War of the Roses

After the success of last years event we are planning another Scottish invasion down South. There has been 3 mini buses booked and all the drivers have been delegated!

It's a little more expensive than last year but still a bargain. Interact at Burnley (the first leg of the weekend) are allowing a sleepover (if that is humanly possible with Div's flatspots rumbling into the wee hours) for an extra fiver.
The prices are as follows - £43 including travel and entry to the parks on both days with a sleepover in Interact, bring a sleeping bag & earplugs!
or £38 including travel and entry to the parks on both days (only advisable if you have somewhere else to stay in Burnley)

The wagons will leave around 10am from Focus Edinburgh. There will be a couple of stops on the way down for refreshments and toilet stops but beware start drinking beer early and you'll have to hold it in!

Please note you must be over 16 to join this trip and there are limited seats so book now.

Payment is required in advance - book your seat now by phoning 0131 229 9009 with your payment details. E-mail Stew if you have any problems.

Come and get Dist!

Our mate Dave Dixon (headhoncho of The Harmony) aka artist Dist One is having an art show on Saturday October 7th at the Glasgow store. Dist will be hanging loads of artwork, selling some zines and building some skate obstacles for folk to session. The event is kindly sponsored by Heineken so come along, bring your eyes and a thirst.

We call it Autumn in this country!

The summer has well an truly left the building, but don't fret people we have now taken delivery of some fine product to get you through the Autumn months.

Now available instore and online we have our first collection of Addict, Supra Footwear and the highly anticpated Adidas Skateboard range. Plus we've got plenty on offer from Volcom, Fenchurch, Delphi, Vans, Enjoi and Lakai. And in the not too distant future expect stock from Stussy, UARM, Nike and the very first drop of New UK footwear company Mcarta.

Online at www.focuspocus.co.uk or call Glasgow on 0141 548 8777 or Edinburgh on 0131 229 9009.

Viking Invasion

Following the footsteps of the ancient Vikings, the Nike SB team will invade the northern part of Europe. Paul Rodriguez, Brian Anderson, Reese Forbes, Todd Jordan, Danny Supa, Wieger van Wageningen, Omar Salazar and Lewis Marnell are expected to attack your local skate park or skate shop between September 30th and October 8th. If their navigating skills don’t let them down expect them here on the following date : Sunday 8th October 16.00. The Works Skatepark, Leeds. Norse outfits and blond pigtails at the ready.

You're A Winner!

Thanks for all the entries for the Delphi competition. We have 3 winners who are drrrrrrrrrrum roll...

Mr Solero from Edinburgh ( Added team member was jazzy Ali Low)
Mr Lawrence from Glasgow ( Added team member was Ocean Howell)
Mr Adam Logan from Somewhere ( Added team member was Jason Dill or Karl Watson)

Well done and those not in Glasgow, please send me your address to glasgow@focuspocus.co.uk and we'll get them sent out to you.

Correct answer was:

Mike Daher
Ethan Fowler
Mike Frazier
Greg Hunt
Jason Lee
Chris Pastras
Matt Rodriguez
Carl Shipman

and I said Julian Stranger for the tie break although quite a few people said Shuggie.

Thanks and come and check out the rest of the Delphi line- it's going fast.

Win Delphi Collective T-shirts!!

*UPDATE- Entries will be put into a hat and pulled out at random on Monday. It's very easy (use google). Check out the linkage from Mr Delphi himself. Spoked is getting reconition too. Check out this months Kingpin for the first documented piece by Glen Bolland.

Coming in for it's second season with Focus Edinburgh and Glasgow we are proud to present Matt Irving's Delphi Collective.

'A clothing company headed up by Matt Irving (who helped run Stereo and Element). Contemporary designs on organic cotton T's made in non-sweatshop situations with non-toxic inks. Super comfy and durable so you can look fly and live fly.' Quoted from Slap Magazine.

We'll have the new styles in for your pleasure this week in both stores so come and check them out for yourselves.

Meantime we're going to have a competition for you to win 1 of 3 Delphi shirts we have to give away!

The question goes like this.....
*Tell us who the original Stereo (A Visual Sound) team line up was?
*Tiebreaker question is- Who would you have added to that line up if you had the choice?

Please note - there were 8 people on the team. Keep the tiebreakers coming-very funny.

Good luck and send your answers to glasgow@focuspocus.co.uk

New York, New York

GFM Productions have left the country sucessfully and are now deep in the city of New York.

Uncle John and Whitelock have a full 10 days of gigs and radio shows.

Check out East Village Radio and click on current show. The presenter is all over UJ&W. No bad thing love! Just try and work out your cd player!

They are meant to be on the show today before they play the Sea Port gig tonight. Watch out for that.

Let's all send some Bless to GFM.

Friday Favourites-

1. UJ&W - There is Nothing Else LP
2. The Skinny Mag article on Focus (shame about the photo)
3. The new Blueprint Lakai
4. The week late Landscape package-Will it arrive today? Doubt it!
5. New stock coming daily!