Hey you the Jock Steady Crew, show what you do make a blog make a move.. sorry! This is the Weblog of Edinburgh and Glasgow's Focus Skateboard Store. Bringing you relevant news, happenings and random musings, details on some of the fine products we sell and anything else that crosses our collective minds when we should be doing real work. Cheers. Focus 2011.
27 July 2006
STUNT ROCK!!!!
Here is the news regarding the ZERO DEMO tomorrow-
KELVINGROVE SKATEPARK FROM 4PM.
J.Rattray, R.McCrank, T.Cervantes, K.Sauder and some others will be doing some some skateboarding tricks for your attention.
Be there.
Note- there is no shop signing because they would all rather skate, which is fair enough!
25 July 2006
Jimmy, A.I, Silky and mf.
Here is The Harmony's new edit of the previously released 'One Upon A Time'.
Due to some problems on the musical front it's no longer on the front of this months Doco but is right here available for your eyes.
Fellow tea drinkers and yahtzee players alike all have a trick or two in Paul Silvesters section. It's like a 'what we've achived on film this year'......not a lot. Focus video more likely 2010. Next week aye.
3 of the day...
1. Joel Curtis is now a dad..congrats...logan vladimir curtis born 22/7/2006!
2. Seth Cutis is in town sniffing around some pro's
3. It's sunny and it's Tuesday- Must be cycle to swim night, awesome.
Due to some problems on the musical front it's no longer on the front of this months Doco but is right here available for your eyes.
Fellow tea drinkers and yahtzee players alike all have a trick or two in Paul Silvesters section. It's like a 'what we've achived on film this year'......not a lot. Focus video more likely 2010. Next week aye.
3 of the day...
1. Joel Curtis is now a dad..congrats...logan vladimir curtis born 22/7/2006!
2. Seth Cutis is in town sniffing around some pro's
3. It's sunny and it's Tuesday- Must be cycle to swim night, awesome.
17 July 2006
Incidents and Accidents
Here's the official poster of Gary Browne's show which is on now at Focus Glasgow.
Come down and check it out.
Remember to do this for the benefit of Edinburgh Skatepark link.
and....
Creature will be in Scotland at the tail. end of this week- so keep your eyes peeled.
Zero 28th July
Blueprint 1st August
15 July 2006
Whatever you do-fill this in NOW!
Back to the top.
Do this now, follow the link and do it.
Check the leaflet that's been posted around Edinburgh- Shocking piece of false facts. Fight for the skatepark.
This is the planning application that will decide whether Edinburgh gets the park-
PLEASE pledge your support- everything will help.
Do it now, follow this link.
14 July 2006
Big Push spotted at Livi.......
Perry T spotted A Third Foot (complete with guest rider Div) on the Big Push tour at Livi. Here's some footage of Woody giving the eye baw a work out. Smashing weather as well what, what!!
Click here to view.
Keep your eyes peeled for Stu Graham and the Creature team landing in Scotland this Saturday.
Click here to view.
Keep your eyes peeled for Stu Graham and the Creature team landing in Scotland this Saturday.
Incidents and Accidents
Ready for a weekend of many skateboarding styles- Look at all these sticks- all styles looked after.
Gary Browne has hung his Incidents and Accidents photo's in our Glasgow store and they're ready for your viewing with the 'list of stupid things' to support these amazing photo's.
Thanks Gary.....for the photo's and the banks.
13 July 2006
Support this!
This is a very important time for Edinburgh and the on-going skatepark saga....
This is the planning application that will decide whether Edinburgh gets the park-
PLEASE pledge your support- everything will help.
Do it now, follow this link.
This is the planning application that will decide whether Edinburgh gets the park-
PLEASE pledge your support- everything will help.
Do it now, follow this link.
Sunshine on a rainy day
Glasgow News!!
Someone left their umbrella in the shop yesterday- so this is just a shout out to let them know it's here, by any chance that they might read this!
Anyway, GB came in last night with something visual which will be hung and captioned by the weekend.
