Eels have released the video for their new song That Look You Give That Guy which you can check out below.
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Nirvana Live at Reading 1992 CD/DVD!
Back in 1992 we were stood in a wet field awaiting was was to be one the most influential shows on earth! We are talking about Nirvana of course!
That moment when Everett True pushed Kurt Cobain on in a wheelschair and Dave and Chris picked up their intruments was serioulsy exciting and the show itself has been spoken about for years. A bootleg of this show was released way back but the quality was terrible and unofficial. We were gutted at the time, but now, that famous night is going to return to your TV screen and stereo as a double pack CD/DVD.
Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition DVD+CD Deluxe Edition as well as DVD-only, CD-only configurations on November 2, 2009, followed by a 2 LP version on November 16, 2009. YES!
Only 2 of the 25 performances on the DVD have ever been released before.
Here’s the playlist!
1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. Love Buzz*
23. The Money Will Roll Right In
24. D-7
25. Territorial Pissings
*not included on CD
The Drawing Boards crew are celebrating Skaterham’s 10 Years of service this Sunday with a monster event for all! Scroll down for the flyer or click here for the full details. Here’s a video of Potter warming up the Church that has come along way from its roots in the old Army barracks when it used to have ramps held together with gaffer tape!…..Can someone get him some shoes on flow FFS!
Size: 8.6 x 32.35
OK, so I could be a little biased in this review as this is the 4th Creature deck I have bought. It seems that the guys who ride creature are really loyal. It could be the great shapes or the fact that they last for a long time or the graphics which are always sick, but once you get a Creature you’ve pretty much sold your soul!
I never rode the 7.5 twigs that are classed as boards, I was always rolling on an 8.0. Which was ok but I never felt that stable and let’s face it I’m not the skinniest of blokes, so when I made the jump to an 8.6 Creature it took me a while to get used to it! But that was over a year ago now.
Navarette’s pro model is not a light deck by any stretch of the imagination. Your legs really have to get used to it before you even get your pop back properly, but once you do my god does it feel good! Just landing a kick flip on flat gives you major satisfaction, kinda like you just let one drop in a lift and someone else gets the blame for the fowl stench.
This board is one of the most popular size’s. Big enough for mad bowl and vert riding and not to big you can’t flip it. It’s got a great shape to it too, which a few people aren’t keen on but it works perfectly for me. It’s mainly the nose that you’ll notice as it’s bigger than Barry Manilow’s! Even if your front foot slips 9/10 times you’ll stay on your board, and for sketchy people like me that a major plus! The tail is pretty sizable too, there’s not much chance of the back foot slipping and slowing you down on this one.
Concave wise it’s a little shallow on the tail but has just the right kick on the nose so that it grabs your foot nicely on most tricks. I’ve been riding this board for two months now putting it through its paces every day and I gotta say I love it. She’s a little chunky skating street but when it comes to parks she’s perfect and in bowls – she wears the trousers.
This board will make your skating look and feel more solid, especially if you’re on the clumsy side of shredding like me. But right now I’m sitting at home with my leg in the air, ice pack on trying to get some stuff done for the site, despite any other personal activities the Crossfire heads think I do when all I have is the internet and my alone time……… even if you do ride a shred sled this wide you can still be a dick fall off and dislocate your knee!
Get out there and Support your local Creature!
Tom Halliday
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Subhumans – Live
Engine Room, Brighton
27.08.09
The dateline on my digital devices informs me this is 2009, but during August I was firmly strapped in to the wayback machine for some serious musical time travelling, and (in some cases) more nostalgia than you could shake a walking stick at. And to round it off – Subhumans.
