Footage from this weekend’s War of the Thistles skate jam up in Scotland. Watch an edit from Unit 23 Skatepark with skating from Stu Graham and friends here.
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Kingpin Magazine editor and ace skate photographer Alex Irvine features with Craig Questions in Phil Evans’ latest Format Perspective teaser.
The full documentary will be released this summer and looks certain to be one to collect on DVD. Look out for more of these as Phil rolls them out.
Fugazi fans will be stoked to learn that the band are currently trawling thorugh archived live recordings from shows all over the world whilst they were still an active touring band for release online. The band have recently agreed a deal with Spotify to finally stream the Dischord catalogue and Ian Mackaye was quoted a zine called Frontman Ian Mackaye told blog Approaching Oblivion:
“I wanted it to be up last fall … We had to digitise every show, they are on cassette and DAT for the most part. So we got that stuff done. Now we’re in the process of mastering all the shows so they play at the same volume. That stage is not too hard, it’s pretty mechanical, there’s a mastering program that does most of the work. Then we have to edit the shows which means we have to put in index points in between every song so they are not these two hour long files. It’s a fuck of a lot of work. We’re hoping it will be up in the near future. The idea at the moment is to start it with 100 shows. Then put 20 more on every month or something. We’re still building the site, it’s an interesting and complicated process“.
He also replied to the question we all want to know about if Fugazi will get back for another album in the future or more shows. He said:
“The four of us love each other dearly. We didn’t break up, I coined the indefinite hiatus term specifically because I thought it was absurd to break up. It is entirely possible that we will play again and it’s also possible that we won’t. We’ve been offered an insane amount of money to play reunions, but it’s not going to be money that brings us back together, we would only play music together if we wanted to play music together and the time allowed it“.
Fingers crossed they come back as they in our eyes one of the all time greats.
The Blueprint team have been busy in the USA in the last few months and if you missed it, they welcomed Jon Nguyen 2 weeks ago with a stunning edit.
Jon features in this latest edit put together by Sylvain Tognelli who filmed his team mates from his pocket whilst they were visiting Los Angeles. Enjoy this clip featuring Nick Jensen, Paul Shier, Sylvain Tognelli, Marty Murawski, Jon Nguyen, Kevin Coakley and guest Jesus Fernandez.
In related BP news, Paul Shier has a Candid Comments feature on Transworld discussing his 5 skate sections of all time. Have a butchers.
The good people at Real Skateboards have a limited version of their Since Day One DVD up for grabs for only 100 lucky people. The very limited book style edition of the DVD is made out of actual REAL wood veneers from the Real woodshop are also laser engraved and took months to create and also come with 1 of 5 signed Gabe Morford prints from the video, the DVD and the photo book.
55 of these 100 are set aside for team riders and DLX family members leaving 45 that will be available to buy via auction through the Actions REALized site and a few additional ones on Ebay with proceeds going to the Johnny Kicks Cancer Foundation. Read RLD’s full review of the film here.
Global new agency Reuters announced yesterday that the Volcom brand is subject to a takeover from PPR, who also own brands such as Puma, Gucci, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen for $607.5 million.
Read the full story here and get hyped on the TXOTX! Mini-Ramp comp that is coming on the 21st of May in Durango, Basque Country as it’s always amazing. Enjoy this edit of the last one.
Horsey has been having a blast lately. He’s hooked up with the High Five, become one of Supra’s team riders, spent the last year traveling the world skating and has inspired one of the new shoes in the Three Amigo’s series.
In March he joined up with team riders Furby, Spencer Hamilton, Boo Johnson, Keelan Dadd and Cody McEntire and hit up Texas on a tour. Watch the video here and look out for his Essex Coat of Arms branded shoe on your travels.
What a week it’s been for amazing skate edits. Just when you think there’s no more then Torey Pudwill rolls up at the Berrics and gets down to some serious business. Simply incredible.
After randomly finding a link to the great opening edit from Wallows in Powell Peralta’s epic video production The Search for Animal Chin this morning on youtube I also stumbled across this small documentary on the hallowed spot that Hawaii is so famous for.
Take a historic look back at how skaters (and surfers) made use of this steep banked ditch on the Island of Oahu from 1975/1976 with skating from Art Hottendorf (who put the film together) and John Jardine.
Here’s the Animal Chin footage featuring Bones Brigade members Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Tommy Guerrero getting ‘bunsun over the junsun’ from circa 1986/87.
Moroccan technical wizard Youness Amrani has joined Almost Skateboards this week. Currently residing in Belgium Youness has proved over the years that his technical ability is second to none, especially after scooping the World finals of the Red Bull Manny Mania in 2010 and hooking up on the Nike team.
Enjoy this welcome video which is 5 minutes of Youness goodness and look out for more very soon.