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Tickets for Fyre Pageant 2 have gone on sale, regardless of Mexican officers denying they’ve any data of the occasion and saying no permits have been issued.
The pageant’s official web site claims the occasion “might be held at Playa FYRE on Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico.”
Nonetheless, printed coordinates on the identical website level to a location within the sea a ways off the coast of Isla Mujeres.
Tickets are on sale in varied classes, with normal entry tickets beginning at $1,400 every and varied ranges of VIP entry rising to $25,000 per ticket.
The unique Fyre Pageant, in The Bahamas in 2017, was marketed because the “cultural expertise of the last decade” and promised attendees the possibility to rub shoulders with celebrities whereas staying in luxurious lodging.
Nonetheless, upon arrival, concertgoers — who had paid between $1,000 and $12,000 to attend — have been met with “whole disorganization and chaos,” courtroom filings described.
As a substitute of luxurious lodging, there have been catastrophe reduction tents and sodden mattresses, cheese sandwiches served in Styrofoam containers and no large headliners. The ill-fated occasion was subsequently the topic of two documentaries.
Pageant organizer Billy McFarland, 33, served a four-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud related to the disastrous 2017 event.
He has called Fyre Festival 2 his chance to “take over the festival industry.”
“FYRE 2 is real. My dream is finally becoming a reality,” he told Today in a recent interview. “FYRE 2 really isn’t about the past, and it’s not really about me. It’s about taking the vision, which is strong.”
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Nonetheless, the native authorities of Isla Mujeres launched a press release on Wednesday final week saying, “No individual or firm has requested permits from this workplace or every other municipal authorities division for stated occasion.”
“We have now no data of this occasion, nor contact with any individual or firm about it,” Edgar Gasca, from the tourism directorate of Isla Mujeres, instructed The Guardian.
“For us, that is an occasion that doesn’t exist.”
He added: “This pageant isn’t going to occur. There are pink flags in every single place.”
The Impartial has approached the producers of Fyre Pageant 2 for a response.
Whereas a line-up of artists acting at Fyre Pageant 2 has but to be introduced, McFarland instructed As we speak: “We’re going to have artists throughout digital, hip hop, pop and rock. Nonetheless, it’s not simply music. We’d have knowledgeable skateboarder do an indication. We’d have an MMA champion educate you methods within the morning.”
Requested if he thought A-list performers would signal on, he stated: “I actually hope so, and I anticipate so from our conversations.”
