“What some of you don’t know is that I spent 10 months in solitary confinement. Whenever anybody finds this out the first thing they always ask is how I spent that time. The truth is, the best part of those days was running in place in my prison-issue underwear staring at the wall in front of me.”
This might sound like a curious opening gambit at a press conference about a music festival. But Billy McFarland is no ordinary festival organiser. McFarland is the convicted felon and entrepreneur behind 2017’s Fyre Festival, the most disastrous non-festival of all time, an event so calamitous that it has become the morality tale of the Instagram age.
