Skating now for 20 years, Lucy Adams is a shining light for the next generation due to her moral opinions within skateboarding and also a damn good lady to be around. Enjoy this new footage as she turns pro for Lovenskate, filmed by Andy Evans.
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Chocolate’s latest edit features new pro, Yonnie Cruz whose switch hill bomb make should stop you from breathing for a little while.
If you are not lucky enough to be on holiday this week and fancy a fun skate event then get down to Canada Water Culture Space for No Comply Network’s next jam this Sunday, 13th August. Those in attendance will witness a series of jams, DJ’s and artwork showcased to celebrate skateboarding and creativity.
To find out more about this crew head here.
Facebook event page here.
Time: 12-7pm
Address: 21 Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7AR London, United Kingdom
Watch the raw footage from Lakai’s new Flare video from another upcomer getting a name for himself in the skate game. Tyler Pacheco has skills. Download the full movie now from iTunes.
Everyone knows how influential Dogtown crew were on the skate scene in photos, articles, shite films and more. Jeff Grosso sat down with Jim ‘Red Dog’ Muir, Scott Oster, Eric Dressen and Julien Stranger about Dogtown History and the rises and falls between eras.
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You get nothing but full commitment from Santa Cruz’s newest pro, Erick Winkowski. Click play for back up.
There’s nothing better than opening a fresh box to smell a waft of full grain hand selected Zambian leather and a slab of goodness looking right at you. Even better though, is that these come in a box that slide out making that experience all the better. Plus you can keep the box for filing shit and actually have an excuse to be organised for once.
This is the third pair of Leo Romero’s from Emerica that have graced my feet over the years. They are not similar to any of the other models on the brand and always come up rather small in comparison. With my pinkies just fitting into these and their first day on ‘crete, I decided that there’s no goddam way that I’m wasting these beauties sliding around on the floor playing skateboards. Fuck that, these are far too sexy to trash on a rig. Instead, these are now my night shoes, or my day shoes. They are just not my skate shoes. But you can do what you want. They can be skated in. I’ve just ordered the boots for the re-match.
Truman is Chad Tim Tim and Leo Romero’s creative leather thing so expect to see more collabs in the future for shoes that are far too sweet to skate in.
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Mike Arnold’s Lloyds part
Make way for three minutes of Mike Arnold skating Lloyds in Bristol for the Skateboard Cafe and giving the hallowed spot a damn good seeing to, put together by Rich Smith.
DIY in minus 5 temperatures with Chris Pfanner, Daan Van Der Linden, Ben Raemers, Alain Goikoetxea, Eniz Fazliov, Alex Schultz and Tim Rebensdorf for Leica Cameras and Solo Skate Mag. Results are pretty epic.
Look out for the team in London tomorrow at Stockwell before a trip to Slam City Skates for signings.
Brian Wilson / The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, London
01.08.17
So here we sit, in a somewhat dated auditorium at the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo watching Brian Wilson helped to his piano ready to deliver a plethora of Beach Boys hits, aged 75. It is, for everyone here, a marvelous sight and one I will personally cherish for years to come. The packed house witnessed a few key hits in advance of why we are all here – the Pet Sounds experience from start to finish, and it certainly didn’t disappoint.
The musicianship on show tonight is exemplary. Every melody and harmony finely tuned, every piece of percussion well oiled, much like their very own Little Deuce Coup made back in 1963. This epic platinum track was released two years after Wilson and his brothers, Dennis and Carl got together with their cousin Mike Love and good friend and co-founder, Al Jardine. The latter is here tonight, playing guitar and singing alongside his son, Matt and South African guitarist Blondie Chaplin (pictured below). The crowd here tonight are also warm and in tune, now doing “a hundred and forty with the top end floored.”
As “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” filled the speakers hairs on the back of necks all over the venue were higher than Brian’s stint with LSD back in 1965 when Pet Sounds was originally written. It’s an opus album that changed the game for many and left a huge thumbprint in musical history books, but to hear the full works in its entirety in this venue was like being in a dream. Wilson may not be the agile man he once was but his desire to tour this experience is to be commended. Nobody in the house talks of a few bum notes, his stature behind his piano is only moved slightly when a session player gives him a massage halfway through the set. He doesn’t speak much either throughout the show, but when he does, you can hear a pin drop.
The anticipation for arguably the Beach Boys’ biggest hit, God Only Knows follows a fantastic rendition of Sloop John B. “It’s time to turn over the record to the b-side now,” Wilson explains, before the roof is taken off by a now-standing audience who show their appreciation of the masterpiece they have just witnessed. For me though, the lyrics to I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times left me with a tennis ball sized feeling in my throat and took me to the edge of welling up. These lyrics will stand the test of time for everyone, especially those in today’s society wondering why the world destroys itself from the inside out on a daily basis. Wilson wasn’t just ahead of his time when he wrote this record, this man is time, he buys you time. He sends you to another world where all the best musicians take you in need. To be thrown into his time machine in real time is not only an honour, it’s a journey most will never forget.
Help Me Rhonda and Surfin’ USA brought the house down amongst the encore as the band were joined on stage by two children playing tambourines. It’s a beautiful touch. Hits like these are priceless, timeless wonders and we should be thankful of the effort that goes into a production like this tonight. Thank you Brian, may the curtains always be open for you and the gang, let’s hope you make it back to the UK again sooner than later.
Words and photos: Zac Leeks