The Boardmasters Festival is an annual event held in Newquay

Newquay

Newquay is a town, civil parish, seaside resort and fishing port in Cornwall, England. It is situated on the North Atlantic coast of Cornwall approximately west of Bodmin and north of Truro....

. The event is a combination of live music and a surf & skate contest.

The majority of the music performances take place to the north of Newquay near Watergate Bay

Watergate Bay

Watergate Bay is a bay located two miles north of Newquay on the B3276 Newquay to Padstow road near the village of Tregurrian in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It faces the Atlantic Ocean....

. The Men's Pro 5 Star WQS surf competition takes place on Fistral Beach

Fistral Beach

Fistral Beach is in Fistral Bay on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated half-a-mile west of Newquay at ....

 where a skate ramp is built for the BMX and Skateboard competitions.

Music Festival

In 2010 acts such as Plan B, Leftfield

Leftfield

Leftfield are a British duo of electronica artists and record producers, namely Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, who formed in 1990 in London, England...

, Newton Faulkner

Newton Faulkner

Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. Known for his guitar playing, which involves rhythmically tapping and hitting his guitar's body, Faulkner came to prominence in 2007, with the release of his debut studio album, Hand Built by Robots...

 and Ricta will be performing at Watergate Bay across 3 stages on Friday and Saturday. As well as music there is a variety of bars and fairground rides on the site.

Surf & Skate

At Fistral Beach

Fistral Beach

Fistral Beach is in Fistral Bay on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated half-a-mile west of Newquay at ....

 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

Vert ramp

A vert ramp is a form of half-pipe used in "extreme sports" such as skateboarding.Another form of half-pipe is the mini ramp.Vert ramps are so named because they transition from a horizontal plane to a vertical wall....

 is built in the beach car park. A purpose built beach bar hosts the acts which in 2010 included The Futureheads

The Futureheads

The Futureheads are an English post-punk band from Sunderland. consisting of Ross Millard , Barry Hyde and David "Jaff" Craig...

, Zero 7

Zero 7

Zero 7 is a British musical duo consisting of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker. The group members began their musical careers as studio engineers and in 1997 formed the group Zero 7. Their debut album, Simple Things was released in 2001 and received critical acclaim...

 and Reverend Soundsystem

Reverend Soundsystem

Reverend Soundsystem or RSS are an English 'indiestep' band that formed in Sheffield in 2010. The band's vocalist Jon McClure had been playing under the Reverend Soundsystem pseudonym for some time in between Reverend and The Makers albums, and he recruited his Makers-bandmate and wife Laura...

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Previous Results

Event	Winner	Second
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	Reubyn Ash
2009 Vans Summer Sessions Skate Vert	Alex Perelson	Sam Beckett
2009 Vans Summer Sessions BMX Mini Ramp	Ben Wallace	Martin Cooper