Wireless Festival

Wireless Festival
Main stage of the 2008 Wireless Festival
GenreHip hop
Dates
  • 12–14 July 2024
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 active2005–present
FoundersLive Nation Entertainment
Next event12–14 July 2024
Capacity50,000
Organised byLive Nation & Festival Republic
SponsorRockstar Energy (Official Partner)
Websitewww.wirelessfestival.co.uk

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]

  1. ^ Time, The UK (30 May 2022). "Wireless Festival 2022 Lineup, Tickets, Date, Location, and Much More". The UK Time. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  2. ^ Rice, Sam (4 July 2022). "Wireless Festival London review: Local artists created magic onstage". Evening Standard. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  3. ^ Orpen, Tim (10 July 2022). "GOPUFF DELIVERS WIRELESS". EXECUTIONAL. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Wireless Festival 2019". eFestivals. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
  6. ^ Chapple, Jon (4 December 2018). "Wireless to return to Germany in 2019". iq-mag.net. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

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