Tickets for a second Fyre Festival have gone on sale

The organiser of a doomed music event that was featured on Netflix is attempting to bring it back. Fyre Festival is getting a reboot and tickets for the second attempt are being sold for 499 US dollars (about £391).

The original festival, organised by Billy McFarland, was scheduled to take place in the Bahamas in 2017 but caused more than 26 million dollars (£20 million) in losses when it was cancelled for inadequate accommodation, food and water. The festival was promoted with the help of influencers like Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid as a luxury event where guests were promised opulent accommodation and deluxe food, with tickets costing tens of thousands of dollars.

But when ticket holders arrived they were met with a rain-sodden campsite and emergency tents used for disaster relief, while their luggage was thrown into a dark car park and what was supposed to be gourmet food turned out to be cheese sandwiches in takeaway containers. Many businesses involved in the event were not paid, with one restaurant owner telling Netflix documentary FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened in 2019 that she lost thousands catering for the festival.

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McFarland was jailed after pleading guilty to fraud in 2018. After being released last year, he is planning a second incarnation – which he devised during a stint in solitary confinement – of the doomed venture.

He offered no details but said he considered holding the festival in the Middle East or South America but ultimately decided to bring the event “back to the Caribbean”, saying: “We are targeting Fyre Festival 2 for the end of next year.” In a video on TikTok and