Years active 2000-2014 Dates 1st Weekend In July | Founded by Mark Durston | |
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Nominations UK Festival Award for Best Medium-Sized Festival Similar RockNess, Edgefest, Rockfest, Green Man Festival, Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau Profiles |
Wakestock is Europe's largest wakeboard music festival, combining the cultures of music and wakeboarding. It is held on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, in between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog.
Contents
- Staging
- 2012 Line up
- Friday 2 July
- Saturday 3 July
- Sunday 4 July
- 2009 Acts
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
- 2008 Acts
- 2007 Acts
- Partners Sponsors
- References
Founded by Mark Durston, the festival began in Abersoch, North Wales back in 2000, when it was a wakeboard contest with a party in a car park for 800 people, and from then on played host to some of the industry's leading bands and DJ's, along with the biggest wakeboard competition in Europe. In 2008 50% of the festival was sold to current owners Kilimanjaro Live aka KiliLive.com. In 2010 the festival entered its second decade and become part of the World Wakeboard Series. After the 2010 festival founder Mark Durston took an exit to work on other projects with full ownership then taken on by Kilimanjaro Live.
The festival is split over three sites - the main festival site at Penrhos, Pwllheli Marina hosts the main wakeboard competition and Abersoch Bay hosts the Big Air Classic competition. The festival prides itself as being at the foot of the Snowdonia Mountains and looks out over Cardigan Bay.
The festival has its own wakeboard 'Pool Gap' that allows the wakeboarders to showcase the sport up on the festival site. The Pool Gap consists of two pools containing a total of 200,000 gallons of water. They are connected by street style handrails that the wakeboarders slide along being towed by an overhead cable system.
It was announced on Twitter that the festival would not be held in 2015, but would return for 2016.
Staging
Previous years have seen three stages at Wakestock, the first being the Open Air Stage, followed by the Misadventures Stage and finally the smaller Relentless Stage. Across all three stages there is a mix of live bands and DJ's. There is also a private VIP tent which features DJs throughout the weekend.
2012 Line-up
The campsite opened from 1pm on Thursday 5 July. From 6pm the campers could attend the Wakestock pre-party if they had purchased a Thursday night arena pass for £10. They also needed to be in possession of a weekend camping, single day camping or vip weekend camping ticket. Nitro hosted the Thursday night pre-party with DJ’s Jaguar Skills, Nitro resident Jigsaw and Plastic Thumbs in the East Arena, doors opened from 6pm-12am.
On Thursday 19 July at 12.50am Channel 4 aired a programme showing the highlights of the festival.
Friday 2 July
Open Air stage
Misadventures Stage
Relentless Live
Saturday 3 July
Open Air stage
Misadventures Stage
Relentless Live
Sunday 4 July
Open Air stage
Misadventures Stage
Relentless Live
2009 Acts
Full list of acts as follows:
Friday
Open Air Stage
XFM Stage
Relentless Pyramid stage
Saturday
Open Air Stage
XFM Stage
Relentless Pyramid stage
Sunday
Open Air Stage
XFM Stage
Relentless Pyramid stage
2008 Acts
Full list of acts as follows:
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
2007 Acts
Incomplete list of acts:
Partners & Sponsors
Wakestock is involved with the local community and has partners from the surrounding area as well as some global names.
Current 2010 partners list