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. From its inception in 2005 until 2008, the festival was sponsored by telecommunications company O2, and was called the O2 Wireless Festival. Since 2009 the main sponsor has been Barclaycard and the festival renamed to simply Wireless Festival. The 2011 Wireless Festival will be held from Friday 1 July to Sunday 3 July 2011. Tickets are £48.50 (Saturday/Sunday) or £49.50 (Friday) for one day, £92 for two and £130 for three days. Pulp are reforming after ten years to play this and other festivals in 2011.
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. The park is divided in two by the Serpentine. The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens; although often still assumed to be part of Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens has been technically separate since 1728, when Queen Caroline made a division between the two. Hyde Park covers 142 hectares (350 acres) and Kensington Gardens covers 111 hectares (275 acres), giving an overall area of 253 hectares (625 acres), making the combined area larger than the Principality of Monaco (196 ha/484 acres), though smaller than New York City's Central Park (341 ha/843 acres). To the southeast, outside of the park, is Hyde Park Corner. Although, during daylight, the two parks merge seamlessly into each other, Kensington Gardens closes at dusk but Hyde Park remains open throughout the year from 5 am until midnight.
Sites of interest in the park include Speakers' Corner (located in the northeast corner near Marble Arch), close to the former site of the Tyburn gallows, and Rotten Row, which is the northern boundary of the site of the Crystal Palace. South of the Serpentine is the Diana, Princess of Wales memorial, an oval stone ring fountain opened on 6 July 2004. To the east of the Serpentine, just beyond the dam, is London's Holocaust Memorial. Another memorial in the Park commemorates the victims of the 7/7 terrorist attacks, in the form of 52 steel pillars, one for each of the dead. Hyde Park has been the venue for some famous rock concerts, including the major location for the Live 8 string of benefit concerts. Queen played here in one of their most popular shows, in 1976. It is estimated that between 150–200 thousand people turned up for the event. However, the record concert attendance is probably for the 1969 concert by the Rolling Stones. According to much of the press, the crowd then was estimated between 250,000 and 500,000. Also Blur played here as part of their reunion. They released a live album recorded at the park called All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park.
2012 Lineup:
Friday 6 July 2012
Deadmau5
Afrojack
The Roots
Maverick Sabre
Metric
Knife Party
Feed Me
Santigold
Modestep
Childish Gambino
Jaguar Skills
Ms Dynamite
Zeds Dead
Gemini
Araabmuzik
Zedd
Saturday 7 July 2012
Drake
Nicki Minaj
Example
Wiz Khalifa
Professor Green
Tulisa
Rita Ora
Nero
The Weeknd
Labrinth
Delilah
D’Banj
Hilltop Hoods
Clement Marfo & The Frontline
Chiddy Bang
Dot Rotten
The-Dream
Lady Leshurr
Meek Mill
Sneakbo
Angel
Koan Sound
AlunaGeorge
Sunday 8 July 2012
Rihanna
Jessie J
J.Cole
Rizzle Kicks
Labrinth
Pitbull
Cher Lloyd
Calvin Harris
Kaskade
Madeon
A$AP Rocky
Flux Pavilion
Lloyd
StooShe
Far East Movement
Theophilus London
Doctor P
Rascals
Kreayshawn
L Marshall
Monsta
Steve Papa Edwards
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