This Sunday sees the official opening of the Gravity built Telegraph Hill skatepark in SE14, London. The plans are for a full day of skateboarding with best trick comps and prizes from Blueprint, Heroin, Meet Bernard, Volcom, Lovenskate, and Stand Up Skateshop. Directions here.
Visit the park’s Facebook page for more info and enjoy this shot of Craig Questions bonelessing the new ‘crete for Gorm’s camera lens.
Dorchester’s concrete will have it’s annual roasting from locals this year on Saturday April 28th with cash money prizes for best tricks and free stuff from various sponsors. Get down to one of Maverick Skatepark’s best builds for a full day of it between 11 – 6pm. The park can be found at Weymouth Avenue, DT1 1QZ and the Facebook event page to join is here.
Tonight, the guys at Campus Skatepark in BristoL will be hosting a raging mini ramp party. From the updates on their facebook page, they have kegs of beer, loads of freebies to give out and some amped locals.
It runs from 6pm till 10pm, £5 entry for everyone; skaters, spectators and people who want to enter the comp. This includes entry to The Croft for the after party. The Sports hall closes at 8pm and the comp will run from 8pm till 9pm on Campus mini ramp set up with £300 prize money. Over 16’s only. Get down there if you are out West.
Hemel Hempstead’s indoor park, the XC is set for another event this winter with Santa Cruz Skateboards hosting the pool for a funfilled Xmas Jam. The session will kick off on the 18th December between 7-10pm with a mini ramp comp and much more. Expect pool carnage.
The 9th annual Crossfire Xmas Jam is confirmed to take place on Saturday 10th December at Bay 66 Skatepark in association with Slam City Skates Plan B, Flip and Superdead Skateboards who are providing best trick £comps during the afternoon. Look out for the schedule that will be announced soon.
Tickets are £10 for the full day on the door from 12-6pm. The unsponsored jams will kick off at 1pm with Slam City Skates vouchers up for grabs for best tricks. At 2.30pm the pro jam will commence and £600 cash prizes awarded on street and mini ramp. Also, look out for the product toss at the end of the day courtesy of our sponsors Flip, Superdead, Plan B, Heroin, Death, Drawing Boards, Science, Crayon, Kill City, Lovenskate and Blueprint Skateboards.
The after party will be held at Mau Mau Bar on Portobello Road with party tunes and a UK skate video premiere of the ROOKIES DVD from Kill City. Get your your travel booked and get ready for some amazing skateboarding as usual. There’s a facebook event page set up, invite your friends and watch last year’s video below.
Bay 66 Skatepark can be found between Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park Tube Stations at 66-67 Acklam Rd. Map here. If you need accommodation for the night, the cheapest and nearest place to book can be found at www.hostel639.co.uk.
The Vans UKSA National Skateboarding Championships returns this year with a change of venue.
Previously held at Adrenaline Alley in Corby, the event that boasts £10,000 in prize money has been relocated to the impressive XC skatepark in Hemel Hempstead and will take place on the weekend of 22nd and 23rd October.
The main change this year is that the XC has no vert ramp so the prize money will be split down to 20th place split between bowl, pool and street.
The venue has a large spectator capacity but there’s a limited amount of skate/spectate tickets available (35 places). This will you to skate the pool/bowl and mini ramp all day, watch the comp, have a ringside view and allow you to skate in the pool jam if you want. Contact the venue to buy in advance and for any other ticket info on 01442 228799.
SKATE/SPECTATE Tickets are priced as below:
Adult advanced £12
Junior advanced £11
Adult on the door £14
Junior on the door £12
Spectate only (very reasonable indeed!):
Adult advanced £5.00 Junior £3.00
Adult on the day £7.00 Junior £5.00
Rough Schedule:
Saturday 11am-8pm
Qualifiers start at 12.
