North Skateboard Magazine Issue 16

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Saul Crumlish

Photography by Graham Tait Interview by Neil Macdonald

This is usually a corny question, but how did you start skating?

Do you think Instagram pushes people to try stuff, or to skate harder or whatever?

My dad skated, and he tried to get me into it when I was, maybe, about six or seven. I wasn’t that keen on it but I got

There’s that, but it’s also good seeing your friends. Maybe not

hyped on it a few years later. I enjoyed it a lot more, and

even ones you skate with, but friends from other places. Just

would try to skate down the street. My parents would take

seeing what they’re doing and what tricks they’re

us to Kelvingrove at about half seven in the morning, and my

learning. That gets me hyped. If I didn’t have that and just

dad would push me around the wee bowl on this Action Man

skated with people around me I might not have progressed

bike, and I’d fly out of it. I was more hyped on the bike at

as much. Seeing other spots; everything like that. I was in

the time, but for my tenth birthday my dad took me and my

Copenhagen in the summer, and spoke to loads of people

brother Rudi to Zone 74 in East Kilbride, and from then on,

through Instagram and I got to skate with all these people

that was it. I’m sure I went to lessons for a while, but it got

because of it. It’s good for connections.

to the point where I could just skate myself. I looked up to Sean Willis because he was good at skating tranny; blasting

How was Copenhagen for you?

airs. That got me hyped to skate that kind of stuff, and then my dad got a board and started skating again after twenty-

Oh man, it was crazy. I’d been a few times, but never when

something years. He thought I was on the spectrum for a

the Open was on. It was nuts. I went out early to skate in the

while because when I’d get into something I’d get really into

Vans Park Series comp, the Continental. That was pretty fun.

it, and skating was the same. Except that was the thing that

I stayed with a friend that I met out there last year for two

stuck. I skated EK for ages, until I started skating outdoor

weeks, William Lyhne, and just skated every day. That was

parks.

pretty sick. That Fælledparken is unreal; the big one with the over-vert. You don’t even need to go anywhere, you can just

So I guess there wouldn’t be piles of skate mags and videos in the

stay there. There’s so much to skate. It’s scary, but every day

house when you were starting?

you skate it you get more lines, and that makes it so much fun.

Nah. I didn’t really know much about videos or anything like that until about a year or so later. When older people would

How was it shooting this interview?

come to the park I’d be too shy to skate so I’d just watch them, and try to learn wee things they were doing. I’d started

I was hyped on it! I always think that photos on film look

playing Skate 3 around that time too. I’d get Sidewalk or

better. We had to re-shoot a few, but it was fun just skating.

Thrasher sometimes, so that was a way I could find out about

The first few were shot on a Vans trip around Scotland, so it

brands and people, then Googling them to watch videos. The

was just a session really. There wasn’t that much pressure to

photos of people blasting airs really stood out because that

get a photo, so that was cool.

was what I wanted to do. Inverts too. I was hyped on seeing those. It was definitely a few years before I started learning about this other part of skateboarding, it was definitely just more about going out and actually skating. Then Instagram of course.

The Vans Heatwave tour? Who was all on that?

It was me, Manhead, Aaron [Wilmot], Ross McGouran, Ben Broyd, Chris Oliver, Paul Watson and Sirus. That was nuts.

Ben Broyd’s like my favourite skater. He’s on Death. I’d seen clips of him on Instagram and YouTube, and I thought he was sick, but he’s just the nicest guy. And he just keeps going for it, he never stopped once. Manhead’s really technical but he’s so consistent and just lands everything. Chris Oliver’s really good too. He’s really good at street but he can blast big lien airs. Whappo and Ross were really fun to skate with as well, and obviously Ron because we skate together all the time. Manhead recently became UK team manger, and he sends me some shoes now and again which is sick. It was cool that he asked me to go on that trip; I was really hyped to skate with those guys. We’d all just meet at Aaron’s house each day and head out from there, so I went home each night. It was like big long day trips each day. I was really tired after it all but I was really hyped to skate with them and push myself. It was fun.

Was that the first thing like that you’ve done?

