Like everybody who has seen him in the flesh will say, an underground killer of the highest order.
Ten years deep on Vans.
Author: Crossfire
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New Sub Focus video
D&B’s hottest rising star Sub Focus has a new single out.
Could This Be Real is taken from his self-titled album of last year and will be released on January 18th. Have a look at the video below and check him out at Pendulum’s “Earstorm” night.
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Fake Problems announce UK tour
Crossfire favourites Fake Problems are back in the UK in April.
The band, who supported Frank Turner at the end of last year, will be playing 11 shows in April as well as the European Groezrock Festival [alongside the likes of A.F.I., Hatebreed, Bad Religion and Sum 41]. The full list of dates is:
12-Apr – Norwich – Water Rats
13-Apr – Bristol – Thekla
14-Apr – Birmingham – O2 Academy 3
15-Apr – London – Barfly
16-Apr – Oxford – Bullingdon
17-Apr – Manchester – Roadhouse
18-Apr – Glasgow – O2 ABC 2
19-Apr – Newcastle – The Cluny
20-Apr – Nottingham – Rock City Basement
21-Apr – Leeds – The Cockpit
22-Apr – Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms
Pendulum will headline the Earstorm night at London’s Matter on January 22nd it has been announced.
The band will be previewing material from their upcoming album Immersion during their DJ set and will be joined on the bill by Zane Lowe, Sinden, Herve, Sub Focus, Noisia, The Glitch Mob and more. Tickets are available from www.matterlondon.com so get in quick.
Don’t forget Pendulum are also touring the UK in May, including a date at London’s Wembley Arena:
17th – Ulster Hall, Belfast
18th – Olympia, Dublin
20th – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
21st – Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
22nd – Dome, Doncaster
25th – Centre, Brighton
26th – Academy, Birmingham
28th – Wembley Arena, London
29th – Arena, Cardiff
30th – Pavillions, Plymouth
31st – Oasis Centre, Swindon
Ok first of all, due to me being a Star Wars fan, this board is pretty awesome! I mean I’m not the type of person who is going to keep it in its wrapping and place it neatly on a display shelf with all my Storm Trooper figures, badges, die cast AT-ATs or my Millennium Falcon Lego, but I like Star Wars, so looking down at a picture of Chewbacca holding a beer did make me chuckle.
I took this board to Holland with Moose and the boys and had the pleasure of setting up fresh wood to skate the Area 51 park in Eindhoven. Let me tell you the pop was so good that it felt like I had harnessed the power of the force and it was strong in me. Some might argue that it was the Santa Cruz Powerply giving me that pop, but I was the one feeling like a Jedi leaping over imaginary logs on Endor in order to save the princess so I will write what I like.
It was solid to skate and really felt like it was going stay on my feet. Nice concave, which is how I like it, and a really nice shape. It wasn’t completely symmetrical as in nose and tail size but I did have to ‘dick the nose’ so as to save confusion at first. After returning home from wood park heaven I also tested this board out at Stockwell, a place I regularly skate so this was a better testing ground. It was as cold as Hoth in Empire Strikes Back but it held up really well against the cold UK winter and unforgiving concrete, I felt totally at home on it and it felt right – like a damn good skateboard should.
If you are looking for a new board to skate then this is it and if you are looking for something to treasure and polish in your den of George Lucas then also a win. It’s also worth noting that the deck comes with a PowerWarranty. All Santa Cruz decks come with a 120-day warranty covering delamination due to materials and/or workmanship. Try one, you will not be disappointed.
MT
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Luan Oliveira pro for Flip
Following an amazing part in Extremely Sorry and lighting up every demo and comp as he rolls, Luan Oliveira has been made pro by Flip Skateboards.
Geoff Rowley says “Luan has been on a skateboarding rampage of technical video wizardry and contest annihilation for the last year. We are psyched to introduce him to the big leagues as a professional skateboarder on Flip. Makes us proud, bro!”
The Brazilian won Tampa Am for the second year in a row at the back end of 2009 and ripped the UK when the team visited last summer, look out for his Claymation graphic pro model and expect much more from him in 2010.
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Grab a 10 year old Aesop Rock demo
Blockhead and Aesop Rock have put a “New Year’s Gift” up for download.
The producer and rapper who worked closely on Aesop’s Float and Labor Days album have put a 10 year old demo called Jinx Planet up for download. The beat was made in 2000 and an explanation of it, along with the download itself can be found here. Whilst you’re waiting for it to download, check out a newer Aesop Rock song:
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Mos Def to play KOKO
Mos Def will play Koko in London.
