Our friends at Antiz Skateboards are keeping tres busy of late. Here’s some footage of Julian Furones, Gabriel Engelke, and Hugo Liard shredding the streets of Lyon and an indoor skatepark edit featuring Samu Karvonen in Cyprus.
Gabeeb, hugo & julien in Lyon from Antiz Skateboards on Vimeo.
Vintteri 2010 from Lamina.Fi on Vimeo.
Plenty of London love in today’s skate news. Slam City Skates are rolling out daily video clips of their team riders this month filmed and edited by Neil Chester. Enjoy the latest from Neil Smith, Rob Mathieson and Karim Bakhtaoui plus a recent Rat Signal Spring edit from Hold Tight Henry featuring Lucien Clarke, Shaun Witherup, Scott Howes, Snowy, Joey Pressey and many more.
Slam City – Rat Signal – Spring Clean Out by Hold Tight Henry from Slam City Skates on Vimeo.
Slam City Team Rider – Neil Smith from Slam City Skates on Vimeo.
Slam City Team Rider – Rob Mathieson from Slam City Skates on Vimeo.
Slam City Team Rider – Karim Bakhtaoui from Slam City Skates on Vimeo.
Heathen Skateboards Lewis Threadgold features in Phil Harvey‘s latest offcuts from Keep Keen. The question is, when is this going to actually be released? Hold tight and we will find out.
When Spike Jonze gets involved in Lakai commercials you know it’s always worth watching. Click below for the latest edit and click here for the World Cup shoe they have just released with a colourway derived from Spain and Barcelona in honor of Jesus Fernandez.
We also rumbled the designs for Lakai’s forthcoming collab shoe this week via the vine of grapes but look out for the news on their site first when it drops, all we can say is that Fully Flared fans will be happy.
How amazing is it to see John Cardiel racing around again at mach 10?! Check this cycling footage of him zooming about alongside Julien Stranger, inspiring to say the least considering he was told he would find it hard to ever walk again after an accident on tour In 2003 that injured his spinal cord.
If you have seen the Blueprint video MFWTCB from the recent premiere’s then you will know that Marty Murawski has a great section in there. DVS packed up the minivan and spent a few days skating with him and his Dachshund in Arizona just after he signed his feet up for the cause. Watch the 8 minute edit here that also has some rad footage of Jimmy Cao and friends shot over a weekend.
If you missed Marty’s Crossfire interview just before he signed to Blueprint click here.
Baltimore minimalist punk trio Double Dagger kick off their UK tour in May, playing the following shows:
Wed 12 – Nottingham Spanky Van Dykes (w/Friendship)
Thu 13 – Leeds Nation Of Shopkeepers (w/Friendship)
Fri 14 – Sheffield Bungalows and Bears (w/Friendship)
Sat 15 – London The Rest Is Noise (w/Friendship)
Sun 16 – Bristol Start the Bus (w/Friendship)
Mon 17 – Cardiff Arts Centre
Tue 18 – London Cargo (w/Ganglians and Real Estate)
Wed 19 – Dublin Whelans
Double Dagger’s new CD/LP ‘Masks‘ was released on 22 March 2010 through legendary label Thrill Jockey and features limited edition packaging designed by Nolen Strals (vocals) and Bruce Willen’s (bass, vocals) own design studio, Post Typography. The LP and CD each come in three different covers, all with custom die-cut jackets printed as different mask drawings with “eyes” that change color depending on the orientation of the CD or LP sleeve.
As a taste of what to expect here’s a free MP3 of the track ‘Pillow Talk’…
Ganglians’ awesome new single ‘Candy Girl’ is released this week on Berlin-based label Souterrain Transmissions. Because they’re such a lovely bunch, they’re giving it away for free download!
Next month, the band see the UK release of their album ‘Monster Head Room’ (May 10th) before their European tour kicks in, taking in 2 UK stints and an appearance at Primavera. Here are the dates:
May
18 – London – Cargo
21 – Dublin – Whelans (upstairs)
22 – Belfast – Menagerie
23 – Glasgow – Captains Rest
24 – Manchester – Deaf Institute
25 – Cambridge – Portland Arms
June
25 – Nottingham – Bodega Social Club
26 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
27 – London – Barden’s Boudoir
Ah yes, the venerable Australian tradition of traversing their sunny land on a skateboard without so much as looking at a shower continues this year with founder Andrew Currie joined by Jake Duncombe and a host of other ne’er -do- wells:
Tim Fok, Joe Watkins, Will Organ and the Caldicot crew down in Wales hit the road for a day out with Tim’s new 7D set up, watch the footage below.
In other related news, sign up and help the locals of Bridgend (not Cardiff now) get an indoor park built from this Facebook page and also look out for the Maverick park being built in Caerphilly. Rumor has it that Magor may also be getting some concrete for the summer also. Check www.shredwales.com for all Welsh Skateboarding malarkey from Dainton and co.
Leave The House from Tim on Vimeo.