Plan B’s website has added a ton of footage, including some sick UK footage on the Fuel TV part of the site.
Point your browsers to www.planbskateboarding.com to see just how the Plan B team rip it.
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REGENERATION…
Trick of the Week: Steve Forstner clears a monster gap with one of the most amazing ollies ever seen for Antiz Skateboards.
Link of the Day: Almost Ready…
The amount of boxes in the office right now means that something very big is happening as you read this. We’re almost ready now… and we are very, very excited.
Half of 2010 is behind us and if the less-than-optimistic talk of budgets and oil spills is getting you down then take a trip back ten years when the world was ours and it came in the shape of video cassettes. Thank you éS for a reminder of the good times.
The birds broke out the cage at Bay 66 last night. The Nike SB team took full flight! Webmonkeys are currently working on gathering photos and video from the event and a feature will be online soon…
Mark Mothersbaugh recently took some time out of his manic schedule spent writing unforgettable music and being in the world’s most awesome band to get caught up in some Crossfire shenanigans. Have a look at today’s featured link for a taste of what’s to come when Crossfire 3.0 makes its big bang arrival in cyberspace.
A pigeon stormed the Crossfire Hideout during the early hours of Sunday morning this weekend and demanded we make this week all about the Birds. Well, lucky for us the bird is certainly the word this week, as Nike SB hit up Bay66 on Wednesday and Zoo York’s Goodfeathers deck gets reviewed in this week’s selection of product reviews. Fly high this week folks…
All eyes were on the DVS CPH Pro in Copenhagen last weekend as skaters from all over the world made the annual pilgrimage to the land of lego, furniture and vikings. Denmark’s football squad obviously left the World Cup early so they could get a piece of the action themselves! Click here for the results…
How was your Go Skateboarding Day? Cardiff had a blast, London went a day early, Leicester got some, Scotland had a great turnout in Aberdeen and generally the World got some.
Creature UK rider Carl WIlson joins us for a long overdue interview and discusses the golden Essex days filming his section for the In Between Days video that you can see exclusively right here.
Crossfire World Cup ref’s cards have just landed in the hands of thousands…more here.
Friends of Crossfire The Side Effects Of Urethane are putting on an exhibition at The Architecture Foundation’s Yard gallery. The show opens to the public on July 28th and will run until August 12th.
The exhibitions, called Units Moved, is part of Renegade City, a series of exhibitions and events by both curators and invited artists at The Architecture Foundation’s Yard gallery and explore urban experiences and diversity that exists in the city around us.
The artists involved are:
Alex Hartley, Kathy Barber, Nic Clear, Richard Gilligan, Sam Griffin, Sem Rubio, Toby Paterson, TSEOU – Toby Shuall, TSEOU – R Holland, Wig Worland, Peter J Evans.
In addition, there will some new skateable sculptures being put up on the South Bank, in the Undercroft area and will be made from solid stone.
For more info go to www.tseou.com
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Naked Shit And IX Tour
IX and Naked Shit have joined forces to tour the UK and are ready to hit the country with a whole load of carnage as well as a split CD. With IX’s heavy doom and Naked Shit’s black metal mayhem, you can be sure of a show when you check them out. The dates are:
August:
5th – Edinburgh Subway
6th – Newcastle Sout Fiddler
7th – High Wycombe
8th – Parkstone Central
9th – Brighton Cowley Club
10th – London Macbeth
For more information on the bands, check out www.myspace.com/ixuk and www.myspace.com/nakedshittheband
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Hip Hop IS Music News
Braille’s own label Hip Hop IS Music are releasing their next album, Surreal and DJ Balance‘s Future Classic, in August and will feature spots from Ohmega Watts, Sivion and Sojourn.
The label is going from strength to strength and has recently renovated their website, which you can check out at www.hiphopismusic.com and will update their myspace page frequently. According to the label, they aim to add a new song every Tuesday so make sure you check out the page for the exclusives!
Meanwhile, label owner Braille is currently touring Europe as support for none other than James Brown! Can’t be bad.
