Remember this amazing photo shoot of Geoff Rowley in that shipping yard for Vans? Get the full story and more from Ryan Allan who was shooting the advert n the day. Incredible to this very day.
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Shaun Currie has some offcuts online today filmed by Matt Hirst and edited by Timmy Garbett.
The Massacre was heavily missed by many last year so organisation for this one started as far back as the beginning of August to make sure it was going to happen. With no room for a mini ramp at Vauxhall’s Hidden Club, Matthew Bromley’s idea to have a skate sticker exhibition caught on amongst 12 of London’s best skate art illustrators and the Toxic Wasters exhibition took its place. We did miss the ramp though, so next year we will try our hardest to get it back into the mix for you.
Highlights for this explosive night are rife. Cornish 4-piece Crowns made some new drinking buddies by serving up cold pints of Clash inspired, seafaring punk rock. Tomb Crew got stuck into Front Magazine‘s room by dropping the beats on the earlybirds whilst Illaman MC had more words that a dictionary to spill across Rack N Ruin‘s set too. 3 hours of grime, dubstep and bass reigned supreme before Cerebral Ballzy took to the stage in the Vans room. The results were no surprise.
This was the most chaotic show we have ever seen at any Crossfire night. From the off, a sea of bodies collided as the hardcore was sprayed into the crowd. Surgeons, zombies, military officers, pirates, even bananas, were smashing into each other forming one of the biggest bundles ever seen thanks to the dance music podiums that were used as launch pads! This legendary set was ended with a piñata smashing of the highest order and a set of absolute bangers by Stereo:Type who mashed up every classic in the book. The Vans room was covered in beers, stickers and sweets and ended up destroyed.
The Last Resort DJs dropped 90’s rock classics across 2 rooms and had the place rolling alongside a fierce stoner rock set from James Sherry, whilst Talita Two Shoes and Pheobe Winter freaked everyone out with their Child’s Play and dropped a great selection of metal! It’s always fantastic to see the DJs and bands dress up for this occassion. Pheobe’s and Talita won it for the girls and Enter Shikari‘s Rou Reynolds was a serious contender for the boys prize. Shikari have spent the last 2 weeks on tour around the UK but still had the energy to jump on the decks with us for 90 mins. Rout and SGT Rolfy had the place jumping before handing over the decks to High Rankin & Tigerlight who were dressed for Ultraviolence and continued the frenzy with bass driven beats mixed with a ton of wob!
Overall, not many people were ejected on the night. We are listening to all of your feedback on our facebook page and twitter so keep them coming and share your pics on there with us this week.
Thanks so much if you came down to make this night the huge success that this year’s Crossfire Halloween Massacre in association with Vans turned out to be, and also for dressing up in some of the best costumes we have ever seen! Big ups to all at Vans and Front Magazine, all at Hidden Club and Found series, Chloe Leeks, James Sherry, Paul Parker for his incredible artwork and all of the illustrators involved in Toxic Wasters exhibition, all the DJs and bands mentioned above, everyone at Division PR, Sophie Kostrowski, Scott Kell, Tom Halliday, the lovely guys at WE Audio, Kerrang, Rocksound, Clash, Metro, NME, Time Out, The Londonist, TNT, Sidewalk Mag, XFM, Gallows, We Are The Ocean, Hawk Eyes and all of the other bands out there who retweeted our shit and anyone we forgot. See you in 2012!
Enjoy the gallery photos below thanks to the long hours put in by Tom Halliday and Scott Kells. If you use these images, please credit them.
Watch the full video from the night courtesy of Sophie Kostrowski and Matthew Bromley:
Watch a clip of Cerebral Ballzy exploding in the Vans room. Caught on iphone from above.
TOM HALLIDAY’S PHOTOGRAPHY:
SCOTT KELLS PHOTOGRAPHY:
Next 3 pics shot by James Sherry.
Final photo by Tom Halliday.
“It was a great night had by all with some amazing outfits, a truly hilscarious event!” – Sgt Rolfy (Enter Shikari)
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Vans UKSA Championships 2011
This weekend’s Vans UKSA Championships at Hemel Hempstead’s new XC skate park saw the creme of the UK scene in attendence and of course, with that, some amazing skateboarding.
