Fyre Festival 2.0 revelers will catch fish for dinner & there will be cheese sandwiches but no Amazon mattresses
attending were left starving and stranded, with no running water or electricity, and only soggy mattresses and emergency disaster relief tents for shelter.
The convicted conman, who is said to have devised plans for Fyre II during a stint in solitary confinement, posted on social media: “This is everything I’ve been working towards. Let’s f***king go.” Amazingly, he boasted the first round of 100 tickets, priced at £380, were snapped up — even though no acts have yet been confirmed.
The text promised a festival taking place on the “remote and private island” Norman’s Cay, which was “once owned by Pablo Escobar”, the former Colombian drug king.Festival packages peaked with the £312,000 “Artist’s Palace” — offering four beds, eight VIP tickets and dinner with one performer.They found a new site on the nearby, but populated, island of Great Exuma — on a building site awaiting a new development.
Instead of luxury beach huts, they saw white-domed tents of the type used for displaced hurricane victims.They had been told the event would be catered by top restaurateur Stephen Starr, but were instead offered a few cheese sandwiches — with a photo of one going viral.Mick Purzycki, who worked for McFarland, said: “A couple of powerful models posting an orange tile is what essentially built this entire festival.
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