Fyre Festival 2 has officially been postponed - less than two months before the event was said to be taking place.
The organisers have reportedly postponed the event that was set for May 30 to June 2, and no new dates have been revealed.
Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall speculates about the event's future following this latest update.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is Macotron, who, last week, as predicted by our
entertainment contributors Steve Newle Reflix dot co Inz, won the
Tate Prizeotron, well done, Steve, And you're picking of that
educated guests? Was it?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Educated guest? Very very deserving? When I there, there's never
an undeserving nominee for the Tape Music Prize, but Macotron,
there's something really special about that album.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Why did I Why did you go to the Tate
Music Prize?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes, it was a great night. Shout out Sarah Thompson
being a great MC. A lot of deserving winners, and
Mokotron has mentioned she had won the classic Album for
Kiljoy and other among the other winners. Shout out to
Ron Evans from the Wine Cellar celebrating twenty years dedicated
(01:24):
to making live music possible for an interesting and intriguing
group of people.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is it a celebratory night or their performances or is
everyone just having a good time?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, the format's pretty cool. It opened with a performance
from Vera Allen, who was the Tate Music Prize winner
from last year, So that's kind of this cyclical nice
thing that happens, and Vera also participated in presenting the
winner also, so it's very much kind of, I guess,
like a growing Tate Fanno over the years.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now another way, you're keeping us up to speed with
what is happening with the Fire Festival, because the Fire
Festival is one of the most entertaining entertainment stories of
our time and it just keeps on giving.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes, well, I updated previously for anyone that was thinking
about throwing caution to the wind and buying tickets to
an event that had no venue. The news is that
the festival has now been officially postponed indefinitely. It's less
than two months before it was due to take place
in a sort of undisclosed location because it didn't seem
(02:27):
like it was going to happen anyway. Tickets had been
on sale under the slogan.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Wait for a really light this Given what we've just said.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The slogan fire Festival too is real.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I don't know, we just don't know what it's going
to happen.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Allegedly, there were.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Forty artists performing at an event that would have eighteen
hundred people. When speculations started to mount that this wasn't
actually a real event, despite the tagline Fire Festival Too
is Real, Billy McFarland, the founder who did jail time
for the first event, Falling Over, released a whole bunch
of email correspond trying to prove that this thing actually
(03:08):
was happening, except the permit that he had only allowed
for a maximum of two hundred and fifty people and
didn't allow for any live performances. So for she as,
it's again.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
In a weekend when Coachella is taking place. This isn't
kind of the weekend to kind of be announcing, Well,
you know that your festival, your music festival, is not
quite flowering.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Maybe it is the weekend to announce. Isn't quite sure?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Joe Joe Right, TV's most bizarre comedy series returns the rehearsal.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh Man, such a fan, but this is such a
hard watch. This is that style, kind of style of
comedy where you might want to eat your shins as
much as you might want to laugh during it. Deeply uncomfortable.
This is from Nathan Fielder, who I've been a longtime fan.
I've had a fantastic show called Nathan for You, which
kind of satirized a lot of his work satirizes reality television.
(04:00):
Nathan for You was about a guy with a bad
business degree helping struggling businesses with cizar ideas like it's
like kind of a kitchen nightmares dialed up by one hundred,
and the rehearsal took this sort of absurdity that he
explored on that premise, added an HBO budget to it,
and allowed him to absolutely lunatic things, taking over soundstages
(04:26):
to build replicas of real life locations, rehearsing like over
and over again, life's big moments before they take place.
It's kind of the sort of cracks of the show.
Season two, after season one sort of ended on very
weird personal dynamic explorations. Season two starts off kind of
pretending that never already happened, and Nathan's got a brand
(04:47):
new job that he's assigned himself, preventing plane crashes by
improving communication by airline pilots, the least funny premise you've
ever heard for a comedy show. However, it's just a
chassis to build all this other crazy stuff on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So if I can remember correctly with the rehearsal heat
people in real life situations and helped them that he
kind of re enacted a situation that they were going
to have to go through in a conversation. They were
going to have to have some that were completely comfortable
with it. They knew every different direction. The conversations gone
absolutely and hey, you're ready to go and have this
conversation and do it pretty much.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But but but even saying it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Like that dilutes like how massive this thing could?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You never work out either where things were real and
where things sort of start and where things stop, you know,
like are the people involved real or are they in
on it? Or it's just it just messes with you.
