Flip’s Tom Penny woo’d 250 people at Bay 66 this Saturday and smashed the street course to rapturous applause but why has his Firing Line over at Thrasher this week received 250 dislikes?
Has the world gone mad? If so we are out.
Author: Zac
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Lucky Sevens with Earth Pain 666
Photo: Chris Morgan at Science Skateboards
Whether it is your swollen liver from a top night out, your tweaked ankle or even the fact that your girlfriend has just decided to shag your best mate, we all go through pain to get what we want in life. The flipside to this malarkey is sharing the good times with your best mates and documenting it. Sam Taylor‘s EARTH PAIN 666 has been unleashed today, enjoy it as you only live once.
How much pain does this Earth bring to you on a weekly basis?
None at all, I have a pretty easy life. Maybe shiners, delams and spilt beer counts but apart from that I don’t have many worries.
How much pain did you go through in the making of these hilarious scene clips?
The most pain was when George was filming and he dropped my camera and broke the lens, that fucking sucked. The funniest was seeing Chad Muska DJ – That was fucked up.
How much pain comes from the Based Gods?
Based God fucked my bitch.
What’s the worst pain you have seen anyone go through whilst out skateboarding?
When I was a kid I saw a guy bail at the Boardroom and break his arm in 2 places, that was fucking gnarly. Someone broke their lower back trying to clear the wall at Stockwell the other day, I wasn’t there but I heard he landed in the middle of the road. Dwayne trying to switch ollie the seven at southbank is always a gnarly site.
Which part of Earth goes through more pain than anywhere else?
I leave that to Ali Drummond. He’s in Burma being Rambo. Earth Pain is more about the little slams we take whilst out skating, Dwayne hitting the floor or Josh Cox doing some stinking late flip.
What pain comes next?
Earth Pain 7 – If George buys me a new camera. More t-shirts, zines and prints are ready to drop, check the website.
Last words?
BEER FOR LIFE
Manchester’s Pump Cage felt the arrival of last week’s UK Supra tour with a star studded line up rolling through the city.
Elliot Tebbs filmed and edited the day with skating from Terry Kennedy, Spencer Hamilton, Craig Smedley, Boo Johnson, Keelan Dadd, Tyrone O’Hanrahan, and many more. Also check out the trick of the day coming from from Rob Smith as it’s nuts.
Eastbourne
16th May 2011
Despite recently releasing their two most accessible albums to date in Strawberry Jam and Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective continue to break away from common ground. This is reinforced by tonight’s performance at the Winter Garden, an usual concert venue in sleepy Eastbourne. Support tonight comes from (Angel) Deradoorian of the Dirty Projectors and Western Saharans Group Doeuh.
Led by guitarist Salmou Baamar, Group Doeuh are a family consisting of singer Halima Jakani (Baamar’s wife) and keyboardist Jamaal (Baamar’s son). Their Mauritanian roots partnered with Western rock influences provide a refreshing supporting act. Salmou Baamar’s homages to James Brown and Jimi Hendrix are evident as he excites with complex and acrobatic electric guitar playing.
Entering the stage to a foray of electronic loops and colourful visualisations, Animal Collective introduce themselves with two new songs that are filled with hazy vocals. ‘Change’ and ‘Stop Thinking’ maintain the Western African feel from Group Doueh’s performance, combined with Can and Faust influences. The recognisable ‘Did You See the World?’ is next from 2005 album Feels. This is one of the last songs from the band’s varied catalogue to be performed this evening and is well appreciated.
Deakin’s dramatic synthesiser and Panda Bear’s flickery samples lead into ‘Take This Weight’ and puts the band firmly in progressive territory. The fun and friendly Merriweather Post Pavilion track ‘Brother Sport’ is echoed and savoured by the East Sussex crowd. New songs ‘Mercury’ and ‘Frights’ are testing and are a challenge for people accustomed to the band’s more accessible material from circa 2007 onwards.
An energetic rendition of ‘We Tigers’ from the breakthrough 2004 album Sung Tongs is filled with the tribe-like screams and ritual dance imagery that we’ve grown to love from the Baltimore four-piece. Arguably one of the band’s most famous songs ‘Summertime Clothes’ suitably follows. The crowd gradually evolves into a cheerful dancing parade. Certainly the highlight of the evening.
