pushing a creative culture.
Southsea’s too be put well and truly back on the national BMX map this weekend as King of Southsea 2010 lands heavy once again!
Formally known as King of Concrete, KOC was bloody huge, and damn right notourious for being gnarly as hell! Get yourself down there. More details on poster & link below.
Sam Bailey’s filming & editing skills never cease to amaze, heres his take on the most recent King Kong Jam.
Brilliant job as usual (great choice of backing music too!), check out some more of his work here.
Little late notice on this one as I’ve only just heard myself but tomorrow night, Long Beach California’s legendary underground hip hop group Ugly Duckling will be performing at Drift in the City, Portsmouth!
If you don’t know about these guys, then you really need to get to know. Check out their new video below.
This is where it’s at!
“Monk Jam is all about bringing street art back to the streets. Not too sure where its been but now its back with twelve dedicated (local and not so local) artists showcasing their talents free of charge in front of your very eyes. Majority of artist are locally based and most of their work can be seen around the city at locations such as Fratton Park Alleys, Wimbledon Park Sports Centre and Hope Street in the centre of town. We’ve even got a special guest appearance from locally based graphic design company PSEUDONYM, top boys. Also confirmed is Dom Williams, part of a team representing Cardiff in the European competition Secret Wars.”
Check out all the details here.
“Loud guitars, Rawkus Boom bap hip hop, Throat tearing rap, Maddeningly memorable riffs, SB Blazers, Old metal tees and an undeniable full energy, all party ethos.”
Bristol’s dancefloor warrior’s The Hit-Ups! are always worth keeping an eye on, their new video for ‘Dirt Pile’ below is well worth checking out.
Check out this sick little street art event held in The Hobbit Pub in Southampton, plenty of very talented artists down on the day & Pahnl’s edit is the cherry on the top.
The 24th of July, the beautifully sun-soaked Saturday just gone, saw the urban culture & skate event; King Apparel King Kong 2010 take over Southsea Skatepark.
Aimed at celebrating & encouraging the creative sides of urban culture, it certainly did that. The ‘Street Art Doodle Wall’ was well and truly covered in a bit of everyone’s creative (and messy) spark, shout out to all the artists down on the day who had some great freestyle pieces going down, stuART, Mr. Kemp, Leila, Bryan & Joe. Also our arty sponsors Graphotism & Ironlak (well worth checking out if your into that kind of thing).
Plenty of fat beats boomed out across the park and common around it thanks to DJ Mos, Kenny, Random Scarves & the Durty Sound System DJs, a beastly selection of dirty dubstep, DnB, hip hop & alternative funk kept everyone’s tastes more than satisfied, sound track to the day couldn’t have been better.
Anyone unlucky enough to not make it down missed out on some hot as hell discounts on some of the freshest threads about, as the King Apparel team were down in force with a stall showcasing their selection of fine garments and not to forget the crafty locals Individual Threads.
Last but not least the key part of this year’s event; The Herbal Skateboards Mini-Ramp Jam was SICK.
Contest format was a minute each, going into a final 5 skaters with 2 minute runs. It was a heated battle and off the chain tricks were going down left, right & centre, but in the end the victors looked a little something like this:
In 1st Adam Keys, 2nd Noddy Rands & 3rd Bob Grist. All well deserving winners, with plenty of King Apparel, Herbal SBs, LovenSkate & Vans products as prizes. Again well done guys!
This was followed by a best trick contest and Casey Brown took top honours with the smith to kickflip out that he had nailed pre-contest…so sick. Some King Apparel T-shirts and a Herbal skateboard found their way into Casey’s mitts.
Thanks goes out to the Herbal crew who ran the jam, Strong Island’s Paul Gonella who kindly came down to help judge the contest, SUSO Drinks who kept everyone from going thirsty on a very hot day and everyone at Southsea Skatepark for helping making the event happen.
Video by Herbal Skateboards
Photos by Harvey Mills
Just by taking part in next week’s, Herbal SB’s Mini-Ramp Jam @ King Apparel King Kong 2010, your automaticaly entered into a raffle too win 1 of 5 brand new Herbal Skateboards we’re going to be giving away on the day. Don’t miss out!
King Apparel affiliate and all round dubstep don Plastician recently dropped his 5th annual mix titled; ‘Sound That Speaks Volumes 2010′, it’s fat!
Well advised to give it a listen. Download it here. Stream it here.
Local beatbox star yasSOn has made it to the finals of the Vauxall UK Beatbox Championships 2010! Which takes place this Friday at the O2 Academy Islington, well down fella and good luck from everyone on the King Kong team.
