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Wireless Sunday will be walking on sunshine

Eddy Grant, Goo Goo Dolls, Bowling For Soup, and more added

By Scott Williams | Published:

Wireless Festival 2008 - Bowling for Soup
Photo credit: Luke Seagrave


A fresh batch of names have been announced for the Sunday at the Wireless Festival held in Hyde Park, London and taking place from Thursday 3rd to Sunday 6th July.

Eddy Grant will be bringing his reggae hits including 'Walking on Sunshine', 'I Don't Wanna Dance' and 'Electric Avenue' to Wireless. Joining him on the bill will be American rockers Goo Goo Dolls, surf pro turned singer Donovan Frankenreiter, pop-punks Bowling For Soup, and Australian four piece The Galvatrons.

They are the latest acts confirmed to join Sunday headliner Counting Crows at this year's O2 Wireless Festival. As previously reported Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Delays, The Hold Steady, and Powderfinger are also billed for that day.

Saturday's line-up at Wireless includes the headliner Fatboy Slim, with Underworld, Bootsy Collins And The Rubber Band, Robyn, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Sam Sparro, and The Whip. Fatboy Slim has indicated that Mark Ronson will also be appearing.

More acts are due to be confirmed shortly including the headliners for Thursday and Friday of Wireless.

Tickets are on sale for the Saturday and Sunday they are available at a special ‘Early Bird’ price of £40 for a limited period only, to buy your tickets click here.

Attendees at the event now in its fourth year can expect popular acts on all three stages. The festival will probably also have an acoustic band stand, a fairground, chill out areas, street theatre, performance art, markets, food caterers, a five aside football pitch and lockers are available on site at a cost of £6 a day.

There is a disabled customers hotline number that patrons can call when booking tickets to reserve a place on the platform. It is 0121 767 9729. Disabled customers will be provided with one free ticket for their helper, where required. Should additional helper tickets be required, please call the disabled access ticket line on 0121 767 9729 or email [email protected]

The Wireless Festival is also offering customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions associated with travelling to Hyde Park, there is an option to add 40p to your order on the shipping page to cover your carbon footprint.

Bowling For Soup
Bowling For Soup