Manolo Robles is the new am on Darkstar Skateboards. If you missed it first time round watch his welcome video to Matix Clothing that was released 2 months back as he has tech skills for miles.
Categories
Author: Zac
Fans of the Astoria Theatre that has now part of music history in London’s musical heritage can find a timelapse video of the demolition process below.
My personal favourite moment of visiting this venue was November 5th, 1991. I could not get a ticket for Nirvana’s headline show at the Astoria so instead went to watch Tankard at the Marquee. Itching to see Nirvana, I left the thrash show, ran as fast as I could up the Charing Cross Rd into the Astoria reception, straight past the bouncers (who gave full chase) and ran into the crowd at mach 10. I hit the floor and crawled to the front of the stage whilst being trampled on but as I came up for air I found myself swaying next to my best mate and little Brother just as Kurt’s Jaguar guitar fell back onto the stage and smashed into pieces! I will never forget it.
RIP Astoria – enjoy this demolition.
Deathwish pro Antwuan Dixon‘s spotlighted lifestyle has been documented again, this time by his friend Zack Warren who explains the film he put together- Antwuan lived with me on and off for about 6 months and after seeing so many videos of him fighting for 15 or 30 seconds we decided to show the real Antwuan Dixon. We wanted to give a real look at this amazing one of a kind person and give him a chance to tell his story through his eyes.
This 15 minute documentary has everything you need to know about one of skateboarding’s most unique players, watch it here.
Categories
Superdead do Midsomer Norton
Remember that amazing skate park in Midsomer Norton that Maverick built last year? Superdead team riders Awadh Mohammed, Ben Rowles, Jirka Bulin, and Eddie Belvedere got stuck into it recently and rolled away with 2 minutes of footage for your viewing pleasure.
Get some soul in your life here.
It’s a mystery how this band have been signed by a record label but it has happened somehow.
Watch this video for epic mega lolz!
Thrasher have a quarterpipe session online today filmed down under in Australia with TNT, Al Partenen, Grant Taylor, Raven Tershy and more. Get some of this.
Loading the player …
Categories
Band of the Week: Holy Show
So, first up what is Holy Show? Well, to quote a phrase from their twitter they are “Like a kid taking a shit in its own birthday cake.” They skate but only push fast, they have massive lips that wanna fuck people and they have a new video that has just dropped for what looks like a debut tune.
How did we find this band? Via Lucy Lawless, who is one of those tall, rock chick vampires who can be found with a JD and coke in her hand, propping up walls at our Crossfire Halloween Massacre parties. Lucy is flatmates with this lot and posted the video last night.
So, we know nothing about this band other than they have a pretty cool bass driven indie/punk sound, they have a new mixtape dropping on June 3rd, their singer Adam Powell directs music videos, they just happen to ride skateboards in their video and James from the band is probably having a BBQ with his nan somewhere.
Holy Show refuse to have a facebook page but stick to twitter so annoy them and give them some abuse as they love it. Watch the video for People Fuck People and spread the word by posting this video if you are feeling it as much as we are on first listen.
Jeff Grosso meets up with Upland Pipeline legend Salba for his Loveletters video series this month. The Upland Pipeline was a classic skatepark which opened in 1977 and one of a kind at the time being the first park to add vert and a full pipe that claimed many collar bones.
Get the history of Badlands and much more from 2 of the best concrete rippers that ever graced and shaped our scene today and scroll down to see how this place ate the mighty Chris Miller back in 1985.
Eric Koston has found his way into Manolo’s video compilation mash ups today.
Click for over 7 minutes of old footage lifted from Yeah Right!, Goldfish, Menikmati and much more here.
Mogwai return with a new video for thier latest release San Pedro lifted from their album ‘Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will’. This track will be available on 7″ limited edition, heavy pressed vinyl 7″ on 23rd May.
Scout it out at your local record store and soak up the video here.