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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.....

Yahtzee in three's.

The three Yahtzeeteer's all left for the Swedish Championships today. Gotta love the Mega Bus.
Alex, Jamie and Mavie currently hold the top three scores at the King's Court table and have been invited to sit at the Grand Malmo table of Yahtzee Kings. Lets hope they log the footage and roll well.

LP of the Week: Lone Pigeon; Concubine Rice

Spot of the Week: The Eye or yep you guessed it- the GB's.

Tip of the Week 1: M8 drivers aren't particularly sympathetic towards hitcher's wanting a ride to Livi.

Tip of the Week 2: Learn how to drive.

Skater of the Week: Glen Bolland and Whitelock. (You catch W/locks frontside wallride's? Oooohlalala)

We have a winner!

Congratulations to our Circa comp winner Michael Wright of Glenrothes who wins a Focus tee signed by the Circa team.
The answer was of course Mystery, not Zero. look out for the new comp in the free Skinny mag, win yourself some new sneaks!

XM2 bust but the footage is aw guid!!

Livi footage ahoy!

Edit 1 here.

and

Edit 2 here.

Enjoy peoples and good work Perry, just take care of the camera next time. Ha ha!

Monday

The weekend is over, Livi Pure Fun was Pure Fun and everyone who went had a ball. Massive congratulations to Sprocket, King of Livi. Life in the Auld Dug yet!

Here is a rundown of things coming...

First thing is if you are in London next week check out the show by Matt Irving. He's the dude that does Delphi T Shirts that you see in Focuses Easterly and Westerly.

Mavie, Alex and The Jam will be there before they head to Malmo for the European Yahtzee Championships with The Harmony.

News is filtering it's way into the Information Center to suggest there is a Zero event at Kelvingrove near the end of July and then a Blueprint tour shortly after.

More news on those when we get it.....told you we were good.

Hell Yea!

LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI, LIVI,

Get to Livi this weekend you scumbags.

Rain or shine, soundsystem or a wee wireless get there!

Shred the eye ball till it bleeds.

Rad

Alright folks, it's that time of year for Radworx.

Brush up on your skills every day Monday to Friday with 'expert' skateboard tutors Glen Bolland, Paul Silvester, Mavie, The Jam and other guests. Can't wait to see this!

Any job, this is the flyer, click to enlarge and go along if you need some.....

More info here 01415488777

Aye eye.

The Bowl is ready to be shredded.

Friday night session, be there.

Eye.

Not Toilet.

Paint and time contributors -Napalm Jeff, Alex Irvine, Command and MF.

Mike Watt

Listen to Mike Watt's radio shows here.

Every show starts with a Coltrane track and the 100th show is with Todd Congelliere. More here.

The chat is amazing.

San Pedro.

Pulling teeffh.

Re. Glen Bolland v's Lee Ralph

In response to your blog competition........ the head to head went down well over 2 years ago in Melbourne. It was a close run thing, and the judges were divided. Lee still HAS teeth, but his raw baheed and bear-like hairy chest and shoulders gave him the edge. This is the photo finish, and you can see that he quite clearly wins by a head, a rather huge one at that! hehheh, see ye the morn, Glenx

Keats and Yeats are on your side!

I spotted the newest issue of The NME the other day and by jingo I nearly dropped my veggie bacon butty! Twenty years since the release of The Queen Is Dead? Blimey! Two decades later it's still one of my favourite albums of all time and if you've never heard it, you should.

I met Andy Rourke at a party in Manchester a few months back and I gave him a John Peel badge. He was stoked, I was stoked.

All hail The Smiths!

Bloody Swan!

Looks like it should be an album cover but it's just another quiet night in with Div. He's just back from the Download Festival with Alex Irvine which had the Snickers bowl at it. Div being Div got extremely pissed and skated the beast of a bowl with no pads or helmet on and came 4th. Tony Alva came up to him afterwards and told him "i like your style Div", go on! Fueled with that he got even more pissed and got thrown out of the VIP area. Rock n Roll.

4:20 Dude

Good Bloggins, another post, that's three in one day.

Cutting edge.

Anyway thought this was pretty funny......

The Oz patrol minus Mavie are about to get on a flight to Amsterdam. Without knowing it Nate managed to book the same flight as Morgan....the 4:20 out of Glasgow.

It was recently explained to me that 4:20 is known as stoners hour. I have a feeling that may be a very appropriate hour for these parrots to leave on......have fun.

Meantime, us left here can look at a fairly recent Morgan interview.

Please note one of his favourite spots in Glasgow. That's two mentions in one day. GO GB!

Photo by whoever took it.

Frog march

News just in from Alex.....

Div got 4th place at the Snickers Bowl competition this weekend. No pads, plenty of booze and some metal got him amped for some proper vert.

Good jobbins Bertie.

Good bloggins.

This picture is not Div, but is the bowl.

Freestyle Measuring

Welcome to the new fun game called Freestyle Measuring. It's been pioneered by Whitelock, D.Smith and now every man and his dog is at it. Bolland has been taking it a step further and measuring whilst on the move. Car or bike it's up to you! Get yourself a good quality mesuring tape and get measuring- freestlye. Yea, yea, busy in glasgow lalalalala 'anonymous'.

What a blast.

Hey Sam P can i post your chocks away picture? Start voting folks. (It's funny)

More decks in this week. Some Plan B and perhaps some DGK. Hey that's what the kids want. And for the adults we've got some more Consolidated and Creature. Heroin Illustrator 4 coming back in again after selling through in 3 days. Oh yea, the Perfect 8 is coming in this week. I've been skating one and it's true, it's perfect.

Play some Devo, measure something you can't see and do a GB at the GB's.

Go Bob!

Lifted from Fecal Face-

There has been some really stupid shit in skateboarding in recent years (won't name names), but this is Bob Burnquist grinding some rail and then base jumping into the Grand Canyon! poop?! Wow man! can't believe he ever rode for Antihero (great video)... Remember being kinda proud to be a skater? Those were the days.

Exactly.