• Billy McFarland hosted the PHNX 2025 festival over the weekend. • McFarland aimed to redeem himself with excursions and a bathroom barge after the failed Fyre Festival. • Viral food photos and a modest turnout marked the event, but no major disasters occurred.

Billy McFarland is trying to rise from the ashes of Fyre Festival.

His latest event is PHNX — pronounced "Phoenix." It attracted dozens of attendees over the weekend. Like the original Fyre Festival, it was heavily documented by camera crews and social media users.

Since being released from prison in 2022, after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges related to Fyre Festival, McFarland has been planning redemption from the disastrous 2017 festival that left hundreds of attendees stranded, hungry, and thirsty on a Bahamian isl

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