Wireless Festival | |
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Genre | Hip hop |
Dates |
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Location(s) | 2005–2012: Hyde Park, London 2006–07: Harewood House, Leeds 2013: Olympic Park, London 2014: Perry Park, Birmingham 2014–2019: Finsbury Park, London 2021: Crystal Palace Park, London 2022: Crystal Palace Park; Finsbury Park; NEC, Birmingham 2023: Finsbury Park, London |
Years active | 2005–present |
Founders | Live Nation Entertainment |
Next event | 12–14 July 2024 |
Capacity | 50,000 |
Organised by | Live Nation & Festival Republic |
Sponsor | Rockstar Energy (Official Partner) |
Website | www |
Wireless Festival is an annual rap and hip-hop music festival that takes place in London, England. It is owned and managed by Live Nation. While it started as primarily a rock and pop festival, since the early 2010s, it has focused on hip-hop and other genres of music.[1][2]
From its inception in 2005 until 2008, the festival was sponsored by telecommunications company O2, and was called the O2 Wireless Festival. From 2009 to 2012, the main sponsor was Barclaycard and the festival renamed to Barclaycard Wireless Festival. For 2013, the sponsor changed to Yahoo!, and was renamed to Yahoo! Wireless. In 2015, the sponsor became the fashion retailer New Look. Sponsorship then changed to delivery company Gopuff in 2021, and has remained the same for the 2022 and 2023 editions of the festival.[3] Sponsorship again changed in 2024 to be partnered with PepsiCo's Rockstar energy.[4]
The capacity of the 2023 event is 49,999.[5] Adjacent festivals were held in Leeds in 2006 and 2007, as well as Birmingham in 2014. In 2017, Live Nation also established Wireless Germany, in Frankfurt, as well as Wireless Middle East in Abu Dhabi.[6]
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