Our first 'local' exhibitor. More to come over the next months......
At the end of the month we have a window display from Judd, who drew Butterbeans for the Uncle John and Whitelock Grand Ol' Opry show. It'll be very good and just in time for the outdoor gig 'Hey you get off my pavement' on the 30th July.
'Hey you get off my pavement' is outside in Kings Court, Glasgow on Sunday 30th July. Arab Strap, UJ&W, Herman Dune, Park Attack and more are all playing. Tickets are £13 and available at all good record shops East and West. It'll be braw.
Someone left their umbrella in the shop yesterday- so this is just a shout out to let them know it's here, by any chance that they might read this!
Anyway, GB came in last night with something visual which will be hung and captioned by the weekend.
Our first 'local' exhibitor. More to come over the next months......
At the end of the month we have a window display from Judd, who drew Butterbeans for the Uncle John and Whitelock Grand Ol' Opry show. It'll be very good and just in time for the outdoor gig 'Hey you get off my pavement' on the 30th July.
'Hey you get off my pavement' is outside in Kings Court, Glasgow on Sunday 30th July. Arab Strap, UJ&W, Herman Dune, Park Attack and more are all playing. Tickets are £13 and available at all good record shops East and West. It'll be braw.
12 July 2006
The Big Push 2006
Just had a visit from 'A Third Foot' who are currently on Document Magazines Big Push Tour. They have a full band with Cod, Dougy, Woody, Silvestra on filming duties and Smashley on photo's. Each team (Death, Blueprint, East and 3rd Foot) has one Guest skater.
Div is supporting A Third Foot. Amazing.
Word from Silky is that Ricky O is Death's guest rider.....now that's amazing. Look at the bank. 'We love Paul Shier'. Do you? If the answer is yes, then remember that he'll be here with all the rest of them on 1st August.
Wonder how long it takes for Ricky O to punch Cates?
While we are here check out the trailer
of Ricky Oyola's Traffic skateboards. Might make you want to buy one? It should!
I'll get some word from Alex Irvine, who's with Blueprint, about their going's on.
Div is supporting A Third Foot. Amazing.
Word from Silky is that Ricky O is Death's guest rider.....now that's amazing. Look at the bank. 'We love Paul Shier'. Do you? If the answer is yes, then remember that he'll be here with all the rest of them on 1st August.
Wonder how long it takes for Ricky O to punch Cates?
While we are here check out the trailer
of Ricky Oyola's Traffic skateboards. Might make you want to buy one? It should!
I'll get some word from Alex Irvine, who's with Blueprint, about their going's on.
Jammin
Just a note to let you know that 'We Jam Econo' - a documentry about the greatest punk band ever, The Minutemen is now out to buy.
I showed it to Mavie, who is pretty good at jammin econo but he wanted to know where he could BUY a copy....
Support your local record shop and get it from MONORAIL RECORDS if in the West or try Avalanche in the East.
Lots of extra's and live shows.
I showed it to Mavie, who is pretty good at jammin econo but he wanted to know where he could BUY a copy....
Support your local record shop and get it from MONORAIL RECORDS if in the West or try Avalanche in the East.
Lots of extra's and live shows.
10 July 2006
Up Yer Kilt!
As mentioned already John Rattray, new Zero signing Keegan Sauder, Conhuir Lynn and special guest Rick McCrank are up in Scotland on Friday 28th July. They are over on a filming trip and doing a few demos along the way. Hopefully we'll get some quality stuff from John for his section in the new Focus DVD. They all fly out from Aberdeen on the 3rd of August so expect some random Scottish park visits from the 28th onwards.
08 July 2006
Back from the Printers
Here's the poster for the forthcoming Blueprint tour, click it to view the details.
Also coming up the Creature Team including oor own Stu Graham 15th July onwards.
Harvey Spannos/ Zero with , John Rattray, Keegan Sauder and Rick McCrank 28th July. Signing and Demo.
Blueprint Team Tour 1st August Signing and Demo then on to Edinburgh the following day.
