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Kelis: ‘So when I was telling people I was coming to Wakestock this weekend, they said wow. Those guys like to party’ ….. that was certainly reflected in a weekend full of intoxicated kids and hard partying nights of live music.
Like 2010’s event Wakestock festival was fortunate again this year with beautiful weather as the sun gleamed down on the stunning setting in Abersoch North Wales. However, the music tents didn’t seem to fill up until about 8pm each night as the young crowd spend their time drinking down on the beach with bbq’s and crates of beer turning the festival into somewhat of a nightmarish teen disco where anything goes.
Wakestock prides itself on being a festival with a difference, 50% of it being about the cool sport of wakeboarding and 50% about great music.
The wakeboarding action was certainly impressive and looked like great fun but sadly did not seem to manage to draw the crowds to any real extent. The music came from a diverse array of artists spanning across the widest of musical genres including Little Comets, The Joy Formidable, Pulled Apart by Horses and Lethal Bizzle. Ellie Goulding and Chase & Status headlined the opening night, whilst The Wombats and Biffy Clyro respectively held the Saturday and Sunday main slots. The ultimate crowed pleasers of the weekend were Kelis who managed to jam pack a tent to close the Saturday night and the loveable ginger Ed Sheeran who caused the place to erupt when he broke out in to ‘The A Team’.
It was a shame really that the incredible line up that Wakestock festival managed to pull together in a stunning location became overshadowed by the underraged inebriation and lack of any real control from security that unfortunately seemed to be the defining feature of the weekend.