{"id":355896,"date":"2026-03-30T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355896\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:05:07","slug":"kanye-west-announces-first-uk-gigs-in-a-decade-to-headline-all-three-nights-of-wireless-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355896\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West announces first UK gigs in a decade to headline all three nights of Wireless 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye West<\/a> has announced his first UK gigs in a decade today (March 30) \u2013 headlining all three nights of Wireless<\/a> 2026 \u2013 check out all details below.<\/p>\n

Ye will headline the three nights of the 2026 edition of the festival, which takes place between 10-12 July at London\u2019s Finsbury Park. It marks his first UK performance in a decade years \u2013 and his first London festival headline set since he topped the bill at Wireless in 2014.<\/a> He last played a guest-packed show \u2013 featuring the likes of Skepta<\/a>, JME<\/a>, Vic Mensa<\/a> and Raekwon<\/a> \u2013 during a surprise gig at London\u2019s Koko in 2015.<\/p>\n

The gigs at Wireless are being described as \u201ca three-night journey through Ye\u2019s most iconic records.\u201d<\/p>\n

A statement added: \u201cFrom \u2018The College Dropout\u2019, to \u2018Graduation\u2019, to \u2018Late Registration\u2019, to \u2018My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy\u2019 and \u2018The Life of Pablo\u2019, Ye has created albums that have pushed boundaries and redefined hip hop \u2013 in doing so, he established a new sonic blueprint and cemented an enduring, undeniable legacy on the culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cFresh from releasing his new album \u2018Bully\u2019, Ye\u2019s UK comeback will be an extraordinary chapter in Wireless\u2019 story.\u201d<\/p>\n

More acts are set to be announced for the line-up. There is a 48 hour PayPal presale which begins on March 31 at 12pm BST. Fans can get also tickets in the main pre-sale which begins on April 7 at 12pm BST while the general sale follows on April 8 at 12pm BST. You can get tickets for the shows here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It comes just days after Ye premiered his 12th studio album with a YouTube livestream on Friday (March 27) and later made it\u00a0available to listen to on most major streaming platforms<\/a>, including Spotify and Apple Music.<\/p>\n

Ye has also\u00a0announced an album launch show in Los Angeles, set for April 3,<\/a> and confirmed more European dates for this year, marking his first headline dates on the continent in 12 years.<\/p>\n

Alongside the album, the rapper shared the music video for \u2018Father\u2019, the track that features a verse from Travis Scott<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Announcing the track list last week, Ye said there was no AI used in its creation<\/a>, contradicting what he had said last year when he claimed that he had incorporated the technology into his writing process in \u201cthe same way I incorporated Auto-Tune\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018BULLY\u2019 was first announced by West two years ago<\/a>, and has seen a number of expected release dates come and go. Last June, he previewed it with the singles \u2018Preacher Man\u2019,\u00a0\u2018Beauty\u00a0And\u00a0The\u00a0Beast\u2019,\u00a0\u2018Damn\u2019 and \u2018Last Breath\u2019.<\/p>\n

Since the album\u2019s release, Ye\u2019s collaborator James Blake<\/a> has asked to be taken off the producer credits, saying the final result is \u201cnot what I created\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ye shared\u00a0numerous highly controversial posts in early 2025<\/a>, when he\u00a0took back an apology to the Jewish community for his previous anti-semitic remarks<\/a>, and declared himself \u201ca Nazi\u201d.\u00a0He later\u00a0said on X\/Twitter that, \u201cafter further reflection\u201d, he\u2019d \u201ccome to the realisation that I\u2019m not a Nazi\u201d<\/a>. But this was followed\u00a0only a few days later by yet more swastika apparel appearing on his X page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last November,\u00a0West held a meeting with a rabbi and apologised for his anti-Semitic comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, in January, Ye claimed that\u00a0his recent apology for his past anti-Semitic comments <\/a>was\u00a0not about his forthcoming new album or an attempt to \u201crevive\u201d his career<\/a>. He also shared details of\u00a0his bipolar type-1 diagnosis<\/a>, which\u00a0he\u2019d dismissed early last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanye West has announced his first UK gigs in a decade today (March 30) \u2013 headlining all three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,29005,157,111,139,69,4917],"class_list":{"0":"post-355896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-live-music-news","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-rap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}