It’s been 10 years since 5th District skateboards first started, and to celebrate this they have announced a full-length video, interestingly titled ‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog’.
As a teaser, they’ve posted a little teaser from a filming trip to Malaga featuring Serevin Von Ow, Patrick Hefti, and the rest of the team.
For more info, and to download the footage below, head over to www.5thdistrictskate.com
Formula One racing is er..to be overhauled this week and re-launched with a variety of new sideline additions for your eyeballs to make it more interesting.
Our favourite site The Daily Mash recommend that ‘the top three drivers in each race will then be able to pick up extra points if they can beat an elephant on a skateboard over half a mile.’
Unfortunately Dibble was unavailable for comment due to his strict training regime to represent the Olympics for Harlow.
Gnarls Barkley have brought forward the release of their second album The Odd Couple.
Cee-Lo Green of the band said recently in an interview that the album is “really fucking good” and the sound on the record is “bigger, badder, bolder and more arena-friendly”.
The band have also re-shot the video for new single Run so that it can now be screened on MTV UK who had banned it due to excessive strobe lighting.
Be Your Own Pet have released a new video.
The Kelly Affair is taken from their new album Get Awkward which is out next week [March 17th] and follows up their self-titled debut from 2006. Check out the video by clicking right here.
Good Riddance have made a track from their new live record available online.
The 31 song set is brought together on Remain In Memory – The Final Show and is out next week on Fat Wreck Records. You can check out One For The Braves as well as Without Anger and Mother Superior by clicking here.
36 Crazyfists have posted a new song.
Absent Are The Saints is taken from their upcoming album The Tide And Its Takers which is being released on May 27th on Ferret.
Check out the track by clicking here.
What do you get when you cross rump shaking and Kate Moss? Well, once you’ve taken your minds out of the gutter, I’ll tell you. Kate Moss’ current squeeze and his band mate make up The Kills, and they’ve teamed up with Spank Rock’s XXXChange on production for their new album Midnight Boom.
The album is a catchy little record, with sing-a-long choruses and finger strumming melodies and these are in full effect for the track you can here above, Cheap And Cheerful. With the chorus telling us “I want you to be crazy, coz you’re boring baby when you’re straight / I want you to be crazy, coz you’re stupid baby when you’re sane” you can’t help but jump out of your seat and spaz out to the beat… right? RIGHT?
The rest of the album continues in the same vein and prove that even if the band aren’t making groundbreaking music, the underlying groove is there and you don’t even need to be dating some skinny oik from Croydon to appreciate it. Winner!
Abjekt
Unit One Skatepark in Rochester, Kent will re-open thanks to the hard work of Suzy and Tom who used to work there full time.
The park closed last year when charity funding was pulled but locals, parents and helpers have all chipped in to buy the lease on the warehouse, resurfaced the park and are about to install a bowl.
The park is scheduled to re-open on April 12th if all goes to plan, well done to all those involved.
The Ghost Of A Thousand
The Plight
Blackhole
Hexes
The Barfly, Camden
21.02.08
Words: Abjekt
Photos: Marianne Harris
I spend most of my time listening to hip hop and other beats-related music, but when a line up as good as this comes around, I couldn’t say no. We got to the venue towards the very end of the Hexes set and even in the short space of time we were there, it is clear to hear their love of Refused.
Blackhole were up next as the confident youngest Carter stepped to the front to tell the crowd “We’re from a place called Hemel and we fucking love playing London”. The cheers subsided and Not That This Is A Bad Thing threw the floor-punching kids into a frenzy, leaving me feeling like the old man I now am. Blazing through Witches and Forever, the Southern Rock tinged band proved they have just what it takes to go places, and justified their addition to the upcoming Every Time I Die tour.
Leeds’ The Plight stormed the stage with the barrelling drum intro to Clarendon, whipping the already pumped crowd up even further, heads thrashing, arms flailing and feet kicking their way around the full Barfly. Pull The Trigger and It Only Gets Worse pounded out before some new tracks were showcased. On the strength of tonight’s performance, The Plight are one of those must-see live bands, they were fucking belting.
Then it was time for headliners The Ghost Of A Thousand. The crowd were baying for the Brighton hardcore five piece and they didn’t disappoint, charging headfirst into the brilliant tracks Left For Dead, Bored Of Math and Black Art Number 1, shouting out their dads and screaming their way so far into people’s eardrums that it was a surprise anyone was left with hearing at the finish.
A truly brilliant night with the 3 main bands giving their all and sucking as much energy from the crowd as they were giving out on stage.
