New Additions

There must be something in the water or our Scottish weather forces couples to find other things to do indoors. There has been a gamut of babies born recently and here's the newest additions, Davey and Melski had a girl called Lily and Gillian and the Bazman had a wee boy called Keiran. Aw the best to you all. Only Col and Lisa to go now. Col is busy building a winch to get Lisa off the couch she's so big. They'll be joining the convoy of prams soon. A big appology to Barry for spelling his son's name wrong, it's been corrected now.

Chop, chop, chop, chop!!

If you're looking for authentic Chinese food in Edinburgh then look no further than Chop Chop on Morrison Street just up from the Haymarket train station. We're talking a seriously good scran for not much cash and be sure to try the fried dumplings. Awesome and as the sign on the window says "1 Billion People Can't Be Wrong"

Vans Tour

The UK Vans tour will be hitting up Glasgow this August with a mighty healthy team of skaters. Danny Wainwirght, Ben Grove, Howard Cooke, Pete King, Marc Churchill to name a few.

The team will be in the Glasgow shop then on to Kelvingrove in the afternoon. Wednesday 1st August is the date.

Phone 0141 548 8777 for more details or check vans.co.uk for updates.

check out ma wheel!!

"Check out ma wheel, go tay the deluxe website fucker" said Stu Graham to us. So we did and look what we found. Brilliant! Chipped teeth and all. You've got be proud of the man they call the manbeast.

Go Skateboarding Day!

Thursday 21st June is International Go Skateboarding day and London is the worlds skate capital for the day. Blueprint and Nike SB have teamed up to present a day long event of skateboarding and other events. Check out the links below to see what's happening and keep your eyes peeled for a special Nike SB X Blueprint collaboration shoe , which we'll have instore soon. Let's hope the shitty weather holds out.

Blueprint.

Made for Skate.

The Side Effects Of Urethane.

Nike SB.

Footnote: If I'm not mistaken the picture of the young chap jumping over that fence in the picture above is in the Port of Leith. What, what?

Art happenings a go go!

If you're in the city of Edinburgh on Friday 29th June be sure to pop along to the brand new juice bar Hula in the Grassmarket for a brand new show called "In the future we still break" by local lurker Culprit.And if that wasn't enough artistry for you the very same day, Analogue Books across the street have a new exhbition titled Under a Bush by Yokoland, a Norwegian design collective from errr Norway.

Jay-Z's down with this shit!

Our 2nd favourite rep Ben Bodilly informs us that Jay-Z was spotted in a pair of these sparkly little numbers and now they've attained a cult like status amongst sneaker heads. We've got a few pairs left and if you fancy a pair, you'll find them right here.

Radworx show you how

It's coming up for that time of the year again where Deak, Paul "Silky" Sylvester, Jamie Bolland and Aiden Taylor start the Radworx skate tuition at a park or community centre near you from the 2nd of July. They've just launched their new site which has all the info you'll need here.

UARM Summer 2 thousand and VII.

Now in our 5th season with our favourite New York label UARM and these guys keep going from strength to strength. Currently winging it's way across the Atlantic ocean is the Summer 2007 collection and this season expect artwork by Mark Gonzales, Faile, Bast, Space Invader, Black Label, Thom Lessner and Andrew Jeffrey Wright amongst others.

Again we're the sole Scottish stockist of UARM and we're expecting the line to be with us in the next couple of weeks.

UARM
UARM at Focus.

Mcarta Footwear

At long last the UK's first skate shoe company has arrived. Many months in the planning and a very ambitious project, Mcarta gets it's name from the Magna Carta, the first bill of Human Rights. We have 3 different styles of shoe in 9 colourways including the D-Lux you can see above. Two of the colourways have been designed by Bristol's 50-50 skate shop.

View and buy Mcarta online here.

Sidewalk Issue 129

The new issue of Sidewalk is in store now which features The War of the Thistles, First Light from Owen Hopkins, trick tips from Jamie Thomas, a stupidly easy comp to win trucks and more photos of our very own Colin Kennedy than most folk get in a whole career. Oh yeah Div's there too, no surprise! He's off to Malmo in Sweeden for the final stages of the Quicksilver Bowl Riders Comp on Thursday. Watch out for Div's Adio shoe colourway. Who knows what that'll be, probably just comes with a tin of spraypaint and broken laces!

Weird Creatures

The Glasgow store has just had a visit from Div, Paul Sylvester and Alex Irvine on there way to pick up Stew Graham and Benson for the Creature premiere at Scotlands finest skatepark, Transition Extreme in Aberdeen. The film starts at 7pm followed by a BBQ then the onslaught of the bowl begins. I'm sure it'll be a frenzied affair, who knows the Notorious P.I.G. might get the slashes out!