Winter, Sudbury, Holga

Paul recently found an old roll of medium format film shot with his Holga camera during a winter's Sudbury session back in 2007 with Dave, Sandy and Russ. Here are are a few of the photos.

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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Clacton

Russ has been emailing this around, I think it's because it has Peppers in there near the end. A piece of Essex YouTube gold:

Leigh On Sea

Russ and a few others were in Southend yesterday and checked out the progress of the new Leigh On Sea Skatepark. Its on the same site as the original Rampage park and is looking really sick. Good street area, nice bowl and even a large spine to vert wall which we are guessing is a little nod to the old park!?

The builders reckoned it will be finished in a couple of weeks, see you there!

Meat Feast

Adam Mondon and Dave Underwood have been busy boys of late, putting their three classic videos from the late 90's/early 00's onto one DVD. That's right you can now own Grow Up, Ex Rental and Hoax promo, plus the very rare Pork Sword and a brand new never seen offcuts film called Scene It all for £6!!! Starring Frank Stephens, Ben Rogriguez, Channon King and a host of others!

Head over to the Meathead site and purchase a piece of East Anglia's skateboard history right now!

Vern, Saffron Walden

Photographer Lee J captured Vern mid crook the other day. For more photo goodness by Lee check his Flickr.

Dan Update

Pinched a couple of photos of LBD's current local shralp spot in New Zealand from his blog. Rip it up

Bailey Out

Steve went back to 'those steps' for 'that trick' again on Friday and this and a trip to A&E with Russ was the result. Somehow, fortunately, it isn't broken. Get well soon Stevie!

Gonella in SF...

Paul is in San Francisco at the moment visiting some friends on his way back from Vancouver where he spent christmas/new year.

Apparently the weather there is much the same as here; rain!

Have a good time PG


photo: Bram

G'day Steve...

Steve has been back home in Australia since last month and is set to return to these shores at New Years. He seems to be having a good time enjoying the sunny weather and getting a few skates in here and there.

Enjoy the sunshine Steve as when you return you're gonna need to film your enders in the freezing cold!

Sandy Is A Dad!

Yesterday Sandy and his lovely lady wife Sally became proud parents of a healthy baby boy, Isaac David Sandford. A huge congratulations to the young family from everyone at MN. Beers for the Dad next time at the pub!

Lakai

Russ, Ben and Veran hooked up with Paul, Rob, Ray and London Dave in London on Sunday for the Lakai premiere. Needless to say the video was incredible but so were the beers before and after with the the MN crew. LBD is going to wet his pants when he see's Carroll's part!

P.S. Cheers for the pic Rob

chalk em up..

"happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear David, happy birthday to you"

the DD is another year older today, big man love from all at MN hq.

Essex Girls in Tweaker

Russ, Dave, Jay and Vern all appear in a new article in Tweaker Zine about Essex skaters and Essex...erm...'ladies'. We've had the Dukes experience...

Bailey 18

A few years have passed since Sandy first mentioned "there's this little Aussie kid that skates the park who's rad" And today big Steve Bailey turns 18. Next time we see you Steve we expect a full grown beard, a taste for local ales, a strong dislike for children at skateparks and a tendency to go on about how skateboarding was better when you first started!

Happy Birthday Steve from everyone at MN HQ.

EA Skate Block Tour

South Woodham ruler and friend of the network Neil Smith is on tour around a bunch of the UK skateparks in the coming days as part of a promotion for EA Games' new skateboarding game 'Skate'. The game is looking sick and the tour looks rad too with Vaughan Baker, Boots, Horsey, Danny Brady and Chewy Cannon out there with Smithy where they'll be skating some specially commissioned ledges as part of a comp for each park where locals can win 200 quid. Here are the dates...

Saturday, 29th September - Revolution Skatepark, Broadstairs - 2/4pm
Sunday, 30th September - BaySixty6, London - 2/4pm
Tuesday, 2nd October - The House, Sheffield - 6/8pm
Thursday, 4th October - The Factory, Dundee - 2/4pm
Friday, 5th October - Rampworx, Liverpool - 6/8pm
Saturday, 6th October - The Works, Leeds - 2/4pm
Sunday, 7th October - The Park, Great Yarmouth - 2/4pm

Southsea Common...