Nah, I went down to Bristol and filmed a wee part with Shiner. I’d been to Shiner before, I was down for their jam thing where I met Alan [Glass], and then I had to do work experience for school, so I hit him up to see if I could do it there. He was really up for it so I managed to go down, and my school were up for it too because Shiner are an interesting business. The first day I was in the office, seeing what Alan was doing – editing videos and stuff – and the next day we went around some skateparks, and I filmed a little bit at Dean Lane for Santa Cruz Pink Slip. So he’d film me wearing that. I filmed a part for Wolfbeard when I was 11 or 12, but that was more just for fun.

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How did you end up getting hooked up from Shiner?

I was on Wolfbeard first, Graham Gillis actually asked my

Kevin Parrott had been sending me Volcom stuff too, which

mum and dad if it’d be OK to give me stuff. My dad was

is amazing. That was through Ben Raemers, he’d seen me

pretty impressed with that, with how he did it. Alan had asked

at Warrington and I think there was a space on the UK flow

around about that time if I wanted some boards and wheels

team, so he passed my name on to Kevin, who hit me up on

from him, but I was on Wolfbeard, and it’s a local thing and I

Facebook to see if I wanted some stuff and I was so hyped. I

was part of the team with [Chris] Bailey and Martin [Maguire],

think things have changed at Volcom now, but I really

so I just asked if he could maybe help me out with wheels. I

appreciate all the stuff he did for me.

was hyped on Wolfbeard because I knew the guys and I felt like I was part of something. But Wolfbeard kind of changed, and before this Russ Hall and Mark Burrows posted some photos of me from War of the Thistles, and Calum McArthur who works for Shiner was commenting on them. The first time I met them properly was at the Thrasher Vacation thing at Warrington with Ronnie [Sandoval], Raven [Tershay] and Grant [Taylor]. I was skating the bowl – there was a bit of a session with some of the English skaters – and after that Calum came over and gave me some Thrasher t-shirts or whatever. Div introduced me to Jake Phelps that day as well, he was rad! He shook my hand and stuff. Div has always looked out for me, him and Colin call me ‘Small’. Haha! A few months later there was an Indy demo at the EK park, with Joe Howard, Div and Colin [Adam], and some other people.

Alan Glass was there, filming, when I was skating the bowl.

He got some clips of me and said he was going to send me some more wheels, and I was pretty hyped on that. Spitfire are really cool, all my favourite skaters ride them. So I got sent wheels now and again, for about a year, then I got invited to a Shiner birthday party thing with Kieran [Menzies] and he said he’d put me on the UK team, the same as the older guys, and he started sending me Santa Cruz boards as well, so I was hyped on that. That’s how it started, and obviously I’ve been to Bristol other times since then.

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Kevin’s a really good dude, for sure. And shop-wise, you went from Route One to Pyramid? Good move.

Well Manhead was at Warrington too, and he must have seen me skate because he emailed me about Route One. I was hyped; it was before Pyramid was around. Jamie [Blair] at Clan had been helping me out before that, so I had to let him know. He was cool about it and happy I was getting more stuff. I wasn’t really on Clan but he would always help me out, which was really nice. But then Pyramid opened, and I was going in there a lot just because it was the local shop or whatever. I knew Dave and Perry already, and they said they were starting a team and they were asking me, Aaron, Paddy [Owens], Andy White, Fraser [McIlroy] Jordan [Coleman] and Myles [Shankie], maybe? I was really hyped because Pyramid was really cool and I got on with all those guys, and it was local. So I said yes, and I messaged Manhead to thank him a lot, and told him that there was a local thing that I wanted to be part of. Manhead’s a really nice guy, and he sends me Vans now which is really cool.

You’ve always really been about Vans and Dickies...

Yeah. Definitely. I was always so hyped on that whole thing, from watching Anti Hero videos and the Bru-Rays. My favourite skater was Robbie Russo when I started realising who people were. Our Life too. I’ve always been into that stuff. I saw Raney [Beres] wearing these carpenter trousers but the only pair I could get were 32” when I was 26” or something, so they were ridiculously big back then.

Ollie

Gilbert Crockett’s made that acceptable now anyway. Do you care about street skating?

I watch a lot of Grant Taylor and Cory Kennedy skating street.

There’s certain types of street I like, like just people skating fast and stylish. Like Eli Williams; he’s really good at street and bowl so I like watching him skate street.

How important is it that the footage you watch is new?

I get really hyped on old stuff. Watching vert skating from the ‘80s, people like Gonz, it gives you a whole new world of tricks and things to get you hyped. Like the similarities between Ronnie Sandoval and Gonz, the way they do frontside inverts, it’s pretty sick.

