The first of two days was helmed by proven festival faves Basement Jaxx (who played the first Wireless in 2005), and offered three further stages of live music.
Wireless is very much a matinee rave-up, and by the afternoon the Hyde Park site was packed with festival-goers (in various states of sunburn and inebriation), and the main stage featured Jack Penate sweltering in a dreadful jacket (which he sensibly removed several numbers in).
The making duo of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton launched several of Britain's most appreciated and pleasant progressive house anthems of the '90s from their base in South London. Before they met (at a Thames riverboat party structured by Buxton), Ratcliffe ridged to the deep Latin funk of War and George Duke while Buxton was turned on to Chicago house. The pair shaped Atlantic Jaxx Records in 1994 and was certainly privileged to count among fans of their first discharge none other than DJ legend and Basement Jaxx authority Tony Humphries, who played 'Da Underground' from the EP on his New York mixshow time after time during 1994-1995. For their second release, Ratcliffe and Buxton employed vocalist Corrina Josephs, who later became almost a member of the team herself.