Enter Shikari have built a bungalow so they can write the follow up to ‘Take To The Skies‘. Apparently Laurence Llewelyn-Bown tutned them down on the design front.
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Author: Crossfire
Although early eighties Boston hardcore heroes and straight-edge pioneers SS Decontrol are booked to play the Camden Underworld in London on August 17th, relationships have exploded among the original bands members resulting in former member Alan Barile posting the below letter regarding singer David Spring’s new version of SSD. Now this is what we call straight edge unity….
There is absolutely no truth to any speculation that SSD will be performing this summer. The fact is original vocalist David Spring “Springa” is assembling a band of hired guns to tour and rip off the public playing under the name SSD. Due to his selfish actions David Spring has officially been terminated from ALL association with the band SSD. His attempt to recreate SSD in 2008 will utterly fail and I hope the public will not attend his performances and if they do they make it as miserable as possible for him to remain on stage safely. I know I personally will make every attempt to make him pay for his corrupt, cheating selfish actions.
SSD will always be a team with integrity. It’s unfortunate that a fat overweight “has been” and “nobody” will try to fool the public under the mighty moniker SSD. His overall contribution to what made SSD such a special band is so far under the radar and almost next to zero. Anybody intimately involved and close to the band understands his contribution. The real fact is that the band had to go out of it’s way to compensate for his talent, work ethic and criminal behavior. I feel bad for those fans who have been waiting for a chance to see the band but attending this Dave Springa performance is a travesty and borderline criminal. He is a terrible human being and I’m not just saying this now. He is basically the reason the band dissolved.
Our relationship has been civil since we stopped playing but clearly after then band dissolved his musical and organizational ability pretty much guaranteed his ability to get to get zero accomplished. He couldn’t write a song if it fell in his lap. Having said that, I have been monitoring this potential SSD rippoff roadshow for sometime and I have done my best to discourage it through various legal and illegal tactics. I have actually held off some royalties and payments to hold over his over his head and help him make the right decision. He is basically following the business model laid out by Cliff from the Freeze, Chris Doherty from Gang Green, Choke from Slapshot, I can only speculate but I believe their motives are clear. I hate to throw anybody under the bus but I’m sure this support system of 40 year old living in the past has helped David Spring organize the tour.
Motives
1) Rip off the public as 40 plus year olds playing music made by kids and capitaize on American Hardcore Movie
2) Make enough money to buy their alcohol, drugs and coke and whatever else
3) Pounce on as many foreign chicks who think these American punk rock stars are special and give them 20 year old pussies . Hopefully they will give them something else as well
4) Escape their miserable lives and US wifes and girlfriends to pursue their sexual fantisies
5) Hopefully come back to US with enough money so they can collect unemployment and continue their life avoiding a disciplined work schedule in which you wake up and go to work. They will repeat the cycle every two tears
If it wasn’t for my efforts, Springa would have justified this plan and pulled this shit sooner. It seems like he might pull it off this time but I am a fucking fighter and I don’t take well to people ripping me off and tarnishing the name of my band. I am assemblng a network of supporters who will help do everything possible to make him uncomfortable and fearful for his safety at each show. If he gets close to the Boston New York area then I will execute the plan. My goal is to make the tour fall apart due to poor attendance, hopefully get the promotors to back off after my legal representative serve papers. I would also appeal to the general public to understand when they are getting ripped off and for them to NOT BELIEVE that this lineup is NOT SSD. It’s just a fat overweight scumbag breaking ranks from the band. He must be stopped.
Please share this letter to anybody or punk rock news outlet. It’s time to put a stop to these rogue motherfuckers who have no integrity. Anyone who can help make David Springs life miserable will be on my list of close friends who I will be entirely indebted to and hopefully I can repay the favor somehow
thanks
Alan Barile
Leader SSD
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Thunder Lows
I’ve skated Thunder lows for well over 5 years now and so very much converted and bias. When thinking about it though, what makes a truck worthy of a repeat purchase or a venture into a new turning or grinding realm?