Do you get inspired by any other young skateboarders?

Yeah! CJ Collins is nuts, he’s got a really nice style. In Copenhagen there are loads of kids younger than me that get me really hyped, they just go for it, no holding back. Vigge Woll from Denmark, he’s 12 now, and he’s just insane, He’s a machine. He doesn’t bail, he’ll take the worst slams and get back up. He’s crazy, no fear at all. There’s a kid called Rasmus Thorup Lützen as well, he’s really good. He’s the same age as me. He does everything to revert, like frontside grind reverts in the deep end of the Copenhagen bowl, the ten foot one. That stuff just comes easy to him. But age doesn’t really matter. Although I usually skate with older guys, like Aaron, because it’s a better session.

You grew up around a lot of cool stuff – a lot of cool music – because of your parents. Did you absorb much of it? What do you listen to?

Yeah, my dad’s always played a lot of cool records in the house. A lot of good hip-hop...

But don’t you just listen to Slayer?

What do people at school make of you skateboarding? Do they know what the deal is?

Nah. In a skate video it can be sick, if it goes with the type of skating, but I’d rather listen to hip-hop or reggae. That stuff’s

Since about P7 my friends have known I skate, but nobody

a lot better. I like trap music as well, that stuff’s pretty sick,

in my year skates. There was one friend who got into it for a

and mumble-rap. All that. I skated to a DJ Shadow tune in a

bit, then stopped. But they know I skate, and I’m sponsored

Wolfbeard part and I think it fitted pretty well. I don’t

or whatever, so they’re pretty hyped for me. They know I get

dislike Slayer and all that, it does get me hyped to skate

free stuff so I think they know that it’s not just a wee thing that

sometimes. But if I’m chilling or whatever, I’m not going to

I happen to do. Skating’s getting quite trendy just now as

listen to that.

well. The amount of folk at my school that wear fake Thrasher hoodies... I did a skate thing for my PE exam, and I got an

Have you been injured much?

A because they didn’t know what else to give me because they didn’t know anything about it. Like rather than playing

I got a row for breaking my foot once. It was War of the

football, or some game, folk could do dancing or parkour or

Thistles in Aberdeen, 2015 maybe. We were there the night

whatever. So I asked if I could do skating, and just hand in

before the comp, at Transition, and I did a stupid wee wallride

a video. War of the Thistles clips or something. They didn’t

and rolled over my foot. I didn’t think it was that bad until I was

have a clue so they just gave me full marks.

skating the bowl and it was getting more and more sore. So I went to the hospital and it turned out I’d broken my foot, and

Do you like school?

that was me out for a little while. When I got better, I went to Warrington with my family, and they went and did family stuff

I like Art. I’m quite interested in that, and Graphic Design,

while I went to some park and rolled over my foot again in

and English. Those are the ones I’m better at. I’m not that

the exact same way, but the other foot this time. And I broke

good at Maths of Physics or any of those. I’m doing Higher

it. So that was me out the game again. It was a slob revert

Art, Graphic Communication, English, Business and Modern

on a miniramp. I was trying to learn a new trick and I broke

Studies. I’ve never done Modern Studies before but it

my foot, and my dad was just like, “For God’s sake Saul...”

sounded pretty cool. I always wanted to go to Art School,

When I got back, I felt a bit set back because I’d had two

because I was quite good at that and I enjoyed it, but recently

injuries, and I was a bit scared to do certain tricks, which was

I’ve decided that I want to move to Copenhagen or Malmö as

a bit annoying because I could look back and think about the

soon as possible, pretty much. I was messaging that

tricks I used to be able to do. But a few months later and I

Bryggeriets school in Malmö, the one that Oski [Rozenberg]

was back to normal, and could leave the injuries in the past.

and those guys went to, the skate school...

Then my dad broke his foot at Ramp City in Blackpool. That was a bit of a bummer.

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Wait, the what?

The school’s in the skatepark, and it’s skaters that run it. It’s normal teachers, and it’s basically just skaters that go to it and they study English, Maths, all that stuff, but it’s in the skatepark. But that never really worked out; I’d have had to learn Swedish in six months or something. But now I’m pretty focussed and I want to study abroad, in Copenhagen. Maybe Art or Graphic Design. Just so I can study but also skate all the time. That’s the dream! Haha! It’s such a sick culture there. All the people here are really cool, and you can get a good session, but i just want to skate bigger stuff.

