The Raconteurs are releasing their new single, Hands, on July 31st and will also be playing some festivals over the summer, so you can check them out at Reading, Leeds, Belfast’s Vital Festival and Scotland’s T On The Fringe. The dates are:
August:
Monday 21st – Dublin Olympia Theatre
Tuesday 22nd – Belfast Vital Festival
Wednesday 23rd – Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Saturday 26th – Reading Festival
Sunday 27th – Leeds Festival
Breed 77 are back with a new single Blind from their new album, entitled In My Blood, coming out in September. The group, nominated for Best British Act at the Metal Hammer Awards, will be supporting both releases with a tour of the UK. The dates are:
July:
16th – Guilfest
August:
12th – Bull Dog Bash
September:
10th – Stamford Corn Exchange
11th – Bournemouth Opera House
12th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
14th – Edinburgh Studio 24
15th – Glasgow Cathouse
16th – Sheffield Corporation
17th – Stockton Georgian
18th – Nottingham Rock City
20th – Manchester Academy 3
21st – Birmingham Academy 2
23rd – Stoke Sugarmill
24th – Wrexham Central Station
25th – London Underworld
26th – Oxford The Zodiac
27th – Reading The Fez
28th – Exeter The Cavern
30th – Leeds Cockpit
October:
1st – Agincourt Camberly
2nd – Brighton Concorde
Hailing from Brooklyn, We Are Scientists took the UK by storm with their infectious, unpretentious indie calling card. Straddling the line between darker pop punk and retro indie chic, they manage to avoid the mutated indie ‘scene’ and come out the other side still smelling of roses. Tracks off the album like ‘This Scene is Dead’ and ‘Cash Cow’ seem content with self awareness, bright and sharp,’ and ‘Inaction‘ even seems to give the scene a good kicking.
On the flip side they also produced the wonderfully seductive ” Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt” slithers its way around your mind with vocals courtesy of frontman Keith Murray. The three piece describe their sound as “advanced high level sectional articulation”, its layers of guitars with disco beats, curling basslines combine with intelligent lyrics, thumping chorus lines and some sparkling tunes.
One thing’s for sure – they do seem fond of re-releasing tracks. With ‘Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt’ re-released earlier this year, they’re following it up with the quirky, unbelievably catchy ‘The Great Escape’. With the summer (questionably) upon us, the more buzzing, upbeat and addictive tracks the better- and this is an absolute blinder of an indie gem. Exhilarating, exciting, topped off with a wonderful sense of urgency- this could be the anthem of the summer, and the soundtrack to the festivals. Scuzzy guitars and staccato turns, this is unchallenging, unmitigated fun – turn it up loud and enjoy!
I guess we are always looking towards the future and reporting the past here at Crossfire, so we are stoked to let you in on a forthcoming feature series that will start this week here in the Skate Zine.
Many skate photographers worldwide have been invited to take part in a photography feature called the Crossfire Triple Shot where famous skate photographers will be interviewed and also provide us with 3 of their fave photo’s with text that include:
1. Their most inspirational skate photo shot by someone else.
2. The photographers very own favourite ever skate pic.
3. Another fave shot from the photographer that is not skate led.
Invites have been sent to many UK photographers including Richie Hopson, Leo Sharpe, David “Styley” Steel, Wig Worland and many more, plus international guests include Rhino from Thrasher, Swedish photographer Jonas Adolfsson, the legendary Bryce Kanights and many, many more.
The first feature starts with photographer Dominic Marley whose shots are used by Sidewalk Magazine and also Blueprint Skateboards to name a couple…find out the full story with Dom here.
Rumours are coming into Crossfire HQ via local skaters who report that Neanderthal Man turned up at Prissick Plaza on Sunday night and ate a kid in front of his two parents.
The child cannot be named for legal reasons due to his age but his parents who were eating a bag of chips and mushy peas at the time, saw the beast run across the manual pad and knock their kid out clean with a club.
This is the 4th sighting of Neanderthal Man in the space of 3 weeks and reports have rocketed since the arrival of This’n’That, the new skate video from Andy Evans.
Pro skater Pete King says “sometimes Romans and Normans have turned up at skate parks getting in the way and scaring the kids but Neanderthal Man just clubs and eats whole, the maddest cannibal on earth right now, first we thought it was bad enough with chavs and now this!“.
Watch out at your local skate spots kids, you could be next.
You can read how to tackle Neanderthal Man if you click here.
Good luck.
Jurassic 5 are back, this time without Cut Chemist, but ready to drop their new album Feedback.
You can check out 5 tracks from the new album but hitting up this link and hearing what Akil, Marc 7, Zaakir and Chali 2na have layed on Nu Mark’s new beats.
The album, which features Dave Matthews and Mos Def will be released on July 24th.
