Photo: Billy McFarland | By Suzanne Moore, The Guardian | It was the festival disaster that gripped the world. A modern-day Lord of the Flies with Instagram influencers instead of schoolchildren. The event in 2017 was axed over inadequate accommodations, food and water – and landed its do-founder in jail for fraud.
But the return of the infamous Fyre festival is still on, its organizer has announced, but it remains uncertain when or where it is – or who may be performing is still not known a year on.
Plans to reboot the ill-fated getaway were announced last summer but it was feared history might have been repeating itself when no updates were issued.
But the event’s co-founder, Billy McFarland, has insisted it is still happening. And tickets have already been sold, with prices starting at $499 (£379) and rising to $7,999 (£6,077).
“Fyre II has to work,” McFarland told the Wall Street Journal.
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Photo: Billy McFarland