Potter in Thrasher

Friend of the site and Essex A.T.V Carl Wilson gets a well deserved sequence in this months Thrasher

Nice work boss!

Leigh on Sea Edit

Jay has been busy putting together a Lik Down edit of some recent goings on down at the new Leigh on Sea skatepark in sunny Southend. Check out Jay, Dave Watson, Russ and some of the Southend and Switch crew go to work on the new concrete.




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Channon's Photos

Friend of MN Channon King is obviously recognised for his sick skating both in Russ' video 'Never Forever' and all the way back to Blueprint and the North Essex/Suffolk scenes around the late 90s, early 00s but what people may not have been aware of is his photography. Documenting with an SLR camera and 35mm film Channon has been taking photos for a while and this week he had an article in Tweaker Zine highlighting some of these photos including some of Sandy and Steve Bailey as well as Dave Watson, Nick Jensen, Chewy Cannon, etc. Worth a look plus check out Channon's Flickr too.

Savoir Faire Premiere

Good friends of the Network Kev Parrott, Alex Irvine and Ciaran O'Connor have been working hard on their 'Savoire Faire' video for a while and tonight it gets premiered in London:

Red Bull
The Courtyard
12 Sutton Row,
London
W1D 4AD

Tickets are tight so check their website for details and email addresses, etc to try and hook up a spot.

Here is the trailer:



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Dave Watson & Smack Alley

Gorgeous Dave Watson and Simon Skipp were in Colchester on Sunday, here's a little offcut of Dave to wet your appetite.




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Mischief & MN

Good friend Bingo is repping the MN in his skate store, Mischief, one of the original MN stickers from 1995 graces the shop sticker collection. Give him shout for any skate product needs, he does the business with next day delivery if you are lucky some a free stickers!

green fingers..

Jay and the likdown have been keeping themselves busy in between filming their section for never forever, they've just put together the offcuts from their latest video; the Lik vol1.

these guys are killing it right now..

Meathead Films Anthology Soon

Mondon has been hard at working going through the old hi8 tapes in preparation for the release of the Meathead Films (Adam and Dave Underwood) Anthology on DVD. Here is the new trailer...hold on tight for the January release.

Switch Skatestore Opening...

Long time friend of the MN Mark Longman plus Jamie Bomber Wilson and Adam Gill are all set to open their new skateshop Switch Skatestore on the 24th of this month down in lovely Leigh. It's been a while since Southend has had a grassroots skateshop to call it's own and what with the new skatepark building momentum not to mention the sick local skate talent the future of Southend-on-Sea is very bright!

Southsea update..

As we mentioned a while back Gary and the Southsea locals have had a huge battle on their hands with their local council to keep their legendary skatepark open. well it seems everyones hard work is paying off and at least for now the park is staying open, which is great news!

Here's a little promo that's been made highlighting the problems everyone has had to deal with and to show how popular and loved the park still is. We especially like the way Gary just can't look at the camera or stop playing with that pen whilst being interviewed! Keep up the good work fella's...

Ave Some Jay Too...

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Whilst converting the Smith section that we put up on Friday we discovered Jay Tate had a small part in 'Let's ave it' too, rude not to put this up aswell we thought. Check out that doo!

Smith Gold

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After Wednesday's update mentioning Mr Neil Smith we thought we'd share a little Smithy gold that's been tucked away in the vaults on a DV tape since 2004. Here's Smithy's section from a South Woodham scene video 'Let's ave it!' that MN friend Phil Humphreys made just before he sold his camera to Russ. A long haired Russ even makes a cameo appearance in the part too! This section had to be shown the light of day as Neil was killing it even back then...start making a list of all the local spots he destroys in this part!

jay and the likdown...

As well as being busy filming a full part for the next MN production, Jay Tate has just completed his own Southend scene dvd entitled 'the lik vol1'. Check out the trailer and contact Jay to order a copy over at the Likdown site.

Wolfstadt Premieres...

MN homies The Harmony are hosting premieres for their new video 'Wolfstadt' all over the country in the next few days, the video is going to be a killer so make it down (or up) if you can!

Current dates and details are as follows:

thurs 16th aug london
- cantalowes park jam 3pm
- premiere 'slam' covent garden 6pm
- after party 'cross keys' bar 31 endell st (round corner from slam)

fri 17th aug leicester
- premiere boardrooms skatepark, unit 5 thames st 7pm
- jam session 8pm onwards

sat 18th aug manchester
- pump cage skatepark 1pm , street skate from there
- premiere 'the garrett' bar 127 princess st (off charles st) 8pm
- after party same venue with 'the thrust' playing 10pm

sun 19th aug manchester
- 'note' skateshop under 18's premiere
(contact note for details)
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birmingham 'wild in the streets' + premiere (tba)


Check The Harmony's blog (the old new shit) for more details as and when

Love Southsea Skatepark Day...

