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Wireless Festival knew for “a few months” that DJ Khaled was unlikely to make the event

Published 10:27 9 Jul 2018 BST

Updated 14:03 9 Jul 2018 BST

Wil Jones
Wireless Festival knew for “a few months” that DJ Khaled was unlikely to make the event

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This weekend, DJ Khaled dropped out of a headline slot at Wireless Festival, seemingly at the last minute

Wireless tweeted blaming his no-show on “travel issues”. https://twitter.com/WirelessFest/status/1015875636685103105 However, disappointed fans quickly found social media posts from the producer and DJ, showing him seemingly “on vacation”. https://twitter.com/djkhaled/status/1015665964057276421 This understandably left many of those with tickets angry and annoyed. https://twitter.com/sezzer246/status/1015885631073988608 https://twitter.com/VickyFisher_/status/1015897579152990208 Wireless, to their credit, managed to have a surprise truncated 20 minute slot from Drake instead. https://twitter.com/WirelessFest/status/1016058137831501825 However, Wireless tweeted again late on Sunday night, after the festival had finished, saying that due to schedule filming his US reality music competition show “DJ Khaled was not able to commit to perform” at the festival. And most worryingly, they admitted they had “known for a few months.” https://twitter.com/WirelessFest/status/1016100318550134784 https://twitter.com/WirelessFest/status/1016100320424972288 This news did not go down well, and the replies to those tweets are a stream of angry festival goers. https://twitter.com/HarjTweets/status/1016102223443644416 https://twitter.com/teeforteefa/status/1016108488433512448 https://twitter.com/Karinahartley93/status/1016131686327836678 https://twitter.com/KiraJackson__/status/1016100469146574853 Friday night at Wireless was headlines by J Cole and Post Malone, with Migos and Stormzy topping the bill on Saturday. As well as Drake, Lil Uzi Vert Giggs and Rae Sremmurd also played on Sunday.
Wireless Festival knew for “a few months” that DJ Khaled was unlikely to make the event