Drake to Headline Wireless Festival for All Three Nights
#image_title

Drake to Headline Wireless Festival for All Three Nights


Share this post

Rapper Drake has been announced as the headliner for all three nights of this year's Wireless festival.

It will be his first UK performance in six years, with the One Dance hitmaker due to play a bespoke set on each night.

Wireless is celebrating 20 years and returns to Finsbury Park, London, between 11 and 13 July.

Other artists confirmed to be playing across the weekend are Burna Boy, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Summer Walker and Vybz Kartel.

Drake has most recently been embroiled in a rap beef with Super Bowl headliner Kendrick Lamar.

The spotlight will again be on the pair, as Kendrick has his own UK tour dates lined up for July, including playing in Birmingham the night before Drake's first performance.

Despite the origins of the feud going back a decade, the past year has seen it ignite again with Kendrick's Not Like Us takedown of Drake winning a Grammy - but also the subject of an ongoing legal case by the Canadian.

Drake first headlined Wireless in 2012, with the festival saying he holds the title "for the audience's most requested artist".

He recently released Some Sexy Songs 4 U, a joint album with fellow Canadian artist PARTYNEXTDOOR who will be performing on the Friday.

The same day will see R&B star Summer Walker on stage, who made waves with her previous performance at Finsbury Park in 2022.

Sunday will see Afrobeats icon Burna Boy making his Wireless debut, with dancehall star Vybz Kartel also performing on that day.

The Jamaican artist was freed from prison last year after having a murder conviction overturned.

Where are the UK acts?

The prospect of three nights of Drake has led to a mixed reaction from fans.

While some are excited to see "history" being made think his back catalogue is deep enough to make each night sound different, others have criticised the lack of UK artists.

"I don't think there needs to be three days," music fan Rehea Shillingford tells BBC Newsbeat, adding she's "not against Drake".

"There's other British artists that could have been headlining," she says, naming the likes of Dave and J Hus who have previously topped the bill.

But she is excited that Vybz Kartel will be performing, and feels he could "have been headlining".

Megaman, from garage and hip-hop collective So Solid Crew, says while Drake is "the biggest artist in the world", it's wrong to announce Wireless "without a UK artist".

"It's a UK brand, so I would always love to see a top UK artist as part of the first run of promo," he told 1Xtra Breakfast's Nadia Jae.

"We have so many big artists in the culture, there's no harm putting any on there."

"We love [Drake] for what he does. But we hope he's on-side and says: 'I have to put a UK act on the lineup'."

The festival has promised more acts for the weekend will be announced later.

Last year saw the likes Nicki Minaj, 21 Savage, J Hus and Doja Cat perform.

About 50,000 rap, R&B and hip-hop fans head to the event each day.

In 2023, Wireless signed a five-year deal with Haringey Council for the festival to be held in Finsbury Park every summer until at least 2027.


Share this post
Comments

Be the first to know

Join our community and get notified about upcoming stories

Subscribing...
You've been subscribed!
Something went wrong
Far‑Right Livestreamer “Chud the Builder” In Custody After Courthouse Shooting

Far‑Right Livestreamer “Chud the Builder” In Custody After Courthouse Shooting

Far‑right livestreamer “Chud the Builder” is in custody following a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse that left two people, including himself, injured. Police have identified him as 28‑year‑old Dalton Eatherly, a Clarksville contractor who built an online presence by filming himself provoking strangers, using racial slurs and often flashing a gun on camera. The confrontation unfolded outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, where an argument between Eatherly and another man


B P

Stephen Jackson Calls Out George Floyd Joke At Kevin Hart Roast: “It Ain’t Funny”

Stephen Jackson Calls Out George Floyd Joke At Kevin Hart Roast: “It Ain’t Funny”

Stephen Jackson has weighed in on the George Floyd joke made during Netflix’s Roast of Kevin Hart, and he’s making it clear there’s nothing funny about it to the people who actually knew Floyd. The joke came from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who said onstage, “The Black community is so proud of you… right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can’t breathe,” a line that repeated language directly tied to Floyd’s murder and immediately sparked backlash from Floyd’s family and


B P

AI Helps Man Recover $400,000 In Bitcoin 11 Years After Changing His Password While High

AI Helps Man Recover $400,000 In Bitcoin 11 Years After Changing His Password While High

A Bitcoin holder has gone viral after explaining how an AI assistant helped him unlock roughly $400,000 worth of crypto he’d effectively written off. Posting under the handle “cprkrn,” he said he changed his wallet password one night in college while he was high, forgot it almost immediately, and then spent the next decade firing every brute‑force tool he could find at the problem with no success. The wallet held 5.25 BTC that were worth a few hundred dollars at the time and have grown to a six‑


B P

Durand Bernarr "Caught" a Fan Sleeping

Durand Bernarr "Caught" a Fan Sleeping

Durand Bernarr has gone viral again — this time for what happens when you try to nap at his show. In a new clip doing the rounds on Instagram and TikTok, he spots a woman in the crowd who looks like she’s dozing off mid‑ballad, then flips from smooth and mellow to full jump scare in one beat. He strides straight over to her row and lets out a sharp shout right in front of her, sending her bolt upright as the rest of the room screams and then cracks up. Once he has her wide awake, Durand keeps i


B P