And I think that's.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's that's bringing to the four a whole bunch of
stuff around the reality genre. Right, How real is this?
How stage does it? I mean even sitting aside whether
people are actors, like there's a there's a fakeness that
comes from the presence of a camera and produces. He
reflects on or kind of alludes back to some of
(06:04):
his own history and the show a little bit. He
used to be He used to work for Canadian Idol
and he was one of the.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Guys who would vet all.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The applicants, okay, And so that process itself plays a
part in this season where he mounts a new production
that is about him getting to vet singers. Other things
we find out here or he tries to learn here
can animals rehearse? As he puts it, un paraphrasing, but
(06:37):
there's a line that goes something like, it was time
to experiment on animals, after all we evolved from them,
which like that's so scientific.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It just does. He makes TV that no one else makes,
Like I love one's episode, then I'll struggle with another one.
But I have to give the guy credit. He goes
where nobody else goes in a.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Way that no one else And the airline pilot kind
of theme of this season, and it's been the season,
is that disasters happened because pilots are uncomfortable with one another.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And so he's basically like all of Fielder's.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Comedy, it's actually about him, and it becomes him projecting
his own insecurity and anxiety. It's so funny. At one
point he builds an airline terminal inside a studio and
so and populates it with actors so that he can
simulate what pilots coming through the terminal and going into
(07:40):
the little pilot's room and hanging out, and it's like
it's complete with all the fast food chains. It's an actual.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, this is the rehearsal on steroids.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Absolutely, this is the starts on Neon tomorrow and viewers
of Nathan Few will love the reappearance of his active
were active wear outdoor wear brand summitt Ice now summ
at Ice was a brand that he created during Nathan
view to raise awareness of the Holocaust. It's slogan deny nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, oh my gosh. Very quickly, just very very quickly.
A new Star Wars film has been announced to be
released in a couple of years time. Do you think
that'll get off the ground.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I mean, we'll see. I've had a bit of a
track record of announcing things that don't happen. But I
think they could do worse than announce that Ryan Gosling
is starring in a Star Wars movie. It's a simple idea, right,
It's like gozzling Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay, I'm sort of in although I don't think we
need another Star Wars film, but.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But you know what, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm okay about that, Steve, Thank you so much. Enjoy
the rest of your Easter. Thank you so much for
popping in.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, Listen
live to news Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is Macotron, who, last week, as predicted by our
entertainment contributors Steve Newle Reflix dot co Inz, won the
Tate Prizeotron, well done, Steve, And you're picking of that
educated guests? Was it?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Educated guest? Very very deserving? When I there, there's never
an undeserving nominee for the Tape Music Prize, but Macotron,
there's something really special about that album.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Why did I Why did you go to the Tate
Music Prize?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes, it was a great night. Shout out Sarah Thompson
being a great MC. A lot of deserving winners, and
Mokotron has mentioned she had won the classic Album for
Kiljoy and other among the other winners. Shout out to
Ron Evans from the Wine Cellar celebrating twenty years dedicated
(01:24):
to making live music possible for an interesting and intriguing
group of people.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is it a celebratory night or their performances or is
everyone just having a good time?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, the format's pretty cool. It opened with a performance
from Vera Allen, who was the Tate Music Prize winner
from last year, So that's kind of this cyclical nice
thing that happens, and Vera also participated in presenting the
winner also, so it's very much kind of, I guess,
like a growing Tate Fanno over the years.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now another way, you're keeping us up to speed with
what is happening with the Fire Festival, because the Fire
Festival is one of the most entertaining entertainment stories of
our time and it just keeps on giving.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes, well, I updated previously for anyone that was thinking
about throwing caution to the wind and buying tickets to
an event that had no venue. The news is that
the festival has now been officially postponed indefinitely. It's less
than two months before it was due to take place
in a sort of undisclosed location because it didn't seem
(02:27):
like it was going to happen anyway. Tickets had been
on sale under the slogan.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Wait for a really light this Given what we've just said.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The slogan fire Festival too is real.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I don't know, we just don't know what it's going
to happen.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Allegedly, there were.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Forty artists performing at an event that would have eighteen
hundred people. When speculations started to mount that this wasn't
actually a real event, despite the tagline Fire Festival Too
is Real, Billy McFarland, the founder who did jail time
for the first event, Falling Over, released a whole bunch
of email correspond trying to prove that this thing actually
(03:08):
was happening, except the permit that he had only allowed
for a maximum of two hundred and fifty people and
didn't allow for any live performances. So for she as,
it's again.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
In a weekend when Coachella is taking place. This isn't
kind of the weekend to kind of be announcing, Well,
you know that your festival, your music festival, is not
quite flowering.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Maybe it is the weekend to announce. Isn't quite sure?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Joe Joe Right, TV's most bizarre comedy series returns the rehearsal.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh Man, such a fan, but this is such a
hard watch. This is that style, kind of style of
comedy where you might want to eat your shins as
much as you might want to laugh during it. Deeply uncomfortable.
