Jason Dill is this week’s guest at Fos FM. Stream the radio show from here.
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More lines from Pontus Alv
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Habitat Skateboards’ Mark Suciu and friends feature in this new edit.
Head over to Rob Smith’s photo blog from LA to view the second week of snaps taken on his travels in California this week.
The Guildford skate scene used to have an amazing little indoor warehouse open back in the early 90’s and also hosted a small outdoor park just nearby the Lido in Stoke Park. Due to wear and tear, this park is about to be replaced and this week, skateboarders of Surrey have unleashed the proposed new design from Wheelscape for you to have a look at here.
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Following Joe Pease edit
John Rattray filmed Joe Pease over a few days and has cut the footage wonderfully here. Click play for some amazing work from both of them and read a full interview with the Australian who has some great stories with friends, Jake Duncome, Shane Cross and Matt Mumford here.
Scottish pro John Rattray treats us to a different perspective of himself skating today and growing a beard in this new clip from his Predatory Bird blog. In his own words:
Every now and again Jupiter and Venus are in conjunction in the western sky. Rare shit like that occasionally coincides with me getting a trick that might be worth dropping off at Zero and dumping into the Cold War folder. In between those scarce moments, in order to avoid plunging into the deathly-dark pit of boredom and depression, I tend to make videos inspired by skateboarding. This video is a collection of self-portrait clips shot over the course of a 3 month period in which I completely forgot to shave. The more observant among you may glimpse flashes of severe joy and inner pain throughout.
P.S. It doesn’t have to be Jupiter and Venus, it could be any rare celestial configuration, a blue moon for example.
Ishod Wair‘s new Pro Model on Real Skateboards borrows artwork from the classic Ice T album ‘Power‘ released back in 1988. Power is a classic underground hip hop album whose iconic artwork was photographed by creative photographer Glen E. Friedman at the time and still gets plays here at Crossfire.
Watch this new clip of Ishod whose skating has done the talking at the highest level so far.
Concrete skateparks take a lot of effort to build and the skaters who are behind this hard graft sometimes don’t get the chance to skate as much as they would want to. With that in mind it’s good to see Bristol’s Wheelscape grafters hitting up Hullen Edge, Weston Park and Bollington Skateparks up North on a recent trip whilst the weather was better than it is out there right now.
Support from Hawk Eyes and Turbowolf
12/4/12
If tonight’s show was a racehorse, the bookies would have stopped taking bets weeks ago. The chants of “Party! Party! Party!” start a good fifteen minutes before Andrew WK and his band take the stage, and it’s clear that it’d take a fuck-up of monumental proportions for this one to fail.
Hawk Eyes (ex Chickenhawk), however, make music not for celebration but for exorcism. The Leeds quartet are getting better (and more deranged) with time; their trademark squalling guitars now underpinned by a bone-crunching rhythmic rumble. They’re still the musical equivalent of a knife fight in an asylum, but now the inmates have commandeered a juggernaut, and they’re gleefully ram-raiding our consciousness.
Turbowolf are nothing short of outstanding tonight, whipping a decent-sized pit into action with thunderous punked-up anthems like ‘A Rose For The Crows’ and ‘Read & Write’. Vocalist Chris Georgiadis is his usual good-humoured self, and neither he nor his band seem remotely fazed at playing venues of this size. Greater things surely beckon.
Andrew WK’s ‘I Get Wet’ debut received somewhat mixed reviews when it was released a decade ago, but it’s undoubtedly a great party record – a glossy hybrid of industrial intensity and 80’s pomp-rock melodies, all designed to be played at ear-splitting volume to a crowd of people going nuts. He’s playing it in full tonight, backed by a WWE tag-team of a band with no fewer than three guitarists, and by the time the legendary ‘Party Hard’ is unleashed – only two songs into the set – jubilant sweat-soaked mayhem reigns supreme.
There’s no let up in energy tonight – save for the lighters-in-the-air balladry of ‘Never Let Down’ – and a fair few laughs, with ‘I Love NYC’ hastily re-titled ‘I Love London Town’. Mr. WK’s seemingly unshakeably optimism and quest for fun may not have won him much critical appeal, but as the closing ‘We Want Fun’ heralds the third – and largest – stage invasion of the night, it’s hard to think of a show more worthy of leaving your troubles and worries at the door.
Alex Gosman