The final songs after the encore, ‘I’d Rather’ and ‘Little Kid’, are droning affairs however and there are some signs of disappointment with the omission of many favourites such as ‘My Girls’, ‘In the Flowers’ and ‘Fireworks’. Tonight’s set is almost identical to the band’s set at their curated ATP festival event in Minehead. Filled with their most experimental songs yet, this is certainly not an evening for the passive Animal Collective fan.
Words and Photo: Alex Penge
Monkey Glove have just uploaded a few tricks of UK riders from the Creature UK tour this weekend for your viewing pleasure.
Enjoy a couple of lines from Stu Graham and Carl Wilson at Hastings and the Source Bowl before rain stopped play.
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The Bookhouse Boys live
Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London
2/6/11
Tonight, the concept of music as a form of catharsis is made flesh in a darkened room in Hoxton. Steve Smyth may only be armed with an acoustic guitar and an impressively straggly beard, but he also seems to have a fair few inner demons to exorcise, and they’re not gonna come quietly. Alternately strumming and savaging his guitar, his Jekyll and Hyde approach to performance is just what we need to shake us out of our post-work slump.
With her debut album yet to be released, Alice Gold is already dividing opinions like Marmite, but tonight she makes a convincing case for being one to watch. Coming across like PJ Harvey’s angelic-looking little sister, her full-throated wail and raw, psychedelic guitar sound can’t hide the fact that ‘Runaway Love’ and ‘Orbiter’ are pretty catchy tunes.
The Bookhouse Boys (eight guys, one girl) both sound and look like something out of a Tarantino movie; most of them smartly dressed in black, and peddling a deliciously dark surf sound that incorporates a mariachi-esque brass section and bursts of squalling guitar. They sound impressive enough on record, but live, songs like ‘Dead’ and ‘I Just Can’t Myself’ are lent a stronger sense of ferocity and drama; Catherine Turner’s cold croon a contrast to her co-vocalist (and guitarist) Paul Van Oestren’s impassioned howl. He sounds like he has a fair few tales of liquor-stained hell weighing heavy on his conscience, and tonight we are the congregation for a myriad of confessions set to song. Truly, Nick Cave would be proud.
Just as we think we have them pegged, they crowd around the microphones for some acapella six-part piece harmonies, on a song from their recent second album ‘Tales To Be Told’. Lazy comparisons will be made with the Arcade Fire, but The Bookhouse Boys are coming from a much darker place, and sound all the more enthralling for it. With packed performances like these, you get the feeling that venues the size of the Bar & Kitchen could soon be very much behind them.
Alex Gosman
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Little Roy vs Nirvana
Usually I cringe at people’s versions of classic Nirvana songs but Little Roy has taken the original 7″ of Sliver and Dive and knocked out classic roots reggae versions of both tracks this week that need to be on your stereo.
Nirvana’s ‘Smell Like Teen Spirit‘ was released 20 years ago in September this year so expect more mash ups and versions of these classic tracks to be infiltrating the internet on mix tapes and general releases throughout the summer. I doubt though that any of them will come close to being as good as these.
You can find Little Roy vs Nirvana in your local shop available on a limited edition 7″, June 27th 2011 via Ark Recordings and an album that includes covers of 10 Nirvana tracks in a reggae/dub style will be released soon. Watch this space.
Zac
Mark Jackson has some more recent footage up today featuring Lex K, Nick Jensen, Paddy Jones, Jin Shimizu, Olly Todd, Rob Mathieson and more sessioning a road gap in town.
Enjoy what went down in Liverpool St and click here for more footage from Hold Tight Henry.
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Watch the Nike Pool video edit
On May 25th 2011 we all headed over East to Dagenham for a private skate session organised by Nike at The Pool, a local swimming pool that had been redesigned for a cracking BMX comp.
Here’s Alan Christensen’s footage from that secret session with skating from Andy Scott, Chet Childress, Aaron Sweeney, Lee Blackwell, Ben Nordberg, Mike Wright, Neil Smith, Carl Wilson and Sam Pulley. Click here for the write up and photos from Brendan Ryall.
Nick Zorlac headed out to the Extreme Connexions skate park in Hemel last week to see how the build was getting on and came back with these 3 shots of the progress for the Death blog. The mini ramp is looking amazing. For more information about how this skatepark is progressing, click here for a full feature as this park will be the UK’s only indoor concrete skatepark once it opens this summer.
