Magazine have reformed to play live for the first time since 1980.
The influential British band will play London’s Forum on February 13th and Manchester’s Academy on February 15th. Tickets go on sale on September 15th. The original members, Howard Devoto, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson and John Doyle will be joined by an as yet unnamed guest guitarist, who will fill in for the deceased John McGeoch.
Oasis recently played in Toronto and got a little more than they bargained for. A fan ran onstage and gave Noel a shove, what is the world coming to.
Croydon based skate co Drawing Boards have released a new graphic this week in memory of their good friend Ben Roberts who passed away. The graphic also pays homage to skate spot Fairfield Halls in Croydon that needs saving. Click here to join the petition.
The decks will be in various skate shops around the UK and will be served up with the usual free pencils and stickers. Go Croydon!
There’s no doubt about it, Corby’s Adrenaline Alley hosted the best UK turnout for years this weekend as the UK Championships organised by the UKSA provided the hottest skate comp since the days of Radlands. The semis were the tip of the iceberg for a final that had basically everything in terms of gnar and technical prowess. Vans ripper Chris Oliver took the street honours with an array of hammers that included a double backside flip over the entire middle section of the course followed by Ross McGouran and Kris Vile, who placed 2nd and 3rd respectively. It was seriously close.
Bristol’s Dan Wileman won the best trick in the street with a massive ollie over the gap to tailslide down the hubba with a bigspin to get him out. All done at mach 10!
This was backed up by a Vert final that left jaws wide open fueled by the future of British Vert skaters who hucked out back to back 540’s, tech steez and head high airs. Sam Beckett won the honours for his continuous bangers across the various Vert series comps throughout the year with 13 yr old Sam Bosworth (yes really) and the young Alex Halford all taking British Vert to another level.
Claire Alleaume put the comp on the map for the ladies, no surprises there though as she simply rips. Her skills were closely followed by the North’s Lois Pendlebury and and the South’s Lucy Adams who was also riding with a fractured elbow!
This all made for the best UK comp in years. Overall this weekend witnessed an amazing turnout, fantastic organisation and good times for all.
Read the official UKSA results below and look out for a full write up here this week.
UKSA National championships street final
1 Chris Oliver 472 £2,500
2 Ross McGouran 450 £1,500
3 Kris Vile 434 £1,000
4 Ben Grove 424 £300
5 Dave Snaddon 410 £150
6 Tom Harrison 394 £100
7 Dan Wileman 389 £80
8 Neil Smith 377 £60
9 Ben Nordberg 371 £40
10 Pete King 357 £20
Street Best Trick
Dan Wileman – Gap to Tail bigspin Out on the ‘along and down hubba’ £500
Independent Vert series Results/A Group
1st Sam Beckett 3700 £1,200
2nd Sam Bosworth 3200 £600
3rd Alex Halford 3000 £350
4th Sean Goff 2900 £200
5th Jacob Anderson 2425 £150
6th Jim the Skin 2175 £100
7th Jim Langram 1975 £100
8th Trevor 1900 £100
9th Wingy 1900 £100
10th Paul Luc Ronchetti 1750 £100
11th Adam Halverson 1700
12th Dave Allen 1675
National Champs Results (TODAY)
1st Paul Luc Ronchetti 399 £150
2nd Andy Scott 395 £100
3rd Sam Beckett 393 £50
4th Pete King 382
5th Sean Goff 366
5th Sam Bosworth 366
7th Dave Allen 358
8th Alex Halford 322
Girls Street Results
1 Claire Alleaume £100
2 Lois Pendlebury £50
3 Lucy Adams £25
4 Helena Long
5 Sam Bruce
6 Emma Richardson
7 Georgina Winter
8 Cora
9 Rebecca Jaques
10 Fran Stroud
11 Becky Wood
Todays IVS Vert Results
1st Zac Kutz
2nd Chris Spence
3rd Mike Day
4th Jan Zorba
5th Oakley Liddel
6th Nick Hansen
Independent Vert Series Results/B Group
1st Chris Spencer 3300
2nd Mike Day 3100
3rd Zac Kutz 2925
4th Oakley Liddel 2450
5th Nick Hansen 2450
6th Rob Ayton 2000
7th Jan Zorba 1850
8th Rob Fuller 1750
9th Reece Douglas 1550
10th Batfink 1525
11th Tom Ball 1400
12th Keith Eason 800
Sat 5th September
The first day of the UK Championships has successfully come to a close revealing the top 25 who will be in the semi finals tomorrow. After a hectic but fun day, the results and point structure look like this:
The top 25 are:
Chris Oliver 382
Ross McGouran 377
