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Flaming Lips announce UK tour

Oklahoma psychedelic pop wonders The Flaming Lips have confirmed their first UK tour in three years, ahead of the release of their forthcoming double album ‘Embryonic‘.

Joining The Flaming Lips on the tour are the support acts Stardeath and White Dwarfs – featuring Wayne Coyne’s nephew. The Flaming Lips are set to play the following dates:

November
10 London Troxy
13 Portsmouth Guildhall
15 Glasgow O2 Academy
16 Manchester Academy
17 Birmingham Academy

To give you an idea of what to expect from a Flaming Lips set, here’s a clip from a recent performance in Helsinki:

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Skateboarding News

Fresh Blood – Caesar Rosado

World Industries have welcomed Nor Cal skater Caesar Rosario to their flow team. The rebirth of Flameboy is go so look out for continued footage and new riders as they drop through our RSS feed.

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Drawing Boards get Creepy at Crawley

This message was delivered by Drawing Boards exactly 1 minute ago: Went for abit of Creepy Crawley action t’other day with Jerry n Baker … Here’s some really bad filming of what went down before the battery died …. The James and Pots footage is from the vaults as they couldn’t make it and I didn’t wanna leave em out … Sorry about the stinking angles gotta admit I was abit hammered by the end of the day when Adam and Jak showed up … Anyways blah blah blah it is what it is ….

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Skateboarding News

Mexigo!

Get your dancing shoes on and get into this latest Mexican skate edit! Revolver crew in full Ensenada effect!

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Skateboarding News

World Industries team edit

World Industries are back with a new team as reported here a few months back. Here’s their latest edit of the new team skating in the Back to the Banks jam and also Manny Mania.

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Skateboarding News

Busenitz – the story behind his pro shoe

Real rider Dennis Busenitz has a pro shoe on Adidas coming out soon. Watch this video edit explaining how the shoe design came together and of course, more footage of of Dennis ripping as usual. Watch the Diagonal video from Adidas here.

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Skateboarding News

Chico Brenes retrospective

DVS rider Chico Brenes is the latest pro skater to get big ups on the web this month. This retrospective celebrates his involvement in skateboarding with a line of clothing and shoes rolled out by DVS and LRG this week titled the “Then And Now” Collections. Watch the video here.

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Skateboarding News

Sample Sale this weekend in London

This weekend there’s a sample sale going on upstairs at the Vibe Bar, off of Brick Lane in East London that you should be aware of if you are local. Expect 50-80% off all product on tees, sweats, denim, jackets, headwear and trainers from brands including Rogue Status, The Hundreds, Rebel8, Diamond Supply Co, Innes, Official, Kr3w, Supra, Stereo and more.

Tees are £15.00 (2 for £25.00) and other great deals, bargains and are always up for a bit of bartering! the sample sale is cash only, there is a cash machine at the venue. Crossfire readers can buy boards for £20 (Stereo, 5Boro) so mention that when you get there for a discount!

Dates and Times are:

3rd July -1pm – 6pm
4th July -11am – 6pm
5th July -1pm – 6pm

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Pixies ‘Doolittle’ tour dates announced

Best news of the day is that the Pixies are back with a DOOLITTLE Tour in October. London, Dublin and Glasgow. Expect the legendary album in its entirety to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. In other news the Minitaur boxset that was scheduled for June 15th will now be out in September. Click here for all the details.

DATES:

Dublin Olympia (October 1, 2)
Glasgow SECC (4)
O2 Academy Brixton (6, 7, 8, 9)

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North Atlantic Oscillation are on the radar

It’s always fantastic to discover some new music. This week we introduce you to North Atlantic Oscillation formed with people from Scotland biggest cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow. If you are a fan of Grandaddy and Super Furry Animals NAO could well be your next big love.

Drawing Maps from Memory from Brendan Mc Carthy on Vimeo.