Calvin Harris and Chase & Status to headline London's Wireless Festival

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Calvin Harris, Chase & Status, J Cole, Kygo and Boy Better Know will headline this year's Wireless Festival.

The event, now in its 11th year, returns to Finsbury Park in London for the weekend of 8-10 July.

Calvin Harris will headline the first night of the festival, with other acts including The 1975 and Big Narstie.

The festival will see the return of 2011 headliners Chase & Status, alongside acts including Krept & Konan, Craig David's TS5 and rapper J Cole.

Chase & Status, made up of Saul Milton and Will Kennard, said: "We have an epic show lined up for Wireless 2016, which we've been planning in secret for the last couple of months.

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Chase & Status are playing at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Exeter this May

"It's an honour to be performing in our home town alongside some of the most exciting names in music and we're looking forward to dropping one of our best sets yet."

Sunday will see headline performances by grime collective Boy Better Know (BBK) - headed up by founders Jme and Skepta - and Norwegian artist Kygo.

Also performing on Sunday will be Jess Glynne, Martin Garrix, Section Boyz and Dillon Francis.

Other acts already scheduled to perform include US rapper Action Bronson, R&B star Miguel, grime artist Lady Leshurr, ASAP Ferg, Maverick Sabre and trapsoul artist Bryson Tiller.

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Last year Wireless festival organisers met with local council officials to review security after video footage showed people scaling the gates and fighting.

Haringey Council told Newsbeat the incidents were "not representative of the whole festival" and that the event was well organised and saw "tens of thousands of people enjoy themselves safely".

Police made 24 arrests over the three-day event in 2015.

Local residents had also challenged, external this year's application for the festival.

Further acts are still to be announced, with tickets on sale from Friday at 9am.

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