Fyre Festival 2 tickets go on sale after spectacular flameout in 2017
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Fyre festival 2: tickets go on sale for follow-up to infamous disaster
No musical line-up has been confirmed but tickets to the Mexican sequel are now available with prices up to $1.1m. Tickets to the second Fyre festival have gone on sale this week, promising a more ...The Guardian - 2d -
WATCH: Fyre Festival 2 advertises ticket packages for over $1 million
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Fyre Festival 2 Announces Dates, Location, Ticket Prices
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Alarms raised over legitimacy of Fyre festival 2: ‘An event that does not exist’
Tourism and local officials in Mexico deny any knowledge of proposed follow-up to disastrous 2017 event. When tickets to the second Fyre festival went on sale this week , there was just one ...The Guardian - 2h -
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Fyre Festival revived? Viral botched influencer event sets 'second chance' in Mexico
'Fyre Festival 2 is real,' at least that's what promoter and convicted fraudster Billy McFarland declares. Tickets for the latest iteration of the botched fest go on sale Monday.Los Angeles Times - 3d -
Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down
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