Monday 21 September 2009

Tom Ball Circa 1997.

I think I've already mentioned that I found a bunch of CD-ROM's with backups of a lot of lost Hi-8 footage.

I put this clip together a few weeks ago - just before the Stone Age Tour (Of which I still need to post up). It's Tom Ball footage from my parents video camera, Alex Mead's camera and my first one, too.
In fact, Alex filmed a bit of this, if I remember correctly - The kickflip at the end was his.
A little Jelly Mumbo's in there, too.

Anyway - Tom is rad. Still shredding. Not sure how his golf game turned out these days, though.

Enjoy.

Sunday 20 September 2009

I think this may just be my masterpiece.

...A clear reference to the writer/director is a pretty daring line to finish a film on.



Still, it ain't a claim. It's a statement.
It's an amazing film. I laughed myself to tears several times.

Wednesday 16 September 2009

A good week...

My luck has been in for good music this week.
Dave Lombardo dropped by the Volcom store last week and got talking to the staff there...and they hooked me up with signed copies of the below.





DOA has for a long time been one of my favourite live albums. Hell Awaits going into The Anti-Christ is crackers...and what can you say about South of Heaven? Amazing. Hence it being on the front page of my plays on last.fm.

Cheers Volcom London. Ha!

Monday 14 September 2009

Black Sabbath Deluxe

A little while back, Zac from Caught in the Crossfire sent me the 2009 release Deluxe version of Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid'. It had the OG album, a disc of bonus tracks (Pretty good, too - although the Instrumentals are kind of a waste of time). Best of all, it has the original Quadrophonic mix on a DVD, not released since the 70's. Trippy Sabbath from four speakers.



Last week he followed through and posted me out Deluxe Edition copies of Black Sabbath and Master of Reality. Stoked.



I used to have those two albums on loop in my Austin Maestro sometime in the mid-nineties.
Sitting in the car, in the woods, while the rain came down listening to the opener of the first album. The Four Horsemen didn't have shit on us. And it was a 1.3 litre, too.

Different takes of various songs seem to reinforce their decisions as to what made the cut on the second discs and best of all, "Weevil Woman '71", an original line up song I'd never heard before...

Which re-release will the Blue Suede Shoes cover surface on?

Cheers Zac. You rule.

I need to find homes for my old, old CD copies now.

Wednesday 9 September 2009

UKSA National Skateboarding Championships 2009

Actually...Fuck it. I'll get this out fo the way now.



Street Qualifiers:



Vert Qualifiers:



Street Semis:



Blueprint and Mob Grip Best Trick comps:



Vert Finals:



Street Finals:



Last weekend was mental.
Sam Beckett is a wizard. Throwing 720's into runs and Kickflip Liens. Is he pulling forward from his forenamesake who seems to be stuck on the 540 variations? No diss to Bosworth. You can't knock a fourteen year old doing seven foot high airwalk 540's. Beckett's bag of lip tricks and flip tricks seems to work out for him, though.
I'd still love to see the X Games footage where Bosworth won.

As for Street - Grove got done out of the big money. I say that as a judge - and it was way harder than last year.
Cast your mind back and think about Chris Oliver's run. Not one person would have doubted him at the top of the podium. This year, though, the guesses we're all over the place from the crowd.
Ross won it, fair and square, though. Everything he did was a joke - clean and comfortable.
I'm actually looking at the scores now - and up until eighth place it is all so close. Grove was only a couple of points below Wileman - but a £700 drop in prize money is harsh.
I'm sure he doesn't give a fuck, though - He killed the Blueprint Best Trick comp (As did BP's other ex, Flynn Trotman) and walked away with an entire warehouse backing him.

Grove is on form - Ross and Sam may have taken the loot, but it was his weekend, undoubtedly.

Oh - Check Daryll in the finals. Dude's we're feeling ballsy kickflipping that driveway when he came along and ruined the show for them.

Special mention to Vaughn Baker and Neil Smith. Vaughn was clearly having a right laugh and Neil was creating lines in a park for which they don't really exist.

Big Business

So much to post from the past two months...

This'll do for now, though:

Thursday 3 September 2009

Ben Raemers is now fully on Enjoi



Congratulations Ben.

That Mayday at the Jason Adams bank is epic.

Vert Div

Some pretty rad Div footage below.
Fakie Eggs* too.

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*I do alright with naming inverts. I'm pretty sure this is a Fakie Egg. Dave Allen has done them and I remember checking with him.