Fans set to attend ’s headline gig at in this weekend are furious as it has been announced the event will end early because of the final.
On Wednesday, in the semi-final of the UEFA European Football Championship, meaning they have made it to the final match and will face on Sunday for the last game of the tournament.
This has caused huge excitement across the UK for football fans with many to allow workers to watch the match.
on Sunday for the football, which was met with mixed feelings from fans.
Wireless Festival has now received backlash from music fans as it was announced that they would be ending the event early because of the football.
In an announcement on its site, the festival announced: ‘Rockstar Energy presents Wireless will now finish at 7 pm on Sunday 14th July to give you plenty of time to travel home to watch the EURO final England vs Spain match.
‘The festival is going ahead as planned on Sunday and will perform a full headline set.’
The festival was supposed to finish around 9.30pm but because of time constraints,and Digga D have now been pulled from the performance list.
The headliner for Sunday is Doja Cat with other acts in the setlist to be Don Toliver, Rema, and Uncle Waffles. Doja’s headline gig will now begin at 5.45 pm and finish at 7pm.
Fans took to social media to complain about this change of plan. Many expressed that they did not care at all about football and were baffled by this choice from the organisers.
Thejman8gd commented: ‘What does football have to do with a music festival? They are two different cultures! Believe it or not but some people are not interested in a football being kicked about religiously. 😡’
‘Are you serious? We paid so much for a 7pm curfew and 2 cancelled artists? I can’t believe this,’ said Negnsrv.
‘I don’t care about football, I care about Tyla 😭😭😭’ said Ellenakkolos.
‘The audacity! We travelling all the way from the Netherlands, just so you can watch the game? Really?’ said Avalonnolava.
Many other fans couldn’t understand why the organisers didn’t just play the game on a big screen at the event, which would have been a great way to include football fans in the festival.
‘Why not just play it on the big screens there.? That would’ve been a viiiiibe. Just ruuuuuining it,’ said Mrs_charlery.
‘This is MAD! A festival finishing at 7pm?! The big screen would have been so good, can’t understand it 😂’ said Katiedoestattoos.
‘Football on a big screen at the festival would have been sick,’ deemcgee1 commented.
Another London festival, Kew the Music, announced that it would also be bringing forward the schedule for Sunday.
This was met with a warmer reception from fans with some saying it was a ‘great call’.
At Kew the Music earlier this week, Ronan Keating sang ‘It’s Coming Home’ on stage as he announced the final score.
, which was met with huge applause from fans as they watched the final moments of the semi-final.
