Lil Wayne Announces First UK Live Show In 14yrs

American rapper; Lil Wayne has announced that he has an exclusive UK show planned.

Lil Wayne will perform his first UK show in 14 years at the Cambridge festival Strawberries & Creem. The show is an exclusive booking, and the line-up features a roster of debut UK headline performances from the likes of Tems, Ella Mai and Mabel.

Former Crack Magazine cover stars Rema and Enny have been confirmed for the programme, along with Ghetts and Kenny Allstar, who’ll perform with a roster of friends. Radio DJ David Rodigan joins the line-up, and across the dance music bookings there’s Lil C, Eclair Fifi and Horse Meat Disco.

Strawberries & Creem takes place in Childerly Orchard, in Cambridge, on 17-19 June 2022. Tickets go on sale from 22 February.

Tion Wayne, Ghetts, Rema, Ms Banks, David Rodigan, Enny, Sub Focus, High Contrast, Katy B, Wilkinson and Lisa Maffia are also on the line-up.

“This year, as we scale up to a full three days, we wanted to ensure our musical offering matched that level of ambition – as well as reflecting our incredibly diverse crowd,” Strawberries & Creem co-founder Preye Crooks said in a statement about This year’s festival, the line-up poster for which you can see below.

“We have gone further than ever before to bring exceptional artists together, showing Strawberries & Creem to be a major player on the weekend festival scene. As a team, we also wanted to shine a light on some amazing genres and artists that aren’t always celebrated in full at other festivals.

“We hope we have curated a truly representative and exciting line-up, one that offers an unrivaled experience to our festival goers – covering everything from D&B and dance music, to reggae and R&B.”

Tickets for Strawberries & Creem 2022 will initially be available in a pre-sale from 10am on Monday (February 21), which requires a sign-up on the festival’s website, General sale will then begin at 10am on Tuesday (February 22).

Last month Lil Wayne released his 2011 mixtape ‘Sorry 4 The Wait’ on streaming services for the first time.