What was the first vert you dropped in on? Did you work your way up to it with loads of tail stalls?

Umm... North Berwick. That was the best park! That was so good. Just pumping up and down it, and it must have been my first year of skating because I had a ponytail. It wasn’t even open, we just asked if we could have a shot, and I knew I had to do it. Once I was up on the platform I knew I had to.

It felt so sick.

I remember one time, not long after you were born, when your mum picked me and your dad up from work, from Fopp in Union Street, and you were in your baby seat. You got super hyped when you saw some diggers in a construction site, so you’re going “Bob! Bob!”, as in Bob the Builder, and then when the music changed to the first Prefuse 73 album, Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives, you started going “Prefuse! Prefuse!” And this is music that only a tiny percentage of nerds knew at the time. It was amazing that this tiny kid who only had a few words could identify that.

I don’t remember any of this. Haha! But diggers were a big thing I was into. It was diggers then Jacques Cousteau.

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Your dad told me at the time, when your mum was pregnant, that

What’s happening next, Saul?

they’d play all the Rhythm & Sound 10”s, this deep dub, to you.

When you were a bump.

I just want to keep having fun skating, and try to travel.

Hopefully get back to Copenhagen. Just keep skating!

Andy Crumlish, Saul’s dad: I suppose you have hopes that your kids will be into good music, if that’s something that

Right on. Shout outs?

matters to you. We used to play all those Rhythm & Sound 10”s just because of the tempo and the bass, and then when

My mum for being really down for skating, my dad and

Saul was born and he was a wee baby I’d play those records

brother Rudi. Everyone I skate with. All my sponsors, Alan,

at night and it really helped him settle. So whether he would

Kevin and Manhead. And Dave and Perry at the shop. Cubic

then go on to have a love of deep dub techno, we didn’t

and Wingy. Mackey at Lost Art has always been really

know, but Saul’s rigidity of interests has always been

supportive, and Jamie at Clan as well. All the homies,

bonkers. It went from Hoovers at first, when he was a toddler

Freddie out in CPH, Paris who’s injured and Ron for taking

he really liked Hoovers, then he was hyped on garden hoses,

me everywhere and getting me juiced. Everyone at KG, the

then it went to mechanical things. Diggers and construction.

locals at all the different parks I’ve skated. Damn, there’s so

That then changed into divers, and he knew everything about

many... Love them

Jacques Cousteau. Then it was the deep ocean, the Marianas Trench and all that shit. Then it was Ray Mears.

Then it was army and camouflage, then Star Wars, then Lego. Then it went from Lego Star Wars to skateboarding.

That was the last thing, but Lynne and I always wondered how long that would last for since he would be really into stuff for about two years at a time. After a year of skateboarding he was still wanting new shoes and a board at Christmas.

Then it was, “Can I get a helmet now, can I get pads?” And there’s never been anything since, and now family holidays are always to places where there’s good skating.

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Joe Gavin

Photography by Graham Tait

Interview by Neil Macdonald

You got hurt shooting this interview, didn’t you?

You know what a photo of you should look like. Is there ever a concern that the photo will end up not what you wanted?

I rolled my ankle really bad trying to do a kickflip fakie on a miniramp. For some reason. I just bailed out and totally

There were a couple where I maybe thought, “Oh, I don’t

folded my ankle. It properly took me out for a good few

know...”, but he’d film them on his phone and slo-mo it to

months and I thought I’d fucked up the ligaments or

see the flashes going off at the right time and make sure he

something, but I did the physio and everything and it’s back

got it. That was pretty cool, but in some ways it kinda ruins

to kind-of normal now. It was shit though, I had to take five

the surprise!

months off, pretty much all of summer.

Which of these photos did you have to work hardest for?

Was that an ankle you’d hurt in the past?

