The Guy Behind Fyre Festival Wants To Organise A Sequel, And Like, Dude
Billy McFarland is back, folks.
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. That is, unless you’re Billy McFarland, the man behind Fyre Festival. In which case, if at first you don’t succeed, maybe try and pick up a new hobby, like crocheting, and dial back on the whole ‘leaving rich people stranded in squalor in the Bahamas’ thing.
Yet McFarland, currently sitting in a prison cell for his hand in the disastrous festival — as well as the equally ill-fated ticket spruiking company he set up while on parole — clearly isn’t one to take his defeats lying down.
As part of a new interview with New York Magazine, conducted via email from the safety of a prison cell, McFarland has revealed that he plans to launch a new iteration of Fyre fest.
“The Festival will not be a one and done event,” he told the reporter. “It’s happening again.”
Talk about putting your best foot forward, hey?
Moreover, Fyre 2.0 isn’t the only step in McFarland’s phoenix rising out of the ashes plan. The 27-year-old is also writing a book, the story of the role he played in Fyre and an attempt to clear his name from the two documentaries about him, both of which he has dismissed as not telling the full story.
A few months ago Fyre Fest’s Billy McFarland reached out to me from prison to edit the book he is handwriting. No thanks. https://t.co/2tw85GAcLI
— Josh Raab (@roshjaab) May 3, 2019
Indeed, McFarland is trying to rush the book out to make room for the next iteration of the festival. “The original story will lose the potential to be told and set the stage if it’s not done before the next events take place,” he stated in the New York Magazine interview.
Of course, it bears keeping in mind that McFarland has a vested interested in keeping his name in the spotlight — the man owes US$26 million in restitution, a sum that he is explicitly stated the sales of the book are designed to help him cover. Once a huckster always a huckster!