Texas’ …Trail Of Dead have announced their will be playing a 12 dates tour to support their fifth album So Divided. The dates are:
February:
12th – Birmingham Academy
13th – Dublin TBMC
14th – Glasgow Oran Mor
15th – Manchester Academy
17th – Leeds Cockpit
18th – Bristol Thekla Social
19th – Oxford Zodiac
20th – London Koko
22nd – Brighton Concorde
23rd – Northampton Roadmender
24th – Liverpool Carling Academy
25th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
More news incoming on Bad Religion’s forthcoming album sessions. Jay Bentley of the band has said:
“Brooks is heading down to Australia with Tenacious D this month, and Brian, Hetson and myself are heading to Vegas for the punk rock bowling tournament. Greg and Brett are busily putting on the final touches to their songs and as soon as Brooks gets back we’re heading to Cleveland, Ohio to play with Paramore, Pennywise and the Bouncing Souls at the Warped Tours’ induction into the rock and roll hall of fame…
After that we’re going to start working on the new record in February, recording in Hollywood. Graffin will be teaching this semester at UCLA, so he’ll be bouncing back and forth between the studio and the classroom. We’ll kidnap him for the summer when we go out on the Warped Tour and yes, we are doing the entire tour”
Watch this space!
Lagwagon have announced that they will be touring Europe in April for 3 weeks to support their last album Resolve. The jaunt will see them play some UK dates, which are:
April:
10th – Birmingham Barfly
11th – Nottingham Rock City
12th – Manchester Hope n Grape
14th – London Mean Fiddler
Minnesotan band Low will be playing a date in London in February before going on tour throughout April onwards. They will also be palying 3 dates at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Somerset in April. They also plan to release their new album Drums And Guns on March 20th.
February:
15th – London The Spitz
April:
27th-29th – All Tomorrow’s Parties Somerset Butlins Holiday Resort Minehead
The Harmony boys can’t stand the rain. Neither can we. All the more reason to support your local indoor skateparks, and the boys hit up Central Park, in Manchester, with special guests Ben Grove, Ollie Tyreman and Gary ‘Woody’ Woodford. The footage is shit-hot and packed with Mooooves, so click here and then go skate your indoor facility!
Judging by Skateboarding’s global media onslaught, it comes as no surprise to see new hot-spot destinations pop up every other month. Well, Es are giving you the opportunity to put your spot on the map!
Send in a photo of your best bit of skate terrain and the Es team might pick it out of a hat to come and film for the upcoming Yes video, and have one of their riders shoot an ad. For more details on how to Take Es to your spot, click here. Submissions run until 30th April 2007.
• Guy Mariano – Fakie pop shove-it to switch over crooks 180 out Ph. Oli Barton c/o Transworld
• Travis Stenger – Switch flip.
• Joseph Biais – FS 360 Nosegrab.
• Tony Ferguson – BS pivot 270 revert out.
• Gerard Gademann – Kickflip BS tailslide.
• Eric Thomas – FS Salad grind.
Top 5 New Year’s resolutions:
1. Less wax
2. More speed
3. Get 360 flips wired
4. Stop pussing out
5. Skate everything!
Crossfire’s Crystal Ball predicts…
• Uphill bombing
• Re-launch of Pro Top Trumps
• London Mayor Ken Livingston enforces Congestion charge at Southbank on Sundays
• Danny Way hired for remake of the Bionic Man
• Dreadlocks are in, New eras are out
• Skate-stopper liberation army goes global
• Stevie Williams hooks up with Jaime Thomas to promote Ghetto Rails, a 7-stair concept that ‘real’ street technicians get gnarly with.
• Zac Slack dyes his hair blonde…
Pic of the Week:
Even Burnside has their own Whale – Peter Gunn rides the blubber with hammers on the starboard side c/o of Sideshow Bob
Even if the purists lament about skateboarding for fun, and nothing but fun, everyone knows that a little head to head competition can help throw some spice into the mix.
411VM coined this concept quite neatly when they ran a Versus battle throughout 2006, pitching two skaters in an elimination match up of best trick burnout and leaving the public to vote for their favourite. Last year’s winner was Chris Haslam who beat his final opponent Greg Lutzka with a ridiculous double flip foot plant up and over the Barcelona bump to bar.
Pick your skaters here to make the top 16 cut and get the ball rolling for another 411Vs battle.
Two of the smoothest skaters out of Maine, Rob Welsh and Joey Pepper, have just found a new home over at Expedition One. We told you the Kayo Corp was making power moves in the 07 and we weren’t lying.
Watch all the spills, thrills and chills of the Foundation team as they defy gravity with their new soon-to-be-released DVD, Cataclysmic Abyss!