Hmm... I’m not saying I was chilling or anything, but I tried to No man, this was a fresh one! I never really skate miniramps

pick things that I knew I could do a few times. Maybe things

and I just got really keen, and tried to blast a kickflip like I was

that I’d done before that I could go back to and it not be too

a kid again, and I fell from pretty high. I don’t know what I was

stressful. It looks like I’m trying really hard to over that ball

thinking. But no, I’ve never really fucked that ankle

thing haha.

before. I broke the other one when I was younger so I’m glad it wasn’t that one. I felt bad for Graham, he kept hitting me

You’ve had photos in mags for years, so what was it like shooting

up to shoot these photos, and I didn’t know how long it’d

with Wig [Worland] or Leo [Sharp] or whoever else and waiting two

be before I could even push around on the flat let alone do a

months to see the result in a mag, compared to now, where it can

trick that would be worth taking a photo of! It was frustrating

be all over the socials later that day?

in that respect.

I think I’m kind of stuck in my ways. I still just like to collect Is it any more stressful shooting with somebody like Graham who

shit. There’s a reason you have to wait for things I think, if

uses film rather than with somebody shooting digital?

everything was so instant no one would care, Like people over do it to the point where you scroll past their clip and don’t

I guess it’s a totally different process in a way. I’ve shot stuff

care anymore where as when you see a Gino clip on Insta for

on film in the past with people, but I kinda forgot how you’ve

example you might watch it 20 times... Less is more maybe. I

got to go about it. I guess with digital you can just shoot

honestly just see Instagram stuff as just being throwaway, a

whatever, no matter how many times you have to try it; you

bit. I don’t really put anything on there that I’m that stoked on!

can just keep doing it until you get the one. But it’s really

I’m still trying to film a video part, and something like that or

exciting to do something – to get it done – and just walk away

shooting photos for a mag is much more special. But I guess

without seeing it. Maybe not see it until like a week later when

that’s just because I’m older.

he sends an email. It’s cool.

But mags are a big deal again. There’s North, and Free is banging.

Snake Eyes Die was a pretty epic video. How long did that take?

Solo’s in English and Grey is in colour now... It’s a thing again.

Probably about two years? Maybe a bit longer. My friend I know what you mean, but feels like there’s less of them.

Sean [Lomax] was making his video, Pusherman, and I was

It’s still really hard to get a photo in a magazine and I feel like

helping him with that for a bit, and a lot of the footage I was

that’s way more important anyway. Even like putting out a

getting got old kinda quick and he wasn’t going to use it. So

clip, a little solo part thing... I’d much rather work towards

I just thought, “Fuck it, I’m going to make a video as well”,

something bigger, like a video. Even though I don’t know

and it was a bit more relaxed. Everybody’s got a part, it’s all

what people want to do with videos now, but being part of a

good. Just throw it in there. So it wasn’t super serious but it

video with other people just seems so much more worth it.

probably took about two years or something. Other

You can share it together, rather than it just being here one

filmers helped me out too with footage so it was a bit of a

day and gone the next, you know? I’m not trying to be like an

group effort.

old dude or whatever, just dissing Instagram. I’m backing it!

But I think there’s a time and a place. I feel like maybe

Crew videos like that seem to be where it’s headed now anyway.

people should still do real shit. Still work on full-length

It’s too hard to get your whole team to come through, uninjured,

projects, which in my eyes is proper stuff, and just leave

with all rad parts at the same time.

Instagram for when that shit comes out. Just rinse it and use it as a platform to promote. I find it weird when people just

Yeah it’s so hard man, I think that’s a result of Instagram

put their best shit out on Instagram.

stuff again. It’s so easy to go skating and just pass your phone to your mate and film a banger that night. It’s so much

Andy White does that. I wish he’d film a part.

more effort to go somewhere, and meet someone that you might not know then traipse about with them to a spot that

At the same time he did do an awesome rendition of some

doesn’t work out, then go to another one, try and get

Star Wars shit the other day; it was really entertaining. He

something, then you get it and you can’t even see it for ages.

cracks me up.

It just maybe doesn’t seem right, and if I was younger I’d probably be like, “Fuck that!” Haha! It’s just the way that we’ve grown up, with that side of the media. I think kids might see that as way too much effort.

What’s the deal with your Stockport DIY spot?

I helped out with making a little DIY spot, yeah. It’s sick. That was kinda when I hurt my ankle; I just went fully in and tried to help out all the guys there, and build a few things. I got pretty into it for a bit, it was awesome! We basically built a skatepark.

