Happy New Year!!

RIP Phil O'Donnell

Graham Tait Pro Dunk SB

Just kidding. The Black/Zinc Dunk Lows arrived in the Glasgow store today, and the funky new P Rod 2s and red Dunk Mids arrived through in the Edinburgh store. All three will be available online in the next few days.

Nothing but the art......

Wednesday the 12th December 2005 was the date we opened our second store over in Glasgow and Wednesday the 12th December 2007 marked the end of that era with the superb art exhibition we hosted courtesy of some of Glasgow's finest artists. The night was attended by over 200 heads who witnessed artwork from Gazmac, custom sneaks from Klingatron, models by Supertiny and custom toys by Dinosauria. Thanks to everyone who attended, thanks to Nike, Carhartt, Coors and biggest props go to Big Al who made the whole thing possible.

View more pictures from the night here.

And don't forget to visit our brand new Glasgow store at 83 Queen Street.

Jazz club.....

The smash hit of 2007 returns with the latest edition of the Supra Skytop. Designed by LA store Brooklyn Projects and limited to 200 pairs worldwide these are guaranteed to get you mad props. Available instore and online in very, very limited numbers.

Plus we also managed to hunt down the very last pairs of the very bling 14K Skytop, including some size UK3's for those with petite feet. Buy them right here.

New skate DVD blowout!!!

Several new DVD titles have arrived in both stores this week, chief among them the highly anticipated Fully Flared:



We also got a hold of Josh Stewart's Static 3, featuring the skating of Danny Renaud, Soy Panday, Olly Todd and several East Coasty types:



And last but definitely not least we have the new video from Habitat, 'Inhabitants':



As well as these new titles we still have stock of Volcom's Lets Live, Nike's Nothing But The Truth, Listen's Vajeros Locos and UK favourite The Harmony's Wolfstadt. All are available in store now.

Fully Awesome!

The Scottish Premiere of Fully Flared went off without any problems. If you couldn't make it along then your an idiot! Just kidding. The skating is amazing and the intro was off the hook! The DVD is now in available in both stores and online. Thanks to everyone who made it along and thanks to The Bongo Club.

From King Street to Queen Street....

Our brand new city centre store in the heart of Glasgow is now open. Located at 83 Queen Street and only yards from George Square, Buchanan Street and the Gallery of Modern Art. Here's some snaps to wet your whistle.

Hope to see you there soon and we hope you'll like our chandelier.

You are cordially invited to a night of Nike SB Inspired art....

Check this out!


NOTHING BUT THE ART . . . . . . AN EVENING OF NIKE SB INSPIRED ART.


A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ART WORK, PHOTOGRAPHY, MODEL AND CUSTOM KICKS e.t.c. . . . . . .

NIKE SB GIVEAWAYS, RAFFLES (FOR YORKHILL SICK KIDS), NIKE SB ARCHIVES ON DISPLAY, WHAT IS NIKE SB?, DRINKS PROMOS, SUSHI BY OKO EXPRESS (GLASGOW'S PREMIER SUSHI BAR/RESTERAUNT) + LOADS MORE . . . . .

V.I.P AFTER PARTY . . . . . .

(THIS IS A R.S.V.P ONLY EVENT, SO PLEASE CONFIRM BY RETURN MAIL FOR GUEST LIST OR NO ADMITTANCE ON THE NIGHT).

WHERE? - THE OLD FOCUS SKATE STORE GLASGOW @ 99 KING STREET

WHEN ? - WEDNESDAY 12th DECEMBER.

TIME? - 6.30 TILL LATE.

ARTISTS? - GAZMAC, KLINGATRON, ROBERT STEWART, DINOSAURIA & FIFTH BLADE.

DJ'S? - PRO VINYLIST KARIM, MICHAEL PECK, CRAIG MOOGROOVE, KEV STEVENS, PAUL RESET, GIANNI PALAZZO, SHAE-D & DAVE DALE.