Zurich’s psychobilly influences rockers The Peacocks are coming back to the UK for a tour after their travels to the US. The dates are:
12th July: Kingston Bacchus (onstage at 10:30pm)
13th July: Chepstow Five Alls
15th July: Sheffield The Plug
16th July: London Mean Fiddler
18th July: Newcastle The Cluny
19th July: Leicester The Charlotte
In other news, Captain Everything are bringing out a limited pink vinyl 7″ of The Bomb Song with He Am Spartacus and Diary Of A Spengler on the B Side. After almost a year Captain Everything will be hitting the road in the build up to the new album Buena Vista Bingo Club, the dates are:
12th July Hastings Crypt
13th July SouthamptonThe Joiners
14th July London Camden Underworld with You Me And The Atom Bomb
19th July Birmingham Bar Academy
20th July Bristol Bier Keller with Lightyear
21st July Hitchin Club 85
22nd July SwindonFurnace with You Me And The Atom Bomb
23rd July Cardiff Barfly
24th July Bolton Number 15
25th July Stourbridge Rock Cafe 2000
26th July Newcastle Carling Academy 2 with Lightyear
27th July Manchester Satans Hollow
28th July Leicester The Charlotte
29th July Amersham Jubilee Hall
30th July Derby First Floor with Lightyear
31st July Monmouth Monmouth Festival
1st August Newquay Fosters Beach Bar (Surfmasters)
3rd August Nottingham Rock City
4th August Lincoln Bivouac
5th August Doncaster Leopard
8th August Plymouth Hub
9th August Kingston The Peel with Send More Paramedics
10th August Hull Adelphi
12th August Blackpool Winter Gardens – Wasted Festival
13th August Derby Victoria Inn
26th August Reading Carling Festival : The Lock Up Stage
27th August Leeds Carling Festival : The Lock Up Stage
Eastpak, Vans, Side One Dummy Records and The Agency Group are hitting you with a tour for 2006 after the success of last year’s tour.
The tour, which will feature the likes of Gogol Bordello, Bedouin Soundclash, Disco Ensemble and Danko Jones will rock from October 31st and will travel all over europe from the UK to Belgium to Spain.
The dates are:
October 31st – Leeds Met
November 1st – Glasgow Barrowlands
November 2nd – Birmgingham Academy
November 3rd – Manchester Academy
November 4th – Brixton Academy
November 6th – Brighton Dome
November 8th – Cologne Ewerk
November 9th – Brussels AB
November 10th – Filederstadt/Stuttgart Filharmonie
November 11th – Paris Le Trabendo
November 12th – Bordeaux BT59
November 13th – Madrid Heineken
November 14th – Barcelona Apollo
November 16th – Milan Alcatraz
November 17th – Bologna New Estragon
November 18th – Zurich Xtra
November 19th – Vienna Gasometer
November 21st – Wiesbaden Schlachthof
November 22nd – Berlin Coumbia Halle
November 23rd – Hamburg Docks
November 25th – Gothenburg Chalmers
For all the info, check out www.antidotetour.com and www.eastpak.com
Prague’s ever-successful skate comp the Mystic Cup has been and gone and it was yet another wild run for all those involved. Always a favourite among the Brazilian contingent, did this year ring like a second coming for the natural Born Skaters from the southern hemisphere. Those in attendance thought so. Another sweet surprise was the ladies comp which saw some serious heat coming from the likes of Evelien Bouillart (rumoured to be getting a model on Etnies in the near fture!) and young Lacey Baker from the States.
Here are the results:
Mens Street
1. Ricardo Oliveira Porva – Brazil – $4,000
2. Daniel Vieira – Brazil – $2,500
3. Ronnie Creager – USA – $1,500
4. Austin Seaholm – USA – $1,000
5. Bastien Salabanzi – France – $800
6. Tomas Vintr -Czech Republic – $700
7. Jefferson Santos – Brazil – $600
8. Tony Trujillo – USA – $500
9. Ruben Rodrigues – Portugal – $400
10. Fabio Sleiman – Brazil – $350
Womens Street
1. Lacey Baker – USA – $1,000
2. Evelien Bouilliart – Belgium – $600
3. Lauren Perkins – USA – $400
Vert
1. Rune Glifberg – Denmark – $4,000
2. Mathias Ringstrom – Sweden – $2,500
3. Terence Bougdour – France – $1,500
4. Sandro Dias – Brazil – $1,000
5. Jussi Korhonen – Finland – $800
Best trick
1. Bastien Salabanzi Nosegrind to Backlipslide down the rail $500
2. Chris Pfanner Backside 180 kickflip to melon over pyramid to flat $300
3. Ondrej Leskoviansky Krooked grind tailgrab down the rail $200
4. Evelien Bouillart Feeble grind the big rail $150
5. Phillip Shuster Wally 360 flip $100
Here’s the footage:
*Warning* Some files are pretty big!
Damn! This year’s Wild in the Streets event went global with skaters coming together and shredding their neighbourhoods and city center all over the place.
Check out Emerica’s website dedicated to this major skate event that works hard and raising awareness of skateboarding in the world, and strengthening skater unity:
www.emericawildinthestreets.com
If you got Wild in the Streets let them know about it!
Just so you know, Emerica’s initiative had kids from all over Poland, Chile, Italy, Great Britain, France and Canada (to name a few) burning urethane in the name of fun!