This year, for the first time, the Wireless festival will take place in two cities, so music fans in Birmingham will get the chance to see headliners Kanye West, Drake and Bruno Mars, with Outkast also on the bill from 4-6 July.
Wireless took place at Hyde Park in central London until last year, when it was moved to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. For its 10th anniversary this year, the London leg goes to Finsbury Park in the north of the city, with the Birmingham event taking place in Perry Park.
Though Hyde Park events in 2012 had been dogged by poor weather and sound, which helped cause promoter Live Nation to take its events away from the royal park complaining about a "flawed" tender process, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park didn't prove to be an unqualified success either. Complaints were made about the bleakness of the site. The Guardian's reviewer at last year's Wireless wrote: "Compared to Wireless's old home of Hyde Park this partially astroturfed gravel car park, exposed to an unforgiving sun, is like Coachella designed by an angry JG Ballard."
Finsbury Park was for many years the home the Fleadh festival of Irish and Irish-influenced music, and also hosts standalone shows – the Stone Roses headlined two gigs there last summer. Perry Park, too, has hosted gigs, including a Radio 1 Big Weekend in 2004, though it doesn't have the long record of shows that Finsbury Park has.
The acts confirmed for Wireless so far are:
4 July (London), 6 July (Birmingham)
Kanye West
Pharrell Williams
Basement Jaxx
Iggy Azalea
Ella Eyre
Angel Haze
5 July (London), 4 July (Birmingham)
Drake
Rudimental
Wiz Khalifa
Azealia Banks
Chance the Rapper
Earl Sweatshirt
A$AP Ferg
6 July (London), 5 July (Birmingham)
Bruno Mars
Outkast
Ellie Goulding
John Newman
Clean Bandit
Salt N Pepa
