Fyre Festival relaunches with tickets selling for over £6,000

The fraudulent festival made headlines back in 2017

Since its initial failure in 2017, the festival has been rumoured to make a return with nothing official confirmed until today.

The idea behind the event was to bring a luxury element to festivals, reflected in the high ticket prices and its destination on a topical Caribbean island.

However, things turned sour when the festival was cancelled, leaving many people, mostly influencers, stranded on an island in the Atlantic with a lack of food and water.

In 2018, organiser Billy McFarland pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud to defraud investors and ticket holders, and a second count to defraud a ticket vendor.

Now McFarland has relaunched the festival and, although much is still uncertain about the event, tickets have already been sold.

With prices starting at £379 and increasing up to £6,077 it's certainly a bold investment.

McFarland still expects to have music and acts for Fyre II.

The organiser told the Wall Street Journal: "Fyre II has to work."

Thinking about diversifying the attractions he said: “Karate combat on the beach, I think that would be amazing.

"Having some extreme sports, having some comedy and some fashion.”

Potential locations that have been considered include Honduras, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Panama.

McFarland suggested people would be “hard-pressed” to put their trust in him if the resurrected festival failed.

“It’s going to be very hard to get other opportunities, whether that’s a marketing job, a podcast appearance, a TV show or a relationship,” he said.

The first Fyre Festival was compared the The Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies in a lawsuit.

Along with McFarland, rapper Ja Rule aided in setting up the event, who was cleared of wrongdoing.

The original was slated to take place in Exuma, the Bahamas, in 2017.