Fyre Fest II Is Happening, Convicted Fraudster Billy McFarland Says

Despite the information that the archetypal 1 ended with cosmopolitan mockery and outrage, a monsoon of lawsuits, and its progenitor getting thrown successful prison, it would look that different Fyre Festival is happening. Billy McFarland, the aforementioned creator of the world’s worst “music festival,” precocious told the Wall Street Journal that he’s acceptable for different go-round.

In a lengthy profile, McFarland said that the festival is perfectly happening again. In fact, helium claims immoderate radical person already bought tickets. As aboriginal arsenic past year, the disgraced “event organizer” was talking astir how helium wanted to signifier a sequel to his 2017 debacle, and tickets for the caller fest went connected merchantability past summer. Now it would look McFarland is opening to much aggressively beforehand the event.

Promisingly, portion McFarland says Fest II is “definitely” happening, helium hasn’t been capable to explicate how, when, where, oregon who volition beryllium there. I conjecture that’s yet a measurement up from the past time, erstwhile helium promised ticket-buyers the accidental to hobnob with celebrities and models connected a paradisiacal beach, lone to present them into a concern that was somewhat elevated supra a exile camp.

If you’ll recall, successful 2017, McFarland told event-goers that they would beryllium headed to an exclusive beach-side edifice successful the Bahamas, wherever they’d beryllium capable to enactment their asses disconnected and bask luxurious catered nutrient and service. When they arrived, carted to the country by cramped buses, they recovered an lawsuit abstraction that was a tattered messiness and were served plain food sandwiches successful styrofoam containers. Ticket-holders yet revolted and the lawsuit descended into Thunderdome-style chaos. Then everybody sued McFarland. He was yet sentenced to six years successful prison for having defrauded Fyre investors of immoderate $26 million.

The meal that @fyrefestival promised america was catered by Steven Starr is virtually bread, cheese, and crockery with dressing. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd

— Tr3vor (@tr3vorx) April 28, 2017

Now, for immoderate reason, McFarland wants to bash it each again, though helium won’t uncover overmuch astir his plans. “I don’t privation the negativity that I bring to termination thing earlier it’s ready,” helium told the Journal erstwhile asked astir investors. “I deliberation erstwhile they’re acceptable to uncover themselves and travel retired with selling oregon dates oregon location, each the cardinal information, they’re consenting to instrumentality that heat. I conscionable don’t privation to prematurely propulsion thing retired there.”

It sounds similar McFarland won’t truly beryllium successful complaint of readying this Fyre Fest—a determination I deliberation we tin each hold is simply a bully one. He told the Journal that, alternatively of him being successful charge, a accumulation institution that has purchased a 51 percent involvement successful Fyre Media (the festival’s genitor company) volition instrumentality attraction of the festival’s finances and operations, portion a endowment bureau and festival relation assist. McFarland himself volition enactment connected “marketing and promotional events.” In different words, having realized that he’s nary bully astatine management, McFarland is fundamentally acting arsenic the promoter for an lawsuit that volition beryllium tally by different people.

It’s hard to spot however a Fyre Fest II could beryllium immoderate worse than the archetypal one, though you ne'er know. You tin benignant of ideate a script successful which the organizers intentionally signifier a atrocious lawsuit and event-goers spell conscionable to revel successful the expected debauchery of it all. You tin besides benignant of ideate a script successful which, having learned their lessons from the past one, organizers enactment connected a precise mean lawsuit and event-goers amusement up and find themselves bored. Which is preferable? Honestly, I’m not sure. Probably champion to conscionable debar it entirely.