For Billy McFarland, it seems the third time actually was the appeal. After the colossal failure of Fyre Fest 1.0 and the next botched try at Fyre Fest 2.0, McFarland truly managed to stage an actual, bodily music competition known as PHNX in Honduras on Saturday night time. Artists confirmed up. Folks confirmed up. There have been bogs. And (considerably) edible meals.
In fact, the definition of “success” in all probability varies relying in your interpretation of the phrase. However for McFarland, who spent 4 years in jail on fraud fees within the quick aftermath of Fyre Fest 1.0, he can now say he placed on a music competition, headlined by actual artists (French Montana, Bobby Shmurda, and Slim Jxmmi all took the stage at varied factors on Saturday night time).
The occasion was livestreamed on-line, and due to that, we all know a couple of issues: PHNX was sparsely attended, with only some hundred individuals on website by our tough depend. (A social media publish shared forward of Saturday’s festivities additionally advised locals have been inspired to attend without cost to juice the numbers.) The livestream itself was a POV feed priced at $6.99, however at its peak we noticed solely round 100 lively viewers. All of which is to say: McFarland — or whoever underwrote the occasion — doubtless took a large loss to fly out Montana and the opposite artists and construct the infrastructure for the one-off.
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Some performances additionally bumped into technical points, together with not less than two non permanent energy outages. French Montana, in the meantime, tried to get the gang singing alongside at varied factors, solely to be met with a reasonably lukewarm response. At one other level, a one-legged man crashed the stage.
However once more, in comparison with McFarland’s earlier two makes an attempt at placing on a competition, these really feel like minor hiccups — and, on the very least, shouldn’t land him in jail this time round. So, congrats, Billy!
@machetephil PHNX Pageant with DOZENS in attendance! #PHNX #fyrefestival #billymcfarland
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@maddsofficial Confirmed ! French confirmed up each artist did! Love this island a lot ! #fyrefestival #PHNX
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