To keep everyone’s excitement levels to the max we can announce that on the Friday 6th August we bring you not one, but two headliners of the highest calibre to top off what will be an extraordinary weekend of live music in Cornwall.
Organisers are delighted to announce that the headliners for Friday 6 August will be Brit award nominated American blues man Seasick Steve and the chart topping, million selling, acoustic troubadour Newton Faulkner.
Seasick Steve is a man who needs no introduction and is no stranger to the event after he played a Relentless Beach Session back in 2007. Since then we have witnessed Steve become a household name and one of the hottest ‘new’ artists around, the result of being catapulted into the public consciousness following an electrifying performance on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny.
Since then, he’s won the 2007 MOJO award for best breakthrough artist, sold-out major shows including a prestigious Royal Albert Hall date, charmed every festival from Glastonbury to Latitude, became the oldest Brit Award nominee in history and his most recent album ‘Man From Another Time’ entered the charts at #4, making it his highest charting release to date.
So as if having the legendary Seasick as a headliner wasn’t enough the main stage will be closed on 6 August by firm Cornish favourite, Newton Faulkner.
Newton Faulkner has had a hugely successful past few months. With his already gold-selling second album Rebuilt By Humans debuting at number three in the official charts and storming straight in at the top spot on ITunes, and his biggest Mar/April tour already sold out.
The follow up to 2007’s number one, million-selling, debut Hand Built By Robots, is called Rebuilt By Humans for a very important reason. At the start of 2009 Faulkner broke his wrist and dislocated his entire right hand. A bad enough injury at the best of times, but if you’re a guitarist – and a virtuoso finger-picking one at that – it’s catastrophic!
One extremely intricate operation later to save movement in his hand and Faulkner was sneakily playing guitar again, his own form of DIY physio. He was back doing what he loved. Newton Faulkner had been rebuilt by humans.
Buoyed by radio play, Hand Built By Robots became a rare and precious thing: a word of mouth phenomenon. The same can easily be said for its follow up. It is phenomenal: ‘Won’t Let Go’, propelled by driving strings and an urgent, jump around backbeat, is already a live classic, as anyone who heard it at last summer’s Glastonbury and Latitude festivals will attest, not least because Faulkner plays the song accompanied by a tape of the backing track, which he whips out of his pocket and sticks in a cassette player.
Live, if you haven’t already witnessed his genius you are in for a treat. Faulkner is a one man band with his inventive, tech-savvy ways of triggering and presenting some of the backing tracks which were crafted in the studio for these big, bold new songs which are guaranteed to be massive crowd pleasers on the Newquay cliff top.
So how does Newton feel about sharing his headline status with Seasick Steve? ‘’I can’t wait to do Boardmasters with Seasick Steve, the man is a legend!’’
Tickets are now available on general release via the website, www.relentlessboardmasters.com and, with more than 30 bands per day across three stages (full line-up details to be announced in coming weeks), are without doubt the best value festival tickets money can buy.
Day tickets are just £35 while a weekend ticket is £60 or £80 with 2 nights of camping.
For tickets go to www.relentlessboardmasters.com
Relentless Boardmasters in Association with Vans returns from 4-9th August 2010
The Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans is Europe’s most famous surf, skate and music festival and over its 29 years has welcomed the biggest names in those fields. 2010 will be no different. Nowhere else in Europe can you find the best of the best at one event. RBM takes place across two sites, in Newquay, Cornwall and the highlights are as follows:
Set in possibly the UK’s most beautiful festival setting, the RBM Music festival takes place over two nights from 6-7th August on the cliff top at Watergate Bay. The festival, over its 4 years has witnessed some of the biggest acts to ever play the South West. Acts such as Razorlight, James Blunt, Feeder, Funeral For A Friend, Groove Armada, Pigeon Detectives and 2009 headliners The Streets and Cypress Hill have all taken over the main stage.
The RBM Music Festival has now grown since its formative years and now consists of 4 music stages offering a diverse line-up for all music lovers. From fist pumping punk and metal on the Vans ‘Off The Wall’ Stage to the cutting edge eclecticism of the Relentless Energy Stage.
The Relentless Beach Sessions, 4, 5 and 9th August, have become one of the most popular events at the RBM. In the most intimate of venues, the Fistral Beach Bar, a bespoke venue built for the RBM, music fans can watch some of the best in established and up and coming music talent, just a stone’s throw from the Fistral sunsets over the lapping Atlantic waves.
Acts to have graced the Relentless Beach Sessions include Enter Shikari, Seasick Steve, Sneaky Sound System, Beau Young, Pete Murray, Pigeon detectives and the Blackout to name a few. Many of these acts go on to become massive names in their musical genres.
Fistral Beach, the home of British surfing, is the venue for the 5 Star ASP World Qualifying Series surf event, the highlight of the Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans. The World’s best surfers will descend upon Newquay for a chance to win their share of the $120,000 prize purse and even more importantly the points on offer to catapult them into the “Dream Tour” and a life of surf super stardom. Make no mistake, this is the only chance to see the World’s best in England. Fistral will also host the Relentless Aerial Assault whereby surfers are catapulted into waves via jet ski offering speed to perform manoeuvres never seen in standard contest surfing.
While surfing is the roots of the Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans it is certainly not the only sporting highlight. Vert skateboarding has been a part of the festival for over 10 years and cements RBM as Europe’s leading event of its kind.
The 2009 Vans Summer Session hosted the highest profile event to date with US heavy hitters Alex Perelson and Neal Hendrix making the trip across the pond to take part. While these guys are superstars of the sport it was no easy ride thanks to the European contingent highlighted by UK shredders Sam Beckett and Sam Bosworth. They will all be back again this year and with the progression levels of the two Sam’s expect some serious upsets!
2009 also played host to the inaugural Vans Summer Session BMX mini ramp competition. After a few years of vert skate demos it was clearly time to give the BMX’ers their own event and the mini ramp comp was born. Over 40 of the UK’s top riders descended upon the Beach Village on Fistral and the carnage ensued. Highlights included a fakie double tail whip by Ben Wallace and an outstanding winning runs by Wallace and Martyn Cooper, 1st and 2ndrespectively. They will return to defend their positions.
Elsewhere on the Fistral site is the famous surf village where you can purchase all the latest surf gear at great prices. Perched above the beach, the Relentless Beach Bar also provides the ideal location to watch all the action whilst enjoying a cool beer, BBQ and of course the Nuts Bikini Contest. Yes that’s right, Nuts sift through the finest bikini clad babes and bring them to the Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans to crown the Nuts Bikini Babe of the year.
The Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans has something for everyone and is the ultimate staycation! (stay at home vacation). Go to www.relentlessboardmasters.com now to see why the RBM is the most unique event of its kind!