Build Your Own Boardmasters 2026 Hitster Pack with Hitify

Boardmasters 2026: Where Surf Culture Meets Great Music

Every August, a stretch of Cornish clifftop above Newquay's Fistral Beach turns into one of the most visually stunning music festivals in the world. Boardmasters has been running since 1999, combining world-class surfing competitions in the sea below with a proper music festival on the headland above. The result is something genuinely unique: a festival where you can watch pro surfers carve waves in the morning and see headline acts at sunset.

Boardmasters 2026 takes place from August 5 to 9 in Newquay, Cornwall. The music lineup leans heavily into indie, alternative, pop, and electronic, with a relaxed seaside energy that sets it apart from the mud-and-chaos of inland festivals. Past headliners have included Gorillaz, The 1975, Foals, and George Ezra. The vibe is quintessentially British summer at its best.

What Is Hitster?

Hitster is the card game where each card contains a QR code linked to a song. Players scan the code, listen to the track, and guess which year it was released. Place the card correctly on your personal timeline and you get to keep it. The player with the most cards at the end wins. It is simple to explain, impossible to master, and works brilliantly as a party game with any group who loves music.

The indie and alternative genre is perfect Hitster territory. Decades of beloved songs with subtle shifts in sound mean that guessing whether a track came out in 2008 or 2012 is genuinely tricky, even for serious fans.

Build Your Own Boardmasters 2026 Hitster Pack

You do not need to buy a pre-made pack to play Hitster. With Hitify, you can identify any song, get its precise release year, and generate printable QR code cards for a fully custom pack. Perfect for a pre-festival get-together or a beach party in the Boardmasters spirit.

Here are twelve songs that capture the Boardmasters sound perfectly:

• Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (2001) - the track that introduced a generation to animated alt-hip-hop, and still sounds ahead of its time
• Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool (2008) - euphoric indie-dance tailor-made for sunset sets
• Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know (2010) - jittery, joyful indie-pop that made the whole world dance
• Bastille - Pompeii (2013) - the anthemic chorus that turned festival fields into singalongs
• The 1975 - Chocolate (2013) - hazy, sun-drenched indie rock that defined British summer 2013
• George Ezra - Budapest (2014) - warm, instantly lovable folk-pop with an unstoppable hook
• Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile (2014) - fuzzy, fearless guitar pop from one of British indie's best
• Clean Bandit - Rather Be (2014) - the crossover dance-pop smash that dominated every UK summer party
• Years and Years - King (2015) - glittery electronic pop with a golden chorus made for outdoor stages
• Foals - Mountain at My Gates (2015) - driving, euphoric art-rock that sounds like a festival headline slot
• Blossoms - Charlemagne (2016) - carefree, slightly psychedelic indie that fits any clifftop perfectly
• Sigrid - Strangers (2017) - anthemic Scandinavian pop that packs more punch than anything twice its size

Use Hitify to scan each track, confirm the release year, and build your printable card pack. Then challenge your mates to place them in the right order on the timeline. Boardmasters knowledge will be tested.

Start building your Boardmasters 2026 Hitster pack at hitify.app.