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Wireless festival review – Ice Spice, Asake and Doja Cat triumph on gappy bill
With some regrettable absences and a premature close, the weekend is redeemed by explosive sets and starry surprise guests such as Central Cee
This year’s Wireless festival is instantly mired in controversy – a decision to finish Sunday’s outing two-and-a-half hours early, allowing fans to catch the European Championship final, sours the mood of the weekend. She runs the full course of her discography, from fulfilment anthem Moment 4 Life to that iconic Monster verse, and Minaj’s dramatics, rhapsodic delivery and visuals of assembly-line porcelain cyborg doppelgangers make for a playful and genuinely fun headline show. True to her stance against parasocial fan relations, the only time she directly speaks to the crowd is to throw a silver football, “I heard there was a game … GO ENGLAND!” That also means she confidently ignores commercial hits, aside from a phenomenal reworking of Say So with a thumping disco-funk bassline.
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