Essex have a new bowl at Brentwood now courtesy of the good fellas at Wheelscape. The new build is located on the site of the old skatepark in st George’s Playing Fields CM14 5AE, and is open to the public.
This is the first phase which will also see a street section built at some point. Visit brentwoodskatepark.org.uk for all local info.
The Skateboard Mag traveled to Lance Mountain‘s home to film the Flip team at a Pizza party.
Arto Saari, Louie Lopez, David Gonzales all get stuck in and Greyson Fletcher smashes it on a Banana board.
Jeff Grosso returns with his Love Letters feature this week. Take a look at this round up of pain filled slams with words from Arto Saari and Jerry Hsu.
Derby’s scene are in for a treat this month as Rollersnakes have built what looks like a killer little indoor park built by Craig Smedley, Dave Rampchild and Adam Boyfield to fight the winter ahead and also jumped through hoops to make their TF publicly accessible so you can skate it on special occasions.
The Vault will be open on 24th August for the first one off public session with BBQ and good times. You will need to fill out forms of consent to skate it, so head over here to find out more details.
This is just a quick heads up to let you know that a plethora of teams will be on the annual Lords of the Swords video mission across the whole of Essex filming their socks off for this year’s comp on the weekend of 24th-26th August. Once the damage has been recorded and edited, we will bring you the full vote so that you can all pick your favourite edit from the crop and a winner will take the honours.
Watch 2011’s entries to this here and get hyped for the return.
Witchcraft have some fresh blood in video from online this week alongside their new decks that have landed in your locals SOS. Victoria Park, Shoreham, XC, Saffron Walden and more crete feel the pain of the Coven with Mikey Joyce, Mark ‘TIBS’ Tidbury and Marc Churchill.
Witchcraft new product now available. from Darc Churchill on Vimeo.
The Fabric Skateboards team hit up Madrid for a feature in Sidewalk and came back with this footy feating Mark Baines, Paul Regan, Connor North, Jason Lewer and guest, James Coyle.
Check out this pool session down under with John Dickenson, Bugs Fardell, Casey Ainsworth, Luke Pease, and more. Fun times.
Qld Pool Clip from Skateboard.com.au on Vimeo.
The first European video featuring the DC Shoes team titled Where EU At? has been uploaded to the web this morning in full so if you are looking for something to watch tonight, this 45 minute promo comes recommended.
Refused,
London Forum
12/8/12
Finally, ‘The Gig That Would Never Happen’ has arrived. It’s hard to imagine how the Swedish quintet could have emphasised their (arguably premature) demise more strongly than recording a song called ‘Refused Are Fucking Dead’, but it’s amazing what time can heal. Fourteen years later, they’re back, and after incendiary performances at Coachella, Groezrock and Download festivals (amongst others), Dennis Lyxzen’s crew are back in London to play to far many more people than they did in their original incarnation.
London quartet Pettybone are powerful and bleak as hell, and certainly don’t sound like a band on the verge of splitting up. They deserve all the attention they get, but ultimately the crowd are here for one band only.
It’s inevitable that Refused’s set leans heavily on their classic ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come…’ record, but it’s surprising how fresh and relevant these songs sound after all this time; the stop-start riffs of the opening ‘Worms Of The Senses…’ whipping the floor into a frenzy.
The band sound and look fantastic, and set against a simple backdrop with good use of lighting, they’re more than happy to let the songs do the talking. By the time Lyxzen has crouched on an upturned monitor for ‘I’d Rather Be Dead’ and clambered up the Forum’s side staircase for ‘Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine’, the energy levels have gone through the roof – and remain there.
It is, of course, an encore airing of their signature track ‘New Noise’ which truly unites all present, and gives the Forum’s foundations a serious test in the process. Refused are a band who’ve frequently had the ‘legendary’ tag thrown at them in the last decade and a half, and tonight, they more than justify it.
Alex Gosman