On October 27th, Stanground Skatepark will be given an official opening jam courtesy of the Maverick crew.
The day kicks off at 12:30pm and will consist of all the usual comps, music, jams and prizes to be won kind of malarkey. So Peterborough heads stand up and get down!
For all the further information you could possibly need, head over to the official Facebook Event page and get involved.
Not so long ago we were devastated to hear about the fall of Laupside, but that hasn’t discouraged Laup from building more DIY spots in the middle of nowhere.
Watch below as Witchcraft’s Jamie ‘Arghh’ Morley skates some DIY spots, some old, some new, all rad. Shot awesomely as standard by Mark Jackson.
Fleet – Jamie Arghh 091010 from Mark Jackson on Vimeo.
Mark Sultan, known by most as the voice in King Khan & BBQ Show (Mark being BBQ), will be releasing the gloriously titled and completely ungoogleable album ‘$‘ on November 8th through Last Gang Records.
Heralded as a pioneer in contemporary garage rock and doo-wop circles, this new album could well be cause heads to turn and raise Sultan’s reputation out of the underground.
That over there is the sweet looking cover art. Head over to Mark’s official website for more information on the release and see below for a rad clip of him playing as BBQ in PA last year.
Detroit-based rapper Black Milk will be playing London’s Jazz Café this month on October 26th.
Having already released the confidently titled ‘Album Of The Year‘ the young Curtis Cross will be appearing alongside a full live band it what’s sure to be one of the great hip-hop shows to grace these shores in the latter part of 2010.
Tickets cost £14.50 and are available here. Be sure to peep the video for Deadly Medley below.
Maybe you’re still rubbing your eyes after being exposed to the three-dimensional awesomeness of Krooked’s latest trailers, but the Gonz-fronted deck company who regularly supply us with visual goodness have posted a 2D trailer for the behind-the-scenes documentary that comes with Krook3d.
Click the picture below to see a short burst of what to expect.
Transworld have posted up the first part of ‘Behind The Lens‘ a feature dedicated to getting into the minds of those that made the films we’ve re-wound countless times. This feature is focussed on Ty Evans and part one looks at Modus Operandi, considered by many to be the best TWS video ever made.
Watch below as Ty sheds some light on filming with Rick Howard, Mike Carroll and Marc Johnson…
Hailing from Brighton, Rooks are one of those new bands out there that were recommended to us off the strength of their debut video. The band were formed three members of other acts you may have heard of if you’re used to slipping on snot, sweat, blood and black vomit in underground punk venues across the UK. Rooks are the phoenix that flew from the collective ashes of balls-to-the-wall punks Phinius Gage, the slightly poppier Not Katies and the progressive hardcore outfit, Second Monday. They’ve already had a video banned and they’ve only released one single… the shouty, gnarly and instantly attention-grabbing ‘Bet It All On Black‘.
We caught up with Luke Hefson (bass & vocals) not so long after they mopped up all the black sick to find out what it’s like making the cheapest video ever, why Rolf Harris didn’t make it into the band and what they’d do to Scouting For Girls if they were armed with an deckchair. Boys and girls, we introduce you the fantastic Rooks…
So you are all ex-members of other bands, spill the history?
We all knew each other from being touring buddies in our old bands. Ade was in Phinius Gage, I was in Not Katies and Fred was in Second Monday. We all live in Brighton and had wanted to play some punk music again, so getting together and forming Rooks seemed quite natural.
Tell us an imaginary story of how you got together as Rooks…
We met at an AA meeting for severe crack-cocaine addicts. Only four people turned up that day – us three and Rolf Harris. We would have got Rolf in the band too but he had other wobble-board commitments.
Your overall sound seems to have hardcore influences in there somewhere, what bands have you all grown up listening to that you would openly call an influence?
We actually have quite different opinions on the music, although there is certainly some common ground. I guess this common ground would be punk music so that’s why we’re a punk band. We all like Refused, The Descendents, Nirvana, The Hives… to name a few.
There’s some good shit in that list. What part of the country are you all hanging out in?
We practice in Brighton, the best town in the UK.
What’s going on down there right now in the scene in terms of other bands you are into?
