This news is a little old, but the holiday season has a tendency to delay things like anyone traveling through London airports will know… Meanwhile Kev is now spinning Death Urethane, whilst the Death website has been updated with team profiles for Dave Allen, Boots and Zarosh.
On a side note, Kevin McKeon is also one of the elite members of the Crossfire Clothing team. More about that when our new Crossfire site launches this year.
Following the carnage of this years Crossfire Xmas Jam, the event has managed to attract a 2 page feature with sequences from head photographer Sam Ashley in Document Magazine. This new issue also has an in depth interview with Death skater Dan Cates, a Blueprint feature in the South of France and time with Ben Grove amongst other stuff.
Sidewalk Magazine went further with a whopping 6 page feature with sequences from Dom Marley and Leo Sharpe and a full write up from Andy Evans who was lurking behind the lens as usual.
The January issue also has a strong Leo Smith interview, coverage of Deathrace 06 and Boardroom Xmas Jam write ups and a Heathen trip to Europe we mentioned back in November.
Big thanks to Percy and Ben who edit these mags, now go get a copy.
A new trend is spreading through the industry like wildfire… Globalisation.
The Industry won’t settle with American companies setting up their cloned companies abroad in Europe and Asia, because various European companies are now going global with full international teams ready to drop for 2007.
The new face of skateboarding is here and it looks good.
Whoever thought Fall Out Boy had it in them to beat the shit out of someone? Well, pimp this video and see what’s been happening at one of their live shows. Um… and that’s about it.
Click here for the carnage.
After last year’s Writers Block album, Peter Bjorn And John are releasing the albums Peter Bjorn And John and Falling Out. The tracklistings are:
Peter Bjorn And John
I Don’t Know What I Want Us To Do
Failing And Passing
People They Know
A Mutual Misunderstanding
From Now On
Matchmaker
Collect. Select. Reflect
100m Of Hurdles
Education Circle
Please Go Home
Firing Blanks*
Don’t Be Skew*
Le Crique*
The Fan*
Saturday Night At The Parties*
Falling Down
Far Away, By My Side
Money
It Beats Me Every Time
Does It Matter Now?
Big Black Coffin
Start Making Sense
Teen Love
All Those Expectations
Tailormade
Goodbye, Again Or
(I Just Wanna) See Through*
The Traps, My Trip*
Punks Jump Up*
Unreleased Backgrounds*
Fortune Favours Only The Brave*
* = bonus track
Former Test Icicle, Devote Hynes’ new band Lightspeed Champion are recording their debut album with production handled by Mike Mogis, who has worked with Bright Eyes.
The album is due this year with Christmas Song available on their website and another track, Everyone Is Listening To Crunk, confirmed on the album.
Canada’s Arcade Fire have announced that their second album, Neon Bible, will be released on March 5th, the day their tour kicks off in Dublin. Tickets go on sale this Friday [12th] at 9am. The gigs are:
March:
5th & 6th – Dublin Olympia
8th & 9th – Manchester Apollo
11th & 12th – Glasgow Barrowlands
14th & 15th – London Brixton Academy
Jeff Turner, frontman of Cockney Rejects, has challenged Donny Tourette of Towers Of London fame [well, maybe fame isn’t the best word] to a fight. The band,who refer to his band as the Showers Of London have said on their official site:
“Now they pop up everywhere claiming to be the ‘new’ Cockney Rejects, even though tough hardman Donny Tourette was so tough and so hard that he ended up leggin’ it over the wall after failing to go two rounds with Jade and her mum in the ‘Big Brother’ house. G&R Records are prepared to sponsor a bout between Donny Tourette and Mr Turner at West Ham Boxing Club to raise money for charity (the St. John’s Ambulance being the obvious choice, as they will have the job of scraping him off the floor when it’s over)”.
News is filtering through that NOFX will be making a documentary of their upcoming tour which will see the band play in Israel, South Africa, Russia and Taiwan. Fat Mike said:
“2007 for NOFX is playing countries we’ve never been to, we are planning on playing Taiwan, we got permission to play Beijing and we’re doing Russia, Israel and South Africa. We’re bringing a film crew and we’re actually making some kind of documentary about all the weird places we’re going to.”
Cansei De Ser Sexy have announced a number of tour dates in support of their album on March 5th, with the tickets going sale on Friday [12th] at 9am. The dates are:
April:
21st – Dublin Ambassador
22nd – London Astoria
24th – Manchester Ritz
25th – Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
26th – Glasgow Barrowlands
And make sure you check out the Crossfire Best Of 2006 Radio Show which features Alala as one of our picks of 2006!