idk but it's crazy to me the woodstock was only a three day thing, from watching various docs I just perceive it as like a week long event.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 6 March 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
That was just the Grateful Dead’s set.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 6 March 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
He's back!
(It's obviously a scam.)
https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/fyre-fests-billy-mcfarland-reveals-new-project-from-prison-swears-its-no-scam/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 April 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
What not to do:
Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland asked a judge in the Southern District of New York for compassionate release due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government just responded with a 64 page filing as to why he should not be released.— Luke Barr (@LukeLBarr) April 28, 2020
Government says McFarland's health does not meet criteria for release and that he got in trouble while at FCI Otisville for bringing a USB drive into the facility. In the filing last week, McFarland called it a "minor offense."— Luke Barr (@LukeLBarr) April 28, 2020
That all said, on a more telling/serious tip:
McFarland, who is now being housed at FCI Elkton in OH per BOP, a facility that has been ravaged by COVID-19. Current numbers at the facility per source are 7 inmates are dead, 88 inmates in quarantine.— Luke Barr (@LukeLBarr) April 28, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
feral dogs still on his tail :|
― mark s, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
free all prisoners, even that asshole
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
he could put an interesting spin on the current situation, maybe even get ja rule to weigh in on why his endorsement of Ron’s island was misconstrued
― mh, Friday, 1 May 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
just reading a lucid first-hand account of woodstock from someone in a down-bill band and omg that event really only missed by a whisker being a MUCH more serious catastrophe than fyre festival, arguably bcz it was (reversing the FF set-up) much easier to arrive at than leave, plus it was close enough to nyc that the disgruntled and unimpressed authorities could actually drag everyone's nuts out of the fire― mark s, Friday, 6 March 2020 13:50 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mark s, Friday, 6 March 2020 13:50 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Would be interested in reading this
― S-, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:55 (four years ago) link
https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2020/073020.htm
whom amongst us is going to buy some fyre fest merch that the feds confiscated?
― solo scampito (mh), Friday, 31 July 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
direct auction link: https://www.txauction.com/auctions/911
― solo scampito (mh), Friday, 31 July 2020 04:38 (four years ago) link
This is both stupid as an example of punishment and, somehow, hilarious.
Fyre Fest's Billy McFarland placed in solitary confinement for launching podcast https://t.co/RFeXuDbbcl pic.twitter.com/H3sGpklE6B— Stereogum (@stereogum) October 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 October 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
get Joe Rogan next
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 24 October 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
ha
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
TONIGHT: #TheConABC is back! What does Fyre Fest creator Billy McFarland have to say now about the disastrous music festival in the Caribbean? Watch the jailhouse interview with him on ‘The Con: Fyre Festival’ – tonight at 10|9c on @ABC. pic.twitter.com/hbJ8AEiFVQ— 20/20 (@ABC2020) March 3, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
(I look forward to someone else watching and telling me what happened.)
just watch it and be a legend
― a mix between Daft Punk and Daft Punk with the swagger of Daft Punk (Maresn3st), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
Fyre Festival class-action settlement awards attendees $7,220 each, plus a free case of Evian. (ok, i made up the last part)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/arts/music/fyre-festival-settlement.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/15/22386353/fyre-festival-organizers-settle-ticketholders-7220
― Lee626, Saturday, 17 April 2021 10:10 (three years ago) link
I do know how they can get a free case tho
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 17 April 2021 10:47 (three years ago) link
lol sic
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 17 April 2021 14:52 (three years ago) link
this is messed up tho, 6 months in the hole
https://newsfeeds.media/fyre-festivals-bill-mcfarland-is-out-of-solitary-confinement-insider/
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 17 April 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
Not that I expect this guy to learn from his earlier mistakes necessarily but if he shaped up in a way where he worked earnestly on carceral reform for the rest of his days, that would be something.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 April 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
I love that every failed venture will now be called "the Fyre Fest of <event category>" from now on
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fyre-fest-of-summer-camps-shut-down-after-parents-spend-thousands
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
and
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ja-rule-is-hawking-an-nft-of-the-infamous-fyre-fest-cheese-sandwich-for-a-good-cause
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 19:43 (three years ago) link
and here's why
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― "the fancy things" being his nads, etc (stevie), Monday, 13 September 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
I was a little disappointed 100s of them didn't die of cholera
― calzino, Monday, 13 September 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― the road by tarmac mccarthy (Matt #2), Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:36 (two years ago) link
Scam-o-Rama
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 May 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
Shkreli released the same day, they should team up.
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 20 May 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
fuck me are they gonna get elected to office?
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 20 May 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link
run doomsday sequence
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 20 May 2022 01:54 (two years ago) link
O here we go
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/fyre-festival-sequel-billy-mcfarland-vows-fyre-festival-ii-1235579488/
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 01:56 (one year ago) link
“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.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 02:25 (one year ago) link
Not the poster boy for deterrence
― zing me with your best zhot (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
“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.“
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
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
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 23 June 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
Some really interesting acts were slated to play that. Had no clue that Black Grape reunited
― beamish13, Friday, 23 June 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
Maybe they didn't either
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 June 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
Lol. Hasn't Shaun Ryder just formed some new "super group"?
― groovypanda, Friday, 23 June 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
I didn't know Lung Leg had a stage act (music, I presume).
― nickn, Friday, 23 June 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
lung leg are a 90s Glasgow girl group named after the model, and one of my favourite bands.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 June 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
I was surprised to see her name on a "family-friendly" festival.
Pet peeve: Bands who name themselves after a living person.
― nickn, Friday, 23 June 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
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.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 June 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 23 June 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
shouldn’t have crossed goldie lookin chain
― brimstead, Friday, 23 June 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
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!
― beamish13, Friday, 23 June 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Always a pleasant surprise to find that Shaun Ryder is still among the living.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 23 June 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
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
― serving bundt (sic), Saturday, 24 June 2023 05:12 (one year ago) link
Let’s go!
https://www.stereogum.com/2233698/somehow-fyre-festival-2-tickets-are-for-sale-now/news/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 21 August 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
If you got a spare $500, hey.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link