This sounds harsh, but I think we’re all a bit out of touch with the ‘punk’ scene in Brighton at the moment. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an awesome scene and from what I can tell there’s lots of great bands, but we only played our first gig with other punk bands the other day. For some reason we tend to play most gigs with indie bands at the moment, which is fun because we tend to scare a lot more people. Indie kids don’t like spitting apparently.
Name 3 bands you would die to play on the same stage with?
Rocket From The Crypt, Mastodon and Blur.
Now that would be a bill to hit the musical hisory books. Name 3 bands you would like to fight on Brighton beach and why? Bear in mind the only weapon you have are deckchairs…
Hmmm… that band Go Audio, or ‘Go Fuck Yourself’ as I prefer to call them, Oasis and Scouting For Girls. Go Audio because they typify that emo-radio-rock crap that has over-saturated the place recently. But I’d only lightly hurt them as at least they are having a good go at it. Oasis.. well, just because they have split up, it doesn’t mean they’re not cunts and Scouting For Girls. Well, they’re just the worst thing in music aren’t they? I’ll break the deckchair legs off and stab them through their hearts!
You have a pretty fun video for ‘Bet It All On Black’, looks like the cheapest ever made, explain this puke fest please?
We’re very lucky that one of my best friends is a great promo director and he’s happy to do videos for us for next to nothing – we just have to come up with gnarly ideas. So we settled on the idea of drinking 6 pints each of black milk and trying to bring as much of it back up as possible in one take!
Ade really struggled as he’s not very comfortable with puke and he could barely sing along. I had no problems – I like puking. I tried to vom on Ade’s head but I couldn’t quite get it out at that point. I’m still disappointed with myself to this day.
Did this video seriously get banned?
A few music video channels said that they couldn’t play it because it breached Ofcom’s taste and decency rules. So yeah, I guess it did get banned… fuck it.
Mike Prior who directed it also did the recent ‘Heartsink’ video for Blood Red Shoes, what possession would you have taken to that video shoot that meant something to you and smashed to pieces?
I don’t know if I could have taken anything and trashed it. I don’t really have much stuff, as I’m pretty good at just throwing old stuff away and what little sentimental stuff I have I’d want to hold on to.
Maybe I’d just take something really horrible down to the video shoot to freak people out a bit, like a gimp-mask. I could tell the other people on set: “I’m just not into that shit anymore… I prefer harder stuff”.
So there must be more coming up, are recording your own album or have someone on hand to make it with you?
Again, we’re very lucky, as we have a good friend that owns a studio and he is happy to do some pretty spectacular mates-rates for us. We’re just finishing off the last few songs for our debut album. Considering we’ve only been a band for less than a year I think that’s a pretty good work rate!
What are we to expect and when is it looking likely to be released?
The record will hopefully be out in the New Year. Expect some pretty upfront lyrics and lots of gnarly riffs. That’s generally the Rooks vibe.
Lastly tell us 3 things that are most fucked up and random about all of you?
Fred: I got beaten up when I was in my old band by a promoter that wrongly accused us of stealing and then we had to jump in the van and get away even through the driver was drunk. That was a really bad evening.
Ade: Doing the Rooks video was fucking awful. I’m basically unable to vomit on demand, even though I drank 6 pints of milk and had the crew shouting at me to get on with it the whole 2 minutes of shooting.
Luke: ‘Chemistry’ by Girls Aloud is one of my favorite albums of all times. I’m not even joking.
…and on that note check out Rooks in their debut video and look out for them on your travels.
with Kepi Ghoulie
The Gaff, London
08.10.10
Turns out I wasn’t the only person to yelp when the finest folk-punks of Phoenix, Arizona, the writers of an album that would quickly be in the top 10 lists of at least 75% of the lonely message board readers across the world, Andrew Jackson Jihad announced that they were going to be heading out of the USA on their first ever European tour. Just like when you make an in-joke that someone outside your frequent friendship group finds funny, finding another AJJ fan is one of the best things to happen to an AJJ fan. Unsurprisingly, the gig was a goldmine for this, and yet everyone was still surprised to find another shouting sacriligeous reasons to rejoice even when we were all there specifically to watch them play live in London for the first time. It was obvious watching everyone understandably lose their shit as they start playing, that the wait was worth it. Here were a band that are criminally underrated in their home country and being as impossibly fun live as I expected in mine. I owe them too much for their visit. So it was the least I could do by getting self-destructively drunk and shouting along as loud as I could in an atmosphere so immediately happy, desperate, friendly, escapist, safe and filled with a sort of boozed up camp-song euphoria.
