O2 Wireless Festival Hyde Park Event Perform By Jay-Z

O2 Wireless Festival Tickets are tearing up the charts to sit in third position this week. The Hyde Park event is fast approaching and will play host to a rare performance from US superstar Jay Z as well as appearances from The Ting Tings, Lily Allen, Friendly Fires, Gossip, Missy Elliot and Snoop Dogg across the three-day event.

O2 Wireless Festival Tickets are avalable online on GigSport.

P!NK and The Ting Tings for Wireless Festival 2010

Entering its sixth consecutive year next year, Wireless is proud to announce that P!NK will headline on Friday 2 July.

London’s Hyde Park has been home to the capital’s most sensational summer concerts for over four decades and next year’s Wireless is shaping up to be another unmissable highlight.

Joined by special guests The Ting Tings,  Pink will make history as the first female to ever headline a Wireless Festival – following in the footsteps of JAY-Z, White Stripes, Kanye West, Morrissey, Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk along with many others in its five-year history.

Live Nation, promoters of Wireless, today announced ticket details and on sale date.  Friday headliner P!NK and special guests The Ting Tings are the first of many big name artists to be announced to play across the park’s four stages. Further dates and acts will be announced in the coming weeks.

With a record breaking tour under her belt this will be  Pink first ever open-air London show, making this a whole new live experience. She is an artist who has achieved global fame with her special brand of high octane, dazzling performances. She has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide with her current Funhouse Tour already established as one of highest grossing world tours tour of 2009.

P!NK said: “I am so excited to headline Wireless festival. Hyde Park is such a legendary place to play and I feel so honoured that I am going to be the first female to headline the festival. Hyde Park better get ready for the Funhouse!”

Fresh from supporting P!nk on her first US headline tour, festival favourites The Ting Tings will be hitting the Wireless stage on Friday 2 July. The Pop Rock duo are sure to bring an electric performance to Hyde Park having declared their name in music, as the pleasingly popular second single ‘That’s Not My Name’ sold over one million digital copies world wide.

After last years acclaimed line-up with that saw headliners Basement Jaxx and Kayne West performing amazing sets to tens of thousands in Hyde Park, P!NK will be sure to set the bar even higher with her headline appearance.

Following multiple sell outs for past Wireless festivals, Live Nation promoter Steve Homer is looking forward to another groundbreaking year in the heart of London. He commented, “Now in our sixth year and it only gets better and better. Last year’s success was phenomenal and I guarantee that Wireless 2010 will take things to a new level”

Hyde Park is an iconic location for some of the greatest names in musical history such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Roger Waters, The Who, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters and The Police as well as many more.

Wireless 2010 is a phenomenal open-air live music experience in the heart of bustling London. It offers a chance to experience the excitement and watch the best in popular music right on your doorstep; and with more acts and details still to be unveiled, Wireless 2010 is set to be the big event on the summer’s musical calendar.

O2 Wirelss Festival Tickets are available online on GigSport.

History of Wireless Festival

The Wireless Festival is a music festival in England that takes place every year in Hyde Park, London, and took place at Harewood House, Leeds in 2006 and 2007. It is owned and managed by Live Nation.

2005

The first Wireless festival took place in June 2005 and was in Hyde Park only. The headliners were New Order, Basement Jaxx, Keane and Kasabian, and the festival was on the 24, 25, 29 and 30 June. Other bands playing included JJ72, Moby, The Rakes, Supergrass, Ladytron and M.I.A



2006

In 2006 the festival played in both Hyde Park and Harewood House.

The Hyde Park festival ran from the 21 June to 25 June and on the bill were (headline acts in bold): The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, David Gray, KT Tunstall, Massive Attack, The Flaming Lips, Pharrell, James Blunt, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, The Raconteurs, Dirty Pretty Things and Gnarls Barkley.

The Harewood House festival ran from 24 June to 25 June 2006, featuring Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, DJ Shadow, Pharrell, Gnarls Barkley and Terry Callier on the first day and The Who, Super Furry Animals, The Flaming Lips, The Zutons and Eels on the second day.

2007

Tickets for both venues went on sale on March 16, 2007 and the festival took place between June 14-17 in Hyde Park, and June 15-17 at Harewood House.

The acts for both Hyde Park and Harewood House were (headline acts in bold):

The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Satellite Party, The Bees, The Thrills, The Sounds, Dredg, Polytechnic, Ghosts, Connan and the Mockasins, Far From The Dance, Kissaway Trail, Pete and the Pirates,

Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, Klaxons, CSS, Plan B, New Young Pony Club, Calvin Harris, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism,

Kaiser Chiefs, Editors, The Cribs, The Rakes, The Twang, The Little Ones, Kate Nash, Ripchord, The Duke Spirit, Polysics, Mumm-Ra, The Pigeon Detectives, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Los Campesinos!, and Under the Influence of Giants. Kaiser Chiefs selected the line-up for the day they were headlining (Saturday at Harewood House and Sunday in Hyde Park).

The acts which performed the extra date in Hyde Park were:

Faithless, Badly Drawn Boy, Kelis, Just Jack and Cat Empire.

For the first time, the Leeds festival offered camping facilities at the festival. Campers were allowed to stay on Lord Harewood’s land for £25 for as many festival days as they wished. There were 3 stages this year, and the O2 Blueroom where only O2 customers were allowed to enter.

The 2008 O2 Wireless Festival spanned 4 days in Hyde Park. An attempt to hold a parallel festival in Leeds similar to the Reading and Leeds Festivals arrangement was unsuccessful, and instead a variety of club nights featuring billed artists were held.

2010

The 2010 Wireless Festival will take place from 2 July to 4 July 2010. The confirmed artists so far are:

Friday, 2 July: Pink, The Ting Tings, Gossip, The Temper Trap

Sunday, 4th July: Jay Z, Mr Hudson, JLS