Black Label‘s new video God Save the Label will be premiered in various UK skate shops this July. Watch the trailer below and get hyped.
Rescue, Southampton Friday 10th
Freestyle Newport ,Friday 17th le pub Newport.
Mischief Stockton on tees 11th in store
Bored skate shack St Austell 11th in store
EXCLUSIVE!!! Sneak preview of the opening montage from “God Save the Label” from Black Label Skateboards on Vimeo.
Water Rats
Kings Cross, London
30/06/09
Imagine a love-in between Neil Young, My Morning Jacket and Kasabian; not a pleasant thought but the resulting offspring may well sound a lot like Alberta Cross.
Those familiar with their 2007 ep, The Heartbreaker and the Thief, may well be puzzled by the Kasabian reference, but certainly more than one of the new songs hint at their “new direction”.
On a ludicrously hot Tuesday evening we all packed into the back room at the Water Rats as the band took to the stage, the five piece concentrated mainly on the forthcoming new album, Broken Side of Time, with a sprinkling of old favourites for the faithful, gracefully easing in and out of each song with the help of frontman, Petter Ericson Stakee’s, beautiful, soulful, soaring vocals.
The stripped down feel of the older songs is now replaced with beefier wall of sound courtesy of second guitarist Sam Kearney adding extra weight and dimension to the songs, though fans of their debut ep’s more country feel may find their new sound not so appealing, it’s certainly a forward progression that I’m sure will be embraced by a wider audience.
Opening with Ramblin Home, a pure Alberta Cross gem, complete with sky rocket chorus, and closing with forthcoming new single ATX, the pace never drops until the encore when Stakke and bassist Terry Wolfers came back to finish with an acoustic version of the old fave Lucy Rider.
The new album is not scheduled for release until September this year, but if you can’t wait until then, go to, www.myspace.com/albertcross, I know I can’t!
Nelson Bibb
Czech riders Honza Minoland Marek Zaprazny who ride for Nomad Skateboards feature in this edit from the Nike SB tour in Mallorca. The edit comes from Honza himself.
More footage form the Australian Masaiook video has dropped this morning. Here’s Jake Hayes’ section for your mince pies. Was that really a Benihana? Lester Kasai brought that one to the scene.
Here’s some recent footage of behind the scenes at the Etnies training facility. In this clip, Mikey Taylor and Ryan Sheckler session the park. Click here for a recent interview with Mikey from the platform.
Tez, when are the IPATH team coming to the UK?! Rumours were rife a while back but who knows. For now though watch some footage of the team featuring Matt Rodriguez, Nilton Neves, Adam Alfaro and Ryan Lay at the Woodward camp and get stoked.
Flip Skateboards rarely upload footage to their youtube channel but here’s a clip from last night of the team filming some stunts for Extremely Sorry whilst talking hot dogs.
The Independent Vert Series final at Creation Skatepark went off in fine style yesterday. Birmingham’s crowds witnessed Sam Beckett take the top spot ahead of Sam Bosworth and Alex Halford in the A Group and the B Group saw Oakley Liddell in first place ahead of Joe Atkins and Nick Hanson who came 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The legendary Best Trick comp was taken by Sam Bosworth with a huge Judo 540 and young Joe Atkins with a Finger Flip Indy Air. Check the Myspace for full results.
The annual DuFFs jam at Rom Skatepark went off in fine style this weekend with punk bands, mohicans, electric pool and bowl skating going down. Look out for a photo feature this week but for now here’s Ben Raemers in the midst of it.
Congrats to Nigel House from Tackley who will be going to the Relentless NASS Festival with a friend this weekend after winning last week’s competition. Check out the Goliath ramp that has been built for the event, apparently the biggest ramp in Europe.
