It sounds like a bad joke, but Billy McFarland makes you serious: the Fyre Festival returns.
Bad reputation or not: The Fyre Festival should go to the next round. The controversial organizer has announced new details on the second edition of the Fyre Festival, including the date, location and ticket prices.
After the event was originally scheduled from April 25th to 28th, it was now postponed to May 30th to June. According to McFarland, who recently spoke on the US show “Today”, his team needs “another month to prepare everything”. This time the venue is the Mexican island of Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo.
No acts yet, but lots of promises
The biggest open question remains the line-up. McFarland keeps up with names, but promises a varied program with artists from the areas of electrical, hip-hop, pop and rock. But the festival should not only determine music: “Maybe we have a professional skateboarder for a demonstration or an MMA champion that teaches techniques in the morning,” says McFarland.
The tickets cost that
The tickets are already available and range from $ 1,400 for the “Ignite” general access ticket up to $ 25,000 for the “Phoenix” artist access ticket. But the biggest excitement is the “Prometheus” package for a whopping $ 1.1 million, which is supposed to offer eight people access to luxury yachts and an adventure program including diving with McFarland. According to the organizers, the first tickets are already sold out.
Fyre Festival was a historical disaster
A look back: The first Fyre Festival 2017 went into history as one of the largest festival debacle. Instead of luxurious accommodations and world stars, visitors expected semi -finished tents, inedible food and a chaotic organization. What was advertised as a glamorous influencer event on the Bahamas ended as an absolute shit show.
The catastrophe was also developed in detail in the documentaries “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happed” (Netflix) and “Fyre Murd” (Hulu).
Prison sentence due to fraud has already been served
Billy McFarland was convicted of fraud after the first Fyre Festival. In several cases, he announced himself guilty after it turned out that the original Fyre Festival 2017 was a large -scale scam. He had deceived investors and ticket buyers with false promises and had a total of around $ 26 million.
For this he was sentenced to six years in prison. After only four years, however, he was released from custody early in May 2022. Despite his criminal past, he is now trying to get Fyre Festival 2 together – which is more than questionable undertaking for many. However, he claims to have withdrawn from the logistics of the new festival and to work with the Mexican event agency Lostnights. The ticket provider Soldout.com is also involved and promises a 100 percent refund if the festival should be. But it was not unusual the first time-at that time the celebrities and influencers just didn’t get what they had promised themselves under a luxury event.