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Billy McFarland announces Fyre Festival II

Billy McFarland announces Fyre Festival II
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Fyre Festival organiser Billy McFarland announces plans to stage a follow-up.

Billy McFarland, organiser of the notorious Fyre Festival, has revealed that a follow-up event is on the way.

In 2017, McFarland and the rapper Ja Rule attempted to stage a luxurious, influencer-heavy music festival in the Bahamas to rival the likes of Coachella and SXSW, with thousands of people from all over the world paying significant sums to attend the event.

In reality, Fyre turned out to be an unmitigated disaster, with festival-goers arriving to discover no acts, an unfinished site and squalid living facilities - a saga depicted in the hugely-popular Netflix film Fyre: The Party That Never Happened.

McFarland, who later served four years in prison for wire fraud charges, announced the resurrection of Fyre this week in a post on Twitter.

He wrote: "Fyre Festival II is finally happening. Tell me why you should be invited."

In response to a user asking "tell me why you shouldn't be in jail", he wrote: "it's in the best interest of those I owe for me to be working. people aren't getting paid back if i sit on the couch and watch tv. and because i served my time."

McFarland has yet to release details of an intended location or provisional dates for the new festival.

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