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Is there somebody there that can pour concrete then? I mean

I always thought that Landscape should be making a video –

we’ve got Div Adam up here...

if we’re not doing anything we should be working on something! So as soon as I kinda took over I just wanted us

I’m not gonna lie, we were so shit at it. We built some pretty

to film because that’s all I know! I just feel we should work

bad stuff at the start. The whole thing was us learning. Each

towards something and give people something proper. That’s

obstacle we built would get better, and the concrete would

what you want when you’re sponsored by somebody – you

get better and thicker and stronger. We thought, “Instead of

want to be part of something and work towards something.

building something that maybe one guy can ollie, why not

In a way that would kinda reintroduce Landscape too. Now

build something that everybody can, say, backside flip?” Or

that there’s a few different people on the team. Just to get

something that some guy’s going to hardflip or whatever.

skateboarders backing it again, on a purely skateboarding

More skateable obstacles that are smaller, or less steep and

level, just because we all love to skate and we want to make

harsh, because we’re not super gnarly tranny guys. Just

a video. I just wanted to make something, basically!

trying to build more mellow stuff. We built shitloads man, it was cool. It was all looking good, but then the council moved

It’s almost ten years since the last Landscape video. It’s going to

in and started building a big road. Just completely flattened

be a reminder to some people and an introduction to others of what

it. Devastating. It was a good training ground for learning how

Landscape is all about.

to do a DIY spot and the next spot we build will be way better.

Yeah, exactly. I don’t think there’s going to be a massive How much did Massey have to do with shaping the whole image

change in what we do. We’re still going to do the pro logo

of Landscape?

boards and stuff like that. Keep it clean. Some people won’t know what it is and what it’s done, so we want to try to show

Oh man. I think he had everything to do with it. I feel like

them that. And also try to bring back a little bit of that British

Portraits gave it the look that we’ve always tried to keep up.

skate video vibe, where it’s spread out. In my head, I want to

He gave it that style and that video definitely said a lot about

get a trick at Lloyds, and I want to get a trick at Bristo Square

Landscape. That’s the kind of Landscape that I’m always

or Southbank. I’m not trying to find some crazy new spot. I

aiming for.

think with a lot of things everyone’s trying to find the new shit.

Fos, the owner, has been out in LA for a while now, but how much

got classic spots! Let’s make the most of them.

We’ve got something good here in the uk it looks sick. We’ve input does he have into Landscape?

Fos and Nick [Orechio] from Power Distribution make the decisions really. I just kinda put things on the table, and try and help out the team, and get people boards and whatever.

It’s a weird one, because I just want to skate. But I have to step up, I have to do it and it makes sense. It was almost just the same shit I was doing anyway. General hype and always wanting to film.

Ollie

I guess it’s like your DIY spot, where you want something

You can skate how you want now, and wear whatever you like.

everybody can skate rather than some mega-structure. Or let’s try do the best thing that’s been done down Southbank or wherever.

Even in the past couple of years that’s developed so much. Every single part of skateboarding still exists. People

Yeah. To people that live in, say for example, Bristol, they

can’t really say, “Oh, it was better then...” because Tiago’s

skate Lloyds every day and to them it’s rinsed. Maybe not

better now. There’s dudes that are doing awesome, creative

rinsed exactly, but you know what I mean. For me, it’s like,

mad shit that you’d never think of. And then there’s guys

“Yes! Lloyds, man! Classic spot!” I’m super keen to skate that

like Tiago or Carlos Iqui absolutely blowing your mind with

kind of shit, the things that already get you excited

powerful skateboard tricks. It’s sick, man. And it’s sick that

because it’s such a sick spot that you’ve seen in videos

a whole generation of kids have grown up and have totally

forever. I realise this when I take Jeremy or Dunder to Urbis,

mastered things that we would never have tried. Like a

They’re hyped to get a clip just because they wanna tick a

beanplant or something, people would actually laugh at that

classic spot of the list.

back in the day. You weren’t about to film a beanplant! But now people really do them well. It’s so sick that a whole

Has Dunder got a part in the video then?

generation have grown up with a whole arsenal of old school tricks that they can pull out at any spot, whereas I have got

Oh yeah man, Dunder’s up there in Scotland killing it. I hit

no chance in hell of doing a good beanplant! Any spot that

him up to see if he had somebody to film with and get him

requires a beanplant, I’m gonna chill. Ask somebody that’s

to go out there and get as much as he can, and they’ve just

over a certain age to bust a pressure flip, and you’ve got it.

been on a mission, with Simie. You know that Simie works

Same thing really

on an oil rig, so he’ll be there for three months and when he comes back they’ll hammer it. They’ll be sending me clips

At the same time, if I’m watching a Joe Gavin part, I don’t want to

every other day. It’s cool. I’m so stoked on Dunder.

see a beanplant...

