Music Festivals Don't miss out on the headlines from Music Festivals. Followed categories will be added to My News. It was billed as an exclusive VIP music extravaganza, backed by supermodels Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner.
But within hours of opening, Fyre Festival had became a global laughing stock. And now the organiser of the disastrous event in the Bahamas has announced it is coming back — with top-price tickets costing more than a million dollars. In 2017, thousands of wannabe influencers attending were left starving and stranded, with no running water or electricity, and only soggy mattresses and emergency disaster relief tents for shelter.
The world was hooked as ticketholders — some of whom had paid $A14,000 to be there — shared live updates from the site. And when a picture of one of the sad, plain, cheese sandwiches in a styrofoam box given to attendees went viral, it told you everything you needed to know about the colossal festival failure. Fyre Festival production stills.
Picture: Netflix The interest sparked two documentaries, with Netflix hit Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened detailing how investor Andy King got so desperate, he was willing to offer sex acts in return for the delivery of bottled water to the site. Unbelievably, when creator Billy McFarland was released from prison in 2022 after being jailed for financial crimes related to Fyre, he announced plans to reboot “the most talked-about festival in the world”. The convicted conman.