This months crock of Heavy Shit is a fury filled Xmas 2005 Special hosted by DJ’s Zac Slack and James Sherry.
Warning: This show contains fucking bad language and heavy shit.
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1. Drunk Horse – Howard Phillips – Tee Pee
2. Early Man – Four Walls – Matador
3. Sheavy – Spy Vs Spy – Rise Above
4. Letters Organize – Dressed Up In Gatwick – Nitro
5. Lightning Bolt – Birdy – Load
6. Send More Paramedics – Zombie Vs Shark – In At The Deep End
7. Zombie Apocalypse – Just Meat – In At The Deep End
8. Nailbomb – Wasting Away – Roadrunner
9. Ruins – Hard rock Medley – Skin Graft
10. Melvins – Houdini – Atlantic
11. Jello Biafra & The Melvins – Plethysmograph – Alternative Tentacles
12. Orange 9mm – Glistening – East/West
13. Mastodon – Blood And Thunder – Relapse
14. Baroness – Occur – Hyperrealist
15. Manowar – All Men Play On Ten – Atlantic
16. Crumbsuckers – Trapped – Century Media
So yeah, it was The Harmony DVD premiere and David Dixon’s (aka Dist.One) art show at Cide.
The film itself is a beautiful visual sound – I am not going to talk about who did what and where, why should I when the film documents this so well? What we need to discuss here is the feeling, the vibe of the film. You know when you have been out on a fine day, with your mates, maybe you’ve been to your favourite spot, or on a road trip, at the end of the day you ache a bit, but it is a good ache because you landed some tricks, got some lines down, and saw your buddies do some good shit. Then later that night, just before you go to sleep, you think back at what a good day it was.
It has been a good first year for these persons of intent. Let us hope they have many more good years. Oh yeah! Remember how I wasn’t going to tell you about the tricks? I lied, get over it, but I’ve got to mention Monsieur Gavin’s 360 no comply, like a speed freak and at the end.
“Get the beers in!” were the first words I heard from the Boss’ mouth.
Firstly, I commend the skatepark crew for sorting out some ramps at the far end of the park which less than a month earlier had been reduced to smouldering ash. Like the highest level of Space Invaders, the park was a swarm of speed freaks criss-crossing and popping up all over the place. A collision with any one of them would mean game over, as a couple of less fortunate players later discovered. My legs were shaky to say the least but I still managed to get across, ollie up, ollie down and back again a few times. I felt a little old (not as old as Gus’ dad though who I spotted nursing a beer on the sidelines), but that was because the kids Best Trick Jams were about to begin. Off the course oldie! Make way for the Mispelt Yoof!
It’s amazing what level of skating and sheer madness that the offer of free product can produce! I spotted rewards going out for well executed hardflips on the new driveway, and backside bigspins the hard way over the hip. I did have one kid biting my ear off about a frontside flip being better than a hardflip, but my opinion could not be swayed. Did I forget to mention? I was judging. Complaints can be sent to: 
Once the next generation of rippers had exhausted their energy and went in search of more sugar, the pros took to the terrain. Spotted on the day were the entire 50-50 squad, the Blueprint squad, Death of course (Does Cates miss anything?), the Crème team, Stevie Thompson, Chris Ault, Ben Raemers, Jak Pietryga, blah blah blah… and two yanks: Colt Cannon and Pete Ramondetta. It’s always a pleasure to see so many UK heads under one roof, I mean motorway flyover, enjoying one another’s company and producing some amazing skating to boot.
The competition came in the form of a bobble hated styley geezer named Ben Raemers. Ben fully flared it with some backside crailslides and a miller flip to fakie. The crowd love the miller flip, so when the inverts were going down, they went nuts! “Alan Christensen to filming duty. Christensen to filming duty please!” sang out of the speakers as DJ Sherry played Slayer at 12. Somehow little Ben didn’t count on a counter attack, and fell short of 100 bones due to Flynn Trotman’s amazing 540 ollie. Where did that come from??? Time at the bar- Over to the vert ramp for more!
Pete King was going for a huge kickflip melon over the channel, Mark Munson grabbed 3 inverts over the channel whilst a little ripper called Sam tried it indy and made it. Indian Matt (aka Steak), the new Death flow rider went padless, but the darkman himself, Lee Blackwell took the prize money with two alley-oop cabellariels over the channel in signature hell bent style! More tats Lee?
I thought I could squeeze a lovely warm cup of tea in between two jams, but being a judge is no joke, so the steaming hotbox of culinary delights would have to wait a little longer for my dosh… I know this might seem like lazy journalism, but so much crazy skating was going down over the next half an hour, that for your benefit and mine I shall simple state the obstacle and a few of the things that were put down on them. Trust me, its better this way!
The Rail (a.k.a. the paparazzi prize): This is where Pete Ramondetta suddenly came alive because in the space of five minutes he put down a frontside nosebluntslide, a kickflip 50-50, a frontside 5-0 frontside 180 out, a nollie frontside 50-50 and a nollie frontside lipslide to fakie. Woah! Despite this amazing bag of tricks, some skaters still tried to comp him for his £100 (Approx.$175)- Wileman got oh-so close to a 360 flip lipslide, which in my honest opinion would have taken it, Daryl looked like Bastien with his attempts at a kickflip frontside boardslide, Korahn Gayle landed a smooth frontside boardlide shove-it, and unknown ripper David Davies put down a flash and roll attack of Backside smiths, feebles and a tailgrab feeble! Honourable mention must go to Chris Ault who looked like he was taking a stance against the current handrail trends by ollieing over it to manual down the bank.
After the demise of his previous band, Devildriver‘s Dez Fafara certainly still feels he has a lot to prove in the metal world. His return back into the realm of all things heavy was at first greeted with much scepticism and an almost cynical certainty as to his quick and snappy return to obscurity, but in sharp contrast, the reaction to the band both live and on record, has been anything but.
Girls can rock, but can they RAWK? Well, the sooner McQueen get some much-deserved recognition, the sooner this tired old argument can be put to bed. The Brighton quartet may have been plagued with the usual lazy Hole comparisons afforded to most all-girl bands, but McQueen’s sound is more LA than Seattle; great filthy guitar licks, rumbling bass and no shortage of exuberant punk-rock aggression.
Take two lead singers still in their teens, put them into a studio with! four ot! her solid musicians, add some gnarly bass, a healthy dose of angsty yet arrogant attitude and some sleazy punk pop and the result is Louie’s debut single ‘Trees‘.
There are 4 people that form this cheeky cockney set up and they seem to be the closest thing to Chas n Dave than anyone else right now! Some people have mentioned Billy Bragg, others have spoken about Mike Skinner from The Streets and they would not be wrong, but I would personally say that Delboy, Rodders and Co from Only Fools and Horses could be revisited just in time for Xmas this year with this monster!
With an undying reputation as one of contemporary metal’s most fearsome live acts, heavy-hitting thrash quintet Lamb of God have already achieved the type of mainstream success many once considered unthinkable for a band of such magnitude. Following steady sales figures on the back of debut release ‘New American Gospel’, its Devin Townsend produced follow-up ‘As The Palaces Burn’ would go on to shift well over 100,000 copies, capturing the attention of major label giants Sony.
Def Jux have thrown up some of the most influential and memorable hip hop in the past few years, and such is the depth of their talent pool that they have released this album of B-Sides and remixes. Not content with having the likes of El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif and RJD2 doing their thing, they drafted in guest MCs such as Blueprint, MF Doom and Copywrite to bolster their already impressive attack.