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Fyre Festival, a new luxury festival whose first weekend was scheduled to kick off last night in the Bahamas, is in disarray, the BBC reports. Reports of trouble at the fest, for which weekend ticket prices ranged from $1,000 to $12,000, began to emerge yesterday, as the first ticket-holders arrived at an apparently unfinished campsite. That evening, Blink-182 cancelled, citing doubts that they could give “the quality of performances we always give fans.” The festival hit another snag when planes scheduled to depart Miami for the festival were grounded, with some would-be attendees live-streaming as they were made to disembark. (Airline representatives told passengers the island was over capacity, according to Billboard.) Multiple festival-goers already on the island reported underwhelming conditions, including unstable accommodation, haphazard luggage distribution, “luxury tents” recognizable from disaster relief efforts, and more. Attempts to leave the island, too, were apparently hindered.