Tickets to Fyre Pageant 2 – the second model of the disgraced music pageant – are actually on sale to the general public.
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First developed by Billy McFarland six years in the past, the botched pageant Fyre Fest was initially set to run over two weekends on a personal seaside within the Bahamas however was revealed to be fraudulent as soon as punters arrived on the scene, with insufficient situations and a scarcity of meals and water. The debacle was then captured in the now-iconic Netflix documentary FYRE.
The pageant’s creator was launched from jail in 2022 after he pleaded responsible to a number of counts of fraud and has taken to TikTok to share his plans for the revamped Fyre Fest. At the moment, the pageant has no lineup, no venue or dates lined up for the fest.
Although nothing is ready simply but, McFarland has mentioned that the pageant can be going down in “the Caribbean” and that his unnamed companions are “focusing on Fyre Pageant 2 for the top of subsequent 12 months.”
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In a video posted to his official TikTok account, McFarland shared: “It has been absolutely the wildest journey to get right here, and it actually all began throughout the seven-month stint in solitary confinement. I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it might take this total curiosity and demand in Fyre, and the way it might take my potential to deliver folks from all over the world collectively and make the unimaginable occur, how I’d discover one of the best companions on the earth to permit me to be me whereas executing Fyre’s imaginative and prescient to the best stage…”
He added: “Within the meantime, we’ll be doing pop-ups and occasions internationally. Guys, that is your probability to get in. That is every thing I’ve been working in the direction of. Let’s fucking go.”
McFarland additionally shared that the primary 100 tickets are up on the market. Costs for these tickets are $499 with different tiers which might be “coming quickly” starting from $799 – $7,999. You possibly can go to right here to buy.
In March this 12 months, McFarland laid out his plans to repay the $26million (£20.9million) he owes to traders for the primary disastrous fest. “Right here’s how I’m going to pay it again: I spend half my time filming TV reveals. The opposite half, I deal with what I’m actually, actually good at,” he mentioned on Twitter.
“I’m one of the best at developing with wild artistic, getting expertise collectively, and delivering the second,” he added, concluding his tweet with a quantity at which individuals may contact him with enterprise alternatives.
McFarland beforehand shared he plans on making a Broadway musical.
He made the announcement on TikTok and in an interview with journalist Adam Glyn. “As an alternative of like conventional Broadway actors, it’s going to be present music artists, mixed with the Broadway format of the play — making enjoyable of me, but in addition I feel sharing a number of the good sides as nicely,” he mentioned of the deliberate musical, which he has dubbed Fyre Fest 1.5.
Final 12 months, following his launch from jail, McFarland additionally launched a Bahamas treasure hunt enterprise, known as ‘PYRT’. The occasion was anticipated to be the topic of a not-yet-released documentary titled ‘After The Fyre’.