This Saturday is a special day down at Southsea Skatepark...in an attempt to save the skatepark from closure the Skatepark User Group have organised a skate day bringing together old and new locals and friends with comps, giveaways, djs, etc. Get down there if you can and show your support for one of the UK's treasures.

If you haven't already please spare a few seconds and put your name down on the online petition it could make a real difference!

How's Life in Begium...

MN belgian homie Bram recently got back to Europe from a stint in SF in preperation for moving back there for good...lucky so and so. Bram puts together Life Support Zine and we thought this would be a good excuse to post his lo-fi zine video series called 'How We Live'...nothing but raw skateboarding, travelling, drinking and friendship. ruling!

p.s. Important Chelmsford trivia: Stella also comes from belgium.

"Because you're gorgeous..."

Gorgeous Dave Watson has been getting more well deserved magazine coverage this month in Sidewalk Magazine. Check the height on that nollie flip!? It's featured in a Vans tour article...Dave now gets free Vans and rightly so!

Rampage...

Keeping it a Southend biased week...Southend legend Fraser Campbell put together some old Rampage/Leigh on Sea footage filmed around 1999. OG Monster Network and Chelmsford ruler Justin Carline has some savage footage up in here as does fellow MN head Dan Tubb plus a load of Leigh locals and Southend rippers. RIP Leigh and Alan.

Seaside Premiere Photos...

Last night was the premiere of long time friend of the family Mark Longman's fine skateboarding video entitled 'Seaside'. The venue was packed, beers where sunk and heckling was issued; the video went down a storm! All in all a banging night out! Nice work Mark. The DVD will be available to purchase in both X-Isle and the Limit skate shop from the 9th June 2007 or direct from Mark via his MySpace page.

Seaside Tonight...

Quick reminder that it is the Premiere of 'Seaside' tonight in Southend at 8pm at the Sun Rooms! Booze till late too...get down there if you can

'Seaside' Southend Video Premiere...

Speaking of Southend...'Into The Fall' contributor (sadly we forgot to credit him in the video due to our sieve heads, sorry!) and long time homie Mark Longman has been working on a new Southend skate video called 'Seaside'. With some Southend luminaries and a pile of amazing Southend Spots its going to be a winner! The premiere is on Wednesday 6th at the Sun Rooms. As well as a MN OG Ben Sutcliff full part, rumour has it Southend legend Sean Ward is going to have a full part too...

Sardines and the Ham Army

No it isn't a re make of broke back mountain....Russ just returned from a very sucessfull filming trip in Sardinia with Mondon and the Harmony crew. Veran and Steve were also on board and both did well infront of the soul-hoovers. You will be able to see the fruits of their labour in the next Harmony flick Wolfstadt coming very soon.

Bored 10 Years/Dave Tee

Who would believe it, Southsea's very own Bored SOS has been on the up for a decade. Time flies when your having fun. The shop has very strong ties with the MN. Paul worked there off and on and lived above the old shop, Kev read math books in there, ahem, 'worked' there (and did some shocking shop fitting) and even russ put in some hours with the cow skin sofa too i think. not to mention that the bossman Gary is down with the MN (check his skating in essex tour and his part in lately)...backside 50-50 heelflip boom!

Part of the 10 year celebrations is the commission of some arty tees including one by our very own david (and if you're lucky stickers too). click the pic to get on the Bored website and order yourself a tee electronically.

"the calculator says no"

Safari's Block Party...

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Zakk from the safari crew filmed and edited this clip a little while ago...we're just poaching it off the safari website...hope thats ok fellas! Russ, Dave, Steve, Paul, Veran and some of the Safari crew up in there!

Carl Wilson/Romford/Sidewalk...

Friend of the site Carl Wilson gets a well earned Sidewalk magazine cover this month. You go to Romford and you front blunt the pool.....ITS SAVAGE!

Nice work Carl!

p.s. You can catch some footage of Carl on the 'Lately' watch online page in the friends section...

Dan K & Story...

Monster Network homie Dan Kircher (creator of the 'Forays' video) has continued his close ties with The Story Store by designing a shop hoodie and tee shirt. The use of burgundy gets both thumbs up! Click on the image to wing your way over to the electronic Sheffield skate shop and have a sniff around for purchases...

Romford in Oz

Long time friend of the family and Romford royalty James Holland and his girlfriend Nat are in the middle of a round the world trip. Currently in Australia, James has met up with fellow Rom brother Reeves and the two have been checking out just a few of the delightful skate spots down under has to offer. Here's to you boys! Think of us here in the freezing cold will ya!