Pool Jam
Writerstailblock fastest trick comp – Yes BDF has a speed gun
Sunday
11am – 8pm
12pm girls comp
1.30pm – Semis
3pm – Final
4pm – Best Trick comps
5.30pm – Prize giving
Thanks for making this one of the best night’s out we have ever had the pleasure of creating. Look out for the gallery today on the homepage.
SCHEDULE!
ROOM 1 – AKA THE VANS ROOM
9 – 10.30pm: LAST RESORT
10.30 – 11pm: CROWNS LIVE
11pm – 12pm TALITA TWOSHOES/PHEOBE WINTER
12-12.30am – CEREBRAL BALLZY LIVE
12.30am – 2amSTEREO:TYPE
2am- 4am SWEET DREAMS
4am-5am – CROSSFIRE SOUND SYSTEM
ROOM 2 – CROSSFIRE ROOM
9pm-10.30pm – TALITA TWOSHOES/PHEOBE WINTER
10.30pm-12am – LAST RESORT DJs
12am-5am – CROSSFIRE SOUND SYSTEM
ROOM 3 – AKA FRONT MAGAZINE ROOM
9-10pm CROSSFIRE SOUND SYSTEM – JAMES SHERRY
10pm-11.30pm TOMB CREW with ILLAMAN MC
11.30pm -1am RACK N RUIN
1am- 2.30am ENTER SHIKARI ROB & SGT ROLFY
2.30am-4.00am HIGH RANKIN and TIGERLIGHT
So here, we are. There are literally handfuls of advance tickets left. Snap them up right now and we will have your details on the door for when you arrive, no worries. We have also held back only 100 tickets on the door for those of you who can’t get your shit together! We are almost there though, you’d better be ready!
In order to celebrate 10 YEARS of doing this Crossfire stuff, our filthiest party, THE CROSSFIRE HALLOWEEN MASSACRE in association with Vans returns to the capital this year on Friday October 28th. We are putting everything into this one here so get organised in advance. Press play for Halloween Treats!
ADDRESS:
This party will be held at the same venue that we threw the Flip premiere at HIDDEN CLUB, 100 Tinworth Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 5EQ from 9pm-5am. Click here for a map. Please note that this night is strictly over 18’s only. You will be asked to show ID at the door and go through a small security check.
TICKET INFO:
Earlybird tickets have now unfortunately sold out. Advance tickets for just £10 (+booking fee) are on sale now from Ticketweb and WeGotTickets for a limited period. You can pick up paper tickets in the shop over the counter and online here at Slam City Skates. Please note that this event always sells out and tickets are currently selling fast, so organise your Halloween night now to avoid disappointment. Invite your friends from the Facebook
event page..
FANCY DRESS
The Massacre is only a week away, so what will you be dressing up as this year? It’s not essential but please note that pretty much everyone makes a big effort for this party. We will give away a huge package from Vans, Front, Crossfire and of course, a ltd edition Toxic Wasters sticker pack for the best dressed on the night. The best dressed male and best dressed female will be picked at midnight, so get yourself organised this weekend!
Nine Inch Nails, mashed up with Skrillex, Guns and Roses, Plan B, Michael Jackson, Slipknot, Chase and Status, Pendulum, Nero, Rage Against the Machine, The Prodigy, Noisia, Daft Punk- it’s all stuffed into here to form a party classic! Just dive into this and download it for free today on us.
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Crossfire Halloween Mix & Free Mashup by Stereo:Type
PLAYING LIVE
Cerebral Ballzy are our special guests this year. Watch their latest video here and look out for an interview with them this month.
We have also added Cornish 4-piece punk band, Crowns to the Vans room line up. Expect pirate style punk rock with a boozy swagger hitting your ears! Get a free download here.
MASSACRE 2011 LINE UP
FRONT MAGAZINE ROOM: LDN BASS SCENE/DUBSTEP/DnB/ELECTRO
HIGH RANKIN & TIGERLIGHT
ROUT & SGT ROLFY (Enter Shikari DJ Set)
RACK N RUIN (Black Butter Records)
TOMBCREW feat ILLAMAN MC (Trouble & Bass)
SWEET DREAMS
VANS ROOM: CLASSIC ROCK/METAL/THRASH/PUNK/MASH UP/HIP HOP
CEREBRAL BALLZY – LIVE!