Things are heating up in Glasgow.
Let's keep building and improving the scene....support SOS!
New 'Dead Guys' Series 2 available now on pin badges instore.
(Peel, ODB, Barker, Thomson, Cash and Cutler) 40p each ya'll.
Also coming up the Creature Team including oor own Stu Graham 15th July onwards.
Harvey Spannos/ Zero with , John Rattray, Keegan Sauder and Rick McCrank 28th July. Signing and Demo.
Blueprint Team Tour 1st August Signing and Demo then on to Edinburgh the following day.
Things are heating up in Glasgow.
Let's keep building and improving the scene....support SOS!
New 'Dead Guys' Series 2 available now on pin badges instore.
(Peel, ODB, Barker, Thomson, Cash and Cutler) 40p each ya'll.
07 July 2006
R I P-ing
The climber, writer and broadcaster Tom Weir has died at the age of 91.
He was a champion of Scotland's wild places and is best known for the long-running STV series Weir's Way, which started in the 1970s.
His wife Rhona, 86, said he died on Thursday afternoon at a nursing home in West Dunbartonshire.
Mr Weir was born in Springburn in Glasgow and was the brother of actress Molly Weir, known for her role in the 1980s children's TV show Rentaghost.
Mr Weir loved the great outdoors from youth and often caught the bus out of town with his mother to explore the Campsie Hills.
After service with the Royal Artillery in World War II, he worked for the Ordnance Survey before becoming a professional climber, writer and photographer.
In 1950 he was a member of the first post-war Himalayan expedition and climbed in Greenland, Iran, Syria and Kurdistan.
But it was the hills of Scotland that made him famous.
He hosted Weir's Way, wearing his trademark woolly hat and Fair Isle jumper, exploring the landscape and history of Scotland and meeting people along the way.
Mrs Weir, a retired headteacher at Gartocharn Primary School, paid tribute to her husband of 47 years.
"He was a great man, my lifelong soulmate and I adored him," she said.
"His health had been failing and in a way this was a release for him because he had lost the power of his legs and couldn't go out and explore the outdoors he loved and lived for.
"Our marriage was a great partnership and it was based on complete trust of one another. I will miss him very much."
Environmentalist Dr Adam Watson was a lifelong friend of Mr Weir's and met him while walking in the Cairngorms in 1947.
He said: "I was 17 when I met him and I was struck by him because he was such a confident all-round mountaineer and also had a great interest in natural history.
"He was a brilliant conversationalist. When he came into a room, he was a small man but he had a great confidence and a great look and people just stood listening to him.
"He had a great knack of speaking to total strangers and putting them at ease."
Mr Weir campaigned for the protection of the Scottish environment and received a John Muir Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 for his work.
03 July 2006
Get your diary's out.
OK folks, we've got a few visitors coming our way over the next month.
Creature Tour around Scotland with the Man Beast and Dad Stew Graham. Should be around the 15th July. As Stew said himself, 'brace yerself'. Cannie wait.
On the 28th july we've got a shop signing and then a BBQ demo at Kelvingrove with Scotlands very own John Rattray, Keegan Sauder, Conhuir Lynn and Rick McCrank. John sent me a message the other night asking if we could organise the weather. I'll get organising.
And then only 3 days later we have a grand old Blueprint tour (1st August). I think it is the whole team so it should be a full melt down at Kelvingrove that evening. We will do another signing with them in the shop- so get your boards, t shirts or tea bags ready for the scrawl of the 'printers.
I suspect that they will all bring FREE product to give to you, so come along and try your luck at 'Celebrity Yahtzee'.
More details on all these dates as we get em.
01 July 2006
Livi in a nutshell
Here are some photo's to sum up the skate party.
Example 1: A sock- discarded after use?
Example 2: An Asda trolley- because trolley's burn soooo well?
All the other photo's had Glen's hans wanger in them so make do with these.
Pure Fun 2007!
Photo's from Seb Curtis at Cliche if you want the one's of Glen.....
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