Fyre Festival 2 delayed – yep, again. Just when you thought Billy McFarland had it figured out this time, ticket holders were hit with a surprise message on April 16 saying the festival is delayed and there’s no new date or location yet. Tickets for the 2025 event had been on sale since February, starting at a steep $1,400, and the fest was originally supposed to happen in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, from May 30 to June 2.
But in true Fyre Festival fashion, things started falling apart weeks ago. First, Isla Mujeres denied any knowledge of the event. Then McFarland shifted the location to Playa del Carmen-only for the city to also shut it down, saying they never approved it. That was confirmed in a press release, according to Rolling Stone. Still, McFarland insisted in an April 4 Instagram post that he and his team had been working with local authorities and shared what he claimed were permits and receipts.
Fast forward to April 16, when ticket holders got an email saying the event was postponed and they’d be refunded. “Once the new date is announced, you can repurchase if it works for your schedule,” the message read, according to ABC News. Another version of the message via NBC News tried to spin it more optimistically: “Fyre Festival 2 is still on. We are vetting new locations and will announce our host destination soon.”
The Fyre Festival Instagram account, by the way, didn’t mention the delay at all. Instead, it was busy promoting merch like a “Fyre 2 is Real” sweatshirt. Because nothing says credibility like selling sweatshirts when your festival just got canceled again.
This whole thing brings back major déjà vu from the original Fyre Festival disaster in 2017. Promised as a luxury event in the Bahamas with acts like Blink-182 and Migos, guests instead arrived to disaster-relief tents, no food, and no shows. The fallout led to two documentaries-Netflix’s FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Hulu’s Fyre Fraud-and McFarland serving four years in prison for wire fraud.
He got out in 2022 and announced in 2023 that he was ready to try again. “I’d be crazy not to do it again,” he said at the time. Now, a year later, Fyre Festival 2 seems to be falling into the same chaos all over again.
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