{"id":259136,"date":"2024-09-10T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T11:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/fyre-fest-2-for-1-1-million-you-get-to-scuba-dive-with-founder-billy-mcfarland\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:25","slug":"fyre-fest-2-for-1-1-million-you-get-to-scuba-dive-with-founder-billy-mcfarland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/fyre-fest-2-for-1-1-million-you-get-to-scuba-dive-with-founder-billy-mcfarland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fyre Fest 2: For $1.1 million you get to scuba dive with founder Billy McFarland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Billy McFarland, the convicted fraudster behind 2017\u2019s infamous Fyre Festival, says fans are already snapping up tickets\u2014ranging from $400 to $1.1 million\u2014for the event\u2019s second edition.<\/p>\n

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Despite the original festival\u2019s catastrophic failure, which spawned two documentaries and landed its founder in jail, McFarland has revealed that he hopes to gather 3,000 people for Fyre Fest II.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old disgraced founder revealed yesterday where and when the festival will be taking place across his social media channels\u2014and already, he says<\/a>, over 1,200 people have applied for tickets.<\/p>\n

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10 hours in: 1,208 unique applications for over 5,000 tickets. fyre 2 will only hold 3,000 people<\/p>\n

\u2014 Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) September 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Scheduled to run from April 25 to April 28 next year, Fyre Festival II will take place on a privately owned island off the coast of Mexico\u2014and despite only being seven months away, the festival has not yet booked any artists.<\/p>\n

Still, in an interview with NBC News<\/em>, McFarland insisted that Fyre Festival\u2019s sequel won\u2019t be a repeat of its first act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For starters, this time around, he claimed that he has hired a festival production company to \u201chandle the stages and the bathrooms and all the stuff that I clearly don\u2019t know how to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

McFarland didn\u2019t name the production company, but in a separate interview with the Wall Street Journal, <\/em><\/a>he said that it has bought a 51% stake in the Fyre Festival\u2019s parent company, Fyre Media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Plus, in an interview with The<\/em> Today Show <\/em>he insisted that Fyre Festival II is \u201cnot going to be just music\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, for $1.1 million he said that fans can spend their time scuba diving with him while \u201cbouncing around to other islands\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another activity idea McFarland has for the festival is live fights on the beach. Although he hasn\u2019t booked any entertainers yet, he claimed that he\u2019s in talks with Karate Combat to set this up.<\/p>\n

Fortune<\/em> has contacted McFarland for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The infamous Fyre Festival fiasco<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The original Fyre Festival was pitched as a \u201cluxury musical festival\u201d on Pablo Escobar\u2019s former private island in the Bahamas and was backed by celebrities including Emily Ratajkowski, Kendall Jenner, and Bella Hadid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tickets ranged from $500 to $12,000, and the event promised luxury villas, chef-made meals, and a stellar lineup including Pusha T, Blink-182, Major Lazer, Disclosure, and some 30 other artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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