One of the best weekends of the year is coming ever closer and the events are coming in from all ends of the country. Saffron Walden have just announced the jam that will be taking place there on October 31st.
It’s a fancy dress affair (though so should anything you intend on doing that day) and there are a whole heap of goodies from Death to be won and of course, whatever the hosts can afford from Tesco on the day.
Go and get some.
To celebrate the release of the Blueprint X Quiet Corners decks the two have teamed up with Bored Skateshop to create the ‘Print Here‘ competiton. The prizes are really special (Blueprint goods and Quiet Corners prints) and all you have to do is get out with any camera you want and shoot some rad stuff.
Click on the poster below for all the information you could possibly need, and to see some of the current entries. Now, go out and have fun.
Lakai and Fourstar are set to open their first Collabo Store so you’re all invited to 50-50 in Bristol for the grand opening party tomorrow on October 21st!
At the opening you can check the Lakai & Fourstar collab products in a tailor-made environment of custom artwork installations and beats getting dropped by DJ Johnston. Peep the flyer for more info…
The heads at Volcom are regular purveyors of quality garb for all kinds of styles a skater may ask for, and this is something they have proven year after year. Although their range currently extends far beyond the typical flannel and cord lines that skaters tend to sway toward more often than not, what they offer in this department is as top-shelf as you’d expect. The Cuspid comes in a ‘Wood’ colourway which is the kind of post-Dulux colour range title job I’m really into, and it sure is the colours one would expect an iconographic woodchopper to be covered in. And judging by what the kids are wearing at skateparks and what my own wardrobe is full of, what we all sub-consciously want to be doing when we’re not rolling around on a plank of finely chopped wood is chopping it. So this is spot on.
The shirt comes in a classic fit, which I believe is a little looser than what the skinny white kids in E1 are parading around in; perfect for someone with a budding beer belly like myself. The material isn’t at all irritable so there’s no need for another layer underneath like I often find necessary with many shirts of this style. Though the coming UK winter chill may render the shirt redundant for keeping you warm and snug, it’s a fine shirt to lay amongst the others in your wardrobe and will get a regular outing when the weather doesn’t call for nine hundred sweatshirts and a coat too big to fit through standard size doors.
Stanley
Red Bull Culture Clash
Roundhouse, London
14.10.10
Camden’s Roundhouse has provided the setting for a good number of great shows since its refurbishment and last week played host for the Red Bull Culture Clash which pitted four teams against each other in a cauldron of beats and drums. Each team had their own stage, formed in a semi-circle around the crowd, with each team getting 15 minutes to showcase their talent at mixing styles, dropping bangers and entertaining the crowd during each of the four rounds with the crowd’s volume deciding the winner of each round.
The teams that lined up were Goldie’s Metalheadz featuring Shy FX, Andy C and GQ amongst others, Channel One’s dub and roots stage, Soul Jazz and Skream & Benga’s dubstep stage with Joker, Nomad and Sgt Pokes. Standing in the middle of the floor with the bass booming around me, it was clear that my hearing was going to take an absolute pounding and an hour in, with plenty more time left to go, I was already worrying about how I was going to hold a conversation the following day.
Many big tracks were dropping across the evening but the highlights came in the mixed styles round, which saw Metalheadz open with a mash-up of Nirvana and Benga & Coki’s anthem Night which brought cheers from some and disdainful glances from others. Skream & Benga had already dropped a dubplate with Snoop bigging them up before playing Rage Against The Machine, Biggie and all sorts of other delights. Whilst Channel One didn’t mix it up as much as they could have, the appearance of a live trombone on stage ramped the volume levels up and showed just how powerful old school dub can be, it was like a Notting Hill Carnival soundsystem had arrived late.
There was a little bit of needle during the evening, with Metalheadz dropping a Katy B dubplate branding Skream and Benga as pussies whose career was going to end soon which prompted Skream to declare that whilst the D&B crew made classics, his stage were making them. Nomad got a lot of stick from the D&B MCs which didn’t seem to bother him, but definitely seemed beyond the jokey-insults going back and forth.
All in all, it was a very fun evening. Channel One took the crown that I thought Skream & Benga’s stage deserved to take but all four stages brought some bangers to the plate. I felt a little sorry for Soul Jazz who played a great hotch-potch of styles during the evening but who didn’t have the crowd on their side unfortunately. However, if this is the sign of things to come from the Red Bull lot, we’re in for many more treats in the coming months.
Abjekt.
The Pack a.d. have announced that they will be hitting the road again with Nomeansno, covering a great deal of European venues including a handful of shows in the UK.
The Canadian garage rock duo will be heading to the following venues…
November
25th – Underworld, London
26th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
27th – The Arches, Glasgow
28th – Auntie Annie’s, Belfast
29th – TBA, Ireland
30th – Roisin Dubh, Galway
December
1st – Crane Lane, Cork
2nd – Button Factory, Dublin
3rd – The Old Bell, Derby
5th – TBA, London
6th – TBA, London
Below, you can watch ‘Crazy‘, the second music video to come from their critically acclaimed third album ‘we kill computers‘.
Cardiff psychadelic rock outfit with freak folk tendencies, Islet have posted their latest music video for ‘Ringerz‘.
The track is matched appropriately by fuzzy and colourful looped visuals which can be witnessed below.
The track appears off their mini-album ‘Wimmy‘ which was released on October 11th through Shape Records.
The first installment in the A Common Bond Series from DC is influenced by the flavours of ramen noodles we buy when times aren’t so hot.
Josh Kalis talks a little about making it as a skateboarder and why chicken was his flavour of choice…
Steve Van Doren introduces this edit of the House of Vans opening party in New York last weekend.
Featuring some smooth bowl shredding, Public Enemy jumping around and more vibes…
Dainton has posted some leftovers from Jake Collins‘ ten trick edit at Newport skatepark.
The clip is standardly rad, and features a little reminder for the Halloween bowl jam. Listen to the goat!