Please reply to sibs@focuspocus.co.uk to reserve your place.

Our Glasgow shop is moving!!

After 2 years in the wilderness of King Street we're moving our Glasgow store to the very central location of Queen Street.

Only yards from George Square, The Gallery of Modern Art and Buchanan Street we should be open by early December.

Of course we'll still have the same quality product from Nike SB, Adidas, Volcom, Lakai, Fenchurch and many more.

Keep checking back for photographic updates.

See where our new shop is.

Date change for Fully Flared!

The date has been changed for the Fully Flared Premier. It's now taking place the following week, Sunday 9th of December. It's still at The Bongo Club and still the same time 4pm-7pm and it's still free!!!

Spread the word to all, don't want people turning up on the wrong date.

Cheers.

New Nikes.....

Fresh footwear from Nike SB just landed. Top of the pile we have the Dunk Mid Premium aka The November Rain Dunk with colours and graphics inspired by the Guns N Roses track of the same name. November Rain that is, not Dunk Mid. Second from top is the Zoom Harbor Canada Pack. Inspired by the great nation of Canada and it's love of the outdoors and........ lastly we have the P-Rod 2 aka the Pidge-Rod.

Holiday 2007 Nike SB's at Focus.

The Rools

If you're looking for something, non-football related, to do next weekend, then get yourself along to The Box on Sauchiehall Street at 8pm where Manchester's The Rools will be playing their first gig outside their home city. Playing Indie/60's influenced rock'n'roll The Rools are one of 4 bands playing. The gig starts at 8pm and entry is free.

www.myspace.com/therools

Marc E Smith Interview

We've hooked up with VBS TV to bring you some exclusive content for your viewing pleasure. First up is an interview with the legend that is Marc E Smith. Enjoy!

An end of an era.

Last Sunday marked the end of an era when my good friend and business partner of the last 7 years Stewart Rattray said farewell to Focus. As is tradition in Scotland, consumption of alcohol was required and a gathering of friends took place.
The night went to plan until I managed to crack my head open on a road sign, with a little help from new shop girl Hannah, which required a visit to A&E and 12 stitches. Thankfully it won't spoil my good looks and hasn't caused any lasting damage.
Expect to see Stew out and about selling Elwood clothing to the UK's finer skate shops and all that's left to say is good luck mate and thanks for the memories.

Gravis & Staple Black Box Collection

Just arrived is the new Black Box Collection from Gravis. This season they have hooked up with the legendary New York man about town Jeff Staple. Inspired by New York winters, the collection consists of footwear, travel luggage and clothing and comes in 3 different colourways - Fresh Powder, Parking Lot and Wet Cement, which represent the different phases of snowfall. The collection will be available to buy online in the next few days or right now in our Edinburgh store.

Nothing But The Truth DVD now in stock.

Just arrived is Nothing But The Truth the first movie by Nike SB. Starring Brian Anderson, Todd Jordan, Daniel Shimizu, Danny Supa, Chet Childress, Richard Mulder, Paul Rodriguez, Gino Iannucci, Reese Forbes, Lance Mountain, Stefan Janoski, Omar Salazar, Lewis Marnell, Clark Hassler, Wieger Van Wageningen, Dan Murphy and more.

Buy online right here or available in our Edinburgh & Glasgow stores.

Win tickets to the London Premiere of Fully Flared!

To clebrate the imminent release of one of skateboards most highly anticipated movies, Fully Flared, we've teamed up with Lakai to give you a chance to win some superb prizes and also the chance to be at the London Premiere on the 18th of November.

Founded in 1999 by Rick Howard and Mike Carroll, Lakai has become one of skateboardings pre-eminent footwear companies and have assembled an all star team that most other shoe brands can only dream of. The first ever film from Lakai, Fully Flared has been two years in the making and is guaranteed to blow minds. To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is answer a simple question right here.

