House of Vans London will pay tribute to skateboard pioneer and original Z-Boy Jay Adams by hosting a weekend of screenings this weekend. Expect rare video footage to Stacy Peralta’s award winning documentary ‘Dogtown and Z-Boys’ in the cinema.
Get down to Waterloo this weekend if this is for you.
The Holy Shits aka Foo Fighters
Live at the House Of Vans, London
September 11th
I love Dave Grohl. Mission Impossible. Scream. DC Hardcore. Dain Bramage. Nirvana. Probot. Sound City. I USED to love the Foo Fighters. When that first album came out, we were so desperate for at least some kind of continuation after the brutal, shocking end of Nirvana and Grohl made us smile again, with Pat Smear grinning beside him like a Cheshire cat and a batch of superb, high-energy melodic rock songs to win us over. That first Reading Festival set in 1995, the chaos in the tent, those great early singles…then Grohl steadily slipped into a far safer mainstream stadium/radio rock path and the excitement waned. You can’t blame him, he’s an incredibly talented melodic rock song writer but for those of us raised on 80s punk and discordant 90s noise, it was a path that just didn’t excite.
So I stopped paying attention. At least, I thought I did. If I did then how the hell do I know pretty much every song of the entire two-hour plus set they play tonight? The Foo Fighters are in town, ahead of a forthcoming release of their new album, to fire up their cylinders and get back into live touring mode with a batch of ‘intimate’ shows (playing under the name The Holy Shits!) and tonight, under the tunnels of Waterloo, they power through a set packed full of hits and you realise that yes, you know every song because they’re great.
You’d have to be a pretty joyless fucker not to enjoy this. Sure, I have no real desire to watch the Foo Fighters play in a stadium, but the chance to see them live in a venue this size couldn’t be passed up. And they don’t disappoint. For a start, the sound is incredible, an amazing achievement considering the booming acoustics of the brick tunnels, and the songs come so thick and fast, high-energy, Pat Smear still cool as fuck (he was in in THE GERMS FOR FUCKS SAKE!), Taylor Hawkins blazing on the drums (how anyone can have the nerve to play drums behind Dave Grohl, I have no idea but this guy pulls it off) and they play ‘This Is The Call’ and ‘For All The Cows’ from that first album and I fall in love with it all over again. They play all of the hits. You know them, I don’t need to list them. This is a crowd pleasing set. Nice guy Dave wants to please.
I leave smiling and sweaty. I think I just fell in love with the Foo Fighters all over again, just for the night. A one night stand.
Word: James Sherry
Ph: Nathan Gallagher
Have you ever longed to see Bill Murray, Mel Gibson and Colin Firth pay homage to the verse of Ol’ Dirty, Method Man and Raekwon? Then look no further, for an internet whizz has trawled through movie archives old and new to build one of the most jam packed edits you’ll ever see.
Stream ‘Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit’ below. 10 points if you spot C-3PO.
This footage shot last weekend at the Battle of Hastings event is a little excuse for us to let you know that Jak Tonge has recently discussed being a Skate Dad with us so we will share that interview on here with you next week.
Jak was sleep deprived that morning so he decided to put unleaded into a diesel car. Unaware, he headed to Hastings. Inevitably the car broke down a fair distance from the park. Jak’s warm up was basically hacking blindly to the park on a hangover. He ended up winning the comp and a load of money which all ended up going on sorting out the motor. You lose some, you win some then you lose some I guess.
Enjoy and look out for a feature next Tuesday.
Car park jamming, concrete shredding, rail busting, this, as usual, has the lot.
Following the well deserved hype and acclaim that Gengahr‘s debut track ‘Fill My Gums With Blood’ received, it is with great excitement that we find the North London four piece set to drop their new single ‘Powder’ on October 27th via Transgressive Records.
Keeping in check with their delicate dream-boat melodies, ‘Powder’ adds a little grit to their sun soaked appeal, with a Screamadelica-esque guitar riff landing straight on the bullseye. Stream this fantastic single below.
Ph: Rich Anderson with a burning melon shot by Danny Bulmer
Bournemouth’s skate scene pulled off the ol’ Ring Of Fire jam at Kings Park without anybody getting maimed. Enjoy this!
Suicidal Tendencies and raw concrete shredding in the Basque country and France from the Dogdown crew. Get the beans on.
Ph: Crail from the Big Push in 2007 shot by Sam Ashley
Chris Pulman‘s third installment of ‘That Guy’ delves into the filming for Everything’s Going To be Alright (2002) and Live From Antarctica (2005) an explanation behind his London Bridge ender, music choices, Descent skateboards and much more. Great looking back at these times, good work Al.
After 20 years as an integral part of the music scene in Leeds and the North of England, The Cockpit announced yesterday that it has been forced to shut it’s doors permanently due to severe maintenance work the building requires.
Having temporarily closed back in July to carry out maintenance, yesterday the venue published this statement on their official website “It is with great regret that we have to announce the permanent closure of the Cockpit. After 20 great years as an integral pillar of the Leeds music scene we have decided that it is no longer viable to deliver you the level of service you deserve with the building in it’s current condition.”
Despite this sad news, the current resident promoters at the venue will continue to book and promote artists in and around Leeds. In addition, The Cockpit are in the process of relocating all upcoming gigs to alternative venues with any tickets already purchased remaining valid.