Caradog Emanual 371
Adam Howe 358
Joshua Young 355
Ali Drummond 350
Nev 342
Dan Wileman 334
Ben Grove 332
Steak 325
John Tanner 319
Marc Churchill 309
Tom Watts 307
Pete King 303
Kris Vile 298
Tom Harrison 291
Eddie Belvedere 288
Dan Leech 281
Neil Smith 278
Tom Knox 274
Jasper King-Harman 273
Awadh Mohammed 271
Dave Snaddon 268
Rob Smith 258
Ben Nordberg 251
Those who represented but didn’t make the cut include:
Kevin McKeon 242
Andy Scott 237
Craig Smedley 236
Conhuir Lynn 235
Tom Shiminon 233
Sam Pulley 227
James Gardner 220
Daryl Dominguez 218
Dave Davies 218
Rodney Clarke 218
Jess Young 214
Doug Parmiter 213
Doug McLaughlan 211
James Kilpatrick 204
Adam Moss 201
Snowy 201
Jamie Errington 200
Joey Pressey 190
Casper Brooker 190
Amir Williams 188
Jake Collins 182
Paul Regan 181
Aaron Sweeney 181
Scott Howes 181
James Coyle 173
Matt Henson 172
Micheal Patrick 171
Sean Smith 170
Carl Wilson 165
Chris Gibbons 165
Paul Silvester 164
Darryl Nobbs 155
Rory Milanes 155
Joe Habgood 154
Frank Stephens 148
Joe Lynskey 146
Liam Sproat 143
Louis Cooper 141
John Bell 139
Danny Beall 136
Lee Blackwell 134
Chris Ault 132
Chris Barrett 130
Vaughn Baker 125
Benson 123
Daniel Tomlinson 122
Boots 122
Pete Adams 117
Andy White 113
Mark Nicholson 112
Chris Jones 109
Layth Sami 107
Dave Chesson 106
Ben Cundall 101
Brandon Ide 100
Sean Currie 86
Horsey 84
Mark Kendrick 81
Ben Blake 67
Joe Nobes 60
Jimmy Boyes 49
Aaron Revell 42
Timmy Garbett 39
Vert Semi finals are:
1st Paul Luc Ronchetti
2nd Andy Scott
3rd Pete King
4th Sam Becket
5th Sam Bosworth
6th Alex Halford
7th Sean Goff
8th Dave Allen
9th Adam Halverson
10th Jacob Anderson
11th Pete Dossett
12th Trevor Johnson
13th Mike Edwards
14th Wingy
15th Chris Hudson
16th Jim Langran
17th Nick Reece
18th Jim the Skin
19th Trawler
20th Jon Nixon
As ever Matix have footage on tap for you via their YouTube feed. This week JB Gillet, Mike Mo Capaldi, Torey Pudwill, Mike Anderson, Marty Murawski, Danny Brady, Lem Villemin and Vivien Feil are all caught in the lens whilst at Frankfurt’s Bright Tradeshow and Berlin’s Grey Daze.
Underoath have posted a video online for their track Desperate Times Desperate Measures, taken from their album Lost In The Sound Of Separation, which was released this week.
They begin their UK tour on Saturday and will play the following gigs:
6 Sep – Manchester Academy 2, Manchester
7 Sep – Glasgow Garage, Glasgow
8 Sep – Birmingham Academy 2, Birmingham
10 Sep – Cardiff University Solus Room, Cardiff
11 Sep – Norwich Waterfront, Norwich
12 Sep – London Astoria, London
13 Sep – Leeds Cockpit, Leeds
14 Sep – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
This years Concrete Carnival consisted of two legs which was pretty fortunate as most of the first one was rained off! The only benefit of this was that the prize money was rolled over to the second part up in Bridlington, read on:
Bridlington’s Gasworx skatepark is a real credit to Marc Churchill and Gravity who designed and built it. It’s one of those parks where you can easily ‘get gnarly’ or equally just cruise about. Most people seemed to like it anyway.
One thing weird about his park is that there’s only a handful of local skaters as their scene is hugely bike based. As it turned out a lot of the locals had opted to attend Leeds festival! So it was kind of weird in that there was no real crowd just a bunch of mates having a session with their mates filming and shooting photos, one of their mates MCing and one of their other mates handing out some cash and prizes. When I say it was a mellow affair it would be an understatement, only Rumble in the Jungle in Goa was more relaxed! Saying that though the skating was probably better for it. No snaking or comping just a really rad session where everyone got paid at least something!
Saturday was a local kids comp where there was about 20 of them all getting stuck in. Porno Paul offered encouragement for those who were a bit shy at first and in the end every young gun there was entered, even two girls that could barely roll down the bank. They were all rewarded with goodies from the sponsors which will hopefully encourage them all to keep rolling. As the weather looked a bit moody I decided it was a good idea to run a little best trick comp just in case Sunday got rained off again. The plus side of that is that most of them had some beer money!
