Boardslides and Lipslides. Straight up ripping.
Author: Zac
This is like a dream coming true right before our very eyes. LLSB have sat down with the Southbank Centre and negotiated a target cost to restore the original banks and skate-able areas that were once occupied by a Beano store and now builders workshops. Obviously this comes at a whopping cost of £790,000 but is that doable? Anything is possible if we want it bad enough, right?
The other good news from this is that this area will also see the creation of a new space for children and young people to engage in learning and creative activities organised by Southbank Centre.
Hopefully this can be done without monetary assistance from multi-national corperations that have bulldozed skateboarding’s rich history in the last decade. With that huge task in mind, how can we raise over three quarters of a million pounds to restore the space where most of us carved out our first kick-turns? This part of the Southbank has not been skated since 2004 so there will be thousands of skaters hungry to see this new move happen. Please spread the word by sharing this and let’s get some ideas started.
Please send us your ideas too, here. We will return to this with some deeper thoughts once we have some time to digest the news as this is fresh off the bat, but congrats to the LLSB who certainly don’t give up the chase but have joined forces with those at the Southbank Centre to agree to this potential new project. They now need your support and that starts here at their donation URL: llsbdonate.com
To whet your appetite, here’s a tasty edit of a line through SB history with London Posse on the mic.
Ph: O’Meally
Thrasher have kindly shared the raw battles that made Chima Ferguson’s latest Spitfire edit so damn rad. Get stuck in.
‘Subvert’ from RAD Magazine’s Tim Leighton-Boyce features Geoff Rowley alongside various other heads at Southbank in the late 80s.
I’m a firm supporter that Southbank should be as big as it was back in the day when we all learned kickturns and much more there as teenagers. Just watch this footage to see what we could still have – it’s all still there, well, most of it.
Sometimes I prefer the making of an edit more than the final product. Tony Trujillo’s Spitfire x Antihero part was rad so get a look into what went into with this new raw ting.
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Trumans Water (premiere)
The monstrous off-kilter noise-fest known as Trumans Water are back with an incredibly well recorded live album from an epic show in Oslo at Spasibar back in November 2005 that will be available on a double vinyl gatefold package on June 23rd via Handmade Records.
The San Diego band blew up the scene with their vicious indie-rock recordings when they first arrived in 1991 and have since recorded a plethora of albums and EPs for those lucky enough to have found their art. And art is pretty much the only way of explaining what this crew do. It’s fair to say that Trumans Water have a knack for jamming at an incendiary force with energy that can turn on a dime.
Thankfully today, Crossfire were asked to premiere this live track from the release so crank your stereo to 11, enjoy Large Organs and pre-order this treat from Handmade here whilst stocks last.
You should know by now that Anti Hero don’t fuck about when it comes to a tour edit. New Zealand is the location, July 25th is the date. iTunes is where it will land. Save pennies.
Peacehaven’s concrete park made by Canvas Spaces will be hosting an annual jam on Saturday July 15th. Get it in your diary if you are local and spread the good word. There’s an FB event page here for you to join.
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Almost’s “3AM” Video
This is a technical delicacy featuring three of Almost‘s am brigade. Get stuck into 3AM with Yuri Facchini, Fran Molina and Tyson Bowerbank.
Look back in time to the Death Skateboards crew skating Gran Canaria back in 2010 with footage from Adam Moss, Dan Cates, Steak, Moggins, and Mark Nicolson from his archived tapes alongside filmer, Jake Martinelli. Good shit.