Make no mistake; unlike some other outfits from the past I’ve seen lately, Subhumans are as relevant today as when they emerged from deepest Wiltshire at the dawning of The Eighties. Although they were soon aligned with the burgeoning Anarcho-punk movement/bands, musically they were quite a different proposition to many of their peers, with a much more upbeat and driving melodic sound, coupled with some incredibly clever and not (so) obvious lyrical messages. These guys could play. I guess I first heard them in ’83 and was immediately sold on ’em. I’ve seen them countless times since…
A testament to said relevance of Subhumans is that the packed crowd is made up of young punks and old gits in fairly equal measure who all hit the floor dancing when The Subs launch in to opener “Apathy” (“Drink, Sex, Cigarettes, Ford Cortina, household pets… Bombs? War? Famine? Death? An apathetic public couldn’t t care less”) – yep, up and running! There’s songs from their most recent studio LP “Internal Riot” and they trawl all the way thru an extensive back catalogue to the “Demolition War” EP (1982) And when they break in to the slow burning reggae tinged punker “Human Error” (from the latter record) – well here’s a classic point of their timeless relevance… where references to Belfast and Vietnam can be easily replaced by Baghdad and Afghanistan, and America’s interminable grip on the war machine.
Elsewhere, there’s plenty of talk from singer (and for my money probably one of the smartest people in punk) Dick Lucas about the credit crunch and the greed of the filthy rich bankers and politicians who have lied and deceived for so long. It would be easy for Dick to sound a little smug, as he and his cohorts have been warning about the ills of capitalism for… err… the past 25 years and then some!! But it’s no laughing matter. People’s jobs, savings and lives that are being sold down the river and the corporate media sound a little surprised. But first the Weather…
Anyways where was I… oh yes… red hot political punk in the furnace-like confines of The Engine Room. I believe the main set finished with “Mickey Mouse is Dead” and “Black/White“. After taking on fluids, the band throw together a cracking trio of songs to close… a cover of The Epileptics/Flux of Pink Indians standard “Tube Disasters“, followed by anti-animal testing anthem “Evolution“, before leaving us for dust with the almighty “Religious Wars“. Seriously, how fuckin’ constantly topical is this songs message… where everyday people are being shot, blown up, tortured, raped and imprisoned, in the name of what? A God? “Religious Wars no reason why, What a glorious way to die”…
Pete Craven
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Aesop Rock’s new project
Hail Mary Mallon have released a new video.
The project, which consists of Aesop Rock and his Def Jux labelmates Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, released this song via the Def Jux Presents 4 album and below is the video for it. Guts and dogs with lazers for eyes are involved. You’ve been warned.
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Stephen Malkmus tour dates
Stephen Malkmus will be hitting the UK in December.
He will bring The Jicks with him for a show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden as well as dates in Brighton and Manchester. The full line up is:
8th December – Brighton, Komedia
9th December – London, Electric Ballroom
10th December – Manchester, The Deaf Institute
11th December – All Tomorrow’s Parties (Butlins)
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Brand New announce Wembley Arena show
Brand New have announced they will play London’s Wembley Arena on January 23rd.
Tickets for the gig go on sale this Friday [September 4th] at 9am and no doubt the tickets will go quickly after the band’s successful Leeds and Reading Festivals. The band release their new album Daisy on September 21st.
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Creature Drop Sleds!
The fiendish minds of the Creature creative department have been working overtime by the looks of things. They have unleashed two series of Pro models from the entire team including our very own cranium splitting concrete abuser Stu Graham and several new team and custom shapes to keep every generation content in their coffins! Take a look at this extensive new range over at the Creature site now! In other Creature news, the new video Hesh Law is rumoured to be dropping on HALLOWEEN! More about that soon.
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Ben Raemers on Enjoi
This is probably the most exciting UK news we have had the pleasure of delivering for ages. Enjoi’s only UK rider Ben Raemers has now joined the full Enjoi team as an AM! Apologies for the post last night about him going pro, we were drunk!
Ben has gone from sweeping Crossfire Pounds at our Meanwhile jams to being one of the most talked about riders in Worldwide skateboarding. It’s more than deserved and we are stoked for him, Munson and all the crew from Essex who have all pushed their skating to another level.
Click here to watch his introducing video.