PWBC have posted a rad edit of old footage from Nick Jensen and Danny Brady filmed by Ben Dominguez. It looks like it’s mostly made up of offcuts from Lakai’s Fully Flared but it’s definitely must-see material this cold Thursday morning.
Jensen’s kerb antics and Brady’s first line alone should be enough to get you through the day…
One of our favourite crews in skateboarding, Get Lesta have unveiled the premiere date for their much awaited full-length video by the insanely productive Callun Loomes.
The video will feature full length sections from many grand purveyors of radical including Joe Marks, Mike Simons, Timmy Garbett, Eric Thomas, Matt Clarke, Josh Walters, Sam Taylor and more.
The premiere will take place at the Boardroom Skatepark in Leicester on December 22nd, so put off that last-minute Christmas shopping malarkey and go watch this instead. The video will be screened at 8pm with a free skate session from 6pm! What a winner!
Our very own backpacking connoisseur of independent hip-hop, Abjekt is currently over the pond in Minneapolis rocking with his Doomtree fam. As always, the rap crew’s annual Blowout got pretty wild, and on day three they invited their friends on-stage with them to brock out and get vibesy. Our boy Abjekt was right up there with them, and you can watch it below before he pollutes every social networking site on the planet with it.
Wings and teeth for life.
The Harmony recently took their team to the streets and parks of the wonderful city that is Berlin. The full edit will be dropping in January’s Sidewalk so be sure to pick it up!
Jak Pietryga described it as his favourite trip of the year, so you know it’s gonna be good.
Watch the trailer below and get hyped.
The Harmony in Berlin Trailer from The Harmony Skateboards on Vimeo.
Coming straight outta Walthamstow, Jak Pietryga is best known for lurking around the big smoke and killing it for The Harmony on a daily basis. This year however, he got the closer in Morph’s southern fried and zooted flick, ‘Yam Dat‘ and more or less confirmed on several trips around the continent that he has one of the raddest switch f/s bigspins you’ve ever seen this side of Mike Carroll.
He shared his thoughts and favourite moments of the year with us in this installment of Reflections.
Best personal moment of 2010?
Surviving last years new years party.
Fave skate trip?
It’s gotta be The Harmony trip to Berlin. Had a sick crew come out there with us, Buddle got involved, it was all round good times. Had the usual Harmony luck with the weather as it was pissing it down most days but we carried on regardless, basically just skated the skatehalle demo park. The days the sun decided to make an appearance were really productive though so hold tight for the edit dropping soon!
Best song/ Best album?
I’m not really one for going out and buying albums really but Morph lent me the new Giggs album ‘Let Em Av It’ and it’s a banger.
Most satisfying trick filmed/made and at what spot?
That would have to be my ender from ‘Yam Dat‘. The switch biggy down Aviva 9. Kinda went there with the trick in mind thinking it’s in the bag, because I always do that trick and it wouldn’t give me much grief, then I started grieving! You know… start getting close then lose it etc. So when it eventually went down, it went from being a trick I didn’t really rate myself, to something I was proper stoked on.
Newest trick learnt?
900 to manny.
Fave trick/line you witnessed?
I would have said Smithy’s switch noseblunt to bk lip but he already mentioned that trick in his Reflections. Errrrr, I reckon watching Barney Page and Joe Gavin skating the cheddar block at Southbank is up there. Doing new tricks on a block I thought had been absolutely rinsed off already. Yeah it was pretty impressive, think that edit should be dropping soon also.
Skate DVD you watched the most?
Blueprint – ‘Make Friends With The Colour Blue’
Your MVP of the Year?
Joe Gavin. He smashes it on a daily basis!
Fresh Blood tip for 2011?
Joe Buddle man! Guys been killing it on road!
What are you looking forward to most about 2011?
The Harmony changing to Rock Solid Distribution, I’m pretty keen on that. Going away on more trips and getting a part together for an upcoming video.
The Harmony x Etnies – Joe Gavin’s Shoe Launch
Always enjoy going up to Manchester. There was a party gong on for the shoe launch as well so it was a good weekend, went to a graffiti comp an all. It was proper!
Dylan Rieder Gravis Promo
No sound on the Youtube version of this edit but you get the idea. (Sometimes you have to dig a little deeper – Ed.)
Two days in Antwerp
This trip was real good, proper nice weather, there was a sick comp and met some good people out there. The street spots out there are ridiculous an’ all.
Nike SB Big Push 2010
If you didn’t vote for this to win the Big Push you are a mong!
Willow welcomes Joe Gavin and Barney Page to the European Etnies team.
Some serious skating in this edit and I can’t help but crack up every time I hear Willow speak.
Saint Vitus
The Underworld, Camden, London
07.12.2010
(Photo: whenwedie)
Saint Vitus, to people in “the know”, are the quintessential doom metal band second only to say, Black Sabbath?! Due to record company issues, band issues and line up changes, not to mention the booze and the drugs (OOOOH THE DRUGS!), this band really shouldn’t be around today. The fact that they are here, relatively coherent and have been touring the states and Europe since 2009 is as close to a miracle as some people will ever see. As a die hard, there is always a nervous anticipation that comes with a Saint Vitus gig. There is always an air of potential disaster when Saint Vitus play. The woes are always eased when Vitus finally show up in one piece if not a little late and a little buzzed.
