After his 2017 music festival collapsed on its opening weekend, leaving attendees stranded and starving on a remote island with no musical performances, Billy McFarland says he wants to have another go at running the event.
The founder of the disastrous Fyre Festival — a 2017 music festival that was cancelled during its opening weekend, leaving attendees stranded and starving on a remote island in the Bahamas with no musical performances — says he wants to have another go at running the event.The original Fyre Festival was cancelled during its opening weekend in 2017, leaving attendees stranded and hungry
Responding to a commenter who replied "Tell me why you shouldn't be in jail", McFarland also alluded to the fact that he still owed creditors $US26 million , saying "It's in the best interest of those I owe for me to be working".that resulted in multiple lawsuits, prison time for its founder and two highly successful streaming documentaries that chronicled the chaos.
Instead of the luxury villas they had been promised, guests who had paid up to $US12,000 were provided storm-damaged FEMA tents with wet mattresses inside.The event quickly deteriorated as social-media-savvy attendees live-tweeted their experience, including waiting in long lines for registration, fighting over insufficient tents, being provided with inadequate and poor-quality meals, and being locked in an airport terminal without food, water or air conditioning.
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