New shoo-shoos!

Footwear has been high on the agenda today with fresh deliveries from DVS, Adidas and Lakai.

Top left we have the DVS Original Intent Sanction shoe in a colourway very reminiscent of one of my favourie SB's>>> Bottom left is the Lakai Mike Carroll/Thrasher collaboration with some amazing detailing. Top right is the Lakai X Cliche Telford High. Zut Alors! And finally bottom right is the Premium Adidas Superstar Skate which is already flying out the door.

All these shoes are available instore right now and will be online in the next few days.

A'Deen

The migration or should i say homage to Aberdeen started for us last Thursday. The park is truely astounding, go on Andy Dobson and co. for a job well done. Wasn't too busy when we arrived at 2pm but by 4pm we were the only 4 in the whole park. It's £1.50 registration (that's so they have a next of kin to phone when the over vert capsule eats you up) and £4.50 for a two hour sesh. There are changing facilities and free showers to use so the journey home is non sweaty. Chillers can use the cafe, viewing area and pool tables whilst the other shred. Over the door was fun, hard to get speed if your regular but goofy footers will love it. Ricky Simpson is back from the States and ollied over the top of the door whilst the Commander effortlessly carved it. Russ Hall got his vert legs back in the bowl, 10ft high with half a foot of vert and not a kink to be felt. Make the effort to go there, you'll love it.

War of The Thistles.

Last weekend was the annual skate hootenanny War of The Thistles and by all accounts it was a banger! The first day was held at the brand new work of art that is Transition Extreme Skatepark in Aberdeen.

In case you missed it Will Sloan has uploaded this edit for your viewing pleasure featuring Stew Graham, Benson, The Commander and others. Stew's backside boneless is a peach.

More Junk

Here's another example of what you can find lying around when you move house.This photo was taken by my old mate Billy who used to stay with Big Davie Mo Mo who you can actually see loungin' in the background. I've had this photo for about ten years although you wouldn't have thought it from the condition it's in.

Who else can you spot in the back ground?
2 points if you said Ian 'The Gimp'.
4 points if you got Jezz's mum.
And a full 6 points if you can spotted Fuat lurkin out of focus.

The Dug and his bark.

Sunday night saw the Wallopers support the mighty Certain Death in Subway, Cowgate. A severely tanked up affair with the King of Livi (he has the trophey to prove it now, cheers Benson) aka Sprocket on guest vocals for the Wallopers new song 4-wheel steed. Sprocket can't even remember the first pub nevermind singing, total punk rock, chuckin the mic about too, hilarious! Big Mark Burrows was on form, constant mosh-on.
Certain Death are super tight and for once the sound in the Subway was half decent. Can't wait to see the DVD they've been workin on, gonna be rockin. Bring on the next gig.

Junk

The crap thing about moving flats is that you have to pack up all you junk, lift all your crap down 50 stairs, then lug it up even more stairs than before. It's always the top floor and i have no idea why? Anyway, whilst sorting out a big box of mess i came across this bad boy. This was taken at day trip that the shop organised down to Bolton, look at that face! Priceless.
Hopefully i'll be able to find some more classic photos to post up, not till after the Snooker of course!

An uninvited Gest

Yesterday saw a visit into the Edinburgh shop from David Gest the self promoting wierdo that Liza Minelli dumped and so-called celeb from "I'm a sudo celebrity get me on the telly again". Tweaked out is not the word, he was standing half in half out the door waving to all the passing cars, shouting hi, i love you fans, can't let my fans down! Good news though he's moved to Britain so you too may have the chance to pretend you don't know who he is, seems to wind him up!

Only in Glasgow!

Thought this was too good not to share.

Let's just be blunt about it - this rips!

John was stoked with his parking of the family truck here, you'll be stoked you saw this clip. Enjoy.

Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007

Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan.

Vonnegut used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence: Why are we in this world? Is there a presiding figure to make sense of all this, a god who in the end, despite making people suffer, wishes them well?
With a blend of vernacular writing, science fiction, jokes and philosophy, he also wrote about the banalities of consumer culture, for example, or the destruction of the environment.