The 'Southsea Common' 2 disk DVD boxset is now finished! The videography pages for Southsea Common, Pigeon and Zoo have all been updated with video details, artwork, trailer, etc too.

If you want to buy a copy they be bought from bored in southsea via their mailorder website here or buy direct with PayPal by emailing Paul direct.

Russ Birthday Snaps...

Continuing Russ week, here are a few photos from the boozy house party at the weekend...

Russ and Ben in 'We're Ok EurOk'...

Girl/Chocolate's recent 'We're Ok EurOk' tour has been put together by Meza as a downloadable video up on Crailtap. Tucked away during the Southbank section is Russ and Ben with FGPs...

p.s. By the sounds of it crailtap are having a little bother with the traffic for the new vid, if you do get it downloaded and it doesn't play try changing the .mov to .m4v and it should play in itunes.

p.p.s. Southsea's own Rob Pybus is the one in the middle doing the Portsmouth 'wot you lookin at?'

Tweaker Zine...

The Croydon Cat Club member's Paul and Gorm have been working on a new online skate zine called Tweaker that went live this week. It's going to be updated regularly so is worth a bookmark if you are feeling it...

Russ and The Skateboard Mag...

Stop the presses! As you may have been reading in other places in the internet village, white grounds skatepark now has an 18 age limit for most of the times its opened and this has become a hot potato with not only the locals but now also with most main skate websites in the UK and worldwide. MN HQ just got word that The Skateboard Mag had put up a news item on the subject here. As you may notice...there is a huge photo of Russ! The photo was taken a little while ago by Gorm during a London meet up. Also linked via an interview with Kevin Parrott and the same photo again (russ needs photo incentives) is an online petition against the age limit and you should get on there and sign it asap.

Veran Tull, Nanananana 19, 19...

Today is Veran's 19th birthday! Happy birthday V-Tizzy! Remember what Paul Hardcastle said, "In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26...In Vietnam he was 19...."

Save Southsea Skatepark!

It's looking like Portsmouth council are dead set on closing Southsea Skatepark sometime in September which would be a terrible blow to both Southsea skateboarding and the UK as a whole. The Monster Network has strong ties with Southsea going back many years so we're joining Bored and the skatepark user group in trying to stop the council in it's tracks. If you could spare a few seconds and put your name down on the online petition it could make a real difference!

For further information and details on user group weekly meetings and progress check the Bored website.

Latest Editorial...

Veran and Steve get a well desereved double page layout all to themselves in this month's Document magazine (August). Be sure to check out the full Harmony Sardinia tour article, it's a winner. Good work lads!

Also added to the Editorial section is Dave's recent Sidewalk Distractions article from May's issue including photos by Paul.

Wink At The Camera...

Last of this week's main editorial updates is dug out of the MN archives! Back in 1997 somehow the Monster Network got recruited to model reebok for an ID magazine article. Hard to believe but yes, we have the pictures to prove it! Check the editorial section for the shame/glory. Maybe we should post up the awesome Kylie cover instead to make up for the camo overload...

More Editorial...

Some more editorial added to the Editorial section including Dave and Sandy's artisan articles and Veran's Omens...

Editorial...

Over the years the monster network, family and friends have turned up in a bunch of uk skate magazines. Russ recently warmed up his scanner and dusted off the magazine pile and put together the new editorial page (in the history menu) which will be the home of old and new editorial content from mags, etc. We will be adding a load more in the coming days and weeks so keep checking the section...

Paul and Kissing Bread Zine...

paul recently completed an interview with dan boulton for the photography zine 'kissing bread' website. as well as the interview there are a few photos too of dave and the crew up on there. the recent kissing bread issue #2 features photos by dan boulton, sf resident isaac mckay-randozzi and paul. some copies are still left at 3 quid (inc. p&p) over at the kissing bread store...

Sandy in Shock Modeling Shame!?

