Boardmasters Festival

Boardmasters Festival
Genre Rock, indie rock, alternative rock, Dance
Dates First weekend of August, annually
Location(s) Newquay, Cornwall, England
Years active 1981–present
Website
www.Boardmasters.co.uk

Coordinates: 50°26′23″N 5°02′51″W / 50.4398°N 5.0476°W / 50.4398; -5.0476

Pro surfer from Boardmasters Festival 2014
Music line up for Boardmasters Festival 2015
Fistral Beach showing the beach bar setup ready for the 2010 Boardmasters Festival
The Vert ramp at the 2010 Boardmasters Festival during the first skateboard free practice session.

Boardmasters Festival is an annual event held in Cornwall, United Kingdom, usually held over four days in mid-August. The event is a combination of live music and surfing/skateboarding competitions in and around the town of Newquay. The festival has a heritage that goes back to 1981[1] and with a current capacity of over 30,000 it's one of the UK's biggest music festivals.[2]

The majority of the music performances take place to the north of Newquay near Watergate Bay. The Men's Pro 5 Star WQS surf competition takes place on Fistral Beach where a skate ramp is built for the BMX and Skateboard competitions.[3] Other sporting events include The Womens Open, WSL Men's Longboard, WSL Women's Longboard, Boys/Girls Pro Junior and Under 12's.

The event is owned and managed by Vision Nine Group. [4]

Music Festival

The Watergate Bay site hosts the music arena and all festival camping. Music performances run from Thursday to Sunday across seven music stages; The Main Stage, Unleashed, The View, Mavericks, The Point, Keg & Pasty and the VIP Bar/Stage. Past years have seen acts performing such Bastille, Faithless, Rudimental, Snoop Dogg, Chase and Status, Basement Jaxx, Ed Sheeran, Plan B, Leftfield, Cypress Hill, Calvin Harris, Fatboy Slim, Newton Faulkner and Ben Howard.[5] As well as music there is a variety of bars, stalls and fairground rides on the site. [6]

Surf & Skate

At Fistral Beach the surf, BMX and skate competitions take place along with more music during the evenings. A small mini-ramp is set up on the headland and the vert ramp is built in the beach car park. A purpose built beach bar hosts more musical acts and evening beach sessions.

Professional Surf Competition Winners

Event Winner [7] Second
2014 Men's Open Jock Barnes (AUS)
2014 Women's Open Keshia Eyre (POR)
2014 Longboard Pro Ben Skinner (GBR)
2013 Men's Open Billy Stairmand (NZL)
2013 Women's Open Keshia Eyre (POR)
2012 Men's Open Charly Martin (GLP)
2012 Women's Open Miku Uemura (HAW)
2011 Men's Open Romain Cloitre (REU)
2010 Men's 5 Star WQS Surf Marc Lacomare Jay Quinn
2010 Aerial Assault Alan Stokes Oli Adams
2010 Vans Summer Sessions Skate Vert Sam Beckett Andy Scott
2010 Vans Summer Sessions BMX Mini Ramp Alex Colburn Tobias Wicke
2009 Men's 5 Star WQS Surf Daniel Ross Txaber Trojaola
2009 Aerial Assault Micah Lester Reuben Ash
2009 Vans Summer Sessions Skate Vert Alex Perelson Sam Beckett
2009 Vans Summer Sessions BMX Mini Ramp Ben Wallace Martin Cooper

List of Music Headliners

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

Cancellations

Due to ex-hurricane Bertha causing chaos across Britain, the organisers of the festival were forced to cancel the final day of Boardmasters 2014 at the Watergate Bay site. Artists due to perform were Bastille, George Ezra, Reel Big Fish, DJ EZ, 2manydjs and Catfish & The Bottlemen. [8]

However, the surf competition at Fistral Beach continued as normal and full refunds for the cancelled day were received by customers.

Award Nominations

Boardmasters was nominated for ‘Best Medium Sized Festival’ at the 2014 UK Festival Awards, alongside Secret Garden Party, Camp Bestival, and winners We Are FSTVL. [9]

External links

References

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