The festival, the presale for which began today (7 April), confirmed the news on social media, writing: "As a result of the Home Office banning Ye from entering the United Kingdom, Wireless Festival has been forced to cancel."
Kanye West, whose legal name was changed to Ye in 2021, was scheduled to perform across three nights in London this summer, but his signing sparked outrage due to his previous antisemitic and pro-Nazi comments.
"I would be grateful for the opportunity to meet with members of the Jewish community in the UK in person, to listen. I know words aren't enough - I've have to show change through my actions. If you're open, I'm here. With Love."
"It has been less than a year since Kanye West released a song entitled Heil Hitler, the culmination of three years of appalling antisemitism," Rosenberg said.
"Even while claiming remorse today, his latest album includes a track first released last year with the abhorrent title Gas Chamber. The Jewish community will want to see a genuine remorse and change before believing that the appropriate place to test this sincerity is on the main stage at the Wireless Festival.
"As such, we are willing to meet Kanye West as part of his journey of healing, but only after he agrees not to play the Wireless Festival this year."
"One of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnected moments – many of which I still cannot recall – that led to poor judgment and reckless behaviour that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body-experience," he wrote.
The rapper's ETA block came after Festival Republic's managing director Melvin Benn defended the decision to have Ye headline the festival, noting that he would only be performing and not given a platform to voice any opinions.
"Ye's music is played on commercial radio stations in this country. It is available via live streams and downloads in this country without comment or vitriol from anyone and he has a legal right to come into the country and to perform in this country.
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