Stay tuned for details of the Socttish premiere of Fully Flared taking place in Glasgow late November.

Serious news just in......

LISTEN UP!!!

The new Listen dvd 'Viajeros Locos' is now in stock and it's a banger! Nice clean street skating with a mellow funky soundtrack. Full parts from Danny Montoya, Rob G, new Pro Brian Brown (mon the gingers), and the very underated Rodrigo Peterson. There are a couple of ams in there along with a nice friend section.
A bargain at only £11.95. Don't be a Youtube tube, buy this dvd!

Gold box.

Nike SB box number 4 makes it appearance this month in a somewhat autumn like Gold/Black colourway. Inside these new boxes we have three new shoes. From left to right we have the "Skate Deck" Dunk Hi, the brown Elephant Print Zoom Tre and the Violet Zoom Classic. £69.95, £69.95 and £49.95 respectively. Available in our Glasgow store right now and online in the near future.

Earlier today we got a little peek at the "What the Dunk?" errr Dunk that was on sale earlier this week in London. Cheers Al. Tales of burst water pipes, wristbands and mini bus trips across London abound. Answers on a postcard if you can name all the shoes featured.

War Of The Roses

It's that time of year again for the infamous War Of The Roses weekend. This year Skateboard Scotland have taken over the reigns and are organising the transport to get you down there.

Ali sent me the details which you can read below. You can pay your monies at the shop to resevre your place.

Skateboard Scotland are organising a couple of Mini buses to go down the the War of the Roses this year to be held at Interact Park in Burnley and The Works in Leeds. We are only organising the transport so you will have to pay yourselves into the parks (a tenner for each day). The cost is 23 quid to cover the diesel and van hire. This fee must be paid up front to ensure a place on one of the buses. The places are available on a first come first serve basis.

Itinerery:

9.30am Saturday 27th October
Buses will be leaving Focus in Edinburgh

13.00 Get to Interact and shralp til ya hurt.

22.00 Find somewhere to crash. Bring your tents as there will not be much space to sleep in the van and we cannot sleep in the park this year.

11.00 Sunday 28th October
Mission it to Leeds for next day. We hope to be back in Edinburgh for about 11pm (maybe 12pm) on Sunday.

Get in touch with Focus to book your space and pay your fee.

Looking forward to getting down for the session.

Skateboard Scotland

Alatamont.

Just had delivery of our very first drop of Altamont Apparel. Well it actually arrived a week ago, but I've just got back from Milan so as far as I'm concerned it's just arrived. Ok?

Anyway, Altamont is the brainchild of Andrew Reynolds and is one of the freshest clothing lines to come from the skateboard world for some time. Expect to see it in our Edinburgh store and online in the next few days.

Altamont Apparel

T-shirt origami

Bit slack with the old blog updates this month but hey ho.

By my calculations each of us in the shop could save ourselves nearly 2 and a half minutes a year by using the t-shirt folding technique above.

Fully Flared!

It seems a very long time ago that we first heard about the Lakai video project known as Fully Flared, but finally the wait is nearly over.

The UK premiere takes place in London on the 18th of November and we have five tickets to be won in an online contest. If you fancy being the first to see the movie along with members of the Lakai team then stay tuned for details.

UXA & Diamond.

We are proud to announce that from November 2007 we will be stocking apparel from Diamond and UXA. Stay tuned.

UXA

Diamond on Myspace

Brasilian flavours......

Our friends at Surface Pressure Records and Radio Magnetic have been out in Brazil recently recording a series of documentaries for the Trocabrahma project, a cultural exchange between the UK and Brazil.

Featuring artists such as Bonde Do Role, Amanda Blank and Radioclit, King Creosote and Romulo Froes, JD Twitch (Optimo) and Os Mutantes, Four Tet and Open Field Church and Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) and Tony da Gatorra.

So how do you go about hearing these musical delights? Just click the link below to subscribe to the six part podcast.

