By Natalie B. Compton, The Washington Post | The latest chance to get fooled twice just sold out – Want to go to a music festival in the Caribbean? Do you care if there’s any live music, food or shelter when you get there? It’s your lucky day.
Fyre Festival organizer and fraudster Billy McFarland announced a ticket drop on Monday for a sequel festival — yes, that Fyre Festival. The 2017 debacle advertised as an ultra-luxurious “cultural experience of the decade.” But instead customers paid between $1,200 to over $100,000 for disaster-relief tents and cheese sandwiches on the Bahamian island of Exuma. The very event that landed McFarland in federal prison for wire fraud.
After teasing the follow-up festival earlier this year, 100 presale tickets went up for grabs on Aug. 21 for $499 apiece (technically $549.89 after taxes and fees). Tickets will continue to increase incrementally, with the last round selling for $7,999 each. For $1,500 less, you could get four VIP tickets to Coachella with accommodations in a “ready-to-go Lake Eldorado Tent.”
Those 100 tickets have sold out, according to an email from organizers and McFarland’s social media, despite the event having no lineup of artists, exact date or location.
The original festival promised luxury villas, a lineup with Blink-182 and Migos and advertised with models like Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber. But when people got there, they found no Jenner, no Biebers, no Blink-182; just “FEMA tents” and stacks of construction materials.
“It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here,” McFarland — wearing a white bath robe and wireless headphones — said in a video. “And it really all started during the seventh month stint in solitary confinement.”
He continued that during his incarceration at Federal Correctional Institution Elkton in Lisbon, Ohio, he wrote a 50-page plan to parlay “interest and demand in Fyre” into new projects. There was mention of a new Fyre documentary and a Fyre Broadway musical. Now there’s FFII slated for the end of 2024 with “pop-ups and events across the world” to be held in the meantime, McFarland said.
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