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Iron Maiden will headline Download Festival 2013

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IRON MAIDEN today announced that they will headline Download Festival on Saturday 15 June 2013, bringing their triumphant “Maiden England” tour to Donington Park on the 25th Anniversary of their first headline performance at the legendary home of rock in 1988 when an astounding 107,000 fans turned out to see their spectacular “Seventh Son” show, still the highest ever attendance there.

This will also be a record FIFTH time that the multi million selling British rock pioneers will have topped the bill at Donington, following two Monsters of Rock performances (1988 and 1992) and two spectacular Download Festivals (2003 and 2007).

Frontman Bruce Dickinson says “We’re absolutely over the moon to be headlining Donington again. The idea of returning exactly 25 years later with a show inspired by that same 1988 “Seventh Son” Tour, was too good an opportunity to be missed! And, thanks to modern technology, we’ve been able to update and improve on the original production. We will be bringing a huge new lightshow, stage set, various incarnations of Eddie, plenty of pyro and all kinds of other exciting stuff for the fans. And of course treating the fans to lots of their favourite songs from that period! We’ve had many great times at Donington and there is always a wonderful mix of bands and a really wild crowd who love their metal, all of which makes for a memorable show and fantastic party atmosphere!

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Win a Death Skateboards package!

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The countdown to the Death Skateboards ‘Ordinary Madness’ premiere has begun, so Zorlac and the team have sent us a package of Death goodness for you to win this month.

In the lead up to October 11th when the film will be played in full at the Trinity Bar in Harrow, you can get your hands on a Rob Smith Creeping Death deck, some 56mm wheels and a Generation X tee. All you have to do is answer the question below and like the Crossfire Facebook page as we will message you when you win from there.

All you have to do is tell us what vert ramp Rob Smith Heel Block’s at 1.25 on this recent video from his First and Worst interview.

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Skateboarding News

Watch Slice of Life

sliceoflifeHere’s another one of those ‘get the teas on’ edits.

Filmed and edited by New Zealander Leigh Bolton, Slice of Life is the first of a series of three skateboarding films with skating from Tommy Fynn, George Simmonds, Marty Girotto from down under. If you liked the Chop Club video back in 2008 then Bolton’s new work should do the trick.

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Skateboarding News

Watch the Battle At Hastings – Vancouver bowl sesh

Mason_MerlinoIf you were not already aware, Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada also has a town called Hastings but without the pirate history of our very own UK coastal town.

It does have local rippers that are capable of walking the plank and surviving as you will see in this amazing skatepark jam clip featuring Danny Tumia, Tyler Martin, Adam Hopkins, Eisei Sugimoto, Mikey O’Friel and Mason Merlino (Hawaiain shirt) who took the honours on the day.

Press play for what looked to be a great session for all filmed by Daniel Evans.

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Skateboarding News

Deeside Trippin: Battle of the Boards comp footage

Denis Lynn has a ‘kin huge bag of tricks. Last week’s win at the Ledge comp in London was the tip of the iceberg it seems as he rolled into Deeside and took numero uno at their local Battle of the Boards comp this weekend with another varied display.

Phil Harvey’s lens caught all the action in North Wales with footage of George Bulin, Reiss Johnson, John Bell and more.

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Skateboarding News

Talkin’ Mob edit with Daewon Song

Any Daewon Song edit that hits the web will be featured on here. Why? Because he is the best out there. Watch more mini ramp skills from the World’s finest.

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Watch Jed Cullen destroy the DC Embassy

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Southampton ripper Jed Cullen returned from Barcelona’s DC Embassy with one the most enjoyable video edits we have seen in their to date. He absolutely smashes it in this new clip. Click play to see one of the UK’s very best annihilating Barca whilst even outdoing Blakey from On The Buses on the facial hair front. Do it.

Jed Cullen from THE DC EMBASSY on Vimeo.

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Skateboarding News

Watch new Rat Signal with Luigi, Brady, Jensen and more

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Mark Jackson has unleashed one of our favourite Rat Signal edits yet featuring footage of Featuring Luigi, Danny Brady, Nick Jensen, Jacob Sawyer, Torey Goodall and Charlie Young skating all sorts of London and Croydon street spots.

Luigi – Rat Signal for Slam City Skates from Mark Jackson on Vimeo.

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Skateboarding News

Browse through the new Fourstar Fall catalogue

The brand new Fourstar Clothing catalogue went online this weekend highlighting their Fall 2012 range of clothing. Koston, Malto, Mariano, O’Neill, Trujillo, Carroll and Anderson all have new lines. Click here to browse what your local skate shop will have in store over the next month.

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Skateboarding News

Watch Shaun Witherup’s Hype Mix from Hold Tight

Henry Edwards-Wood continues to find hidden gems in the archives of his hard drives this week. Shaun Witherup‘s Hype Mix was filmed by HTH and Morph.

“Found this old low res on one of my hard-drives a while back and it has had considerable late night and pre-skate viewage with some of the younguns I’ve been shooting with lately. I remember making this edit one night while we were hyping on the the new Wiley album in 2007. Shaun Witherup was and still is one a ridiculously talented community of South African skateboarders who make up such a big part of the London scene. He’s definitely not from E3 but his skating, especially at that time was too raw to not be matched up with this track if only for viewing pleasures of Shaun, myself and whichever skate rats happened to be round at the time.”

Hold Tight’s Archives – Shaun Witherup Hype Mix from HOLD TIGHT LONDON on Vimeo.