CROWNS – LIVE!
STEREO:TYPE (XFM’s most requested Mash Up DJ)
TALITA TWO-SHOES (Total Rock)
PHEOBE WINTER (Metal Hammer show onPlanet Rock)
CROSSFIRE SOUND SYSTEM with ZAC SLACK & JAMES SHERRY
LAST RESORT
CROSSFIRE ROOM: TOXIC WASTERS SKATE STICKER ART EXHIBITION!
12 of the most exciting skateboard graphic illustrators will showcase one off sticker designs especially for Halloween. Includes exclusive work from Paul Parker, Mr Gauky, Kyle Platts, Sam Taylor, Matthew Bromley, French, Stu Smith, Fos, Craig Scott, Dan Singer, Paddy Jones and Tom Slater.
Watch Paul Parker’s illustration documentary here to find out more about his art. Mr Gauky’s Day In A Life is also now live. Awesome stuff.
If you have been to the Massacre before then you know you will need 2 days off to recover, so this year we have decided to help you out and throw it on a Friday. Get organised with tickets now to avoid disappointment. Please download the Massacre flyer below and put it on your wall. See you there!
Oxford’s skate scene will be celebrating the premiere of their Ox-Fam video on October 7th at the o2 Academy in Oxford. Watch Joe Paget’s full section here to get a taster of what’s coming.
The film features sections from Jason Cloete, Tom Watts, Joe Paget,Alex Fuller, James Needham, Phil Sproul, Alex Brewster, Kieran Mounsey and more. Look out for it as Neddy has been working on this for a while, should be good.
Free chicken, skateboarding, pro riders, free giveaways all day? Sounds like the Nandos Xperimental Jam is back at Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark, this year on Saturday 24th September.
This is the 5th year this event has rolled into West London so expect pro riders from the UK and Europe, comps for all ages, free skateboard lessons, a 3D screening of the amazing UNBELEIFABLE and BIEBELS WORLD and of course the NANDOS FREE BBQ.
Loads of prizes and giveaways from our spicy line up of sponsors including exclusive signed decks from the following for winners:
GIRL
LAKAI
ROYAL
4STAR
CHOCOLATE
ADIDAS SKATEBOARDING
ELEMENT
BLUEPRINT
PLAN B
INDEPENDENT
SPITFIRE
HABITAT CLOTHING
Free Lessons are from 10am till 12 midday jam and comps roll on from then till 4pm. Get it in your dairy.
To celebrate 20 years of the release of Nirvana‘s epic album Nevermind, a major Nirvana exhibition opened last night in Brick Lane that was packed to the gills with people on the opening night.
In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibition opened it’s doors with a live set from dub artist Little Roy who played a set of Nirvana covers in a dub stylee to a bunch of smiley, happy faces who were supping on free rum and gingers.
Special guests, music artists and even footballer Joey Barton turned out to soak up the fantastic photos from various photographers who have documented the band over the years, including the legendary Steve Gullick. These snaps sit alongside various Nirvana memorabilia that fills the large space opposite Rough trade records East store and also has some interactive fun for tech geeks to play with amongst traditional flyers, gig posters and many more amazing memories from the grunge era.
If you are in East London in the next 2 weeks then pop in and see what’s on display. The exhibition runs until Sunday, September 25 and is open from 1pm-7pm daily at The Loading Bay Gallery, Unit 4- 5, Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL.
On Thursday, September 22, there will be a special playback of Nevermind, followed by a a session with a guest panel. Limited to just 100 people, tickets cost £15. For the rest of the time, it’s free entry.
Local fact: Crossfire’s James Sherry (below) wrote the foreword for the Exhibition that you can read on the right hand side wall as you walk in.
