Motive Skateboards have caused quite a stir with their cracking new promo, unleashed upon the web this week.
Featuring some seriously high standards of skateboarding from Sean Smith, Paul Carter, Dave Snaddon, Dylan Hughes, Layth Sami and new rider Barney Page, this promo serves well at showing the potential of this team and company.
Check out the promo and get familiar with these names. It’s about time we saw some full parts from these guys!
www.motiveskateboards.co.uk/video/
Death Cab For Cutie have announced that they are going back into the studio to work on new material with an EP to hopefully be released near the end of the year.
Nick Harmer, bass player for Death Cab says, “There were four songs that we recorded during the Narrow Stairs sessions that didn’t quite fit into the final running order. We were really happy with them though so we decided to go back into the studio.”
He also added that he does “think an EP is a cool idea; it’s something we’ve done in the past so why not? I think it would be a really cool supplemental piece to Narrow Stairs and a snapshot of the musical headspace we were in during that period in the band. The songs will definitely see the light of day ahead of a new album though and, hopefully, before the end of the year“.
20th Century Fox
www.meetdave.co.uk
When you hear Eddie Murphy is about to hit the big screen once again, a warm tingly sensation spreads through the soul. From the minute I saw Beverly Hills Cop I thought Murphy was a tremendous actor. He has a willing nature and a laugh that could strip paint as well as get a viewer hooked up in stitches. Unfortunately, there is no funny laughs or tingles spreading anywhere with this film, just a few nudges and that is basically it. I would like you all to, Meet Dave.
Dave is like no one else on planet Earth. Firstly, he isn’t actually from this planet, and secondly he is not a person, or an alien for that matter. Watch out Starship Enterprise, there is a new spacecraft on the loose. Dave is a spaceship made in the image of its captain, and piloted by a crew of many tiny individual’s, each becoming more human natured the longer they stay on the Planet, and try to find a gadget that soaks up the salt from the seas as a new power source for their own planet. The methods of how these miniature men, and women, change vary from developing attractions to the opposite gender, a taste for music, becoming more violent or transforming their sexual orientation; all of which can occasionally cause laughs but will not have you in stitches.
This is one of the problems with this flick. There are hiccups of humour every so often, but rarely do you jump with shock or bow with laughter. Whether it is the Dave spaceship sharpening pencils up his nose, pooping money to pay for goods or singing Bee Gee’s songs in that high pitch voice, to comical lines such as one of the miniature men stating “we had a gas leek, it was silent but deadly” upon reviewing the damage caused by the crash.
Eddie Murphy has had quite a history in the movie industry. From playing a badass cop (Beverley Hills Cop), the blubbery science geek (Nutty Professor), the strange voice of a donkey (Shrek) and a father with concerns (Daddy Day Care). Even with this flick though, his humour seems to be lost once again. Spaceship Dave attempting to imitate smiling is rather unnerving, however his imitation of Marc Blucas is quite amusing.
One of the most fake and unrealistic things about this film was the voice that Murphy gives on the Captain. He seems overly confident to the point his voice is annoyingly cocky, unconvincing and utterly ridiculous.
This is a flick with amazing scenery and a brilliant transportation through the spaceship. One concern I did have through was with the aggressive ending, toilet humour and action this is meant to be a family film. You wonder if a PG certificate was sensible and would a possible 12A seem more appropriate. Other than that, Meet Dave is a half decent funny film with a half decent story line.
Michelle Moore
Nike are known for their collaborations and special edition shoes, with mashups coming from the whole country of Sweden, to Slam City, to MF Doom. These collabs are the result of hooking up with Europe’s finest skate team, Cliché.
I’ve gotta say it. I love Nike Classics. They’re comfy, they last for ages, look good, and skate oh so well. Which is why I was a little shocked when I put these on and instantly felt like I was wearing wooden clogs. The nubuck material they’ve used was so stiff that it’s taken a few weeks of walking down the shops to soften them up enough to skate in.
They were very good once they got to that point. The flock wallpaper patterned material is mad-strong, and despite laces snapping every 10th trick, they just aren’t wearing away, save a few scratches around the toe.
Cliché know what they’re doing, and I’m glad they went for the Classic instead of the more obvious Dunk. Years of history behind these shoes has lead to something that skates like a dream, but still looks fresh enough to go out chilling in. Good touch with the corduroy swoosh as well. Corduroy is rad.
Moose
Having not worn a pair of mid-tops for a while, and being generally disappointed by the Dunk when it came out, I bit the bullet and combined the two whilst trying out these Nike Mid Dunks.
Timberland boots is what I thought when I first saw them, and thankfully they are nothing like them. I know Tom Penny can do magic in those beetle crushers, but I need something a bit more slimmed down to get crafty on my board.
Being mids, they had plenty of ankle support yet gave enough movement to get my kicking flicks on with ease. They felt a lot stiffer than the other Dunks I’d tried, which is definitely a good thing as those always felt like someone wrapped my foot in a really cheap pillow.
The sole on these is thin and flexy, gives the perfect amount of board feel yet also gives you that confidence that a primo landing isn’t going to send you hobbling home crying, like you’ve just been caned across your sole.
One gripe is that the Velcro ankle strap does restrict your ankle a little too much, but leaving it undone means you have a flappy extra bit of yellow flying around. Not too much of a problem, but if something with the opposite Velcro side brushes past your foot, it’s gonna stick to you faster than the last drunk girl at a party.
One great advantage to these is that because they look like the kind of shoes you’d find on a woodyard, they perfectly match the collection of lumberjack shirts that you have piling up in your wardrobe, so there’s no excuse not to wear them all the time.
Moose
The northern team on DC‘s Live From Europe Tour were getting gnarly in London and Oxford last week.
Check out the goods on the DC Live From Europe Blog.
Organisers for a world-class indoor skatepark in Worcester are applying for a grant of almost £4,000,000 in the hope to build one of the best skateparks the UK has ever seen.
The park will be dedicated to Tim Greenwood, a skater from Malvern who sadly lost his life to leukaemia. Alongside the park is plans to build a youth café, a roller skating rink and various outdoor facilities including basketball courts, climbing wallas and even internet rooms and music studios.
If all goes to plan then construction for the park should begin in 2010 and reach completion in 2011.
For more information click here.
Fourstar have posted up a video featuring Guy Mariano, Rick Howard, Eric Koston, Brian Anderson, Mike Carroll and Max Schaaf get ripping in a picture-perfect pool.
This is the first installment in a series of catalog shoots and it’s off to a booming start.
Watch out for Hurrican Brian…
While we may still not know what exactly a Bachinsky is, our wait to find out is nearly over.
The latest visual presentation from City Skateboards, “What The F**k Is A Bachinsky?” went down a storm at the world premier over the weekend. To make that wait for the actual video more bearable then check out the photos from the premier over at Thrasher and Epicly Trife.
More to come at www.thecitystreets.com
The twelve albums shortlisted for the prestigous Nationwide Mercury Prize have been announced this morning, on the 22nd July.
The albums facing a chance to be alongside Portishead, Dizzee Rascal, Gomez and Pulp as Mercury Prize winners are:
Adele – 19
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music
Burial – Untrue
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle – Shine
Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon – Stainless Style
Portico Quartet – Knee-Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset – The Bairns
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement
The winner will be announced live on BBC Two on Tuesday 9th September in the awards show hosted by Jools Holland.