Fyre Fest’s Billy McFarland Says New Festival Already Selling Out Tickets

Calling it a comeback is an understatement, however Fyre Fest founder Billy McFarland is definitely promoting out tickets for a sequel to that notorious flop … and he is telling us how he is pulling it off.

McFarland joined us Tuesday on “TMZ Live,” revealing the primary spherical of FYRE Festival II pre-sale tickets had been scooped up rapidly … and, apparently, Billy thinks all the excitement round his 2017 tropical failure is driving curiosity and curiosity round his second try.

He tells us why the “no publicity is bad publicity” mannequin actually works in his favor. BTW, people who’ve already bought tix, dropped $500 bucks with out understanding the precise location or which artists will carry out!!!

Billy additionally chats with us about how the hell he discovered backers for Fyre Festival II … saying it wasn’t till a Broadway manufacturing firm supported a musical based mostly on the primary Fyre that financiers bought keen on his return to stay occasions.

You’ll recall, Billy teased the brand new competition final October — about 6 months after he served 4 years in jail for wire fraud associated to the OG Fyre Fest catastrophe.

Months after the teaser, Billy reunited with Andy King — the man who famously revealed Billy requested him to present oral intercourse to a customs officer to get shipments of bottled of water — and so they bought grilled cheeses in NYC to lift cash for Bahamas employees who nonetheless have not been paid from Fyre.

Billy says he will not be doing as a lot at subsequent 12 months’s competition, however he is no less than secured one job — cookin’ up these notorious cheese sandwiches with Andy!