Fyre Festival 2 postponed just weeks before it was due to go ahead
Fyre Festival 2 has been postponed, just weeks before it was apparently due to go ahead in Playa del Carmen, a resort town in the south of Mexico.
According to ABC News, ticketholders were told yesterday, April 16, that the reboot edition of the disastrous 2017 festival will not go ahead, and has been postponed to a later date.
It comes just a few short weeks after organiser and convicted felon Billy McFarland shared a chain of emails in an attempt to prove that Fyre Festival 2 is “real”.
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“The event has been postponed and a new date will be announced,” the message to ticketholders read (per ABC). “We have issued you a refund. Once the new date is announced, at that time, you can repurchase if it works for your schedule.”
Like its debut edition, Fyre Festival 2 has already run into a slew of issues. Originally proposed to go ahead on the Mexican island of Isla Mujeres from May 30 – June 2, the festival was later moved to Playa del Carmen in south Mexico after local tourism officials said they had “no knowledge” of the event.
Last month, tourism officials for Playa del Carmen also denied knowledge of the festival taking place locally, explaining: “There is no registration or planning [of Fyre Festival 2] in the municipality.”
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Tickets for the festival went on sale in February, with some priced at an eye-watering $1.1 million. Others cost anywhere in the region of $1,400 to $25,000.
Before the festival’s “real” second edition was due to go ahead next month, an artist who was offered to perform at the event, DJ Donna Francesca, told ABC‘s Good Morning America that she was met with surprise after asking questions about the festival.
“He seemed surprised to hear so many questions from me. He told me that none of the other artists have been giving him any pushback,” she said. “I don’t think it’s going to be anything interesting and that would be a waste of my time”.
[Via ABC News]
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