Have a good trip James and thanks for the pics.

The Harmony - New/Old Shit...

Close friends The Harmony have just put their recent DVD promo 'The Old/New Shit' up on the internoodles, click up there for a watch or 20. Some sick skating going on including some Danijel, Bolland and Veran awesomeness. Hightail it over the The Harmony's website and blog here for more...

Jay Tate/Headtrip Cinema/Lik Down

Some of Southend's finest young guns, under the eye and camera of Jay Tate ('Into the Fall' steeze merchant), have been working on a video for a little while. Check the trailer...

Ghetto Boozer, Danijel, Russ, Dave, Camera

Remember a little while we mentioned that The Harmony's very own Scandinavian Yeti Dinijel Todorovic was in Colchester causing carnage to the local spots? Dave took some rather lovely photos at the Ghetto Boozer of Danijel with Russ capturing some of that winter destruction...

Smithy's Close Call

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Sorting through some old tapes we found this clip of Smithy nearly taking out a passing car during the final few weeks of filming for I.T.F. "MIND THE MOTOR MATE!"

World/101/Plan B/Prime/Alien Workshop at Romford 1994

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Back in the early/mid 90s there used to be the big Radlands summer comps that would draw over most of the American teams and pros. If you got lucky and went to Romford on the following Monday there was a good chance you would see alot of the pros skating an almost empty skatepark before going up to Harwich for the ferry to Europe for the rest of the summer comps. In 1995 in was the Santa Cruz team but in 1994 it was the World Industries, 101, Plan B, Prime and Alien Workshop companies that showed their face at Essex's finest old skatepark. Good friend of the Network ChasOne was there filming and alot of the Monster Network OGs were there in attendance. An incredible day. Markovich's snakerun ollie still leaves people in confusion. The photo taken by Big Brother's Rick Kosick was used for the tour article in Big Brother magazine. Kosick also took a posse shot of the Network crew although sadly that has never seen the light of day!

Filming and Editing : Chris Thomas/Chas One.
Skaters: Colin McKay, Natas, Hensley, Markovich, Dill, Kareem, Caine Gayle, Jeremy Wray, Fred Gall...

Can anyone name anyone else? Other skaters there that day were Mike Crum...can anyone remember anyone else who was there? Comment your memories of the day...

p.s. Awaiting LBDs embaressing story...

Kingpin and Dave Watson

Dave Watson's underground legend status is in peril...Dave has a 'Shine On' in the new issue of Kingpin Magazine and as such goes to just international legend status instead! Good work Dave! Check the Kingpin website for general European skateboarding goodness and check your local newsagents for the mag with the full page glossy snap. If you haven't picked up a copy of 'Into the Fall' (really?), you need to, Dave has some sick footage up in there.

Cheers to Adam Mondon for the heads up!

'Forays' Released...

Sheffield's finest skateshop The Story Store and it's FilmMakers Guild have just released Dan Kircher's 'Forays'. It's only a fiver and an awesome skate video, well worth picking up. Check the Guild page for the trailer and for an interview with Dan and you can order the dvd online here...

Bored...

Once a home for many a networker, Southsea's tip top skateshop 'Bored' recently had an electronic facelift. Check www.boredofsouthsea.co.uk for the new website now with online store, photos and vids (including the sick 2006 trailer). Gary (had a banger of a section in 'Lately' and also sunday roast chef par excelance) has been holding it down on the south coast for years now and built up one of the UK's finest SOS. Give him a bell or buy your goodies online, Current Monster Network favourites are the Bored shop tee's in particular the south bronx and supreme rip, both getting heavy rotation. Oh, just don't ask for a discount though, "the calculator says no"...

The Harmony

Friends The Harmony have a new website up and a blog that is updated at least once a day with all sorts of clips and goodness. Recently there was a goofy Veran clip and yesterday a sick Steve Bailey promo clip up on there that are well worth a look-see.

Dan Kircher, Up in Colchester

New Zealand's Monster Network long time homie Dan Kircher was in Colchester this past weekend for a quick visit. When not being the creative video mastermind behind 09 (whose most recent video production 'Forays' will be released through The Story FilmMakers Guild in the next couple of weeks), editing Manual Magazine, discussing the finer points of the history of Girl/Chocolate with LBD in Wellington or teching up manual variations he can fair put away a drink or two in Smiths, The Hogs and Twisters. Ruler!

Russ Snap

Dave Turner and his huge and heavy camera bag of tricks took a few photos on Saturday including this one of Russ, lipslide on the angled ledge.

Safari Crew...

Some of the younger guns in Colchester are in the process of making a video at the moment. Check the Safari website for updates or their myspace page for more news and their new trailer.

Check their little promo here (with Steve Bailey making an appearance!)