Relentless Wakestock is Europe’s largest Wakeboard music festival, combining the cultures of music and the world’s fastest growing Water Sport in a weekend of high-octane excitement! It is held on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, in between Pwllheli and Abersoch
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 industries leading bands and DJ’s, along with the biggest Wakeboard competition in Europe. In 2010 the festival enters its second decade and becomes part of the World Wakeboard Series.
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 a real beautiful view.
The festival has its own Wakeboard ‘Pool Gap’ that allows the Wakeboarders to showcase the Wakeskate style 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.
I got to catch up with Stuart Galbraith one of the seminal forces behind Wakestock and ask him a few questions.
Stuart Galbraith first got into the business after going to Leeds University and becoming the social secretary there in 1981.As former MCP, SFX, Clear Channel and Live Nation promoter Stuart Galbraith is a series producer and director and CEO of promotional group Kilimanjaro Live Ltd the people who put together Sonisphere, Download and Ozzfest. Kilimanjaro is a joint venture with AEG, the world’s second largest promoter.
HQ: Hey Stuart can you tell us a little about your involvement in Wakestock and how it started?
Stuart: I’ve been involved in Wakestock for 4 years, but Wakestock originally developed as a party that followed a Wakeboarding competition on a beach, in Abersoch . It literally started off as a party in a car park and just grew year on year from there. It’s now full on down in the Marina, with Big Air competition.
HQ: As Europe’s biggest Wakeboarding event, why did you remain in Wales?
Stuart: There is a real Water Sports scene here, and Wakeboarding was a big part of that anyway. It’s got a great bay here; Flat and great for the Big Air competition.
For more information on Wakestock, visit: www.wakestock.co.uk
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