Going back to scene videos, what’s come out in the last few years

I’m gonna prove you wrong man. I’m gonna learn them.

that’s impressed you?

Damn thats a tough one..I really enjoyed the welcome video they brought out recently I think it’s called ‘Paul’. Haha! To be honest there’s literally something for everyone these days, with so many different types of edits popping up I can’t keep up. Gotta big up Phat Jim’s video ‘Seven’; just the effort and time gone into it was impressive. I love it all man, fuck the haters!

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Haha! Rad. But yeah, people now have got the whole history of

Maybe if you’re in prison and you can’t get on social media then

skateboarding available to them. We had monthly magazines and

you need the actual websites.

whatever VHS tapes were kicking around.

Yeah. I need to sort it out for the people locked down! Need Yeah! You can pick whatever era you want to skate like. I was

to keep it updated for them.

skating with a guy today and he was wearing the DC Kalis, just super into that 2000s Love Park style, and he was

You were skating your Hacienda board for these photos, and

probably born in 1996 or something. He’s found that

Snowy’s had Stone Roses and Happy Mondays graphics, but what

generation and he’s found that style and he’s just like, “Yo,

Manchester band would you consider having a graphic of?

this is my shit!” and damn right! Just the same as the guy who finds Dressen or watches Streets Of Fire and gets pumped

Well I already had the Joy Division board, with Ian Curtis on it.

on going that far back. And you’re right; unless we knew

That was pretty cool...

some older skaters who had those videos or something, there was just no way of accessing all that

Shit, did you? Sorry man. I can’t picture that.

information.

It was Sam Barratt, he owns Welcome skate shop with Tom Does anybody look at skateboard company websites? It’s quite

Brown. I think he just had an Ian Curtis graphic that he was

easy to forget they actually exist.

working on, and the guys at The Harmony at the time thought it’d work for me, and hooked me up. It was fucking sick, I’m

That’s kind of what I’m thinking, to be honest. We don’t

stoked on that one. It was a classic black and white photo of

really sell any products on our website. People would maybe

him. But if I had to choose now, who would it be... You know

go on to check a few photos or something? I dunno. People

what? Fuck it. I’d have an Oasis one. With Liam Gallagher on

just go on Instagram these days to see that stuff, don’t they?

it. I’m a bit of a secret Oasis fan.

Everything that we put on the website would go on Instagram first. I know what you mean. I don’t really go on any skate

Liam Gallagher now or Liam Gallagher twenty years ago?

company websites. Maybe little kids are still all about that shit; checking team pages, watching all the videos and

Ahh... You know what, I like him now as well! Hmm... Nah, go

reading up on it.

on, twenty years ago in full knobhead mode.

It’s like Liam’s the Manchester one and Noel’s the London one now.

Noel’s a twat. He’s dissing skating, he can head out. But Liam’s funny as fuck, man. I’m pretty sure he plays up to it, I mean obviously he knows he’s an idiot. I find him hilarious.

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Who else in all of skateboarding has had a Wu-Tang graphic you’ve

Yeah but it’s like a TK Maxx brand, it’s shitty. I mean the lace loops

liked?

and the tongue are wrong on these, but they’re close. It’s just weird they totally bypassed skate shops.

Gino. He had the ‘G’, the GZA one. That one’s sick. That’s got to be the one. I think when I was younger Wu-Tang

Maybe that’ll bring Kareem back, man! Bring him out of

actually made skateboards, and my local skate shop got

hiding!

them in. It was like pro models for Method Man and shit!

They were shit, the boards were horrendous, but obviously I

I think the people that owned the Menace name sold the ‘MNC’

got one and was hyped on it! Did someone have the Ol’ Dirty

name. Because it’s some total idiot that has it now.

Bastard cover, from his first album?

I saw that’d come back. They were trying to hit up Note to Harold Hunter had an American Dream Inc. ad of that, but I don’t

get stocked.

know if it was a board...