People II: The Reckoning has had a notoriously uplifting sound played live for a long time now thanks to repetitive viewings of the Wayward performance (which you can also see below) on the toobz. Though the crowd weren’t exactly the shoe-gazing sort, a foot-stomping rendition of the track got the entire bar moving and screaming about the rapists and nazis living in all of our tiny, tiny hearts. Later, the awesomely awesome Kepi Ghoulie followed hiw own engrossing set by helping the guys out on Love Will Fuck Us Apart, which if my memory isn’t lying to me (it is prone to doing so) was followed by Sense, Sensability giving everyone the perfect opportunity to link up in hell later on after the show.
Given that the band are a two-piece it’s stunning that their stage presence could match the epicness of a full orchestra and yet maintain a personal connection with the audience stronger than even the best open-mic singer/songwriters could achieve. But then, Sean and Ben fully embody the same not-at-all-serious US punk touring soul of Jeff Rosenstock and could have got an equally warm welcome if they had turned up with iPods instead of instruments. Ultimately, AJJ have made a sound so very unique to them that it has won them not fans, but friends worldwide, who every so often want to hang out at bars and sing along in a state of comfortable desperation about how shitty the outside world is. So yeah, come back soon guys. Please.
Stanley
The following video wasn’t recorded at the London show but you get the idea. Here’s the aforementioned performance of People II: The Reckoning at Wayward Council, FL.
Autumn is fully here and as Halloween approaches there will be some appropriate deck graphics coming along courtesy of Creature and Witchcraft. Skulls being a key motif this month as Death unveil their Sugar Skull range and Cliché work with French for Charles Collet’s latest pro model. Enjoi make a nice crack at the weather in one of their new team models, Girl as always provide a quality line and Motive are keeping it primal.
The latest Spitfire pro models are in and the F1 series look slick and speedy while The Royal 4 boasts some steezy pro models for both Mike Carroll and Guy Mariano. Your head must be getting a bit nippy by now so have a butchers at the beanies and caps from Independent who in their mission to keep your warm this autumn have some banging coats and jackets too. Altamont have some fresh shirts and jeans perfect for night crawling and Heroin’s latest range of tees are standardly great, with Fos passing off some good messages for the kids. Volcom’s 2X4 jeans look fresh and are supported by a range of shot glasses to get you prepped for a night out.
Our shoe selection this month come from Etnies and DC’s latest lines in a variety of colours that compliment this colourful month perfectly. And to top it off, a rad looking multi-purpose Independent Burnside Box will be landing in selected stores alongside everything else you can see below. Go out and support those who make quality goods.
Shepherds Bush Empire
08.10.10
Sublime in its original form never made it to the UK apparently. In fact, there are many of the band’s songs that were never performed in a live setting before original frontman Bradley Nowell died. And so original members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson have reunited with new talent Rome Ramirez (he’s a mere 21 years old) and are performing under the moniker Sublime With Rome. Shepherds Bush Empire is packed to the rafters tonight and it’s a sweaty beer-spilling affair with a chorus of voices constantly on hand to help Rome out with classic tracks such as ‘Date Rape’, ‘What I Got’ and ‘Ball And Chain’. His voice is uncannily similar to Nowell’s and the crowd welcomes him with glee as the band rattle off hit after hit.
In a set that comes close to two hours long, Eric, Bud and Rome have the audience rapt and everyone present is in such a good mood that you can’t deny this will be one of the highlights of the musical year for many of them. When the band leave the stage before performing the legendary ‘Santeria’, uproar ensues and it feels like the venue is going to collapse under the weight of severe stomping and urgings that the band should return to the stage. And return they do. A trio of tracks landing finally on everyone’s beloved ‘Santeria’ rounds off a night that will never be forgotten by anyone who was present to witness it. Currently working on a new album, Sublime With Rome are a force to be reckoned with.
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