PayPal and Rockstar Energy distance themselves from Wireless Festival as Kanye West headlines
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The festival's sponsors Pepsi and Diageo have withdrawn their funding while Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called the booking “deeply concerning"
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Kanye West Wireless Festival controversy
- U.K. government reviewing Kanye West's permission to enter country for London festival NBC News —
- Major Music Festival in Crisis Amidst Backlash to Headliner Daily Beast —
- Wireless Festival Boss Condemns Kanye West’s Antisemitic Outbursts, but Defends Booking Rolling Stone —
- Kanye West has ‘legal right to perform’ in UK, says Wireless promoter The Standard —
- Wireless Fest Organizer Defends Ye Headlining London Festival: ‘Forgiveness & Giving People a Second Chance Are Becoming a Lost Virtue’ Billboard —