Boardmasters Celebrates Biggest Festival to Date
** NEWS ** Issued: 12.08.15 BOARDMASTERS CELEBRATES BIGGEST FESTIVAL TO DATE • 150,000 visited the festival across five days • 40,000 in attendance at SOLD OUT music weekend at Watergate Bay • Faithless, Rudimental and Bastille wowed the crowds with incredible headline slots • Hofei Collazo, Peony Knight, Edouard Delpero and Alice Lemoyne crowned surf champions www.boardmasters.co.uk #Boardmasters #WeBelieveInSummer t: @Boardmasters81 fb: @Boardmasters Boardmasters 2015 has been hailed the biggest and best year to date with over 150,000 in attendance across the festival week. Cornwall’s own surf and music festival kicked off on Wednesday 5th August at the surfing mecca Fistral Beach, where the WSL (World Surf League) competitions took place. The music then opened on Friday 8 August at the stunning Watergate Bay site. The sold out Watergate Bay music site saw over 40,000 visitors attend across the weekend with highlights including headline sets from Bastille, Rudimental and Faithless. Plus astounding performances from the likes of Everything Everything, Sunset Sons, Seasick Steve, Reef, MNEK, Clean Bandit, Kim Churchill, Rae Morris, Nick Mulvey, Circa Waves, Raleigh Ritchie, Lower Than Atlantis, Laura Doggart, Lethal Bizzle, Rhodes and much much more. The weekend also included secret DJ slots by Rag ‘n’ Bone Man and Raleigh Ritchie where festivalgoers had to sneak through a secret purple portaloo plus giant roaming balloon lobsters and singing fishermen performing on a boat. The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins was even seen ‘surfing’ through the crowd on a surfboard! Down at Fistral Beach, the surf, BMX and skate competitions got underway from Wednesday 5 August culminating in thrilling finals across the weekend.
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