Fyre Festival

FYRE: THE GREATEST PARTY THAT NEVER HAPPENED

1° Match the words with their translation.

Billed as                                                     Réussir

Headliners                                                 Très médiatisé / connu

Accommodation                                        Supposer

Turned up to                                              Inculpé dé

Mattresses                                                 Condamné à

Rain-soaked floors                                    Présenté / Annoncé comme

To premiere                                              Etre en adéquation avec

To pull off                                                 Sauf si

Aftermath                                                 Travailleurs journaliers

Day labourers                                           Vedettes / Têtes d’affiche

High profile                                              Conséquences / Répercussions

To assume                                                Matelas

Unless                                                      Se pointer / Arriver

Convicted of                                            Sols trempés par la pluie

Jailed for                                                  Hébergement

To fit with                                                Sortir (à l’écran)

2° Read the text and introduce it (title, author, date, source).

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Fyre Festival: Inside the world's biggest festival flop

By Michael Baggs Newsbeat reporter

• 18 January 2019

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Fyre Festival was the most talked about festival experience of 2017, but not because anyone had any fun there.

Advertised by famous faces including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin, it was billed as a glamorous party on a deserted island.

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Furthermore, the island was once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar. Blink 182 and Major Lazer were among the headliners.

Tickets cost up to $100,000 (£75,000) and guests who booked were promised luxury accommodation and "the best in food, art, music and adventure" in the Bahamas.

Instead they discovered mattresses on rain-soaked floors, meals of cheese slices on bread and their luggage thrown into an unlit car park.

Fyre Festival is now the subject of two new documentaries, one of which premieres on Netflix on Friday.

Seth Crossno, a blogger and podcaster, and his three friends spent $45,000 (£34,785) on tickets, travel and luxury accommodation.

But when they turned up they found it was still practically a building site.

"There were still workers, pick-up trucks everywhere," he tells Radio 1 News beat.

Seth, who blogs under the name William Needham Finley IV, live-tweeted his experience and his videos have now had millions of views.

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The most famous image from Fyre Festival was of a bad cheese sandwich reportedly served to guests.

While the chaos of the festival was mostly told on Twitter, the Netflix documentary focuses on what went on behind the scenes on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas.

"The organisers had six to eight weeks to pull off something that should have taken close to a year," says Chris Smith, who directed the documentary.

"But what was most surprising to me was going to the Bahamas and seeing the aftermath of what was left behind and the effect on the people there."

Fyre Festival wasn't just a miserable experience for the people who paid to party, it also had a major impact on the local people of the island who helped organisers build the festival.

"They had engaged with so much of the local community to try and pull this off. There were hundreds of day labourers working," says Chris.

"Fyre had such a high profile that I don't think anyone could have assumed that it wouldn't work out."

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