Fyre Festival’s disgraced founder Billy McFarland announced earlier this week that he secured the funding for Fyre Festival 2.0 while also confirming that a Broadway musical based on the original event is in the works again. McFarland shared the news in a video posted on his TikTok.

McFarland later confirmed his plans in an interview with YouTuber Adam Glyn, saying that the Fyre Festival 2.0 is going to take place on an island as well, but not in the Bahamas. He added that there is a significant interest from music acts to take place in the event.

The original Fyre Festival was billed as a two-weekend luxury experience for the festival goers and was supposed to include a star-studded lineup of acts like Pusha T, Tyga, Blink-182, Major Lazer, Disclosure, and Migos, among others. The event, co-founded by rapper Ja Rule, was heavily promoted by social media influencers like Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid.

However, Fyre Festival turned into a disaster on its first weekend due to issues with security, food, and accommodation, among others. The majority of the top-billed music artists pulled out as a result, causing the event to be canceled.

In the aftermath, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison and was ordered to forfeit $26 million. The Fyre Festival also inspired several documentaries, including Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.

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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.

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Here are 3 nightmarish festivals which rival the total fail that Fyre fest turned out to be.

Glastonbury 2005

Fyre Festival saw people’s mattresses soaked from the rain, but the hot weather of the Bahamas meant people dried out pretty quickly. This cannot be said for the festival-goers of Glastonbury 2005, who were hit by torrential rain and the worst storm in years. Everyone’s tent got flooded and not even the strongest of wellies could handle the puddles.

Indiana State Fair, 2011

In Indiana, the weather fared no better at the 2011 state fair. A terrible storm raged and the strong winds tore down the festival stage which collapsed onto the crowd. Tragically, seven people were killed in the accident and even more were injured.

Altamont Free Music Festival 1969

The event was meant to be a festival of “peace and love” which makes it even more peculiar that the Hells Angels were hired as security for the event. The bikers were armed with chains and brutally battered many crowd members. One man even got stabbed to death after running on stage with a gun. It kind of makes Fyre Fest seem like a picnic in the Bahamas… which it essentially was.

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Fyre Festival’s disgraced founder Billy McFarland announced earlier this week that he secured the funding for Fyre Festival 2.0 while also confirming that a Broadway musical based on the original event is in the works again. McFarland shared the news in a video posted on his TikTok.

McFarland later confirmed his plans in an interview with YouTuber Adam Glyn, saying that the Fyre Festival 2.0 is going to take place on an island as well, but not in the Bahamas. He added that there is a significant interest from music acts to take place in the event.

The original Fyre Festival was billed as a two-weekend luxury experience for the festival goers and was supposed to include a star-studded lineup of acts like Pusha T, Tyga, Blink-182, Major Lazer, Disclosure, and Migos, among others. The event, co-founded by rapper Ja Rule, was heavily promoted by social media influencers like Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid.

However, Fyre Festival turned into a disaster on its first weekend due to issues with security, food, and accommodation, among others. The majority of the top-billed music artists pulled out as a result, causing the event to be canceled.

In the aftermath, McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison and was ordered to forfeit $26 million. The Fyre Festival also inspired several documentaries, including Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.

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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.

The post Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus Opens Us About His Fyre Festival Experience appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

Here are 3 nightmarish festivals which rival the total fail that Fyre fest turned out to be.

Glastonbury 2005

Fyre Festival saw people’s mattresses soaked from the rain, but the hot weather of the Bahamas meant people dried out pretty quickly. This cannot be said for the festival-goers of Glastonbury 2005, who were hit by torrential rain and the worst storm in years. Everyone’s tent got flooded and not even the strongest of wellies could handle the puddles.

Indiana State Fair, 2011

In Indiana, the weather fared no better at the 2011 state fair. A terrible storm raged and the strong winds tore down the festival stage which collapsed onto the crowd. Tragically, seven people were killed in the accident and even more were injured.

Altamont Free Music Festival 1969

The event was meant to be a festival of “peace and love” which makes it even more peculiar that the Hells Angels were hired as security for the event. The bikers were armed with chains and brutally battered many crowd members. One man even got stabbed to death after running on stage with a gun. It kind of makes Fyre Fest seem like a picnic in the Bahamas… which it essentially was.

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