Being the good boy I am I had an early night whilst Rob Smith, Macca and the Gyppo’s headed out raving in Hull. It sounded fairly messy and the resulting video footage of one of their crew ‘on the job‘ is probably best forgotten!
Sunday started off wet but as the sun came out the Messiah of Bowlriding Felix appeared after a long train journey and we knew it was on! The ‘street’ comp went down first. Regan’s pop impressed everyone whilst tyreman, Manhead and Nordberg cruised round picking up £20 notes on the way. Adam Howe really shown out with a large bag of tricks and amazing consistency, he won the ‘overall’ title and walked off with an XBOX 360 for his efforts.
Next up was The Mens event as I’m sure Munson views it! The bowl jam. It was so nice to just sit back and watch a rad session in the sun with everyone having a laugh. Early on in the day a line had been spotted and Sweeney was ‘nominated‘ to try it (I thought Darryl had bagged best line with his transfer sequence here). Aaron had to frontside ollie out the bowl over about 6 foot of platform and land in the down slope of the pole jam. Of course he did it but it took a while! Had he not stepped up to that challenge he may have given Ben Raemers more of a run for the title of best overall. To be fair Raemers was on fire all day, not bad considering he was saying he probably wouldn’t skate due to a nagging ankle injury.
Carl Wilson pulled my personal trick of the day with a perfect kickflip to b/s smith grind out of the blue. Kevin Plasterer McKeon didn’t seem to up for hurting himself after a heavy night out and Macca and Rob Smith didn’t even get their boards out the car. I reckon the bowl ‘comp’ went on for about two hours but no one seemed to want to stop! It eventually wound down once Andy Scott had nailed a transfer that was eluding him and Aaron rode down that pole jam!
Thanks to all the sponsors: Vans, Oakley, Skull Candy, Matix, Eastpak, Relentless, Xbox, Protec, Creature, Indy and Cliché. Also thanks to all the staff at Gasworx and everyone who made the trip.
Powley
Stuart Bagshaw & David Oates
In the 1980s, when graffiti first hit these shores in a big way, it wasn’t just the sprawling metropolis of the country’s capital that embraced the colourful new culture with open arms. Brighton also caught the bug and since then the South Coast town has been a haven for writers.
The introduction of Brighton Graffiti finishes with the sad statement that Brighton council is continuing its crackdown on the art in the city with the closure of famous local spots like The Moon and Tarner Park, which brought artists to the seashore from all over the world.
However, this book provides a colourful and very powerful example of just how impressive the writing is in Brighton, with page after page of pieces, ordered chronologically, from the early days of Req and Mere in the 80s to Petro in the 90s, right up to modern day colourbursts by Odisy and Mush, showcasing the very best of the art that has hit the nooks and crannies of the town.
If the council down on the South Coast think they are totally closing down illegal art, they really need to think again. The history has been brilliant documented in the book, which is littered with quotes from local artists and proves that graffiti in Brighton is alive and kicked and will continue to give the seaside a splash of vibrancy for a good while yet.
Make sure you pick up this book if you want to view how smaller towns are able to hold their own against cities such as New York, London and Stockholm.
Abjekt.
Hand Over Fist is the latest project album to come out of the Doomtree camp and features the Murder Maker, Mictlan on raps and beats by the currently untouchable Lazerbeak on their self titled effort. With the Doomtree crew album showcasing exactly what the Minnesotan crew are all about, Mictlan kicks the driver of the run away train out of the cabin and puts a brick on the accelerator.
It’s hard to imagine how Mike could take the level higher than he slammed down on False Hopes’ Hot Monotony or Game Over [Go Big Or Go Home] from the crew album, but somehow he manages it. Able to balance power with brains, this album is like a weightlifter grabbing you by the neck and slamming you against the wall, whilst getting in your face about the state of South American economies and there is simply no let up throughout the 13 track record.
Lazerbeak has proved over the past few years that he can switch his beats up, he can strip them down and get melancholy or he can bang some horns in. On this record he goes for the jugular from the very start and makes sure you are constantly slapping your hand against your head in astonishment. Whilst he brings huge drums in on every song, he also makes sure that when you slip the headphones on, you can pick out intricate little details, giving the music a depth that bores into you more and more with every listen.
The track you can hear by clicking above is Suicide Jimmy Snuffa and it gives a perfect example of what you can expect when Hand Over Fist drops at the end of September.
If you was I, supafly, if I was you, suicide slams Mictlan, and you know what? He ain’t wrong.
Abjekt.