Although the event will take place in two months, the second edition of the Fyre Festival – Festival presented as luxurious, but that had resorted to Fiasco for a cruel lack of organization in 2017, has just been postponed by the organizers.
As the variety of American Media Informa, several ticket holders for this event initially scheduled between May 30 and June 2 in Mexico received a message that indicates their postponement. At the moment, a new date has not been specified.
“The event has been postponed and a new date will be announced. We have reimbursed. Once the new date has been confirmed, you can buy your ticket if it corresponds to your schedule,” you can read in the message received by those attending the festival.
Fiasco of the first edition
This postponement resonates with the failure that the first edition of the fyre festival had met in 2017. Sold as a “Luxury Music Festival”, With Prices Varying Between 1000 and 11,000 euros In Bahamas By Billy McFarland, Ceo of the Company Fyre Media Inc. and the rapper ja rule, drama and turned out to scam.
Wishing to organize the festival in a time too limited, Billy McFarland and Ja Rule had been released by almost all their sponsors and partners. All the announced artists had canceled their arrival. However, the two men had decided to maintain the event.
Result, on the day of the day, those attending the festival that had passed thousands of euros to come, finally faced barely mounted tents, meals presented as gourmets formed by a piece of cheese and two slices of bread, flights, covers due to the storm … and, of course, in any concert. A fiasco that had been subject to a Netflix documentary called Fyre: The best festival that never took place Released in 2018.
Since then, Billy McFarland has been arrested for “electronic fraud” in 2018 and sentenced to six years in prison as well as a fine of 26 million euros to reimburse the investors of the event. Benefiting from early liberation, the businessman finally left prison in March 2022.
If you recognized, during an interview in the program Good morning AmericaHaving “wrong” to keep the Fyre festival in view of the conditions, the businessman, however, announced in April 2023 the possession of a second edition of his event, for which the places were sold very quickly for a minimum price of $ 1,400.
Source: BFM TV
