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!

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

Jay & Co

Russ and Ben spent Saturday with Jay and his crew in sunny Southend, those boys are killing it right now and even had a tape of footage to hand in for the upcoming feature

as usual some really good footage got caught in the old soul catcher and even russ got to spend some time the other side of the lense for a change!

MN & Tweaker Zine...

The new 'Never Forever' trailer has been profiled in Tweaker Zine with some awesome b&w photos from Dave, pop over there and have a look.

Never Forever Trailer...

It's that time again, as you may have guessed Russ and the gang have been
busy filming over the past 14 months since our last visual presentation was
released and it's now about time we gave it a name and put 50p in the 'video
hype' machine all over again.

There's a few changes this time round too; Russ is taking his maiden voyage
into making the whole video himself (but don't worry Paul will be on hand
for editing tutorials and kit kat tea breaks..)

Never Forever has its own section in our 'videography' list so you can check
out more there and keep checking the site over the coming months for
progress reports and a release date.....

the Monster Network are proud to present NEVER FOREVER....




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Hythe Nights...

We love the Hythe and if last nights session was anything to go by, there's still plenty more life in the old girl yet.

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.

Sunday Showdown...

Sunday was a footage meltdown, full crew and everyone filming at least a trick each. The video's shaping up nicely....more on that very soon!

Mr & Mrs...

A big congratulations goes out to long time friend of the family and O.G Colchester head Toby Murray for tieing the knot on Saturday to his lovely lady Amanda. Everyone here at MN H.Q send you both best wishes and good luck for the future!

The Vault

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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...

Russ Birthday Snaps...

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

Ol' Dirty 30: Russ Gets Old...

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