Russ found this poster at work, is it the ginger prince doing a spot of moonlighting to make ends meet? Or are there two chisseled ginger princes in this land? C'mon Sandy own up....

madchester

Dave had an art show in Manchester last weekend, by all accounts it went rather well. Whilst he was there he even managed to get a few skates in and shoot some pics! go KLAUS!

pic mr Jim Walker

our man in croydon

Gonz moved to london last weekend, which is partly why there were no updates for a while. tho russ has been given the spare set of keys to the site to assist paul in updates direct from the motherland. we'd like to wish paul and meg all the best in croydon and we look forward to plenty of london skate trips this summer with somewhere to stay in t'smoke! can we ask ray and gorm to look after our pg please, he gets lost very easy and please keep him in chocolate bars, fizzy drinks and film for his cameras.

fatty tull?

veran tried to tell russ and dave the other night he has developed a beer gutt since being away on tour!? don't think so vern you're still gonna be a 28 inch waist for a few years yet mate.

LBD Heavy Blogging...

LBD's stories of south pacific adventures have been a little quiet of late until the recent re-launch of his blog. Now named 'Treebrolly' he is back with photos and tales to make you envious and wanting to travel to the southern hemisphere. He also has the past four years of previous blog posts up there to plough through and remember...

30 years of Mongo...

Its slowly happening to us all....Adam Mondon is the next man to be in the 30 club, its Adams birthday today and all of us here at MN h.q would like to wish the Gin & Tonic fuelled lord of the death lens a very happy birthday!

Lately - Sandy and End Titles Fixed...

There was a problem with the hosting of sandy's part and the end titles of 'lately', its all fixed now though. go watch sandy's part immediately!

New Site!

As you can see, the new website is up! It's still a long way off from being finished (the items on the menu on the right greyed out will all be gradually added soon) but there are some big updates in the not to distant future worth keeping an eye out for not to mention are usual almost daily updates of photos and video to keep you busy during tea and borbon time...

Hot Off The Press...

Colchester ruler Karl sent word that the council have given the go ahead for a 100 grand concrete skatepark in Colchester! Very early days at the moment and more details to come but get your graph paper and pencils out and get designing, Karl wants everyone to be involved in the process of design, etc. Dave, no, you can't have a 3 foot transitions to vert pool in the shape of a lobster....well, actually...

Albert Earl Dixon...

Dave and his lovely wife Charlie had a visit from the stork on Friday and now have a beautiful baby boy called Albert! All of the MN wish the new family all the best for the little fella and his mum and dad. Now to vans do eras in newborn sizes?

LBD, Been and Gone...

Happy new year! Over the Christmas period LBD dropped in to the UK for a short visit from New Zealand. Bit of a seasonal shock going from summer to winter!

Catchup

Sorry about the lack of updates, everyone has been super busy in the last few days. The Harmony's Danijel Todorovic has been in town for a few days, word is alot of old (and new!) Colchester spots have taken a Scandinavian beatdown of the highest order. Russ took care of the video duties, expect to see Colchester's beautiful spots and Danijel in the upcoming Harmony flick in a few months.

Next up, LBD will be back in the UK over Christmas! Miniramps are quaking in their boots at the thought of the backside disasters slapping their coping in the next couple of weeks...

Last but not least, Dave is having an art exhibition in Colchester. It is at the Schomberg Gallery in St Johns Street. Go look.

Get Well Soon Nigel!

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News reached us today that Romfords finest and friend of the Network Nigel Davies broke his foot whilst out skating the other day. As we've mentioned before Nigel rips, and we know that something like this isnt gonna stop him, so hopefully it wont be too long before he's back out destroying Rom. Here is a clip of Nigel from a few weeks back having some more bad luck.

Get well soon Nigel!

Taggers...

Not the sort that ruin bus shelters but the sort of tags that mean you can view all the video or roadtrip or Into the Fall or many other type of posts all on the same page. Crafty. Check the 'labels:' links under each post...

p.s. the archive links (below the premiere photos) have also been updated so you can view posts by month/year too.

Birthdays