This is from Nathan Fielder, who I've been a longtime fan.
I've had a fantastic show called Nathan for You, which
kind of satirized a lot of his work satirizes reality television.
(04:00):
Nathan for You was about a guy with a bad
business degree helping struggling businesses with cizar ideas like it's
like kind of a kitchen nightmares dialed up by one hundred,
and the rehearsal took this sort of absurdity that he
explored on that premise, added an HBO budget to it,
and allowed him to absolutely lunatic things, taking over soundstages
(04:26):
to build replicas of real life locations, rehearsing like over
and over again, life's big moments before they take place.
It's kind of the sort of cracks of the show.
Season two, after season one sort of ended on very
weird personal dynamic explorations. Season two starts off kind of
pretending that never already happened, and Nathan's got a brand
(04:47):
new job that he's assigned himself, preventing plane crashes by
improving communication by airline pilots, the least funny premise you've
ever heard for a comedy show. However, it's just a
chassis to build all this other crazy stuff on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So if I can remember correctly with the rehearsal heat
people in real life situations and helped them that he
kind of re enacted a situation that they were going
to have to go through in a conversation. They were
going to have to have some that were completely comfortable
with it. They knew every different direction. The conversations gone
absolutely and hey, you're ready to go and have this
conversation and do it pretty much.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
But but but even saying it.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Like that dilutes like how massive this thing could?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
You never work out either where things were real and
where things sort of start and where things stop, you know,
like are the people involved real or are they in
on it? Or it's just it just messes with you.
And I think that's.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's that's bringing to the four a whole bunch of
stuff around the reality genre. Right, How real is this?
How stage does it? I mean even sitting aside whether
people are actors, like there's a there's a fakeness that
comes from the presence of a camera and produces. He
reflects on or kind of alludes back to some of
(06:04):
his own history and the show a little bit. He
used to be He used to work for Canadian Idol
and he was one of the.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Guys who would vet all.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The applicants, okay, And so that process itself plays a
part in this season where he mounts a new production
that is about him getting to vet singers. Other things
we find out here or he tries to learn here
can animals rehearse? As he puts it, un paraphrasing, but
(06:37):
there's a line that goes something like, it was time
to experiment on animals, after all we evolved from them,
which like that's so scientific.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It just does. He makes TV that no one else makes,
Like I love one's episode, then I'll struggle with another one.
But I have to give the guy credit. He goes
where nobody else goes in a.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Way that no one else And the airline pilot kind
of theme of this season, and it's been the season,
is that disasters happened because pilots are uncomfortable with one another.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And so he's basically like all of Fielder's.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Comedy, it's actually about him, and it becomes him projecting
his own insecurity and anxiety. It's so funny. At one
point he builds an airline terminal inside a studio and
so and populates it with actors so that he can
simulate what pilots coming through the terminal and going into
(07:40):
the little pilot's room and hanging out, and it's like
it's complete with all the fast food chains. It's an actual.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Okay, this is the rehearsal on steroids.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Absolutely, this is the starts on Neon tomorrow and viewers
of Nathan Few will love the reappearance of his active
were active wear outdoor wear brand summitt Ice now summ
at Ice was a brand that he created during Nathan
view to raise awareness of the Holocaust. It's slogan deny nothing.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, oh my gosh. Very quickly, just very very quickly.
A new Star Wars film has been announced to be
released in a couple of years time. Do you think
that'll get off the ground.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I mean, we'll see. I've had a bit of a
track record of announcing things that don't happen. But I
think they could do worse than announce that Ryan Gosling
is starring in a Star Wars movie. It's a simple idea, right,
It's like gozzling Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay, I'm sort of in although I don't think we
need another Star Wars film, but.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
But you know what, I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I'm okay about that, Steve, Thank you so much. Enjoy
the rest of your Easter. Thank you so much for
popping in.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, Listen
live to news Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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