly paid $250,000 for this shit. Caveat Emptor.
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    I have no sympathy for the dumbfuck(s) who reportedly paid $250,000 for this shit. Caveat Emptor.
    Holy fuck. Talk about first world problems...
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    Can someone get a hold of Ja Rule so I can make sense of all this?
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    Can someone get a hold of Ja Rule so I can make sense of all this?
    Where is Ja?!
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    Taken from wikipedia...

    On April 27, attendees began arriving on chartered flights from Miami International Airport to Exuma International Airport operated by Swift Air and Xtra Airways. Initial arrivals were brought to an "impromptu beach party" rather than the festival grounds while later arrivals were brought directly to the grounds where the the true state of the festival's site became apparent. Flights scheduled for the afternoon were delayed and then canceled when it became clear that the festival would not go on as planned. Around nightfall one musical act, a group of local musicians, took to the stage and played for a few hours. Afterwards it was announced that the festival would be postponed and that the attendees would be returned to Miami as soon as possible. Reports emerged of mishandling of guests' baggage, disaster relief tents with dirt floors,[7] port-a-potties,[7] inadequate and poor quality food including cheese sandwiches[8] made with slices of processed cheese on wheat bread served in styrofoam containers,[9] theft, and heavy-handed security. Many attendees were reportedly stranded as flights to and from the island were cancelled after the organizers postponed the event.
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    It's pretty funny to read about on Reddit, but I'll be honest, if I was there and in the scenario I'd be freaking the hell out.
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    All the "A-list" models that were promoting it on their Instagram got a heads up...so just posted up in Miami and erased it from their social media accounts lol
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    Was any music even played?
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    Who is this 25 yr old kid, and how rich is he to be taking flying lessons with Ja Rule and trying to organize this?

    Also, they claim everyone will be refunded, but do we actually believe this to be true?
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    If they planned this at least slightly better than they delivered there should be an insurance policy...but they probably didn't bother with it, not that it would pay out anyway based on the stories so far
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    this pretty much sums it up - http://www.grunge.com/61521/fyre-fes...acts-not-know/


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    https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/858402461459005440
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    I can't quite put my finger on what this is eluding too.....




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