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Fyre Festival’s Andy King books UK speaking tour
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 11 March 2020
Cast your mind back to last year’s Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix. What is the first memory of that film to pop into your head? Exactly.
I probably didn’t even need to mention it, you were almost certainly already thinking about the incredible lengths Andy King was willing to go to in order to keep the show on the road. But does he have any more stories as shocking as that one? Well, now you can find out when he brings his spoken word show ‘A Fyre-side Chat’ to the UK next month.
Hired as a producer on the ill-fated event, King revealed in ‘Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened’ that when all the bottled water for the festival was held up at customs, now-jailed boss man Billy McFarland asked him to “suck dick to fix this water problem”.
And the most eye-opening part of that story wasn’t that McFarland would seriously suggest such a thing as a solution to the event’s water problem, but that King set out to meet the customs official who could release the water bottles with every intention of following through with that request.
However, in order to prepare he “went home, took a shower and drank some mouthwash”, by which point the necessary papers had been rubber stamped without any blowjobs given to anyone.
Anyway, should you wish to hear more about that – and King’s other experiences in trying to make Fyre Festival happen – you can listen to him talk about all of it for an hour without anyone interjecting, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. He’ll also discuss how being turned into a meme as a result of that one Fyre story affected his life, and how he’s using his new-found fame to promote sustainability in events.
Mensa Akwasi of promoter Native Talks says: “It’s so great to be able to bring Andy King over to the UK for the first time as part of a national tour. The man became a meme after the incredible Fyre Festival documentary and we hope to bring the entertaining speaker to the masses later this month. It’s also very fitting that the documentary is now one year old and we hope to further expand on Andy’s inside knowledge from the best event that never happened”.
Tickets for the shows are on sale now. Largely being held at universities, the events are also open to the general public. Here are all the dates:
20 Apr: Norwich, The LCR (UEA)
21 Apr: Stoke-on-Trent, Ballroom (Keele SU)
23 Apr: Brighton, Jubilee Lecture Theatre (University Of Sussex)
24 Apr: Glasgow, Vertigo (Strathclyde Union)
24 Apr: Glasgow, Queen Margaret Union
25 Apr: Southampton, The Cube (University Of Southampton)
27 Apr: Birmingham, Debating Hall (Birmingham Guild Of Students)
29 Apr: Sheffield, Foundry (Sheffield SU)
30 Apr: Newcastle, Venue (Newcastle University SU)
30 Apr: Newcastle, The Hub (Teesside SU)
1 May: Edinburgh, The Baron (Edinburgh Corn Exchange)
2 May: London, Cruciform Building (UCL)
