Wiley quits Glastonbury after Twitter rant

Wiley says he has dropped out of playing Glastonbury, the day before he was supposed to perform.

The rapper had been due to appear at the Silver Hayes dance arena on Saturday, but posted a series of tweets about how unhappy he was.

He later confirmed he was at Heathrow Airport and not on the festival site.

The 34-year-old tweeted several times about the bad weather and how much he was being paid to perform, though some of the tweets were later deleted.

He had written: "Glastonbury ain't paying me enough to leave my comfort zone."

Wiley then tweeted the Glastonbury Twitter account: "Please cancel me I do not want to play for you ever again... please cancel me without sueing I would like that.

"I'm fed up of coming to your festival I wanna do my own one."

Several hours later Wiley confirmed he wasn't going to play: "Ya know what... en route to heathrow realtalk.

"Make sure you go see the Rolling Stones tho.

"My manager and team could of prevented this but I don't blame them I'm just glad I ain't at glasto... Amen."

He said he'd never actually made it to the site and had been in London all along.

In May Wiley played at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Londonderry.

He had his first UK number one single in August 2012 when Heatwave topped the chart.

His planned Glastonbury set was one of more than 2,000 performances taking place at the festival.

135,000 people are at Glastonbury, which is being headlined this year by the Arctic Monkeys, the Rolling Stones and Mumford & Sons.

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