Earlier this year, Netflix dropped the Fyre Festival documentary and everyone went wild when they learned just how bad the whole shenanigans really was. In the documentary, it was revealed that Blink 182 were one of the first headliners to pull out which cause a domino effect of other bands pulling out last minute.
Now, frontman Mark Hoppus has revealed what it was like to be put in such a shocking situation and why the band decided to pull out.
“It was pretty shocking,” Hoppus told NME about his experience watching the documentary. “It was shocking but not entirely surprising. We had indications kind of early on that there were problems. Our production crew was having problems getting even the most basic of answers as to staging, power and things that you would normally have well in advance of the show. That being said, us and our crew have always prided ourselves on being able to put on a good show.”
He continued: “If you give us electricity and a stage then we will do our best to put on a great show. We continued in good faith, the show got closer and closer. Travis [Barker, drums] doesn’t fly so he was going to have to get on a boat for several days to get there then our production crew just said, ‘I don’t think that this is going to happen, I think we should pull out now’. That’s when we issued our statement.”
If you haven’t yet seen the Netflix Fyre documentary, you can watch it via the streaming platform now.
