Drake to headline all three days of Wireless

Wireless Festival has announced that Drake will headline all three nights of this year’s 20th-anniversary event.

The Canadian rapper will perform a different setlist each night of the annual rap and hip-hop music festival, for what will be his first UK performances in six years.

Having first headlined the Finsbury Park event in 2012, Drake has made several special guest appearances at Wireless over the years and holds the title of the audience’s most-requested artist since the festival’s inception.

The Wasserman Music-repped act will make history as the world’s first artist to headline a festival in the same location for three nights, according to organiser Festival Republic. Kanye West delivered three headline sets at Wireless 2014 – two in London and one in Birmingham – after Drake cancelled his Saturday slot due to illness.

The Wasserman Music-repped act will make history as the world’s first artist to headline a festival for three nights

Similarly, for Download’s 20th-anniversary event (also promoted by Festival Republic) Metallica delivered two different headline sets at the four-day event.

Drake is currently in the middle of his first Australia and New Zealand tour in eight years, a 14-date run that will wrap up on 16 March in Auckland.

He will perform at Wireless 2025 on 11,12,13 July at London’s Finsbury Park, with additional sets from Burna Boy, PartyNextDoor, Summer Walker and Vybz Kartel.

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