We’re still talking about the disaster that was the Fyre Festival earlier this year. Billy McFarland, the organizer, was arrested and charged with wire fraud. There are over a dozen lawsuits. People are calling it the biggest music scam in years.
If you know anything about the history of the event, blink-182 was contracted to play Fyre, but correctly sensing that the whole thing was going to be a catastrophe, they pulled out a few days before things were supposed to begin. Then Matt Skiba, who was still replacing Tom DeLonge at the time, went to work. I quote: “I had a bad feeling about that event,” he said. “I consider myself a pagan and a witch. With every inch of my energy, I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.”
In case you’re wondering, there was never any legal action taken against him.
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