Billy McFarland announces return of Fyre Festival, tickets on sale now

nypost.com:

video posted to YouTube on Sunday that Fyre Festival II is officially a go.“This is a big day. It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement,” the convicted con artist said in the video.“I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it would take this overall interest and demand in Fyre and how it would take my ability bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen.”McFarland, 31, said he worked with the “best partners in the world” who have allowed “me to be me, while executing Fyre’s vision to the highest level.”In deciding where the big comeback should take place, he allegedly spoke to people “as far away as the Middle East and South America” before ultimately deciding on the Caribbean — again.“In the meantime, we’ll be doing pop-ups and events across the world.

Guys, this is your chance to get in. This is everything I’ve been working towards. Let’s f–king go,” he concluded.The event will take place at the end of 2024, though there are no other concrete details about the event on the website.

Specific dates, location and festival lineup have not been shared, and the only VIP perks described are vague, such as “FYRE Pop-Ups,” “The FYRE Crew Community” and “FYRE Experiences,” which include “FYRE Fights,” documentary and film screenings and weekend trips.Tickets are currently on sale, and for somewhere between $499 to $7,999, you too can have the opportunity to be “hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood winked, and led astray,” just like Ja Rule, with whom McFarland launched the original Fyre Festival.Back in 2017, Fyre Festival was promoted as a luxury music festival in the Bahamas, which was promoted by influencers and.