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Tue 11 March 2025 10:31, UK
Former NFL star Antonio Brown has revealed he has been booked for a performance at Fyre Festival II, which will take place on Isla Mujeres in Mexico from May 30th, 2025.
Details surrounding Fyre’s second iteration have been kept mostly under wraps recently amid reports that the festival was fake and not going ahead.
Speaking with TMZ Sports, Brown claimed he is performing at the festival on May 30th: “This is AB, and I’ll be performing at Fyre Fest part two in Mexico on May 30. Be there or be square,” he said, before adding: “Make sure you put that shit on.”
Brown is the first performer to be attached to the project, and his announcement follows recent claims by organiser Billy McFarland about its authenticity. The rumours that the festival might not be a genuine planned event began after he appeared on the Today show to discuss his plans.
“We’re going to have artists across electronic, hip-hop, pop, and rock,” he said, adding, “It’s not just music. We might have a professional skateboarder do a demonstration. We might have an MMA champion teach you techniques in the morning.”
Following this interview, Edgar Gasca from the tourism directorate of Isla Mujeres claimed that the event “does not exist”, saying: “We have no knowledge of this event, nor contact with any person or company about it. For us, this is an event that does not exist.”
In response to these claims, McFarland took to social media to set the record straight: Fyre II “is real” and has “incredible partners” who are “in charge of all the logistics, productions, and operations,” he wrote. He also said that the production team “does not F around” and that there is “no way they would ever take on a fake festival.”
McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison on counts of wire fraud in 2018 after the events of the first Fyre Festival, which left hundreds of attendees stranded in difficult conditions with none of the advertised bill turning up to perform. He also later admitted to admitted to defrauding investors of $26 million.
However, McFarland was released from prison a year early, and he immediately got to work on the next iteration of Fyre Festival which he hopes will run far smoother and be more successful than his first attempt.
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