This is it, the very subtle differences in grind ability and turning circle. If it ain’t grinding, the way I see it, you ain’t going fast enough. So, that just leaves us with the comfort factor of turning circle.
Although a very subtle thing, the turning circle could mean the difference between life and death. Think Naval warfare in the age of the sail, the reliance on maintaining advantage due to positioning. The ‘line’ was the usual choice of formation, one large flagship, say HMS Victory; Nelsons flagship, behind the other. The more nimble, faster small ships would rush out first, assessing the location of the enemy fleet and its movements. The line of flagships goal was to cross in front and upwind of their enemy, to cross the T as it was called, so that each ship in the line could discharge its full fire on the enemy fleet, and with HMS Victory housing 106 smooth bore cannons it gunna smart!
So, ultimately: Big Guns use Big turning circles.
Use this information as you will, but all I know is that Thunder Lows grind, turn and last. With the addition of a hollow king pin and a black and gold paint job they would be considered ‘booty’.
ARRRRGGGHHHHH. See www.dlxsf.com for more pieces.
Robin Hayes
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Anti Hero vs Golden Arches
Anti Hero seem up for it this month by taking on Ronald McDonald!
The team have not updated their blog for a while but check it for the Frank Gerwer portraits if you have not seen them already.
Look out for these shirts and hats in your local SOS.
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Gonz in New Zealand
The Gonz recently posted a his video memoirs of his trip to New Zealand on the 
Mark Nicolson has a new Death Skateboards pro deck out this month with creepy paintwork from his mate ‘Silent Paul’.
Go and skate Harlows new skatepark (its sick) and buy him a beer!
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Nas wants MF Doom
Nas has spoken out about his new album.
The Queensbridge rapper, who recently shocked his label by revealing he wants to call his new album Nigger, has stated that he wanted to work with MF Doom. Nas said of the masked villain:
“I’ve also been wanting to get with MF DOOM; I don’t know what that’s gonna take take, trying to get with him before the album is done. Doom might be my favorite.”
Of course, MF Doom used to be in the group KMD who brought out their own controversially titled album in Black Bastards, featuring the track What A Niggy Know? which was finally released by Big Juss [of Company Flow]’s Sub Verse Music label. So, Nas and Doom? Could be huge…
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Norma Jean work on new record
Norma Jean have entered the studio with producer Ross Robinson.
The band are working on their fourth album The Anti-Mother, which is set for a summer 2008 release and will feature collaborations with Page Hamilton and Chino Moreno. Speaking on the collaborations, the band said:
“We were able to work with Page and Chino on two separate occasions, and as two of our biggest influences musically, it was definitely a moment having them here in the studio. Page came to our practice space and for the first hour he was just showing us cool guitar chords, teaching us new things technically. The song we wrote with him is heavy as crap and full of energy – you’ll notice his influence. Many bands have guest vocalists on their records, but we were inspired by the idea of collaborative songwriting with some of our favorite musicians. In a collaboration, no one is beyond reproach, and there is always something we can learn and someone to learn it from.”
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Jay Z hits back at Noel
Jay Z has hit back at Noel Gallagher.
The Oasis frontman recently said that Jay Z and hip hop had no place at Glastonbury but the New York rapper took the argument to the monobrowed peanut saying:
“We don’t play guitars, Noel, but hip-hop has put in its work like any other form of music. This headline show is just a natural progression. Rap music is still evolving…From Afrika Bambaataa DJ-ing in the Bronx and Run DMC going platinum, to Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince winning the first rap Grammy, I’m just next in the line. We have to respect each others’ genre of music and move forward.”
Go back to making Definitely Maybe for the 10th time in a row Noel, there’s a good boy.
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Blood Red Shoes tour dates
Blood Red Shoes have announced details of a fresh UK tour.
The band, who release a new single ‘This Is Not For You‘ on June 30, will hit the road in October on the following dates:
13th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
15th – Leeds Cockpit
16th – Manchester Academy
18th – Aberdeen Drummonds
19th – Glasgow King Tut’s
20th – Newcastle Academy
21st – Norwich Waterfront
23rd – Birmingham Academy
24th – London Astoria