{"id":531900,"date":"2026-04-15T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:09:08","slug":"kanye-west-postpones-france-gig-until-further-notice-following-uk-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/531900\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West postpones France gig until further notice following UK ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

West was due to play Wireless in London and the Marseille concert as part of a European tour scheduled for this summer.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday, West’s official website still had him listed to perform in several other European countries throughout May, June and July, including Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal. <\/p>\n

West, 48, is also scheduled to play in New Delhi, India, in late May.<\/p>\n

It was reported last week that Bart van den Brink, the Dutch asylum and migration minister, said there were no plans there to bar the rapper.<\/p>\n

In France, AFP reported that Nunez was exploring “all possibilities” to prohibit West from performing – but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n

On the day Wireless was cancelled<\/a>, the Home Office told the BBC the rapper had made an application on Monday to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA).<\/p>\n

Visitors to the UK need an ETA if they do not need a visa for short stays of up to six months, or do not already have a UK immigration status.<\/p>\n

The government said the decision to refuse permission was made on the grounds that West’s presence would not be conducive to the public good.<\/p>\n

In 2022, he posted on social media saying he would go “death con 3 On Jewish people”.<\/p>\n

Later the same year, he appeared on a podcast hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and said: “I see good things about Hitler.”<\/p>\n

In May 2025, West released a song called Heil Hitler and sold T-shirts featuring swastikas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West was due to play Wireless in London and the Marseille concert as part of a European tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-531900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}