Tonight, we receive what some may claim to be a collectors set. Opening with the obscure classics ‘Clear Windowpane’, ‘White Magic / Black Magic’ and ‘Shooting Gallery’ comes from out of left field but this change in usual set list is most defiantly welcomed by the doom freaks in attendance. Saint Vitus looks like they have found the love for their music and each other again…kinda. You could almost, if not a few grey hairs, be back in LA during the late 80’s watching these dudes. Wino, who commands vocal duties like a wild-eyed acid casualty, wails like no other. His vocals, albeit a little muffled by the underworld PA, were spot on whilst a maniacal Dave Chandler solo’d into oblivion occasionally preferring his teeth to his fingers.
Vitus plough though ‘Look Behind You’ ‘H.A.A.G’ and the amazing ‘White Stallions’ before the unthinkable happens…..we get hit with a new song. That’s right, a new song……from Saint Vitus. I have a built-in pessimist reflex, so my immediate reaction is to think “cashing in on this doom revival and releasing another album… It’ll never match up to the original stuff”. Oh how wrong I was. ‘Blessed Night’ has the same demonic Vitus sound of old but with added groove and most of all, it is fresh and relevant. Weird for a band that pride themselves on being born too late.
Having sung their praises for this review the songs were not all played without fault. Sure it’s loose as fuck and the band come in to early on a few occasions but who gives a fuck? It’s Saint Vitus! Personally, I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s the drunk and dosed up unpredictability of a Saint Vitus show that makes it what it is. Exhibit A; Dave Chandler leaving the stage to solo up close and personal to the people down the front of the stage as bassist Mark Adams and drummer Henry Vasquez dish out cold can of beer to anybody wanting one (which is everybody) before the band reconvene on stage for an encore of ‘Living Backwards’, ‘Dying inside’,’ ‘I Bleed Black’.
A second encore is the final one. Vitus finish off on perhaps their biggest tune, ‘Born Too Late’, an anthem for all in attendance and an especially poignant moment as Dave Chandler dedicates the song to recently lost Vitus drummer Armando Acosta. With a new record on the way and there now two years almost spent touring Europe and the US, it would appear that we are all witnessing the resurrection of this pioneering doom metal band. Against all odds, Saint Vitus lives!
Tom Lindsey
The combination of crippling recession, crippling spinal damage and the crippling flow of time that had Crossfire HQ in its malevolent clutches meant that there was no official after party for this year’s Xmas Jam. After countless emails and messages demanding one however, we asked Mau Mau’s if they wouldn’t mind us bringing a bunch of boozed up skateboarders to their bar and let them run riot after a full day of carnage. Thankfully – and somewhat stupidly – they accepted our request and by midnight the locals had already seen Jason Cloete’s nipples, a tramp armed with a bag full of tins getting more action than anyone else, Daryl Dominguez funking out, the Gnargore crew becoming progressively less coherant and Zac dropping more cheese than anyone could have possibly expected.
Inspired by Jerry Hsu’s messy photoblog, Stanley took a disposable camera and stumbled around like a twat lighting up areas where the sun should never shine. Here’s a brief insight as to what might have happened on that cold December night.
Zac packing the DJ bag with standard Crossfire punk and hip-hop fodder innocently unaware that he will be forced to play nothing but cheese at Mau Mau’s come midnight.
When Death head honcho Zorlac isn’t dishing out friendly advice to skaters outside he’s getting hassled by these two punks.
Special uninvited guest, came in through the back door.
Lady and the tramp.
Tom ‘Street Queers’ Halliday gets his soul captured for once.
Nick and Danny are pretty close. You should have seen the spooning action on Stanley’s sofa.
Jason Cloete gets a good vantage point to scout out anyone who might put him up for the night.
Brewer getting all euphoric and shit.
Getting passionate!
Arran Burrows proved popular in some DIY Crossfire shirt we knocked up in about two seconds.
Not too sure who started this shirts off business, but it caught on fast.
Real fast.
Though sadly it was mostly just Arran and Jason.
Tom Gillespie bringing the Wizard’s Council to Mau Mau’s.
Alan Christensen living the dream.
“The Crossfire Xmas Jam ruined my life” – Brewer.
DLXSF have been steadily uploading classic sections for your viewing pleasure on their Vimeo Channel. We’re sure many of you reading have your own account on there for your own videos but even if you don’t, it might be worth your while following them. Only this week they have uploaded Cardiel’s infamous section from Transworld’s Sight Unseen and Peter Ramondetta’s section from Circa’s ‘It’s Time‘.
Get off to a flying start this mid-week morning and keep your eyes open for more.
This trailer for feeblemedia.’s debut skate video ‘Two Pairs of Socks‘ was a great surprise to open up my inbox to the other day as it was shot and edited by none other than Chris Bromley, a finalist in the A-Team video edit competition we ran around the launch of Crossfire 3.0.
The skating standards in that video were pretty impressive (sadly it has since been taken offline) and after watching this trailer we eagerly await the finished product. Have a look for yourselves below.
Projekts Skateshop in Manchester have posted a nice long video to celebrate the holiday season which features loads of Manchester locals shredding the Pump Cage.
The edit includes skating from Nick Stansfield, Dan Cintra, Dan McCourt, Nev and countless more… Get stuck in below.