There are four of these webisodes of Kill City’s Dainton, Beanhead, Churchill, Loughran and Jake Collins shredding in Oregon and the 3rd installment of the series is nowe here for you to continue your viewing.
In Punch An Eagle In Flight 3, the lads travel down to Seattle’s brand new Delridge skatepark to throw meat at each other and blast tricks out to Nirvana’s Negative Creep.
Skateboard legend Duane Peters chats to Craig Questions about how he got into skateboarding, Jason Jesse, the strains on your bones from skateboarding, fucking sheep and injuries in part one of this sofa session.
It doesn’t happen often in here but when Unabomber Skateboards asked us if we were interested in a collab, we decided that we should go back to the beginning when Crossfire was represented by the good old Bomber image and within a few emails, the ‘Pilot Tee‘ was born.
So, this collab celebrates 10 Years of us bringing you what we do in here from a brand that we have admired since day one. In fact, the winged handshake Unabomber logo is one of the most iconic British skateboard company logo’s ever made, so we are proud to merge our head and their hands for this one-off, limited edition run of tees.
Grab these whilst they are available from our online store. We will send them to you in the post as soon as you order with a Crossfire circle sticker and Refs Cards. Treat yourself to a comfy, new tee to celebrate with us and take into the summer month’s ahead. Thanks for your support.
Matt Box returns with his second amazing watercolour animation, this time working on Dylan Rieder’s Gravis footwear section.
Kenny Anderson talks to the Tap on his Mini Top 5’s on being involved in the new ‘LA Woman’ video for The Doors this week. If you have not seen it then follow your nose to see what this is all about.
Daewon Song is single-handedly taking over our news section this week. Could he be the best skater of all time? In the future, will we look back on a career that has blown most other skateboarders out of the water in awe? Watch this new Spitfire edit. Truly inspiring on every level so just buy his new wheels after watching it because if there’s a skateboarder out there that deserves everything, it’s Daewon. Let us know what you think of this in the comments below.
If you missed our interview with him at Xmas time then clickety click.
Are you ready for the most random news post of the week? To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of ‘The Year Of The Doors‘ re-issue release, the band have unveiled a new video for the legendary track ‘L.A. Woman‘ featuring Kenny Anderson, Alex Olson, and Braydon Szafranski skating Doors related landmarks in Venice, Hollywood and more.
Watch it here.
Spring is here once again, so if you are thinking of getting down to your local skater owned shop this month or shopping online, then here’s a selection of this month’s recommended products to check out on your travels.
This Spring, we have joined forces with Unabomber Skateboards for a 10 Year collaboration t-shirt. The result is the ‘Pilot’ collab tee which is a limited edition run in their Spring catalogue. Please note, this is a very limited run, so order one exclusively from our Big Cartel store today before they run out and we will ship them out to you with some free stuff.
Enjoy this selection of products from Death, Blueprint, Consolidated, Kill City, Landscape, The Harmony, Crayon, Superdead, 5Boro, Independent, Volcom, Krux, Thunder, Spitfire, Ricta, Autobahn, Bones, Etnies, WESC, Enjoi, Slam City, Kr3w, Lakai, Vans, Altamont, Supreme and wait for part 2 of this to drop in April with even more.
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Comment on your favourite products below…
Get ready for more Daewon Song action this month as the 5-incher promo from Almost featuring the full team is scheduled to drop on May 14th. Put that date in your diary and watch this new teaser for the sweets.
London Forum,
16/3/12
Nostalgia is a “death move”, according to Smashing Pumpkins frontman (and sole founding member) Billy Corgan, a man who clearly doesn’t have much time for the current trend of veteran bands revisiting their ‘classic’ albums in concert. He may well have a point, but those who had the dubious pleasure of witnessing the Pumpkins on their UK tour last November would arguably beg to differ, just as they must have begged for the likes of ‘Zero’ and ‘Today’ to break up a set comprised largely of painfully self-indulgent recent efforts. Not that this should have been much of a surprise; even on 1995’s “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness”, Corgan’s ambition was starting to get the better of him.
That was nearly two decades ago, and at that time, Seattle trio The Presidents Of The USA were sitting happily at the other end of the pretentiousness scale, with a debut album that extolled the simple joys of cats, rock music and – of course! – Peaches. Seemingly on a mission to have as much fun as possible, the Presidents were just what the doctor ordered for those post-grunge years, and tonight, the almost sold-out Forum suggests that this party still has legs.
Straight Lines could really use a few musical twists and turns. The Cardiff quartet deal in fairly inoffensive pop-rock, but don’t really deserve much more than the polite applause that they receive.
The Presidents are playing that self-titled debut in full tonight, and although the crowd has aged with the band, everyone still gleefully bounces around as the stop-start riff of ‘Kitty’ kicks in. There are few surprises in store, save for a few bizarre mid-song anecdotes from vocalist/bassist Chris Ballew, and the record’s occasional weaker moments don’t gain much power in the live setting. Still, it matters little, considering that the vast majority of the songs are greeted like old friends, and that there’s barely a soul in the house without an inane grin plastered across their face.
Nostalgia? Undoubtedly, but tonight is proof enough that it can be fun to step back in time once in a while.
Alex Gosman