The 20 skaters that made it through the semi-finals brought chaos to the street section. Conhuir Lynn, Dave Snaddon, Daryl Dominguez, Joshua Young, Ross McGouran, Keith Walsh, Alex Barton, Kris Vile, Neil Smith and Gav Coughlan fought it out in two groups of five people jamming for just over 10 minutes a piece.
Devestating runs followed, the sweat descended, the tricks erupted and the points were racked up fairly deeming Joshua ‘Manhead’ Young in first place for all round trick annihilation, Ross McGouran in second and Conhuir Lynn in third. This year’s best trick comp was won by Korahn Gayle whose fakie flip fakie nosegrind down the ledge took the dough on the night alongside the same trick with a fakie 50-50 that you can see below from my crap cam.
The girls comp was won by Lucy Adams riding for Lovenskate with Helena Long and Lois Pendlebury taking second and third respectively. The Writer’s Tailblock fastest trick speed challenge went to Eddie Belvedere with a whopping 28mph nollie flip!
Quote of the Day was from Nic Powely whose first words when I arrived were, “…those knobheads broke a lift in the hotel and they want £3000 out of me to pay for it!” Maybe Manhead will be donating his prize money, or maybe not. When asked what he would do with his £3000 win in the car park on the way out, his response was: “I will probably spend it on Xmas presents” and with that only a few weeks away we will see you at the Xmas Jam on the 10th December in London for more carnage like this. Well done to all involved, enjoy this gallery of heads from the finals day.
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The Vans UKSA Championships is go this weekend at Hemel Hempstead’s XC Skatepark. We will be up there today for the semi-finals and thought you may like to know who will be skating today from yesterday’s qualifiers.
Joshua Young heads the pack on points alongside Ross McGouran, Harry Lintell, Gav Coughlan and Kris Vile in the top 5. The top 20 people in this list below will be skating today in the finals so look out for updates and results on our twitter and facebook pages today if signals in the skatepark allow.
Scores out of 400
Top 20
1. Manhead 357
2. Ross McGouran 353
3. Harry Lintell 346
4. Gav Coughlan 340
5. Kris Vile 338
6. Keet Walsh 334
7. Conhuir Lynn 331
8. Korhan Gayle 327
9. Dan Wileman 323
10. Nick Remon 322
11. Neil Smith 322
12. Alex Barton 316
13. Caradog Emmanuel 313
14. Daryl Dominguez 313
15. Ewan Bower 312
16. Nev 305
17. Dave Snaddon 305
18. Matlock Jones 304
19. Jake Collins 303
20. Kelley Dawson 300
Overall points for unqualified skaters:
Jason Cloete 298
Steve King 295
Ben Grove 294
Chris Oliver 293
Manny Lopez 291
Jed Cullen 290
Nick Roberts 288
Rob Smith 287
Adam Moss 284
Charlie Birch 282
James Hewett 282
Nicky Howells 278
Eddie Belvedere 277
Awadh Mohammed 277
Alex Retard Lally 276
John Howlett 274
Tim Prozorov 273
Luke McMans 271
Jason Lewer 267
Rawdog 267
Andy Scott 266
Alex Dechuna 266
Philip Long 263
Jess Young 263
Salar Kooshki 262
Jamal Bendriss 261
Scott Howes 259
Steak 259
Ollie Beeby 257
Dave Pegg 254
James Bush 254
Ryan Hurt 253
Gary Coombs 249
Eric Thomas 248
Tom Gibbs 248
Kyron Davies 247
Greg Nowick 242
Giles Brown 238
Tomas TG 232
Nathan Farrow 232
Carl Wilson 231
ATT 225
Gurtis Jesba 222
Radman 221
Alex Halford 216
Joe Marks 213
Luke Jarris 212
Gorgeous Dave Watson 208
Rupert Antoine 206
Domingoe Gumares 206
Ant Smith 198
Chav Dan 197
Phillippe 193
Dave Chesson 191
Keiran Mansley 189
Welsh Socks 180
Ryan Cotton 180
Adam Keys 178
Sam Pulley 176
Craig Loveless 175
Jacob Bettinson 157
Martin Mcguire 156
Gareth Evans 156
Jed Jolly 156
Louis Antoine 148
Dan Smith 139
Sir Jimmy Saville 136
Ricardo Camargo 131
Tom Bailey 130
Araf Koushesh 115
Reece Adams 110
Over the last 2 months Matthew Bromley has been beavering away in here contacting who we thought were the best 12 illustrators out there to produce a deadly, toxic, nuclear mutated sticker ahead of our TOXIC WASTERS skate sticker exhibition that will be held at our Halloween Massacre on October 28th.
