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 - 3d -
WATCH: Fyre Festival 2 advertises ticket packages for over $1 million
Tickets went on sale Monday for Fyre Festival 2, nearly eight years after the infamous Bahamas festival that led to its founder being convicted of wire fraud.ABC News - 3d -
Fyre Festival 2 Announces Dates, Location, Ticket Prices
Eight years — and one prison sentence — later, Billy McFarland is back with another attempt at the event.The New York Times - 3d -
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 - 1d -
Fyre Festival is still a byword for epic failure
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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 - 4d -
Welcome back Billy McFarland and a new Fyre festival. Shows you can’t keep a good fantasist down
Fresh out of jail, does it matter that his 2017 festival was one of the biggest social-media-driven deceptions of our time? Not a bit. “Since 2016, Fyre has been the most talked about festival in ...The Guardian - 1d -
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