Kanye West to headline all three nights at Wireless Festival in London
London’s Wireless Festival announced Kanye West, now just known as Ye, will headline all three nights of the event at Finsbury Park.
The festival has shared that across July 10th, 11th and 12th, Ye’s three headline slots will span his career and cover his entire discography.
In the press release for the event, they say this will highlight his best work from “The College Dropout, to Graduation, to Late Registration, to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and The Life of Pablo.”
These shows in London’s Finsbury Park are set to be Ye’s first performances in the UK for 11 years. His last major show in the country was his 2015 Glastonbury headline slot.
Soon after, in 2016, he cancelled the entire second half of his tour following an on-stage rant in which the rapper shared his support for Donald Trump.
Since then, Ye’s career has been detailed repeatedly by controversies, delayed albums, and changing plans. His 2021 album Donda was marked by a string of holdups and issues, including the controversy surrounding the inclusion of DaBaby and Marilyn Manson, and the artist publicly feuding with his label at the time.
In 2025, the controversies surrounding Ye hit a fever pitch after the rapper went on another extended rant on social media, sharing anti-semetic rhetoric as he praised Hitler and Nazi ideology, writing on X, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler”.
His brand Yeezy also began selling a t-shirt with a swastika on it with the product line “HH-01”, assumed to be code for ‘Heil Hitler’, which he released a song titled. Soon after, the artist was dropped from his talent agency.
Earlier this year, in January 2026, he placed a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to apologise for his part remarks. He blamed his behaviour on a car accident, writing, “25 years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain.”
He added that this led him to be diagnosed with a brain injury and bipolar, stating, “I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst.”
Still, in February 2026, after announcing a show in the Netherlands to support his latest album, Bully, groups campaigning against antisemitism told Far Out it was “wrong and premature” for West to perform there after his history of antisemitic comments and actions.
A spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism, based in the UK, also told Far Out: “Kanye West has dedicated years of his life to trying to incite his followers to hate Jews. Every now and again, he has apologised, as he did recently, but he keeps reverting to form and spewing hatred again.”
Ye’s appearances at Wireless go on general sale on April 8th, with the festival stating that the shows will be “historic”.
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