Qualla: Wakestock https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Wakestock https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales Wakestock: Introduction https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales/ Eight hundred people in a car park in Abersoch. That was the first Wakestock, in 2000 - a wakeboard contest with a sound system bolted on, organised by a young entrepreneur named Mark Durston who had noticed that the kids who came to the Llŷn Peninsula to ride boats also wanted somewhere to dance afterwards. Fifteen years later the festival was pulling 20,000 people a weekend, hosting Calvin Harris and Dizzee Rascal, and shipping in 200,000 gallons of water so wakeboarders could perform tricks above the heads of the crowd. Then, almost as suddenly as it had started, it was over.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/wakestock-wales-wp/gcku-wakestock-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wakestock: From Car Park to Cardigan Bay https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales/ The Llŷn Peninsula had been a quiet stretch of farms and chapels for most of its history, the kind of place where Welsh was still the everyday language and the loudest sound on a summer evening was the surf at Porth Neigwl. Abersoch had always been an exception - a sailing villag...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/wakestock-wales-wp/gcku-wakestock-from-car-park-to-cardigan-bay.mp3 0:06 2 full Wakestock: The Pool Gap https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales/ What made Wakestock genuinely strange was the Pool Gap, an engineering project that did not really belong at a music festival. Two purpose-built swimming pools - 200,000 gallons of water in total - were connected by street-style metal handrails. Wakeboarders, towed by an overhead...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/wakestock-wales-wp/gcku-wakestock-the-pool-gap.mp3 0:06 3 full Wakestock: Who Played Penrhos https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales/ The line-ups tell the story of how British festival music shifted in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Groove Armada and Pendulum and Happy Mondays headlined 2008. The Streets and Duffy and Mark Ronson came through that same year. Moby played the Open Air Stage in 2009. The 2010 we...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/wakestock-wales-wp/gcku-wakestock-who-played-penrhos.mp3 0:06 4 full Wakestock: Cancelled, Cancelled Again https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales/ In February 2015 the announcement came on Twitter: there would be no Wakestock that summer. The organisers promised the festival would return in 2016. It did not. The official statement in March 2016 was carefully ambiguous - 'it isn't necessarily the case that Wakestock will nev...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/wakestock-wales-wp/gcku-wakestock-cancelled-cancelled-again.mp3 0:06 5 full Wakestock: What the Llŷn Remembers https://qualla.com/wakestock-wales/ Drive into Abersoch on a summer afternoon now and the surf shops are still there, the wakeboarders are still on the bay, and the sailing fleet is still moored up at low tide. But the festival is gone, and with it a particular memory that thousands of British twenty-somethings wil...

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