Hyde Park, London
After spending its first few years in search of an identity, Wireless has found its selling point in dance and R&B, making it the festival that most closely mirrors mass taste. The lineup was loaded with acts who've recently done time around the top of the charts.
There was much to appreciate on Friday about Example, whose No 1 single Changed the Way You Kiss Me was the crowd-uniting climax to a set of melodic rave. Though utterly assured of his own importance, he was also under no illusions about what it was he was doing up there. Introducing Kickstarts, he advised: "Here's another song. It's like all the other ones ? you listen and bounce. It's quite simple."
An atavistic listen-and-bounce response was also earned by the jittery grime of gangly Londoner Wretch 32 and, on Saturday, Chase and Status's old-style rave (Saturday), which transformed Hyde Park into Ibiza-on-Thames. Both their sets were among the most thrilling of the weekend, and only matched by Janelle Mon�e's wild-hearted space-funk. Fronting a band costumed in druidic cloaks and Star Trekkish tunics, she offered controlled mayhem that took your breath away.
The toddlers in the crowd loved the headlining Black Eyed Peas on Friday: bounding in their shiny jumpsuits, they looked like videogame characters. Their set was marred only by Will.i.am's unconscionably long solo DJ set in the middle. If the Peas are cheerful egotists, Saturday's headliners, the Chemical Brothers, are the opposite. Nearly invisible behind their computers, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons took second place to their reliably dazzling visuals and beats, stoking up the fans as the sun set.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jul/03/wireless-festival-review
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