Ongoing History Daily: Witchcraft and the Fyre Festival

We’re still talking about the disaster that was the Fyre Festival earlier this year. Billy McFarland, the organizer, was arrested and charged with wire fraud. There are over a dozen lawsuits. People are calling it the biggest music scam in years.

If you know anything about the history of the event, blink-182 was contracted to play Fyre, but correctly sensing that the whole thing was going to be a catastrophe, they pulled out a few days before things were supposed to begin. Then Matt Skiba, who was still replacing Tom DeLonge at the time, went to work. I quote: “I had a bad feeling about that event,” he said. “I consider myself a pagan and a witch. With every inch of my energy, I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.”

In case you’re wondering, there was never any legal action taken against him.