The Relentless Boardmasters 2010

The Relentless Boardmasters returns for 2010 from 4th - 8th August.

**Seasick Steve and Newton Faulkner join Leftfield as headliners for The Relentless Boardmasters in Association with Vans 2010 **

They have been away for 10 years but dance legends Leftfield return on Saturday 7th August as headliners at the Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans, as one of only four festival dates this year. Expect all the classics from two of the finest dance albums of the last 20 years, Leftism and Rhythm & Stealth.

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!

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.

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

The Relentless Boardmasters 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 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 something for all music lovers from rockers on the Vans Stage to punk and dance at the Relentless Energy Sessions.

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, created each year for RBM, music fans can watch some of the best in established and up and coming music talent, just a stones through from the cool Atlantic waters.

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. The World’s best surfers will arrive in Newquay to take part in the $120,000 event with the aim of taking the cash and even more importantly the points on offer that will 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 jetski offering speed to perform maneuvers never seen in standard contest surfing.

While surfing is the roots of the Relentless Boardmasters it is certainly not the only sporting highlight. Vert skating has been a part of the festival for over 10 years and cements RBM as Europe’s leading event of its kind.

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 saw the first Vans Summer Sessions BMX mini ramp competition. After a few year s of vert 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 Wallance and Martyn Cooper, 1st and 2nd respectively. They will return to defend their positions.

Elsewhere on the Fistral site is the famous surf village where you can buy all the latest surf gear at great prices, the Relentless Beach Bar, the only place to watch the action while enjoying a cool beer and awesome burger and of course the Nuts Bikini Contest. Yes thats right, Nuts sift through the finest bikini clad babes and bring them to the Relentless Boardmasters to crown the Nuts Bikini Babe of the year.

The Relentless Boardmasters has something for everyone and is the ultimate staycation (stay at home vacation). Go to www.relentlessboardmasters.com now to see what RBM is all about.