Are you ready to Witness the shitness?? Well, you better be because the bellends over at Cock Skateboards (the site isn’t live yet, this is a preview!)are busy filming. Word has it that Cool Jon is building an extension onto his miniramp to capitalise on the carnage for the video premiere!
Keep an eye out for these new decks boning about the streets and available from the Source in Hastings – Ask for the 9 inch if you’re a gnarler.
Clothing can be bought here .
Not only are Gallows starting off the New Year as support for the Bullet For My Valentine tour, they have also bagged themselves a support slot on the As I Lay Dying dates too!
On top of the tour, the band’s pre-album demo will be released on coloured vinyl in February with a limited pressing of 500 copies, with the tracks Just Because You Sleep Next To Me It Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe, Will Someone Shoot That Fucking Snake, Abandon Ship and Swarm Over Death. In other news, they will also be releasing a split 7″ with November Coming Fire, with 500 copies being pressed.
Their tour dates are:
January 2007:
3rd – Newcastle Academy (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
4th – Manchester Apollo (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
5th – Birmingham Academy (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
6th – Colchester Arts Centre (with As I Lay Dying)
7th – Cardiff University (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
8th – Hammersmith Apollo (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
10th – Oxford Zodiac (with As I Lay Dying)
11th – Sheffield Corporation (with As I Lay Dying)
21st – Kingston Peel (with The Legacy)
22nd – Wolverhampton Little Civic
23rd – Leeds Cockpit (with The Plight)
Crossfire likes to keep it Global, and you don’t get much further from the HQ than New Zealand where the skate scene is amazing!
Luckily for us, Dan Kircher and the 09 Video Factory have got the red button pressed and are hard at work on a new video featuring the local talent of Will Ackerman, Rush Fay, Harry Culy, Chey Ataria, Bernard Foo and Glen Wignall. The video is due to drop in 2007, and doesn’t have a title yet, but here is the trailer .
If that got your taste buds tingling, you might want to check out their latest release, Forays , on sale for a Fiver at the Story Store !
The Camden Crawl has been confirmed for 2007 and it promises to be even bigger and ever better than this year’s. A new 2 day format will be included, taking place on the 19th and 20th of April.
The 2007 Crawl will see 15 of Camden’s venues brought together for over 80 bands and DJs to play out 32 hours of music!
The even will start at Noon on each day and will see impromptu shows, fan forums and acoustic sessions, before heading into the evening’s new music showcases and surprise guests. You can buy both two and one day tickets on www.gigsandtours.com for £37.50
Soil will be supporting their last release, True Self, with a number of UK tour dates alongside Godhead, Brand New Sin and Lennon. The dates are:
January 2007:
10th – Bristol, Bierkeller
11th – Exeter, Lemon Grove
12th – Bradford, Rio’s
13th – Milton Keynes, Pitz
14th – Norwich, Waterfront
16th – Glasgow, Cathouse
17th – Belfast, Spring & Airbrake
18th – Dublin, Voodoo Lounge
19th – Liverpool, Academy II
20th – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
22nd – Nottingham, Rock City
23rd – Manchester Academy II
24th – London Mean Fiddler
25th -Sheffield Corporation
26th – Brighton Concorde 2
Dead Moon have announced they are to split after almost 20 years together. Fred Cole, guitarist and vocalist with the group, confirmed the split after they’d suddenly cancelled some shows:
“After 20 yrs, Dead Moon is retiring. It has been a journey we will always treasure and feel that a worldwide family has emerged in its place. Dead Moon became much bigger than the band itself, it became a DYI underground hopeful for a lot of people. The candle is still burning!”
Atlanta hip hop kings Mars Ill are putting a new record out with brand new material and a previously unreleased track from 1999, entitled Old Ironsides. On their myspace blog, the group said:
“I guess after you have had a record pushed back (propain) a 100 times and dealt with all the “when’s it coming out? Blah, blah” nonsense it is extremely joyous and therapudic when you can literally drop an entire record in your fans lap and say “enjoy”. So here you are, enjoy.”
Make sure you pick this up, it’ll be the best way to see in 2007. You can check a track from it on their myspace here.
Scene videos are your best bet at catching the hottest new talent before the majors get their teeth in, and nowadays the production level is on par with many major releases. Local London lensboy, Phraeza , is going to premiere his project, The Learning Curve, this Sunday 17th December from 8pm at Lounge 34 (formerly Ruby Lounge), 34 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7RG.
It’s over the road from where Cide used to be, behind Waterloo Station.
N.B. If you visit the Jahlada site, you can subscribe for exclusive podcasts. It’s worth it.
I kinda look back a few years remember when Globe shoes first spawned upon the feet of many a skateboarder around the world. They had a wacky approach and produced some of the most technical skate shoes for the likes of one Gershon Mosely, Rodney Mullen, Chet Thomas and a few others.
In my opinion, the shoes they produced back then was suited for the flip-in-flip-out crowd and didn’t really appeal to me that much; but they started doing then that makes them elite today…They diversified their approach and picked up riders with different knacks on all kinds of terrain, thus exposing them to a wider audience and making the general skate-blic aware of their thought process! Groundwork which now makes them the elite of the clothing/footwear combination in the business!
I personally have never ridden a pair of Globes before, but spotted the Magnums and thought it’s time to make the ‘change’. When these cowboys came knocking, I was most delighted with my excellent choice in skate shoe. I knew from the start that the relationship would be a long and good one.
This particular model features a double-layered toe section with triple stitching sealing it down nice and tight. The first two lace holes comes with protection and will preserve them laces a lot longer whilst you perfect your powwow flips. The tongue is slightly padded for extra comfort, but its not to thick or heavy and suits the shoes design down to a G. I cant say I’ve ever heard of a slip resistant mesh lining, but these come with those and I can’t really say that it’s a noticeable feature, but hey, it’s a feature nonetheless and that means that they are keen at pushing the limits to produce a finer product for the consumer.
Although these shoes have a stylish design, and look really good, I think the key to its success lies beneath- the sole of the shoe!!! They have this internal footed cushioning system that is unlike anything I’ve experienced before. The sole is so flat and yet I can see Charlie America flipping a 13set with ease and not being too concerned about the old bruised heel. The outside sole is vulcanised and comes in a sticky rubber blend with a foxing band and abrasion resistant rubber, that’s a good thing I say. These tyres are rather grippy, fits like gloves on you feet and are good to go out of the box, a decent shoe at a decent asking price.
Globe is on a mission and they are belting more and more great products. They also have one of the, if not the strongest team in the world. I thought Globalized was just a cute slogan…FUCK, with bait like that, it’s hard not change your diet.
If the shoe fits…WEAR IT!!!
Find them at the Globe website.
8/10
Live FAST, Ride FAST!!!
2P
Someone must be lacing the water in Toronto, Canada with extra-strong punk power powder because first Fucked Up come along and create the greatest combination of garage punk, oi!, old school hardcore and straight up rock action you’ve never heard and now along come Cancer Bats to make our ear drums rrrrrrrrrrrip!
Mixing thick slabs of dark Black Flag hardcore with the doomy sludge metal of Corrosion Of Conformity and Down, Cancer Bats debut album provides fourteen tracks of shit-kicking heavy-riffing hardcore punk mania that’s menacing enough to send fat old Santa scurrying back up the chimney this xmas.
Having just torn up the UK as support to Moneen, it’s fare to say that Cancer Bats are just as good live as they are on record. They’ll be back next year. Watch this space.
Gotta feel sorry for those bats though. The poor bastards got cancer.