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!

Have you spotted the spot yet?

Answers on the back of a postcard if you know where this spot is. Clue: David Bowie is also known as the Thin White .......?

Fuel TV

John Rattray was recently on Fuel TV's "The Daily Habit" where he talked about his recent trip to Mexico, Sonic Youth and how Snickers give him heartburn. The only thing he never said was what a Scotsman wears under his kilt, got to keep those American girls guessing. Also under discussion was the Trees for Tomorrow project where proceeds for Johns' new Leaf deck go towards sustainable forests. A worthy cause indeed. John is wearing one of the best t-shirts ever, Stew Graham's big heid. Congratulations to Stew and Chelsea on the birth of their second daughter Olivia, so named so it can be shortened to Livi! Go on.

Check out Johns new Leaf deck here.

It's the new style!

Just had a new batch of the Focus X Josimar t-s delivered. We've had a healthy restock of the Kelly Green and Black colourways and the new colourway you see above.

We're working on a couple of new t-s just in time for the summer. Stay tuned.

The King Of Livi!

Here's the picture we've all been waiting on. 11 months after winning the coveted Livi trophy 2006, Sprocket finally prises it from Bensons' grubby wee fingers and gets it on his mantelpiece. Stoked, who says teach an auld dug new tricks when the old one's rock. Expect head high board varials again from the reigning champ. Stew Graham is back and the Mighty Div and Benson are killing it. Step up south of the border, the trophy has never left Scotland.
We've just heard from Ali Low (the wanderer returns) that this years Livingston's Pure Fun Skate Party 2007 will be on the 30th June & 1st July. Ali and the Commander will be organising this years mayhem, expect a sound system, live bands, dj's and of course the infamous coffin and 2 minutes to midnight bowl jam. Be there or get a note from yer ma.

Let's Do this!

It's that time of the year again! I don't know about you but I always look forward to the new Transworld video. The filming, editing, and production always seem to be the best and the skating never disappoints. This is the first (and probably only)trailer for the new video. Transworld must be the only people who bang out amazing videos on a regular basis, no two year video hype and no team changes holding back filming.
Have a look at the trailer and tell me it doesn't look good.......

Whizzplanking anyone?

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!