LONDON – Organizers of the UK’s high-profile Wireless Festival, which was scheduled to welcome Kanye West (now legally known as Ye) as a headlining performer this July, announced Tuesday that the entire event has been scrapped, following a decision by British immigration authorities to bar the controversial American rapper from entering the country. The confirmation of the cancellation came via an official statement posted to the festival’s Instagram account, where organizers explicitly cited the Home Office’s entry ban on Ye as the direct cause of shutting down the event. In the wake of the sudden cancellation, organizers confirmed that every ticket purchased for the festival will be fully refunded automatically, with no extra action required from holders. The ban and subsequent cancellation come after a wave of global backlash triggered by a series of unapologetic antisemitic remarks made by West in recent months, which have seen the rapper dropped from multiple industry partnerships and shut out of major public events across multiple continents.