The rapper, who released The Ecstatic last year, will hit the capital on April 15th.
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Idlewild announce UK tour
Idlewild have announced details of a new UK tour.
The band will play the following dates in March with set to be announced in April.
3rd – Bristol Thekla
4th – Gloucester Guildhall
5th – Plymouth Hippo
8th – Reading Sub 89
9th – Brighton Concorde
11th – Liverpool Masque
12th – Preston 53 Degrees
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Bristol’s Finest
Photo: Owen Hopkins – Nosegrind in Bristol by Trix.
After pressing play on the last DVD of the decade to be gracing the front of Sidewalk, Bristol’s Finest, I barely had time to pour milk on my cornflakes before Dan Wileman was 360 flipping out of lengthy manuals in a Crocodile Dundee get-up. This is a flick that sees no shame in premature gnar-jaculation, choosing to drop the heavy bassline into this visual mixtape instantly rather than faff around with any editing or HD foreplay. This is Bristol, remember? Or, more accurately, if all those subverted North Face logos are anything to go by, this is the South West, bitch.
So after briefly floating in a womb with names floating around that may as well serve as a loose metaphor for Bristol being pregnant with a spectacular skate scene, Dan Wileman rips from the umbilical cord and gets this bloodbath started. After another excuse to see that bigflip at the 2008 Meanwhile Jam, Dan doesn’t slow with unexpected rapid-fire bangers. Aside from the most legit frontboard on a ledge since the 90s, Dan gets high on the monster rail atop Cardiff Bay’s steep red banks and stays around to flip manual the pad at Sports Café that does not get nearly enough attention from visitors. Look out for more from this guy in the Crayon video which will undoubtedly drop sometime this year whenever Dykie comes up with a name and manages to spell it correctly in the title sequence. There was a wink in that sentence.
From now on, people have not-so-much sections, but a period of time in the unstoppable mix to drop bangers as though in a free association session with RZA and the Clan. Amongst the montages it’s not easy to keep up with the action but what’s going on is most definitely not easy, no way, not ever, no sir. Motive’s Paul Carter hooks up with Wainwright to hit some beautiful architecture and make it a little bit more grimy before Flynn Trotman flies in and skates walls like they’re flatbanks. Tom Gibbs deserves a note and immediate re-watch for catching everything proper and perfect.
Jess Young comes in next and if you weren’t satisfied with his photos from the Kill City Hobo Tour in the mag then you’re a fool, but will soon become a satisfied and hopefully impressed fool. There’s an on-going joke with anyone who skates with Jess Young, you could be standing on top of a ledge that someone has placed on Everest for some reason and it won’t be long before someone says ‘ah we should get Jess on this butt’. Sure, there’s some big drops in this, but you’ll be surprised at how versatile he is too. Dylan Hughes is next and shows that he hasn’t had so much as a nap after his Motive section, watch out for that double set frontside flip…
Andy Makepeace has a beautiful, optimistic name, and also boasts a beautiful nollie frontside heel that’s also as optimistic as a nollie frontside heel could be. After throwing it down Lloyds he whacks one into a mayday on those haggard banks that get a trashing throughout. Nicky Howells follows in traditional pisstake mode. Amongst technical ledge tomfoolery there’s a lazer flip that’ll become instant enemies with your rewind button. Be nice to that little guy now, you’re gonna need that little button again in a few minutes. Snaddon closes this segment in the usual top of the pops manner, half cabbing over a bench at college green and reclaiming that location for what’s truly important in Bristol. Fuck Skins!
The end is nigh, and yet it’s still not safe to breathe. The Big Hoppa Owen Hopkins puts that inevitable hardflip on hold (it comes after ten tricks! the wait was as tense as a Tarantino scene with no cuts!) but when it does you will shit where ever you are sitting. So if you have a portable DVD player then head to the lav then. Just a heads up.
New Crayon recruit Korahn Gayle finishes one of the finest (literally, I wasn’t shoehorning an awkward reference to the title in here I promise) videos to come from Bristol (that had absolutely nothing from The Deaner in I should add, not a bad thing) in the last decade, and who better to do so. If you’re not already convinced that Korahn isn’t one of the most important skaters to emerge from not just Bristol but the UK in the last ten years then do us a favour – go and do a switch back 360 down Lloyds in the fucking rain and let’s hear you make the same verdict. Hold tight Bristol.
Stanley;
If you missed out on the free DVD, put the kettle on and watch the full film right here:
BRISTOL’S FINEST from Bristol's Finest on Vimeo.