Read more at the unreliant reliant Wikipedia.

Man Beast Returns

By the time you read this Stew should be back from his 10 day trip to Barcelona with the 1,2 Osiris crew. No doubt he'll be tearing Livi among other places a new arse hole in the coming months.
To check out whats happening in barcelona with the Osiris folk click here.

Welcome home Stew!

Sunny Side needs more light...

Dundee, officially the sunniest city in Scotland, needs our help...

Please follow THIS link and sign the petition to help one of the best skateparks 'wallow' in some extra artificial light.

Do it....it'll take a second.

Then have a look at D.Smith carving the wallride proper ( lower than usual) at Dundee concrete - that's how to do it!

Are You Alright?

This just in. Unfortunately not coming to Scotland, probably still reeling after the table football onslaught by Scotland after their last trip to Edinburgh. Ah well if you are in the Big Smoke pay Slam City Skates a visit and check out their skateboarding skills at Southbank on the 19th of May.

Nappies a go go!

Massive congratulations go out to Sibs and Gillian who have just had a baby girl! Weighing in at over 8lbs, super healthy and with a full head of hair. Name to be decided soon. Sibs' picture is from the Supra suite in Manchester at last months buying trip. All Muska'd up and i'm sure rockin the same expression right now! Go on.

6 minute monster montage....

It's about bloody time! That's what Perry Thompson's video should be called. I think i've seen at least 6 different names and trailers for his up'n'coming project that's been about 3 years in the making. Well, here's another one, and it's the best one so far. Don't take my word for it, check it out for yourself!

Hopefully it'll be the last trailer? Come on Perry, get it finished already!

Watch Perry's latest trailer here.

British skateboarding and American shoes..

Seems like UK skateboarding is hot news at the moment. Emerica footwear has teamed up with Blueprint skateboards and Heroin head honcho Fos to bring you the two shoes you see in front of you. The shoe at the top is called the Trans Em and was designed by Blueprint rider Vaughn Baker. Featuring some of his distinctive artwork, which you might recognise from Blueprint deck artwork and part of the profits from the shoe will go towards helping Vaughn pay off his medical bills due to injuries.Next up is the Fos designed Ridgemont. Simple shoe nice pictures.

Buy the Blueprint Trans Em here
and
Buy the Fos designed Ridgemont here.

Get Shreddie.

Tick tock don't forget to put forward your clock!

Praise the Lord!! The darkness of winter is banished for another six months! The clocks go forward tonight and if by magic we have some nice wrist clocks in our Edinburgh store from the good folks at Nixon.

View Nixon online at Focus here.

Road rage!

I was at my big brothers the other night and he was telling me about this new show thats out in the U.S called 'Entourage'. He watches a lot of crap telly so i take what he has to say with a pinch of salt. 'I'll show you a clip on You Tube' he said.
I couldn't believe my eyes, is that Chad Muska? Check out Matt Dillon's real life brother getting a bit of road rage and Muska feeling the brunt of it.
Nice to see he's keeping busy!

Road Rage.

Brace yerself...

This just in.....

'...just tay let ayays know am comin back on sunday wit the whole family. FUCKING stoked like canni wait tay see abday!!!!
how yay been though aw rite aye? sick as fuck anyhow stu see yay in a week ur so!!!! BRACE YER BADSEL
 
catch yay
livi scum

Help!?

Stew has been ripping non stop- Check Osiris and Thrasher for some evidence.

Maybe you could swap a wee bit o' tarry for that Neckface thing he won.

DIE WELTMARKE MIT DEN 3 STREIFEN

Just in time for spring we've had a nice little delivery of the Adidas Skate line. From left to right we have the Mark Gonzales designed Stan Smith (£74.95) with felt detailing, the Callisto Superstar (£54.95) and last but by no means least a very simple Skate shoe (£69.95).Next up we have part of the Good Vs Evil collection. This is the Good Track Top (£64.95) and the Superstar of the same name (£64.95). Everything will be available to buy online in the next day or two and don't forget there are only 7 stores in the UK stocking this range and only two in Scotland. It's called limited.

Girl DVD Boxset.....

