Fyre Festival’s return has been confirmed by founder Billy McFarland – see what he had to say for the 2025 event below.
The infamously botched Fyre Festival seems to be moving forward for a second round according to disgraced founder McFarland, who has claimed in a new interview with NBC News that it is locked in to return in April 2025.
According to McFarland, Fyre Festival 2 “is happening April 25, 2025, so we’re seven and a half months away. We have a private island off the coast of Mexico in the Caribbean, and we have an incredible production company who’s handling everything from soup to nuts.”
Billy McFarland did not name the island where the festival is said to be taking place, but noted that his team is “developing and building out the private island for the actual festival festivities.” He also claims to have hired a festival production company to “handle the stages and the bathrooms and all the stuff that I clearly don’t know how to do.”
As for the musical acts set to play at Fyre Festival 2, no talent has been booked yet, per McFarland. The original Fyre Festival in 2017 was reportedly set to include performances from Blink-182, Major Lazer, Disclosure, Migos, Pusha T, Tyga and more.
McFarland also told NBC News‘ Today that music won’t be the core focus of Fyre Festival 2. It will also include other forms of “entertainment”: “It’s not going to be just music — for example, karate combat. We’re in talks with them to set up a pit to have, like, live fights at Fyre Festival 2.”
Another focus of the 2025 festival will be off-island experiences: “It’s not about 10,000 people staring at a stage with their hands in the air. It’s about getting on a plane with six people — two might be your friends, three might be people you met that morning — and going and exploring an island or a beach or a reef that you didn’t even know existed until you got in the airplane.”
For Fyre Festival 2, McFarland hopes to draw in 3,000 people for the three-day eventTicket prices will range from USD$1,400 on the low end to $1.1million for the most expensive festival package, which will reportedly include luxury yachts, scuba diving and island hopping.
In August last year, pre-sale tickets to Fyre Festival 2 sold out despite the fact that the festival has no line-up, venue, or dates fixed for the event.
First developed by McFarland seven years ago, the botched festival Fyre Fest was originally set to run over two weekends on a private beach in the Bahamas but was revealed to be fraudulent once punters arrived on the scene, with inadequate conditions and a lack of food and water. The debacle was then captured in the now-iconic Netflix documentary FYRE.
McFarland was released from prison in 2022 after he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud.