Fyre Festival

I don't know if anyone else is following this story, but a good place to catch up is with this NPR report. Basically, a bunch of Millennials paid stupid money to go to a luxury private music festival, organised by Ja Rule on an island in the Bahamas. Blink-182 was going to be there, plus DJs who had done remixes for Middle Eastern royalty! The audience were to be ferried there by chartered plane.

The plane ride was about the only thing that went according to plan. The "luxury accomodations" were disaster relief tents, and the gourmet catering was ham & cheese sandwiches with salad. There was almost no lighting or security. Phone chargers were promised - got to keep up the social medai influencing - but no luck there. Blink-182 pulled out because they weren't happy with the production and safety. People were freaking out and the organisers had to arrange flights home. There was looting, people setting fire to stuff ... it all went a bit Lord Of The Flies out there, for a bit. The NME has social media reports & pictures, here. I haven't even looked at the Reddit yet.

That was this weekend, and the plan was to do that all again next weekend. Really? Meanwhile, a now-deleted tweet raises the possibility that Ja Rule was trolling everyone, or his Twitter account was hacked. Could be faked, too. Either way, some lessons have been learned, ja think?