Now here's one to get a bit excited about. The Girl DVD boxset will be available from April with five discs featuring - Goldfish, Las Nueve Vidas De Paco, Mouse, The Chocolate Tour and over 1 1/2 hours of bonus footage. The boxset will come in at a fairly hefty £49.95 but to me it's worth it for the Rick Howard forest scene alone.

Check out the trailer here and pre-order your copy here.

There's juice loose aboot this hoose!

Our mate Derek aka Chuck Kowolski aka 2 Tins has just opened the first branch of his soon to be global juice empire. Juice Almighty is located just aff Princess Street on Castle Street and is serving up a fine selection of pulverised fruit and such like. Be sure to mention that we told you about it so we can rinse the free juices this summer!!

Juice Almighty.

Let's just call it a semi!

Here we are at the Wallopers first practice in a wee while before this Thursday's gig at the Left Bank or what ever it's called now. How do ye work this amp? How does it go again? Where's ma double bass pedal? Don't be fooled by these fools, they just don't know how starved the general public are to skate/punk/rock. Col listenin to the timing of their next cover on his phone n Stevie D dancing the fandango with his effects pedal. Watch out for bassaxe D Mo's gutteral vocal's that will get that smokers plaque viberated off yer teeth! See ye there.

Digital is Dead!

Join Me as i try to put a stop to Digital photography! Only joking, although it does seem like everyone and their granny has some sort of photo taking device. Whether it be the latest 100,000 ultra-mega-fantastical pixelated dream camera that's the size of a Dime Bar or the newest of the new camera phone that is equally as small.
What happened to the good old Polaroid Camera? Not good enough eh? Well it is for me n Benson (check that front rock) and a whole bunch of other people too. Click on the Digital title above to see some lovely polaroids or if it's some skate polaroids or photos your looking for, check out our new and improved Myspace page. Holler!

Yes i did take out a whole family but not to dinner!

That's a few of us back from snowboarding in Morzine, France. Col the Walloper hit Dirty Thirty when we were there and we spent no expense in this Bucky ring, he was stoked! His senior years did nothing to stop him ripping all holiday. I managed to pivot on my head and neck giving me a double Stevie Cab neck, it's like wearing blinkers, don't do it! The weather was really hot most days and the snow went heavy n slow later in the afternoon esp the parks, just clearing the kickers was an effort. Halfpipe in Avoriaz was massive, Col and our host Youngo killed it. What is it about the backside walls, frontside nae bother. We hit up the Swiss side one day which was awesome, fresh lines and loads of drops and gulleys. Think we broke a record for fitting 7 people and snowboards in a Fiesta, needs must. Here's Youngo not setting the oven on fire this time and just about to serve up a gratin. Big shout out's to him, Anna and Mike for their suberb hospitality, see ye next year!
Click Get Walloped in sites we like for a full holiday rundown.

seti@HOME

Now this is almost too much for my pea brain to comprehend, but..... if you go to this website, download the seti@HOME program, then every time your computer is lying idle it joins a network of millions of other idle computers to help analyze data in the search for extra terrestrial life. How this all works is beyond me but it makes me wonder what you could achieve if we could harness all those moments of human downtime during an average day. Learn a language? Learn to knit? Or just watch more YouTube?

A Blueprint for Blueprint

Full new Blueprint pro series in now. Vaughan Baker's Sulker returns for this set.

The shapes are real sick and sizes range from toothpick to 8.25 inches of pure raw meat, kinda.

Blueprint are making some moves this year- making a flying start with these beaut's.

Supra footwear.

All new footwear now in stock from Supra. Check out the Skytop on the top right from Muska and our personal favourite the denim Tom Penny (bottom left). Get yourself down to the Glasgow store to see them in the flesh. Thanks to our second favourite rep Ben Bodilly for hooking us up.

Lino Dunks are here!

After a bit of a delay the most exciting SB release for some time is now here. We have a very limited quantity of this Premium Dunk Mid and even more limited numbers of the clothing collection. Get yourselves down to our Glasgow and Edinburgh stores before it's too late.

PLEASE NOTE THE COLLECTION IS ONLY AVAILABLE INSTORE.