Our man Paper Tiger has released the latest in his line of 20 Minute Mixes.
Following his amazing New Jack Swing mix, Papes has put 20 minutes of Ice Cube together, to celebrate his Doomtree crew’s appearance at the Paid Dues festival, which Cube is headlining. Grab it by clicking here.
Here’s some video from the Leipzig, Germany leg of the Make it Count international comp series from Element. Look out for this visiting the UK, details for you to enter at the Mount Hawke date are here. Get ready for the 9th April.
Make it Count – Leipzig, Germany from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.
Jeff Grosso and Lance Mountain count the clock as the Vans Combi pool gets a fast new surface this month. A huge amount of work for an equal amount of amazing skateboarding times incoming.
Heroin and Landscape Skateboards cheese Mark ‘Fos’ Foster has a new interview online at the Artist Advocacy site.
Read on for words with the jack-of-all-trades Londoner here.
West Country skaters are about to welcome a brand new concrete park in time for the summer as Wheelscape‘s latest design and build gets underway in Taunton. The park comes equipped with a bollock bowl, various banks, rail and ledges and should be open in April if all goes to plan.
A new board brand is being launched by Jart skateboards right now with Kris Vile being the latest recruit to sign up earlier today.
Called CLAN 010, it will feature Alain Goikoetxea, Florentin Marfaing, Manuel Palacios, Danny Wainwright and Kris Vile with more to come.
Looking at the collection of experienced heads from the current team line up, any form of video that will be shot in the future be it for web or a full length DVD should make for impressive viewing. Look out for more updates as they roll out.
Man, you know you’re getting old when bands start celebrating 20th, 25th and even 30th anniversaries of albums… that you brought 1st time around!!
Case in point; “Let’s Wreck the Party” by Canadian trailblazers DOA, that I purchased from the band after a gig at the 100 Club, London is September 1985. Years later I read that the copy I had, with a small DOA logo in the centre of the cover sleeve, was in fact a misprint, due to a cock-up at the printers, and was replaced as soon as the proper covers were pressed up. The cover of this reissue CD though is the original North American sleeve, with a photo of the band disrupting a family Thanksgiving Dinner, turkey and all!
Released on Just in Time Records in Canada, and Alternative Tentacles in the U.S.A and Europe, the line up saw Joe Shithead (vocals/ guitar) Dave Gregg (guitar) augmented by a new, but seasoned rhythm section for the bands 3rd LP; Brian “Sunny Boy Roy” Goble from the (Canadian) Subhumans on bass, and departed drummer Chuck Biscuits older brother Dimwit on drums. Dimwit had played with Shithead in their pre-DOA outfit The Skulls, and had been in and out of DOA since their incarnation…
So, revamped line-up, and “Let’s Wreck the Party” also a saw marked shift from the straight up full tilt rowdy Hardcore Punk of the first 2 albums, and a more Hard Rocking direction with great effect. I loved this album at the time and all these years down the line it still floats my boat big time, with songs that rally against money grubbing corporations, the plight of North America’s native population, mainstream media control and “General Strike” encouraged people to stand up for their rights in the work place.It’s a topical number, and a timely reminder that whilst many of us have redundancy constantly hanging over our heads, tighter working conditions and zero pay rises to deal with an ever increasing cost of living, the bosses and company CEO’s still get their six figure salaries and mega bonuses: “everything is not alright, and there’s no end in sight”. The latter track remains a staple of DOA’s live set, as does “Race Riot” with its blunt anti-racist message… “race riot, don’t buy it, we don’t want that crap – no, no, no”…
If you’re starting out with DOA, then I’d recommend you first check out “Hardcore ‘81” and “Something Better Change”, but definitely follow them up with a shot of “Let’s Wreck the Party”.
Pete Craven
Those of you who follow Zoo York will know of Sean Cronan‘s staff photography skills, but you may not of known about his weekly blog over at the ZY site that runs every Friday from this one just gone (26th).
Log in here weekly to see what happens before, after or during the shoots, tours & trips the team are involved in, should be interesting.
Maverick Skateparks completed the new Mansfield Plaza late last year, check out footage from the King Of The Plaza event featuring Daryl Dominguez, Craig Smedley, Will Golding and many Notts locals here filmed and edited by Elliot Tebbs.
A Third Foot have an online sale going on right now.
Click here for some of their latest bargains and look out for a feature on this very site this week with the UK’s main skate deck manufacturers.