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Forgotten Clips

Paul — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:11 +0000

Before throwing an old VHS tape away the other day I fast-forwarded to the end to see if there was any old skate footage and was pleasantly surprised to find old clips between the TV shows. Back when I first got my video camera in 1992 I copied all of the raw footage on to a large VHS tape so I could reuse the camera tapes, a little while later I edited that down to other tapes and then recorded over the raw footage, sadly. Was good to find little, forgotten glimpses of this raw footage though. This one clip is a flashback to just what it was like skating the little mini at Chelmsford skatepark back then…

College RIP

Paul — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:13:07 +0000

One of the most loved Chelmsford street spots, the AP college in the centre of town, is set for imminent demolition. The spot was a mix of stairs, little banks, benches, walls, a brick handrail and for many years a perfect ledge. At it’s heyday in the late 80s and early to mid 90s it was heavily skated all week and didn’t have security so was bust free but things began to change with the ledge getting skate stopped, then the front stairs made un-skatable and finally the security office being located right by the main bank…after that it became a constant bust. Even though not properly skated in a long while the spot still has a fond memories for everyone.

Tucked away on the old MN archive tapes are hours of footage filmed at ‘the collage’ so for a quick memorial edit we put together some skating from just three sessions from early 1993. Below the edit are some photos of the college spot taken the other day, now fenced off ready for the bulldozers to move in on a classic Chelmsford street spot (just like they did with the bus station). RIP.

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OG MN heads (at these particular sessions) in order of appearance: Chris Plumber, Jacob Davidson, Aaron Norman, Matt Letch, Paul Gonella, Adam Whitaker, Pete Harrison, Jim Rands, James O’Grady, Barry Ewers, Adam Leeds and Kevin Peacock. When we finally do the ‘We Are’ DVD boxset expect a mountain of footage from the college from everyone!

Sandy rough edit

Russ — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:36:29 +0000

Here’s an original rough edit of Sandy’s part from Never Forever that’s never seen the light of day

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Channon King…

Paul — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:57:00 +0000

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Long time Sudbury and Colchester legend Channon King will be making an appearance in Never Forever. Russ filmed this footage at the Colchester loading bays back in 1996 and it’s not seen the light of day until now. Expect some sick new footage in the upcoming vid…

p.s. clip now fixed. blip.tv is poop…

The Vault

Paul — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:07:00 +0000

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Russ and some of the friday crew have been heavily hitting up Southend of late, here’s a clip from the Lately tapes vault from 2002 featuring Russ on the other side of the camera for a change. Lbd taking the filming and hat loan duties…

Ol’ Dirty 30: Russ Gets Old…

Paul — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:20:00 +0000

Another one bites the dust, Russ is 30! Some digging in the shoeboxes resulted in some old footage coming up from the depths…

Old Chelmsford Bus Station…

Paul — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:36:00 +0000

We flexed our cat burglar skills back on 28th November 2004 for a final skate before the derelict Chelmsford bus station main building was due for demolition. A major Chelmsford skate spot for well over a decade, its painted curbs, stairs, little driveway and most of all its benches are still missed. Digging in the old ‘Lately’ tapes we found this footage of LBD skating the previously insta-bust dirty maintenance ledge as a fond fairwell. not long after in early 2005 the building was flattened. Today its an almost finished new bus station and swanky flats. Those black marble ledges out front are so so close to being a good spot too but just not quite there!

Two Years Later…

Paul — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:10:00 +0000

Can you believe it was two years ago to the day we premiered our cine magnus opus “Lately” Anyone that did attend that fateful night were true to the cause as it had been snowing all that day. Anyway “Lately” has a special place in our hearts here at MN hq, so much has happened since that video and to celebrate its second birthday you can now watch Lately in all its full glory in our videography section. “Roll them pigeons!”

Sunny Days in Winter Cold…

Paul — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:57:00 +0000

Digging in the Dixon vaults uncovered this gem, the East Anglia section from Dave’s second video ‘From the Inside Looking Out’ from 1999. The video has some sick footage from Sandy, Dave, Channon King, Franklin Stephens, etc…

AW Goes to Work…

Paul — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:20:00 +0000

What with the ‘We Are’ boxset gaining momentum we came across this raw footage of Adam Whitaker going to work on the civic stairs back in 1995. All filmed in a few minutes….ruler

Filmed by: Paul Gonella