I’m certain it was that guy who got my Insta tribute account to OG Oh yeah! That was sick. There’s definitely been some good

Menace shut down too, the prick.

ones. We’re going to do the other half to that [Liquid Swords] board I had. That should be coming out soon. We’re going

Aw, what?! No way man. That’s crazy! You should have

to bring the other one back with the other side, so you could

brought Menace back, never mind this guy.

put them next to each other if you wanted to.

Haha! Rad. You’ve always been in Manchester. Has leaving ever Were you tempted by the Duffs KCKs reissue?

even crossed your mind?

Oh man, I don’t collect much stuff – apart from skateboards

Well, at one point I was going to move to London, but I’m not

– but when Palace brought out those Reebok, I had to get a

really cut out for living in London. I really like Manchester. I’m

some. They are fucking sick.

pretty settled here.

Me too, but I mean the actual Duffs reissues that just came out.

They’re not the same, but they’re close. This online discount shop has them for £30.

What?! Oh man. You have to send me a link dude. Are you talking about the Duffs KCKs?! They’re available for £30 on the internet? What? Is Duffs still going?

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What’s skateboarding in Manchester like right now, beyond Urbis?

It’s cool. The other day, he was trying to skate this massive gap, which was just huge, and it had absolutely no run up.

Oh man, it’s amazing. I’m not just going to lie and big up

You know, one of them where you just throw your board

my city, because I know I’ve been guilty of proper bigging

down and have to pop straight away. He had one go where

up spots that are shit but it’s just so sick. I was talking to

he completely didn’t try it and he just jumped off his board,

my mate the other day, and he doesn’t really skate much

and it looked like it might not happen. And – classic Grove –

now, but he always hangs about with us at the Square and

security turned up and were all, “Oi mate, you can’t do that!”

Urbis and shit, and he was just saying how everybody is so

and he’s just, “I’ll show you!” and just did it first go. So sick. A

good at skating now. The level that everyone’s at is pretty

classic Grove moment! He’s still a jeb end though.

mad. You’ll just see kids absolutely annihilate it. We’ve got two really good spots that are about a minute away from

What’s next for you then? Getting the Landscape video finished?

each other; legit plazas. It’s pretty easy! You go to some cities and everything’s a mission... “We’re going to go to this other

Yeah. It would be out, I think, if I hadn’t rolled my ankle. I

spot, so we’ll get the bus, then we’ll get on the Metro. It takes

think my whole motivation for everything was really low for

about an hour.” But most spots in Manchester are about ten

five months. I couldn’t even skate to film other people, so I

minutes down the road. It’s a quick thing, it all happens quite

didn’t do much. I feel like when I can skate I’m quite good at

quickly. I like it. I’m pretty impatient, I think, with skating. I

getting other people to skate as well, so we can get a lot of

don’t like waiting around for ages, waiting for ten dudes to

shit done sometimes. But when I’m not skating I’m just not

turn up, then getting the train somewhere... I just want to

even bothered. It’s hard to say to myself, “I’m team manager.

skate the Square, skate Urbis and go for a pint with the boys,

We still should go on a trip”, and I should just chill and sort it

and it’s all super easy. Maybe I’m just lazy, I dunno!

out but at the same time I’m just like, “Fuck that... I want to skate!” Haha! That sounds stupid but my heart isn’t in it if I

What’s Ben Grove been up to recently?

can’t skate with the boys. Basically I’m holding everyone up!

Haha! Maybe I should just have put it out when I had like thirty

It’s awesome you asked me that actually. I was just skating

seconds of footage... But nah, I need to do something proper

with Ben today. Ben filmed a 360 flip out of this grate thing.

before I’m too old.

It was sick. He fucking killed it. When I left him he was still trying some other shit. He’s been killing it! Sean Lomax is

Mandatory shout-out time.

making another video, which is gonna come out real soon and it’s gonna be good. He’s been working on that for a long

Thanks to Laura and all my mates and family, Vaughan and

time, and Grove’s got a full part in that. And properly going

Colin at Nike SB, Joseph at Carhartt WIP, Fos and Nick at

at it, you know what I mean? Grove goes hard. He doesn’t

Landscape, Stephen and Clem at Helas, Splodge at Note,

slow down and he still tries massive shit and pushes himself.

Alan Glass at Shiner, Brice at The Fusion Lab, and Graham for shooting these photos and waiting for my hags ankle to get better.

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