Wakestock_(Wales) Knowpia

Wakestock
Wakestock
Genre	Indie rock, Dance, Rock, Grime, Rap
Dates	1st weekend in July
Location(s)	Wales ; Penrhos, Wales (2000–2014) ; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (2008)
Years active	2000–2014
Founded by	Mark Durston
Website	http://www.wakestock.co.uk

Wakestock was Europe's largest wakeboard music festival, combining the cultures of music and wakeboarding. It was held on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales, in between Pwllheli and Llanbedrog.

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 DJs, along with the biggest wakeboard competition in Europe. In 2008 50% of the festival was sold to 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.^[1]

The festival was 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 had its own wakeboard 'Pool Gap' that allows the wakeboarders to showcase the sport up on the festival site. The Pool Gap consisted of two pools containing a total of 200,000 gallons of water connected by street style handrails that the wakeboarders slid along whilst being towed by an overhead cable system.

In February 2015 it was announced on Twitter and Facebook that the festival would not be held that year, but would return for 2016.^[2] In 2016 the festival was cancelled again. Organisers said, "It isn’t necessarily the case that Wakestock will never happen again but a significant level of investment in terms of time and money will need to take place ... before any commitment takes place."^[1] As of 2017 there have been no further announcements and the official website has been closed.

Staging edit

Up until at least 2013^[3] the festival had three stages. Originally these were called the "Open Air Stage", the "Misadventures Stage", and the "Relentless Stage". The names were later changed to West Stage, East Stage, and South Stage. Across all three stages there was a mixture of live bands and DJs.

2014 Line-up edit

This was the last festival to be held. Acts included: Tom Odell, Frank Turner, John Newman, Razorlight, Clean Bandit, Duke Dumont, Gorgon City, Frightened Rabbit, Ella Eyre, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Jess Glynne.^[4]

2013 Line-up edit

Included: Bastille, Rudimental, Example, Magnetic Man, James, Twin Atlantic, Wiley, The 1975, Wretch 32, Zane Lowe, Echo & the Bunnymen, Candelas, Huw Stevens, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Kids in Glass Houses, Yr Eira

2012 Line-up edit

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 DJs 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 6 July	Saturday 7 July	Sunday 8 July
West Stage
Calvin Harris Rizzle Kicks Huw Stephens Random Impulse Alunageorge L Marshall Burns Lilygreen & Maguire	Dizzee Rascal Katy B Zane Lowe Goldierocks All The Young Swiss Lips Y Bandana	Ed Sheeran Chiddy Bang Benjamin Francis Leftwich Clement Marfo Mikill Pane Ryan Keen Br Lewis

Friday 6 July	Saturday 7 July	Sunday 8 July
East Stage
Flux Pavilion Hadouken! Koan Sound Smiler Bastille Lulu James Sen Segur	Annie Mac DJ Fresh Live Ms Dynamite Breakage Karma Kid Jigsaw Ifan Dafydd	The All American Rejects Funeral for a Friend Yashin Straight Lines A Plastic Rose Sŵnami

Friday 6 July	Saturday 7 July	Sunday 8 July
South Stage
High Contrast feat Jessy Allen and Dynamite MC Friction Major Look Plastic Thumbs Jigsaw Ed Mackie F-Block	Jacwob Doctor P Delta Heavy Jagga Simplex Ben Proudlove Andy Carr	Redlight B.Traits Youngman Jimmy Needles Heavy Feet Church

2011 Line-up edit

Friday 8 July	Saturday 9 July	Sunday 10 July
West Stage
Ellie Goulding Kids in Glass Houses Huw Stephens Lethal Bizzle Neon Trees Wolf Gang Ben Howard Mr Phormula	The Wombats Beardy Man The Joy Formidable Fenech-Soler Little Comets All the Young Bare Left	Biffy Clyro The Cribs The Noisettes Charlie Simpson Pulled Apart by Horses Sibrydion

Friday 8 July	Saturday 9 July	Sunday 10 July
East Stage
Chase and Status Zane Lowe Chiddy Bang Kissy Sell Out Dev Yasmin Rizzle Kicks	Kelis Sub Focus Far East Movement Modestep Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Friends Electric Giant Steps	Example Wretch 32 Ed Sheeran Jaymo and Andy George Random Impulse Encore

Friday 8 July	Saturday 9 July	Sunday 10 July
South Stage
DJ Fresh and Dynamite MC Danny Byrd Brookes Brothers Union Tek 1 Micky Slim Gutterfunk	Caspa and MC Rod Aslan Herve Nero Redlight Plastic Thumbs Jigsaw	Jaguar Skills Masters in France Colorama Mr Huw Inner Party System Pocket Trez

2010 Acts edit

Friday 2 July edit

Open Air stage

Misadventures Stage

Relentless Live

Skream
Toddla T & MC Serocee
Jakwob
Plastic Thumbs
Jigsaw vs Rocketman
Ben Proudlove

Saturday 3 July edit

Open Air stage

Maxïmo Park
Feeder
Plan B
The Last Republic
Pete Lawrie

Misadventures Stage

Relentless Live

Scratch Perverts
Nervo
Goldierocks
Duke
SBTRKT
Micky Slim
Gutterfunk DJs

Sunday 4 July edit

Open Air stage

The Ting Tings
The Futureheads
Band Of Skulls
Los Campesinos!
Race Horses
Polly Mackey and The Pleasure Principle
Y Niwl

Misadventures Stage

Relentless Live

The King Blues
Huw Stephens
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Yr Ods
Masters in France
The Kickbacks

2009 Acts edit

Full list of acts as follows:

Friday edit

Open Air Stage

Moby
Chicane
James Zabiela
Wally López
Norman Jay
Tim Lyall
Brandon Block

XFM Stage

Calvin Harris
Noisettes
Tommy Sparks
Kissy Sell Out
Goldierocks
Ebony Bones
Lets Go To War
Dirty Goods
Flamboyant Bella

Relentless Pyramid stage

Mr Scruff
DJ Format
Part Time Heroes
Goldierocks
DJ Play
Emily Williams

Saturday edit

Open Air Stage

XFM Stage

Relentless Pyramid stage

Chase & Status
Goldie
London Elektricity
Gutterfunk DJs
Tim Lyall
James Condon
Manipulate DJs
Aled Mann

Sunday edit

Open Air Stage

Dizzee Rascal
Zane Lowe
Tinchy Stryder
Red Light Company
The Mission District
Fran & Josh

XFM Stage

The Zutons
Just Jack
The Cuban Brothers
Kid British
Marina and the Diamonds
Jett Black
Yr Ods
Lazy Boys

Relentless Pyramid stage

2008 Acts edit

Full list of acts as follows:

Friday

Groove Armada
Pendulum
Hadouken!
Audio Bullys
Plump DJs
Trophy Twins
Nu-Mark (Jurassic 5)
Friendly Fires
Sam Sparro
Josh Gabriel
Royworld
TY
Part Time Heroes

Saturday

Sunday

2007 Acts edit

Incomplete list of acts:

Partners & Sponsors edit

Wakestock is involved with the local community and has partners from the surrounding area as well as some global names.

2010 partners list

References edit

^ ^a ^b Crump, Eryl (6 March 2016). "North Wales' Wakestock festival will NOT be staged in 2016". North Wales Live.
^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com.
^ Wakestock 2014 [@WakestockUK] (14 July 2013). "Today's line up -" (Tweet) – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Wakestock 2014 [@WakestockUK] (21 April 2014). "For the final day of our Easter comp we've got 2 VIP weekend tickets up for grabs. Like & share the poster to win" (Tweet) – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)