Trocabrahma Podcast.

Volcom Wild In The Parks

Volcom's 'Wild In The Parks' competition/jam/hoedown is headed our way in early October (the 6th to be precise) following many successful events stateside. On the day there will be competitions for ages 15 and under and 16 and over, lots of product giveaways and free grub for all attendees. Rally a troop and make all the necessary arrangements, because this is sure to be amazing.

For more info check out volcom.com and transition-extreme.com.

New Nikes and assorted other stuffs.

A few new arrivals this week:


From left to right, P-Rod 2 Mocha/Orange, Dunk Hi 'Brut', Zoom Tre Neon (with fancy 3M reflective paneling), the Classic from the Four Guardians pack, and a new Regime too.

The new Obey line is also just in and up on main page, as well as some new Landscape decks, which are going fast.

The Hundreds is here.....

Our very first shipment from The Hundreds ahas arrived and is now uploaded to our online store.

View The Hundreds at Focus here.

Time for an upgrade?

Looks like Apple will be hoovering more money out of my pocket when this arrives at the end of September. Or maybe they'll give me a free one for advertising it on here. Doubt it.

iPod Touch in action.

Obey Fall 2007

The first batch of the Fall 2007 collection by Obey has now arrived in both of our stores. As always expect something that little bit different and don't expect to see it anywhere else as we are the sole stockists in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Also if you hadn't heard Shepard Fairey's next show is in London in November which is going to be huge. Details here.

View the Obey Collection at Focus here.

VIrtual John Rattray

Mr. Rattray has an interview up on popular games & gadgets website IGN.

If you're wondering why he's appearing there of all places, it's part of the promotion for a videogame he's appearing in, the imaginatively titled 'skate'. The game's out on September 21st, and looks amazing, mostly due to the fact that it takes a more realistic approach to things than the THPS series, and is reminiscent of the Amped series of snowboarding games.

There's a demo up on Xbox Live as we speak to keep you busy until the 21st.

What happens when a loser who needs to win, faces a winner who refuses to lose?

This is going to be awesome!

Billy VS Steve

Sign this petition!

Someone in their infinite wisdom has decided that over 18's should not be allowed to use the new London Bridge skatepark as it will protect younger skaters from "grooming".

Quite possibly one of the daftest things I've ever heard to be honest.

If you feel that this insane rule should be scrapped sign the online petition right here.

Cheers!

Epicly Scottish min!!

Patrick O Dell's online tv show Epicly Latered features John Rattray with a special guest appearance from Mr Stu Graham and keep your eyes peeled for some other exiled Scots. Very entertaining.

Watch it here.

Part 1|Part 2|Part 3.

Also be sure to check out Chopper Read as he embarks on a career in hip hop. Ya drongo!!

Safari Pack

Slightly later than anticipated, the full collection of the Nike SB safari pack has now arrived. Included in the pack is a cap, belt, windrunner jacket, wallet, t-shirt and of course the safari Zoom Tre's.

Available right now in both our stores and online in the next few days......

Wolfstadt Premiere

Just spoke to Adam Mondon about the new Harmony DVD Wolfstadt and a promo copy is winging it's way to us now. We'll be showing it at 5pm in the Glasgow store on Satuarday 1st of September. Wolfstadt features the many skills of Joe Gavin, Danijel Todorovic, Eddie Belvedere, Tony Da Silva, Jak Pietryga, Danny Jack and Glasgows own Jamie Bolland and Paul Silky Silvester. Come check it out.

Horns.

Just arrived from Adidas. More 3 striped goodness to follow in the coming weeks.

Mystery DVD Now in stock!

Not much video hype, (there never really is with jamie Thomas) they just seem to appear. Shot all in black and white with a classic soundtrack, this dvd doesn't mess around. Straight to the skating and a bargain at only £10.95!

Available in both Edinburgh and Glasgow shops.