What is Fyre Festival?

It promised to be a boutique festival like no other: yachts, turquoise waters and adorable piglets that frolicked on the beach with supermodels by day, with bands by night. Based on a remote island formerly owned by Pablo Escobar in The Exumas in The Bahamas, guests would be flown in and wined and dined for tickets that range in price from $450 - $250,000. Unfortunately, the Festival’s tagline, “on the boundaries of impossible”, proved all too prescient.

What happened?

A series of small disasters. When headliners Blink 182 pulled out at the last minute, claiming that they “were not confident that we would have what we need to give you the quality of performances we always give our fans”, people perhaps should have been wary.