In the end, invitations were sent out to Paul Parker, Mr Gauky, Kyle Platts, Sam Taylor, Matthew Bromley, French, Stu Smith, Fos, Craig Scott, Dan Singer, Paddy Jones and Tom Slater. All of them replied with excitement as who else has thrown a sticker exhibition in years? They make up one of the most important parts of skateboarding. Read our recent feature on skate stickers here for proof. The illustrations came back swiftly and Stu Smith at Lovenskate was waiting for them. Watch this video of how these stickers were printed and get hyped on the results.
Only 100 limited edition, collectors sticker packs have been made, all cut and made by hand. Visit our store to pick up an exclusive slice of skateboard sticker history now before they get snapped up, available now for pre-order at £10 (+postage) before Halloween on 31st October, or £15 (+postage) after Halloween.
Not only will you receive 12 limited Toxic stickers, but also 2 bonus x Vans stickers, 1 x Front Magazine sticker and a Crossfire in the packs!
Thanks to all of the artists involved and for your support in making this work!
Manchester skater Ben Grove has officially left Vans shoes this week. A statement wishing him luck on the Vans website says:
“After many years of service skate team rider Ben Grove is moving on. Everyone at Vans and the rest of the team all wish him well in the future.”
We can confirm that ‘Champagne Supergrover’ joins the Supra European team this week who have also welcomed Harmony pro Vaughan Baker as their new European Skate Marketing Manager this month.
Look out for more riders added to this team very soon and check out his Zukie clip that was released at the beginning of this month.
The Black Sheep shop team took the honours at this year’s Vans Shop Riot in Chelles, France. Watch the footage of their £3000 raid at the Cosa Nostra skatepark here.
BEST TEAM – BLACK SHEEP
RIDER OF THE DAY – Axel Cruysbergs
JUDGE’s Choice/Fighting spirit – Will Makala
1ST BEST TRICK #1 – Rob Smith-Many tricks
1ST BEST TRICK #2 – Olly Tyreman-Bs Boneless
1ST BEST TRICK #3 – Dimitri Kostoff-Fs Feeble
2ND BEST TRICK #1 – Kevin Tshala-Nollie Kickflip noseslide 360° out
2ND BEST TRICK #2 – Fabian Verhage-Gap to Noseblunt
2ND BEST TRICK #3 – Kevin Vu-Bs Noseblunt
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Sidewalk Mag sticker comp!
We have teamed up with our fiends at Sidewalk Magazine this week to bring you a one off chance to get your mitts on a bundle of sticker and Halloween related goodness!
What do you have to do to win a pair of Massacre tickets, some Old Skool Vans shoes and one of 100, limited edition sticker packs from the Toxic Wasters Exhibition? Well, the question is, what the fuck do you do with your stickers? We put them on our filing cabinet in our office, but where do yours go?
Follow your nose to find out how to be involved in this great comp by clicking through to Sidewalk here and joining their forum. You have to be in it, to win it so get your phone pics at the ready!
Get your Massacre tickets pronto before it sells out, standard, advance tickets have almost gone! Slam City also have some here.
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Dustin Dollin interview
August’s epic Vans Downtown Showdown in London’s Spitalfields market attracted thousands and also welcomed various Vans pro’s on the day too. In the melee over East, we bumped into Baker Skateboards’ Australian ripper, Dustin Dollin and sat down for a quick chat about his skateboarding life.
Dustin is one of skateboarding’s most animated characters and also backs it up with some of the best skating out there, so it was a pleasure to share a beer and shoot the shit with him in a noisy bar.. This is the second part in a 3 part series from the Showdown (part one is here). Get a beer on the go, click play and find out more about the Mayor of the Piss Drunx.
Thanks to Steve Gourlay, Ben Michell, Jack Tarlinton and Corbin Harris down under.