If you have been salivating and waiting for Sox’ part in the ‘Overdose’ video like ourselves then the wait is up. It’s the ender, and it’s rad. Kill City chief Lee Dainton also gets in amongst the act at the end too. Damn right too.
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Chain & The Gang
Chain & The Gang
‘Minimum Rock N Roll’
(Fortuna Pop)
Ian Svenonius always does good party manifesto. I first heard his “13 Point Plan To Destroy America” with Nation of Ulysses then got to interview him as leader of Gospel influenced MAKE-UP for my old grunge fanzine Velvet Sheep when he said “the only reason we make music is cos what can poor people do to fight against the context they’re forced to live in, in terms of capitalist society? The great promise of rock & roll is the idea of self-creation”. And he’s created yet another brilliant band Chain & The Gang who return after a triumphant MAKE-UP reunion (I was there, I testified as Ian repeatedly smacked a microphone into his Steptoe-esque teeth) with the brilliantly understated “Minimum Rock & Roll“. To call it lean is an understatement.
On the brilliant teaser Ian intones that this record does not contain the following: “Extraneous words, unnecessary sounds, frivolous notes. Fewer Words — Fewer Notes — Fewer Beats. You’re tired of hearing them, we’re sick of making them”.
Like The Cramps this is cut to the bone. Still funky, still sexy, still incandescent. But made from rubbing two sticks together rather than with a flame thrower. If politics is about personality these days, I say we should all clamour for Ian’s immediate election.
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Jaws, Robbie Brockel and more are involved in this couples therapy from Thrasher this week boosting fuck-off airs over each other worth talking about in Phoenix, Arizona. If you want more of this head here.
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Bails of the Week
Illustration: Jack Hamilton
3. It looks like Aiden Hamilton had to scrape his face off the pavement after this one.
2. Zach Doelling hit a pebble for this Superman impression.
1. Michael Hillier picked a fight with a hill bomb speed wobble for his new skin graft in Sheffield.
Maverick Skateparks opened another new skatepark this month in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. The park has a mix of transition and street and was designed by Maverick’s Russ Holbert with the input of the local riding community.
“The park has been split up into 3 main areas, the idea behind the facility is that the routes around the skatepark link up so they can work as one long flowing run or separate areas when the park is busy'” explains Holbert. “The shape and style of the skatepark is dictated by the different riding lines and is broken up with green space with a seating area.”
The design features a raised street area with ledges and rails, a bowled out, open-ended miniramp and flatbank hip with manual pad. The park offers the more experienced riders considerable challenges but importantly features elements that are perfect for learning and will encourage younger users to get involved.
Find it at Oldends lane, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL10 2DG
This classic sticker design from UK artist Jon Horner has made it onto a run of limited t-shirts for Skate Pharmacy this week. Pick one up before they are gone for £19.95 here.
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Vans x Star Wars edit
Steve Caballero suited up in a Chewbacca outfit to skate in this new video to promote the new line of Vans and Star Wars collab footwear that you can see here. Due to an injury his foot had to be pumped with cortisone ahead of the day of the shoot which made for uncomfortable skating dressed up in a seriously hairy outfit.
“It took some time to get used to skating in the costume. The shoes were a little weird and deceiving because there were wookie toes hanging off the end of it so when I looked down at my feet it looked weird, ” explains Cab. “I had to step on my board by feel and then I couldn’t even feel my back foot because it was completely numb so I was winging it. And then one time I fell down and I slid down on my butt and I ripped a hole in the butt of the costume. So I was a little insecure about that because I thought the rip was super huge but it wasn’t and the hair was covering it. And every time I knee slid it was scrapping the toes off and ripping hair off. I was trying not to bail as much as I could so I wouldn’t ruin the costume.”
Read the rest of his interview on the Vans tumblr and follow our page there too if you have one.
The SML wheels team is growing bigger by the month. This time new Almost pro Youness Amrani is welcomed to the fold. if you want more follow your nose for his latest Almost a Part.
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Lyon Neighbor DIY jam
Wallride sessions come from Blaze Supply and Antiz this week who also throw in some mini ramp jam action from Lyon, France for this fun-packed Neighbor DIY jam.
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The Sunday Roast
Let’s kick this off with a fresh session from the Blaze Supply and Antiz wallride and mini ramp jam. Fun packed Neighbor DIY jam!
New Almost pro Youness Amrani mixes a big bag of tricks from tech to big gaps and ditches in this amazing new part. You need to watch this twice.
Mindblowing control at insane speed. Dennis Busenitz’ appearance in Dan Wolfe’s The Cinematographer Project is second to none.
Nicky Howells fronts the UK in this week’s full section from Kill City’s new ‘Overdose‘ video. Elton John approved too.
Hawk’s Doubles edit was a must watch this week. So many gnarly tricks in this.
Speed Freaks is our vault pick of the week. Get the teas on and take in the legendary Santa Cruz video from 1989 with Hosoi, Natas Kaupas, Neil Blender, Eric Dressen, Jason Jessee, Jeff Grosso and many more!