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Title: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: Mike Desert on April 28, 2017, 03:51:26 PM
and talks about the Fyre Festival

http://uproxx.com/realtalk/ja-rule-fyre-fest-scam/ (http://uproxx.com/realtalk/ja-rule-fyre-fest-scam/)
Title: Re: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: Mike Desert on April 28, 2017, 03:56:22 PM
oops, just read this part

Organizers failed to provide for the performers as well; Blink 182 pulled out, informing fans on Twitter that the festival hadn’t accommodated needed production and performance equipment in advance of their set preparations. To make matters worse, “organizers missed a series of deadlines to make advance payments to performers, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Title: Re: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: theWhatReally on April 28, 2017, 04:36:24 PM
you mean Voldermort?
Title: Re: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: President Baseball on May 01, 2017, 12:17:45 PM
I wonder if Tom could get one of the organizers of this festival to call in to the show this week. Somehow I would suspect that there must be someone who was in charge of this fiasco who is from Newbridge and who could explain what happened, who dropped the ball and who pulled a chokejob.
Title: Re: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: Carver on May 01, 2017, 01:41:34 PM
Agreed.  If you haven't yet, this NY Magazine article by a woman who worked on the festival is good for lots of laughs.
Maybe the best part is at a meeting where it's clear the whole thing is a disaster, but a marketing exec. says, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html (http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html)
Title: Re: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: Mike Desert on May 02, 2017, 03:59:45 PM
I did read that...so good. Finally a bit of joy for the rest of us
Title: Re: I hope the guy from the band that can't be named calls...
Post by: JeffertonFromTX on June 06, 2017, 03:59:36 AM
That guy is annoyingly squirrelly, especially after his first call when he was basically all but saying it and looooooooving the attention, but it is fun to hear Tom bust his B's.