100 biljetter sålda till nya Fyre – men inget datum
Trots att den nya upplagan av floppen Fyre Festival varken har datum, artister eller festivalområde spikat har de hundra första biljetterna sålt slut i veckan. Det säger grundaren Billy McFarland till NME.
– De gick åt väldigt, väldigt snabbt, säger McFarland och tillägger att det är fantastiskt att få möjlighet att göra ”Fyre-drömmen” sann.
Festivalen, som gick av stapeln 2017, blev ett totalt fiasko. Besökarna, som blivit lovade mat och boende i toppklass, möttes i stället av tält utan el och rinnande vatten. Några stora artister dök inte heller upp och den enda maten som fanns var grillade mackor.
Fyre Festival
Wikipedia (en)
Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival founded by con artist Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule. It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma.
The event was promoted on Instagram by social media influencers including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin and Emily Ratajkowski, many of whom did not initially disclose they had been paid to do so. During the Fyre Festival's inaugural weekend, the event experienced problems related to security, food, accommodation, medical services and artist relations, resulting in the festival being postponed indefinitely, and eventually cancelled. Instead of the luxury villas and gourmet meals for which festival attendees paid hundreds of dollars, they received packaged sandwiches, and poorly-furnished tents as their accommodation.In March 2018, McFarland pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud to defraud investors and ticket holders, and a second count to defraud a ticket vendor (while out on bail). In October 2018, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to forfeit US$26 million. At least eight lawsuits were initiated against the organizers for defrauding ticket buyers, several seeking class action status, and one seeking more than $100 million in damages.
Two documentaries about the events of the festival were released in 2019: Hulu's Fyre Fraud, and Netflix's Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. It was also featured on an episode of the CNBC series American Greed in 2019 and an episode of the ABC series The Con (TV series) in 2021 On April 9, 2023, Billy McFarland tweeted that there was to be a Fyre Festival II.
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