Calling it a comeback is a sarcasm, however Fyre Fest founder Billy McFarland is in reality promoting out tickets for a sequel to that notorious flop … and he’s telling us how he’s pulling it off.

McFarland joined us Tuesday on “TMZ Live,” revealing the primary spherical of FYRE Competition II pre-sale tickets had been scooped up temporarily … and, curiously, Billy thinks all of the buzz round his 2017 tropical failure is using interest and passion round his 2nd effort.

He tells us why the “no publicity is bad publicity” fashion truly works in his partiality. BTW, other folks who’ve already bought tix, dropped $500 greenbacks with out figuring out the precise location or which artists will carry out!!!

Billy additionally chats with us about how the hell he discovered backers for Fyre Competition II … pronouncing it wasn’t till a Broadway manufacturing corporate supported a musical in keeping with the primary Fyre that financiers were given taken with his go back to reside occasions.

You’ll recall, Billy teased the new festival endmost October — about 6 months later he served 4 years in prison for twine fraud matching to the OG Fyre Fest crisis.

Months later the teaser, Billy reunited with Andy King — the fellow who famously seen Billy requested him to offer oral intercourse to a customs officer to get shipments of bottled of H2O — and so they sold grilled cheeses in NYC to lift cash for Bahamas employees who nonetheless haven’t been paid from Fyre.

Billy says he received’t be doing as a lot at nearest pace’s competition, however he’s a minimum of join one activity — cookin’ up the ones notorious cheese sandwiches with Andy!