A new skateboard wheel has been designed in a strange cube shaped formula. Would you skate Shark Wheels? Watch this kickstarter video and let us know.
The Northamptonshire skate scene have filmed a bunch of footage over the last 3 months. Enjoy some skating from Alex “Moose” McGhie, Alex Young, Rew Cooke, Ryan Cotton, Tony Lui, Trevor Johnson and many more.
BUD skateshop rider Stéphan Boussac has hucked out the very first transfer from the middle bowl to the hip at Marseille’s incredible Prado park on southeast coast of France.
The gap has been hit many times the other way. John Cardiel did a 360 over the gap with a broken board, Aaron ‘Jaws’ Homoki 360’d it too, again, coming from the hip into the bowl.
We just had confirmation that this was the premiere transfer from new BUD shop owner Molinier ‘Momo’ Laurent, so unless you know someone else local who has this transfer in their pocket, you can blame him.
Enjoy a rare NBD from one of the best parks in the world that has seen the lot.
Childhood w/ LSA
Corsica Studios
10th June 2013
Riding out the wave of success debut single, ‘Blue Velvet’ brought last November, Childhood have returned from the studio with a brand new AA side, ‘Solemn Skies’ / ‘Semester’ packed with dreamy melodies and an infectious groove that’ll have you hitting the replay button for weeks.
There’s a video to match too, ‘Solemn Skies’ premiered on Dazed yesterday, featuring the four piece roaming lush landscapes clad in pastel colours, indulging in a spot of afternoon Frisbee. In celebration of all this larking about, Childhood come together with friends LSA for a release party down by the bridge in Elephant & Castle at Corsica Studios.
Newcomers LSA kick things off tonight, and despite a minimal online presence with only a handful of shows played, front man Will totally commands the stage. LSA plant their own take on that timeless early 00’s guitar driven indie pop sound, and it definitely chimes.
Cockles warmed, Childhood emerge for the main event, flexing effortlessly into their set with ‘Sweeter Preacher’. After gigging their way round England with the Palma Violets last year and a sold out show at Brixton Electric in April, they’ve spent time sharpening up their live set and it shows. Grabbing the audience’s attention instantaneously, Childhood force you to lock in with their tight rhythm section that paves the way for a duo of washed out chords and infectious leads, flowing like water onto the shore of front man Ben Romans Hopcraft’s gentle serenade.
This half-stoned Childhood haze drifts in and out of an upbeat swagger, softly accelerating towards the peak of their set, and the reason we’re all gathered in South London tonight: ‘Solemn Skies’. The single rockets into a sing along chorus followed by a groovy psych-out soundscape to close, approval of which is confirmed with rapturous applause and the throwing back and forth of shoes between crowd and band. Excellent stuff. Last number of the night ‘Bond Girls’ also proves an instant crowd pleaser and a true hit with the ladies it would seem.
The future is certainly bright for this foursome and the idea of an albums worth of these catchy tunes is an exciting one. Will they follow in the footsteps of their Palma peers and carry their phasers down to Rory Atwell’s floating studio to craft a psychy belter? I’m willing to wait and find out.
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Liam Sproat has been living his life in the sunshine strips of Barcelona and also spent some time shredding the terrain found in Skopje (Skopiya), the capital of Macedonia. Enjoy this new footage and whatever you do, do not fucking click this.
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WESC Delano Jacket
WESC have made pretty much the perfect summer jacket in the Delano here. I’ve had this on daily now since it came out of the bag and its simplicity and cut is what makes it so perfect.
WESC’s latest jacket is made from a perfectly weighted waxed cotton so that our European weather system can be defeated, and to back that up, it also comes correct with a concealed hood which tucks away nicely if you don’t want it flapping about on your back. Two huge pockets are situated in the front that can hide pretty much anything, and would be perfect for shoplifting too. The only downside pocket-wise is that the Delano doesn’t have any inside, which is strange. If it did, this jacket would be the ultimate, but that aside this is still a must buy at about £140 as it ticks pretty much every box and feels so good once on.
Unfortunately within the first week of wearing this, I was on the south coast in Brighton when a bird dropped the biggest shit on me from a tree. From previous experiences of watching the colour be ripped out of fabric from the likes of ketchup (get that off immediately) and bird crap, I was surprised to get my Delano back from the dry cleaners without any bleached damage. Either those seagulls have a diet of fish and chips only, or I was lucky. Maybe the cotton fabric and wax were just too darn clever for it. Anyway, it came back 100% like new and is still in use today.
This is highly recommended as a perfect summer jacket and comes in sapphire black/blue or a toasted coconut. Both are dope.
Arturas Jendovickis has a new edit online today filmed by various peeps in Barcelona, Paris and few cities in the UK today. Skills.
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Dylan James rips
Anyone that hucks out a faultless, barefoot backside boneless in a pool and then goes on to roll out a bag of tricks across all terrain like this is OK in my book.
Watch Dylan James here. Really enjoyed this today.
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Charlie Birch Lost Art footage
Liverpool’s mini ripper Charlie Birch has some fresh footage filmed in Bristol online today.
Charlie Birch from Lost Art on Vimeo.
Following a sterling album release last year with ‘Late Love’, Norwegian rockers Wolves Like Us have returned with a new video this week for Get Gone.
They are releasing a 10″ on Prosthetic Records on June 24th that also comes packed with a cover version of Quicksand’s “Too Official” on the b-side as a precursor to their new album. Look out or this on your travels.