The Kill City boys are on tour in the South West this August, so pop along and have a look at them kill it.
Cashman, Leyden, Rigby, Cornell, and a crapload more riders be hitting up Aberdare, Bude, Penzance and Bridgend from the 8th.
Check the flyer and www.myspace.com/killcityskateboards
It’s not often that a truckbolts or griptape company come out with a video, and if they do, it usually isn’t amazing.
But the Randoms video trailer is fucking insane! It’s actually made me want to go and buy their bolts if it means I will become even a fraction as gnarly as them. I suppose I shouldn’t be so surprised; with a team roster as long as my arms and including the likes of Peter Hewitt, Steve Caballero, Darren Navarrette, Tony Trujillo, Daniel Cardone, and Salba it was always going to be good.
Following the very successful Gypsy Tour a while back, Cliche have hit the road again with their bindles like the Littlest Hobo on the Gypsy Tour 2.
They’ve uploaded a photo montage on their site to tease you, or make you feel ill. There’s dog shit, bonfires, and skateboarders washing in rivers. Nice.
The torrential rain of the last few weeks has fucked over quite a few people, with houses getting evacuated and people canoeing their way up the High Street.
Seeing my old hometown of Abingdon, Oxfordshire on the news last with people inches away from having their shagpile carpet ruined was a bit shocking. Reports from the brand new, less than two weeks old skatepark, cleverly built on the Thames floodplain, seem to show a different story. Expecting that the already pretty minimal skatescene would have been washed away, it seems that if anything, it has strengthened it. Abingdon local, Jono Wyborn, sent this report from the new park to us this morning:
“Although the skatepark itself is dry, the area around it is more like the Florida everglades than an English field in summer. The water surrounds the park, and has claimed the life of a couple of boards, including my own which now feels like its-not-made-from-wheat-made-from-oats-instead-abix.
The water is not completely bad news though, the Abingdon skate scene has not suffered, and in someways the water has added to the session, its all about powerslides, not switch coffin grinds kids.
So yeah, skateboarding is even more fun down the park now, one of the recent favourites was playing a mass game of skate, and the loser has to sit in the water for a minute!
It is also quite fun to challenge people to do tricks near the water, ” Go on Nick, front rock on that quarter” knowing that there is a possibility of his board going in the water! Incredibly harsh, but quite amusing at the same time.
Flooding is gay.
The park was two inches underwater on Sunday, didn’t think it was possible for that much to dry that quickly (we skated there Sunday night)
Finally but definitely not the least important point: I was blessed with seeing a fat ginger kid slide off his BMX because of a little puddle at the bottom of the BMX jump thing. God has returned to his routes and is using the Noah and the Ark method to clear away the evil! The evil in this case being a fat ginger BMXer!”
Photos: Jono Wyborn
Straight off the Unabomber website:
Nowt’s been done update wise on the website for a while. Here’s an edit of some leftover footage edited by Ryan Gray from the last DVD… Urbane Robbed… Gonna start updating the website as soon as any of the team actually send me summit, to put up. More news and maybe some footage soon if yer lucky.
Jim Phillips, skateboard artist extraordinaire, has released a new book featuring the graphic artwork that we’ve grown up with and scraped off our boards for years.
This retropspective on Jim’s skateboard art bombards the reader with colourful skateboard decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding from the urethane revolution up to the present. You are invited for a ride, an inside view of Phillips Studios, to observe the wacky world of his crazed studio artists, and examine their graphic assignments. The story traces the roots of skateboarding with more than a half-century of Phillips’ involvement. It provides insight into the creative evolution of the sport and the worldwide interest and influence that has occurred from this California artist.
The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips is available now through Schiffer Books at www.schifferbooks.com
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Britain’s most important and influential skateboard companies, a huge art show featuring the legacy of Deathbox will open in Rotterdam, Holland, on Friday July 27th at the VIP International Art Galleries.
Featuring original deck art, magazine articles, tons and tons of controversial ads, photos by Davey van Laere and the incredibly sought after Deathbox video: Spirit of the Blitz, this exhibition will show just how important this company was in the progression of British skateboarding.
Just the names of the people attending should be enough to make you realise this, as so far the confirmed ‘celebs’ turning up include Sean Goff, Mark VDE, Pete Dossett, Alex Moul, Jocke Olsson, Rocker, Andy Scott, Davy Van Laere, Brian Vavier, Ian Deacon, Justin Ashby, Nico van der Wel, Jeremy Fox, Geoff Rowley, Tom Penny, Arto Saari, Mark Appleyard, Rodrigo TX, and more.
This reunion will be happening during the World Championship Skateboarding comp in Rotterdam, so yet another reason to take the weekend off – www.wsr07.com
Danny Wainwright has hooked up with the art & skate collective Xynthetic.
The skater and artist has joined the Xyn team and will hit up both sides of the spectrum for them. Gav from Xynthetic said:
“I can’t tell you how STOKED i am (and we all are) to have Danny on-board to have a world-record-holder, pro-skater, super-artistically-gifted and genuine all-around-super-nice-guy is just the best, another very welcome addition to the stellar collective we have now!
Not just a legend on a board, DW’s joining us on the artistic front too, laying his mad skills to boards and whatever else may come in the future, so be sure to keep peeled for that too!”
Plan B Skateboards have got a series of sort videos on their site called While Your Were Sleeping, all filmed at night.
Featuring members of the team, this is all the high standard skating you’d expect from the likes of PJ Ladd and the rest of Plan B.
See what they get up to while your sucking your thumb and dreaming of playing in the World Cup at www.planbskateboarding.com
So they’ve made you wait long enough already, but hang on in there a little longer.
Lakai’s Fully Flared has finally been given a release date of November 16th. I’m not going to bother hyping this any more because you already know it’ll be amazing.
Go and wait out the countdown at www.lakai.com