Venue Skateboards have rolled out a brand new part featuring the skills of Gilbert Crockett in “Darlin’ Please”. It’s a few tricks of truck grinding, sofa poppin’ goodness as you’d expect, shot by Will Rosenstock.
Author: Zac
The National Skateboard Co have a new range out this week for the Autumn month’s ahead. These come as you see them in the line up below in 8.0″, 7.75″, 8.25″ & 7.875″ and available now at various skate shops. Pick yours up online from Welcome for £45.
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Derek Elmendorf – E-Sides
Last week’s Skate Edit of the Week from Derek Elemendorf from the East County Bound & Down video was stuffed full of gnarly tricks, so sit back and take in the b-sides of the takes for the makes.
Ph: Nick Jensen takes a wallride in Liverpool for Sebo Walker’s lens.
The Lakai team have been Eurollin’ around the UK this weekend and leaving footage and photos in their wake. Press play below of the highlights from the demo at Ramp 1 skatepark in Warrington on Saturday. If you missed the footage of Oxford and Birmingham then follow your nose.
Ph: Sebo Walker taking a blunt 360 flip out shot by Matthew Blick
After his 6am street skate appreciating Oxford’s beautiful architecture, it looks like Sebo walker was a hit with the Brum massive. Enjoy some of the highlights from the Birmingham leg of the Picture Me Eurollin’ tour from Friday night’s mini ramp jam at Ideal via Tom Gillespie.
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The Sunday Roast
Ph: Grant Yansura boardslide pop out in Los Angeles shot by Jacob Messex.
Funniest skate muckumentary of the year so far goes to KOKO. If Kody Kohlman’s acting skills doesn’t force a smile then you should go get yourself a scooter.
Ishod Wair and Cory Kennedy use the force in this killer new mash up of Star Wars footage.
Trailer of the Week goes to Science Skateboards who speak to us in our main skate feature this week about skater owned companies, SF, graphics and more. Full drum roll here.
Bill Strobeck follows his ‘cherry’ video for Supreme with another beautifully shot 9 minutes of great film with Gonz, Rieder, Lucien Clarke, Jason Dill, and many more in Joyride.
Cory Kennedy is actually becoming our favourite skateboarder. His day in the life captured a guy who loves life.
Chris Pulman‘s final installment from Indy delved into the filming for Heroin’s Everything’s Going To be Alright (2002) and Live From Antarctica (2005) an explanation behind his London Bridge ender, music choices, Descent skateboards and much more. Reminisce or discover.
Drop in of the week went to…
Volcom’s Bowl-A-Rama at the Getxo in the Basque Country took best event. Hammers went down in that bowl.
The Vault pick of the week comes from Mikey Alfred’s Illegal Civilization video released back in 2009 with Chris Coulborn, Nakel Smith, Kevin Bradley, Sean Pablo and more.
Recommended Sunday afternoon viewing comes from All This Mayhem documentary, released this week itunes. Download it and get caught in a rollercoaster ride of skateboarding hell.
Olly Ross has shared a few clips from the current Lakai tour that is Eurolling around the UK right now. This was captured from the Oxford visit on Thursday. Look out for more as they drop and remember that they will be hitting up Warrington’s Ramp 1 skate park today at 1pm followed by a party at Note’s pop up store in Manchester tonight at 8pm.
House of Vans London will pay tribute to skateboard pioneer and original Z-Boy Jay Adams by hosting a weekend of screenings this weekend. Expect rare video footage to Stacy Peralta’s award winning documentary ‘Dogtown and Z-Boys’ in the cinema.
Get down to Waterloo this weekend if this is for you.
The Holy Shits aka Foo Fighters
Live at the House Of Vans, London
September 11th
I love Dave Grohl. Mission Impossible. Scream. DC Hardcore. Dain Bramage. Nirvana. Probot. Sound City. I USED to love the Foo Fighters. When that first album came out, we were so desperate for at least some kind of continuation after the brutal, shocking end of Nirvana and Grohl made us smile again, with Pat Smear grinning beside him like a Cheshire cat and a batch of superb, high-energy melodic rock songs to win us over. That first Reading Festival set in 1995, the chaos in the tent, those great early singles…then Grohl steadily slipped into a far safer mainstream stadium/radio rock path and the excitement waned. You can’t blame him, he’s an incredibly talented melodic rock song writer but for those of us raised on 80s punk and discordant 90s noise, it was a path that just didn’t excite.
So I stopped paying attention. At least, I thought I did. If I did then how the hell do I know pretty much every song of the entire two-hour plus set they play tonight? The Foo Fighters are in town, ahead of a forthcoming release of their new album, to fire up their cylinders and get back into live touring mode with a batch of ‘intimate’ shows (playing under the name The Holy Shits!) and tonight, under the tunnels of Waterloo, they power through a set packed full of hits and you realise that yes, you know every song because they’re great.
You’d have to be a pretty joyless fucker not to enjoy this. Sure, I have no real desire to watch the Foo Fighters play in a stadium, but the chance to see them live in a venue this size couldn’t be passed up. And they don’t disappoint. For a start, the sound is incredible, an amazing achievement considering the booming acoustics of the brick tunnels, and the songs come so thick and fast, high-energy, Pat Smear still cool as fuck (he was in in THE GERMS FOR FUCKS SAKE!), Taylor Hawkins blazing on the drums (how anyone can have the nerve to play drums behind Dave Grohl, I have no idea but this guy pulls it off) and they play ‘This Is The Call’ and ‘For All The Cows’ from that first album and I fall in love with it all over again. They play all of the hits. You know them, I don’t need to list them. This is a crowd pleasing set. Nice guy Dave wants to please.
I leave smiling and sweaty. I think I just fell in love with the Foo Fighters all over again, just for the night. A one night stand.
Word: James Sherry
Ph: Nathan Gallagher
This footage shot last weekend at the Battle of Hastings event is a little excuse for us to let you know that Jak Tonge has recently discussed being a Skate Dad with us so we will share that interview on here with you next week.
Jak was sleep deprived that morning so he decided to put unleaded into a diesel car. Unaware, he headed to Hastings. Inevitably the car broke down a fair distance from the park. Jak’s warm up was basically hacking blindly to the park on a hangover. He ended up winning the comp and a load of money which all ended up going on sorting out the motor. You lose some, you win some then you lose some I guess.
Enjoy and look out for a feature next Tuesday.