Via YouTubeLife & Culture / NewsLife & Culture / NewsAndy King is hosting a virtual EDM festival for Fyre’s anniversaryOnce willing to suck dick for water, the event producer is once again saving everyone’s asses – this time from boredomShareLink copied ✔️April 23, 2020April 23, 2020TextBrit Dawson Andy King is unquestionably the King of Fyre Festival. Having emerged as a hero (and meme) following the revelation that he almost sucked dick to get water shipped to the island during the disastrous 2017 event, the event producer is now honouring Fyre’s three-year anniversary with his own festival: a virtual EDM one. King will host the Room Service Music Festival, which takes place on the Trap Nation and Chill Nation YouTube channels this weekend (April 24-26). Artists featured on the line-up include Yungblud, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Chromeo, Lido, and more. “I’m beyond thrilled to host Room Service this weekend and bring everybody some well-deserved joy and distraction,” King said in a press release. “This festival gives us a chance to translate the anniversary of Fyre into some real good that’s needed in the world right now.” All proceeds from the virtual festival will go to non-profits Feeding America and Sweet Relief, which are providing support during the coronavirus pandemic. This year marks the third anniversary of the doomed Fyre Festival, which quickly descended into Lord of the Flies. Organised by Ja Rule and Billy McFarland – who’s now in prison – it was pegged as a boutique event, and was promoted by the likes of Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski. Attendees – who paid between $4,000 and $12,000 for their tickets – were greeted at the festival by half-built tents, rubbish heaps, and “feral dogs”, while their “luxury box meals” were actually rank-looking cheese sandwiches. In 2019, two documentaries about the festival dropped, most famously Netflix’s FYRE, in which King became a human meme. Earlier this year, the event producer turned his viral fame into an Evian sponsorship, in which he promoted a bottle emblazoned with the slogan: “So good you’d do anything for it.” Genius. Watch the festival trailer below. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREIs it finally time to boycott ChatGPT?Can cake solve your quarter-life crisis? This Brooklyn chef thinks so FILAFrom track to concrete: Fila reimagines sportswear in the city for AW26Buy Dazed Magazine‘It’s super claustrophobic’: Would you live in a micro-apartment?The rise of EsDeeKid in 5 tracksThis doc follows 6 Palestinian comics risking their lives on tourFigure skater Laine Dubin wants you to go outside and get a hobbySay hàlo to the young Scots behind the Gaelic revival9 books to read if you loved Wuthering Heights (the novel, not the film)The fight against the Palestine Action ban isn’t overWhy is the US government coming for young climate activists?Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy