Globe have launched an online TV channel dedicated entirely to whatever Chris Haslam wants.
The daily blog type site has what the bearded one calls sweet pics, gorgeous videos, sounds of awesomeness, and rubbish, so it’s definitely worth a peek on a daily basis.
www.globe.tv/haslam for hair-farming goodness.
Daft Punk have been interviewed by VBS.
The mysterious French producers give a definitive insight to live behind the mask, so click right here to check it out. And watch the video below because it’s great:
A Minor Threat Sauce is now available to spice up your dinner.
Wheelhouse Pickles, who make the sauce, said:
“Like the Loch Ness Monster or gravity, the existence of a gentle-finishing habanero pepper sauce has scientists baffled. Made from a rare, mild breed of habaneros grown specifically for us, Minor Threat draws its inspiration from the legendary West Indies’ mustard- and mango-based habanero sauces, only it mysteriously priviledges the pepper’s fruitiness over its notoriously overwhelming heat.
We may never fully understand Minor Threat’s ability to take sandwiches, grilled meats, corn chips or eggs to the next level without annihilating your esophagous in the process, but don’t let science’s shortcomings get in the way of your slathering habits.”
The only request MacKaye had of the spread was for the packaging not parody the band’s famous “Bottled Violence” image.
The Berrics site is picking up momentum and seems to have people in and out of there everyday now.
The United Nations section this time features City Skateboards team of Alex Klein, Jimmy Cao, Jeremy Reeves and Dave Bachinsky hitting up the park with some super smooth video evidence.
36 Crazy Fists have pushed their album release back.
The Tide And Its Takers will now come out at the end of April and is being produced by the band’s guitarist Steve Holt and being mixed in England by Andy Sneap. Because of this, the band are no longer supporting Bullet For My Valentine on their upcoming UK dates.
Make no mistake these ACE Trucks are not the most flattering I’ve seen to date, G&S ventured into the truck market during the 80’s and they pulled it off though. They’ve attracted comments ranging from “wow, Variflex“, to “they look like something from Argos“. On appearance alone they may look old school but I shit you not, they certainly perform!
This is unsurprising when you discover the company is owned by ex Indy team manager Joey Tershay, surely this guy knows what he’s doing, right? Well, if you like the original Indy stage 3 geometry, you won’t go wrong with these bad boys.
I broke these in during a mellow Bay Sixty6 mini ramp session and they took a while to get used to like any new truck. Saying that, I was riding a new complete set up with a stiff deck and rock hard, slippery wheels and we all know what’s up there! Now because ACE have lightened the hangers by reducing the size and reach of the support, the trucks look overly wide, even on a 7.6″ deck and I still need to get my head around that one.
I got to the point where I accepted these as ‘OK‘ but that’s up until I took them into a bowl. Pretty they aren’t but sweet Jesus they totally and utterly slay! If you get your kicks from by bombing frontside around bowled corners, these are going to make you very, very happy, they’ve really put a massive thrill into my bowl riding and I just can’t get enough. The grind is nothing special, even for brand new trucks. The metal seemed softer than I expected and I got my 50-50 locks worn in pretty quick. New trucks can be a real shitter ’till the locks are worn in.
Fellow Team Breakneck rider and mate of mine Tom ‘Eco’ Briggs is a true bowl addict and it shows in his riding, the guy is obsessed with killing transitions, he’s a full-on gnarler and he knows what a good set of trucks are all about. When I tried Eco on the ACE MFG, he threw down some ridiculous lines and popped out wearing a huge grin, the first thing he said was “Fucking Hell, they’re certainly lively! Take it from me, these are worth the switch, period…
ACE MFG trucks come in seven different sizes from ’00’ to ’33’ ifnd them at www.acetruckmfg.com or at their Myspace.
Adie Kitachi
Got anything planned for tonight? (18th Dec) Well this evening is the SkateMCR Christmas Doo Part 2 & Nativity Skate Jam at Central Skatepark.
It’s a fancy dress skate night with the theme of the Nativity, so come dressed as a Shepherd, WiseMan, Angel, Sheep, etc. The best dressed person will win an Element Deck from SkateMCR! So make the effort! Also, don’t forget that the Central Skatepark Staff will be performing their beautiful rendition of the Nativity Story, so don’t miss it!
08.12.07
Every year the Crossfire Xmas Skate Jam ends on a high. This year the Crossfire Xmas Party premiered the Osiris ‘Feed The Need’ London DVD premiere at Corbet’s Place, Old Truman Brewery amongst 400 guest list faces to celebrate Unadulterated Malarkey. You know how these things go, we like to party but the fun was shut down before we had the chance to swing from the chandeliers. Lucky enough Night Raids caught the evidence from 2007.
The ladies were out in full force…
‘Feed The Need’ was the order of the night..
Punks with hearts of Gold were as hungry as Wolves..
Corey Duffel and Lisa Stansfield performed a duet…
All smiles were free as part of the night…
But the fingers kept coming…
…and coming…
Until we got shut down!
THIS PARTY ROCKED, THANKS FOR SUPPORTING CROSSFIRE IN 2007, MORE PARTIES WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THIS SITE SOON.
8th December 2007
Words: Moose
Photos: Ben Norton and John Wildsmith
Santa wouldn’t have known what to make of this year’s Crossfire Xmas Jam, had he turned up of course. Hundreds of people queued for hours in the cold and wet outside Bay Sixty 6 to make sure they could get inside to witness yet another skate riot. If you’ve never been to an Xmas Jam, you’re missing out big time. No rules, no real time limits, a shitload of prizes and proddy, and as much fun as you can possibly squeeze into a day.
This year’s Jam was graced with the presence of the Osiris international team of John Rattray, Garret Hill, Corey Duffel and Diego Bucchieri, who stoked the kids out by signing body parts, posters, tshirts, Mum’s car keys and anything else that was handed to them.
The cream of British skateboarding turned up to have a laugh, cruise about and possibly earn some cash-dollar by knocking out bangers across the park. Riders who were spotted, and possibly captured by Crossfire’s lenses, included Neil Smith, Danny Brady, Louie Cooper, Joel and Seth Curtis, Joey Pressey, Kris Vile, Vaughan Baker, Lee Blackwell, Aaron Sweeney, Kev McKeon, Carl Wilson, Josh Roullion, Boots, Marc Churchill, Pete King, Ollie Tyreman, Greg Nowick, Tom Knox, Chris Ault, and fuckloads more.
With Zac Slack at the helm and manning the megaphone, shouts of “Mind the media scum” were just about heeded to as the Jam got underway and skaters threw themselves across anything they could in a monumental scrum of skateboarding. The handrail got absolutely dominated this year with tricks like you wouldn’t believe getting scraped across it’s steely structure. Kickflip frontboards, frontside bluntslides, backside tailslides, frontside shove-it boardslides, feeble 180s, crooks. Seriously, the list goes on and the footage speaks for itself. Blueprint’s Danny Brady brought the smoothness to the hip ledges with some buttery nosebluntslides and frontside 5-0’s to fakie as well. In fact, I’m not going to bother telling you much more about what went down as if you watch the video, you will know. And if you were there on the day, you definitely know.
I will, however, tell you about the two-man destruction team that come in the form of Death protégé Carl “Potter” Wilson and Vans flow rider Aaron Sweeney who did not stop shredding all day, and even when the lights got turned off you knew they could have carried on ripping for hours more. The vert wall saw them throw down massive crailgrabs, nolliecab melons and noseblunts on the inside wall. Oh yes, it got destroyed by these two and it didn’t end with the vert wall either.
The miniramp jam saw everyone shralp the coping to pieces, with Marc Churchill throwing down frontside feebles to smith, Pete King getting his lip-action on noseblunt disasters and all sorts of technical trickery, and Potter and Sweeney hucking up massive frontside airs and stalefishes. Sweeney even got his head in a spin on a beaut of a backside 540, whilst Kris Vile rolled up, took one look and put down an alley-oop bigspin fakie 5-0 like he was just chilling in front of the telly with a cuppa. Piss take. Potter also swallowed up the whole ramp with a backtail shove, and his eyes must have been bigger than his stomach as he bit off more than he could chew and rolled away somewhere about three streets away.
Proddy toss time, and the scramble for free shit managed to leave one kid with concussion and another with a bleeding eye. Whilst we’d usually be down for a bit of scrapping, this was too far and obviously some people forgot that they were decent human beings and resorted to caveman instincts of ‘kick the shit of of them’. Definitely not cool, we were all there to have a good time and now those two kids are leaving with scars they didn’t want. Remember, we’re all skaters, we’re all equals, and we’re all friends. There’s no need to hurt anyone just to get a free tshirt.
Aside from that, the Jam went off like a cat with a rocket shoved up it’s arse. The after party messiness can be see over in Night Raids, which was a laugh until we got the boot for apparently being ‘too rowdy’. To be fair love, we could have been much worse, but we weren’t and we were all enjoying ourselves right up until the last.
A massive thanks to everyone that turned up and got their skate-on, it was a top day and by far the best attended one to date. You know what that means though don’t you? We have to beat that next year and make it even better, so anyone not there this time, sort it out and get your arses there in 2008. Shout outs to all who turned up to support, Paul and all at Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark, Alan Christensen, Martyn Thomas, Crossfire staff, John Wildsmith, Ben Norton, Greg Atkins, Mel, Aiden, Matt and Simon at Jett 26, Don Brider and our friends and sponsors at Osiris, Sidewalk Mag, Document Mag, Venture, Creme, Blueprint, Heroin, Landscape, The Harmony, Karma, Death, Kill City, Creature, Casual, Plan B, DGK, A Third Foot and Spitfire.
Check the footage from the Xmas Jam below, or for the full-fat version, right click and save it to your desktop – it’s at the top right of this page…
Let’s open the scene:
Abjekt says: I’m doing a Doomtree buzzer, shall I just suck cock for the entire thing?
Moose says: Yes, completely.
So, with Moose’s backing, welcome to the wonderful world of Abjekt Loves Doomtree. The Minneapolis crew have been tearing the underground of hip hop various levels of new arseholes for a while and with a crew record expected in 2008, they very kindly put out a crew False Hopes, comprising tunes that weren’t quite up to scratch for the album.
After hearing the record, it’s clear to me that Doomtree have just wiped the floor with 99% of music with their scraps. If this is anything to go by, their crew album is going to blow brains faster than a Bangkok ladyboy with Guinness World Records on his mind. The track you can hear by clicking above is Knives On Fire. A banging beat and some militant rhyming from Sims, POS and Mictlan says it all, so get to clickety-clicking and nod your motherfucking head sucker.
“You’re mad coz you don’t make moves, you’re sad coz you can’t break through, you’re bad and now you hate Doomtree, knives on fire motherfucker, make room” they tell us, and who are we to argue? Take cover, Doomtree are here.
Abjekt.