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BandLab NME Awards 2022 award winners Bring Me The Horizon are due to stage their own festival in Malta in May – an event they’ve said will be “like Fyre Festival but with better sandwiches”.The Sheffield band were speaking to NME from the winner’s room after picking up the trophy for Best Band From The UK Supported By Pizza Express.Bring Me’s Malta festival, announced last November, will take place from May 26-30 and feature a full live show and an exclusive retrospective set from the band.Discussing what to expect from the event, drummer Mat Nicholls promised “bingo with Jordan Fish [BMTH keys player]. It’s called ‘Bringo’.”“It’s like Fyre Festival but with better sandwiches,” frontman Oli Sykes added.The festival’s line-up, handpicked by the band, includes Bullet For My Valentine, Beartooth, PVRIS, Motionless In White, Spiritbox, Nova Twins and Wargasm.There will also be a host of club nights, pool party takeovers and boat parties.

It’s been a while since we heard of a fiasco like this!

Those lucky enough to attend the Met Gala will find it crawling with A-list celebs — but good luck finding a hearty meal!

the infamous Fyre Festival.Elements Music & Arts Festival, which took place from Friday (September 3) to Monday (September 6), has been described as a “shit show” that is alleged to have left people without basic necessities including water and prevented ticket-holders from ever entering the site despite queuing for hours.Unlike Fyre Festival, a fraudulent 2017 festival that landed its co-founder in jail, however, the event did run its live performances including from Diplo and Bonobo.NME has reached out to the organisers of Elements for comment.Also no access to water, bathrooms, or food in those 14 hours of waiting.

Fyre Festival following a “shambolic” inaugural event over the weekend.The festival took place on Sunday (August 8), bringing what organisers billed as the capital’s “first ever festival dedicated to R&B and Hip Hop culture” to north London’s Trent Park.Among those booked to perform to 15,000 ticketholders – who each paid up to £95 to attend – were the likes of Fat Joe, Blackstreet, Fatman Scoop, Eve, Firin Squad and Bobby V.As the Daily Mail reports, however, fans were left calling for refunds after Mya, Eve, Blackstreet and Tony Touch failed to turn up for their scheduled live performances (Eve had cancelled her slot earlier in the week).NME understands that Mya was in London to fulfil her booking, but there was subsequently an issue with

What started as a summer of fun soon turned into an absolute nightmare for kids at this camp in Moultonborough, New Hampshire!

Fyre Festival‘s co-founder Billy McFarland is reportedly out of solitary confinement in prison.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in the Bahamas in 2017.McFarland spent six months of this sentence alone in solitary confinement after taking part in the recording of a podcast.Last year, McFarland launched Dumpster Fyre, a podcast which saw him “share everything that happened” regarding the notorious festival.

The attendees of the ill-fated Fyre Festival are finally getting their payday.

Fyre Festival made headlines four years ago for being “the world’s biggest flop” – now, a court has put a price on the nightmare: approximately $7,220 (£5,225) apiece. The $2m (£1.

Fyre Festival have reached a $2 million settlement with 277 attendees, almost four years after a $100 million class action lawsuit was initially filed.The new lawsuit will see each of the 277 attendees receiving $7,220 (£5247), although the figure could potentially be lower as Fyre Festival is still in the middle of a bankruptcy case with a selection of various creditors.Lawyers representing ticket-holders for the Bahamian event have secured the settlement, but, as Billboard reports, it still needs a vote of approval to take place on May 13th.US celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos initially filed the lawsuit in May 2017, and said that the luxury experience offered to attendees was, in reality, closer to The Hunger Games or Lord of The Flies.“The

The US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York has approved a $2 million class-action settlement for ticket-holders to the ill-fated Fyre Festival.

Those unfortunate music fans who were duped into buying tickets to the sham Fyre Festival look like they’ll be getting a refund.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Fyre Festival has reached a settlement with 277 ticketholders from the famously disastrous 2017 concert-that-never-happened, with each recipient being awarded $7,220 payouts. The settlement between the ticketholders and the trustee of Fyre festival assets was filed in U.S.

A tweet showing the infamous cheese sandwiches served at the Fyre Festival will be sold as a non-fungible token estimated to go for around $80,000.

Ja Rule has announced that he is selling the infamous cheese sandwich tweet from the ill-fated Fyre Festival as an NFT (non-fungible token).The notorious 2017 event saw the rapper team up with entrepreneur Billy McFarland to create a luxurious festival in the Bahamas where tickets ranged from between $4,000 to $12,000.However, Trevor DeHaas’ image of the meagre snack became widely emblematic of the doomed event after he revealed that it was being given to festival-goers who had shelled out thousands to attend.Now, it’s been confirmed that DeHaas has teamed up with Ja Rule’s own Flipkick platform to sell the rights to his 2017 viral post.Taking advantage of the current NFT trend, a Flipkick listing describes the snack as a “Meme.

Ja Rule has reportedly sold his Fyre Festival logo oil painting in NFT form (non-fungible token) for £88,640 (US$122,000).As reported by Consequence of Sound, the rapper has sold the 48″ by 60″ oil painting that had been hanging in the festival’s New York office during the planning stages. Ja Rule told Forbes the reason for selling the artwork was because he “just wanted that energy out.”Goodnight… pic.twitter.com/2xOXcjJ37L— Ja Rule (@jarule) March 24, 2021Bidding on Ja Rule’s item began on Tuesday March 23 with a reserve price of £43,6000 (US$600,000).

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Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has admitted that he lied to investors who pumped millions of dollars into the infamous Bahamas event.McFarland made the bold admission in an unauthorised interview from behind bars with radio host Jordan Harbinger for the Dumpster Fyre podcast – which has landed him in solitary confinement.McFarland is currently serving a six-year sentence at the Federal Correction Institution in Elkton, Ohio after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in April 2017.“I knowingly lied to them to raise money for the festival. Yes.

Jailed Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland is speaking about the ill-fated 2017 bash that led him to six years in federal prison for defrauding investors of $27.4 million.

Fyre Festival could’ve been criminally fun. In a new jailhouse interview, incarcerated party organizer Billy McFarland admitted that he lied to the investors who put millions into funding his notorious 2017 luxury retreat failure — but blamed an impossible timeline for the scam he’s now doing time for co-organizing. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” McFarland, 29, told Jordan Harbinger in an unsanctioned interview which has since landed the con man in solitary confinement, according to the radio personality.“Had we given ourselves a year or two and had I obviously not made the terrible decision to lie to my backers, I think we could have been in a bit better place,