To help raise money for Southsea Skatepark to stay open, there is a fundraising night on Saturday Nov 10th at the Havana Bar in Southsea.
The night will include skate films, art, raffles, DJs, b-boy jam, and loads more, all for a measly £3 entry that will help keep Southsea park alive.
For more info, peep the flyer.
Bellows Skateboards have released their 2007 range of hardware with some bellows-inspired animal graphic decks.
The brainchild of Euro tech styler Love Eneroth, you can find out more about Bellows by huffing and puffing over to www.bellowsskateboards.com
Our friends in Birmingham have recently launched a new online store that you should be aware of, especially since there are only a few Skater Owned Shops with a great web presence at the moment.
Go check out Ideal Skateshop in Birmingham at www.idealbirmingham.co.uk
A Third Foot is celebrating their 10th birthday in style with a party in Birmingham on Saturday 24th Nov at 3pm for anyone that wants to come along.
There will be beer, bbq’s, a mini ramp in a tent and loads more. Get yourself down there to show your support for a UK skateboard company that has been helping the scene for over a decade.
A number of break-ins recently forced the neighbouring building owners to weld the doors of Bones shut to stop any further vandalism. Read the news story below for further details and info.
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/search/display.var.1762510.0.skatepark_set_alight.php
Creature Skateboards have started a rehabilitation programme for some of the poorest and socially retarded members of society in an attempt to pull them out from the depths of being complete bellends.
Read the flyer, and help a poor sod out.
That’s Life is a feature length documentary looking at the lives of Duane Peters and his wife Corey Parks as they deal with the long road to recovery and sobriety, as well as trying to raise a stable family.
Coming out soon, you can see the trailer for it by clicking below.
After seeing Bad Brains play London last night and facebook message to boot, it reminded me to get this little beauty on the zine. Click here to read the live review from the show and you know what to do below.
Eat it and weep shit stick.
Nike and Almost ripper Lewis Marnell dropped into the Crossfire office this week to say hello so we decided to interview him off the cuff.
Expect words to drop here when we can get them typed up innit. They include spider stories, near death experiences with Dustin Dollin and all fuelled by reggae and dancehall.
He seemed pleased with his new video part for Nothing But The Truth which is out soon but in the meantime watch some footage of him with his mate Dustin here:
Last night saw Southbank overrun with swoosh-fans all ready to peep the new video offering from Nike, ‘Nothing But The Truth’, and the turnout was phenomenal as you would expect.
With media press days happening over in east London all day, a fair few of the crowd (myself included) were well oiled and truly hyped to see what the shoe giant and their incredible team had to offer. When your team list includes the likes of Gino Iannucci, Brian Anderson, Paul Rodriguez, Stephan Janoski, Reese Forbes, Chet Childress and Omar Salazar, it can’t be anything but amazing.
The crowds assembled and free boxes of popcorn eaten, the performance began with the film style skits that have already been well discussed. Lewis Marnell (interview on Crossfire soon) had the opener and some beautiful reggae-tinged tre flips caught front foot and dragged back into land. Janoski did what Janoski does and made skating look far too easy, whilst Wieger did frontside 180 fakie nosegrinds that put people on the edge of their seats.
Gino received rapturous applause through his 8 tricks at the end of Brian Anderson’s section, which almost drowned out the perfect pop noises. Chet Childress also killed it and looked like he was having the time of his life doing it. P-Rod closed the show with the footage of ‘that’ treflip crook, which is fast. Really fast. I was shocked. And he knocked out yet another bolts switch frontside heel down enough steps to make asthmatics wheeze.
An incredible day, and Nike really know how to treat their supporters, but the video, with all the hype surrounding it, seemed to lack that certain something that could have made it the best piece of film ever made. Fingers need to be put on something, but I’m not sure what. Look out for a full review on Crossfire very soon, as well as interviews with Nike riders Brian Anderson and Chet Childress