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Voivod
Of all of the eighties speed and thrash metal bands, Voivod were always the most inventive and artistically creative. Originally inspired by the chaotic noise of early Slayer and Venom, as the decade progressed they morphed into a state of the art metal band, incorporating psychedelic and progressive rock influences for a sound that was truly their own and never bettered. And at last, they’re back.
Despite the sad and recent death of founding member Denis ‘Piggy’ Damour, Voivod return stronger than ever with a breath-taking set of new recordings, all thanks to Piggy. Even on his death bed, Piggy was recording guitar parts on his laptop and made one last call to his band mates telling them where to find the guitar parts on his personal computer and urging them to finish them and release a new Voivod album. Piggy would not be disappointed. ‘Katorz’ is the Voivod album fans have been waiting for. With ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newstead now firmly settled in as the band’s bassist (maybe not financially, but artistically a very good move considering the total crud Metallica churn out these days), Voivod are very much back.
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Yungun & Mr Thing
UK MC and DJ pairing Yungun and Mr Thing are back together with a brand new single called Forget Me Not to follow up on the duo’s brilliant and popular Jackin’ For Breaks and gives everyone a change to sample what’s coming up on their upcoming album Grown Man Business. The lead single from it, Forget Me Not, has already been wowing the crowds live on their recent tour of Europe and promises to be a sure-fire hit for the summer.
These two have talent for miles and prove it on this track, combining the flow and writing ability of Yungun with the flawless backdrops provided by former Scratch Pervert Mr Thing. With Yungun’s solo album, The Middle Man, due to drop next year and Mr Thing having just put out his Kings Of Hip Hop mix CD with DJ Premier, you know that their album together is going to be fire. Pimp this track, check them out live and don’t forget to cop the album when it’s out.
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Badly Drawn Boy Returns
Badly Drawn Boy is back with his new album Born In The UK. It’s due to be released on EMI [rather than the Beggars imprint XL] and apparently the name suggests that Bruce Springsteen is Badly Drawn Boy’s main influence on this album. Watch this space…
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Forward Russia Live
London Garage
18.07.06
The Garage is renowned for being something of a sweat-box, but never more so than for a sold-out show on such a hot day as today; with the temperature inside this small north London venue resembling that of a sauna. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that most of tonight’s action takes place on the well-ventilated stage, whilst the majority of the audience sink into a heat-induced stupor.
Except, that is, for a young man who dances like a deranged grasshopper for the duration of The Scare’s set. He clearly knows a good band when he sees one; in this case, an Australian quintet that resemble the 80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster if they’d derived inspiration from Gang Of Four records and bad speed comedowns. After half an hour of exhilarating art-funk mayhem, they exit abruptly, leaving us feeling that support slots like these will soon be very much beneath them.
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies’ swirling, expansive sound certainly suits the increasingly soporific conditions. Like The Scare, they’re largely unknown to the crowd, but have a few devoted fans down at the front. A half-hour set is far too short for a band of their ilk, but the intricacy and atmosphere of songs like ‘Archive It Everywhere’ mark them out as ones to watch.
Forward Russia bound onstage in their trademark matching t-shirts, and get the funk-punk disco party started. Singer Tom is his usual hyperactive self, howling into the faces of the front row as his band’s taut rhythms and scratchy guitars whip the crowd into action. The band recently released a stunner of a debut album in ‘Give Me A Wall’, and the bizarrely-titled likes of ‘Thirteen‘ and, er, ‘Fifteen‘ sound even more impressive in the live setting, demanding that you get up and dance.
Alas, by now, the conditions in the venue have become unbearable, to the extent that many people leave before Forward Russia’s set ends. It seems that the venue’s shortcomings have hindered what should have been a storming show by one of the UK’s most promising bands.
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New Album From M Ward
M Ward has signed to 4AD and will be releasing his album, Post-War in September. The album, mixed by Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis will feature appearances from Jim James [My Morning Jacket] and Neko Case. In addition to this, M Ward will be touring the UK in August, the dates being:
August:
Friday 11th – London Bush Hall
Saturday 12th – Oxford Zodiac
Sunday 13th – Birmingham Glee Club
Tuesday 15th – Manchester Late Room
Wednesday 16th – Glasgow ABC2
Thursday 17th – Shefield Leadmill
Saturday 19th – Bristol Fleece & Firkin