City and Sticks

We Have Moved

skeable — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:31:39 +0000

At the risk of annoying anyone, we’ve moved servers from the current goatdesigns.co.uk server to our very own www.cityandsticks.co.uk server.

So for the latest articles head over to http://www.cityandsticks.co.uk/ now.

We will be leaving this site up for the time being, just incase though.

Cement Bags at the Ready

skeable — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:25:49 +0000

Tyler Ayers - Backside Heelflip

Just a little post today after a fun but not so productive day photo-wise. Got the above sequence of Tyler at the newest “old” spot in Lowestoft. The Commercial Road Aldi, which has been shut for some time now, has been given a new lease of life after a few locals have been busy with some bags of cement and built a few new objects to make the place more than just manual pads.

Nandos Xperimental SkateJam

skeable — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:00:49 +0000

This weekend see’s the London leg of the Nando’s Xperimental Skate Jam’s, with last weekend seeing one’s at Leicester and Leeds, which despite the rather odd corporate sponsorship, is being run by some heads who really know how to throw a good jam. Check out the website for more info and have a look at this sidewalk forum thread for some footage from the Leicester one.

There’s also a kinda cool spoof of the Mouse intro if you click read more.

Answers on a Postcard

skeable — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:09:59 +0000

Lowestoft three-piece Faster Than Robots opened Saturday night’s Wilde Club at the Norwich Arts Centre, treating the crowd to the six songs off of their new Answers on a Postcard EP. For once treated to a great sound set-up where you could John King’s voice perfectly for once. The EP recorded at Sick Room Studios in deepest darkest Norfolk is available to download for FREE in MP3 format with artwork by Sarah King here.

Download the EP as ZIP file (32Mb)

Stuart Kolakovic

skeable — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:02:50 +0000

After trawling through the Grain Edit website I stumbled upon friend of a friend Stuart Kolkaovic’s work on there. Which jogged my memory into checking his website out as I hadn’t for a while. I thought I’d share his work with you so head over to his site or his blog for more of his lively work.

Some of you may recognise his work from Document’s Big Push DVD sleeve from a couple of year’s ago, which has just undergone a revival under the Sidewalk brand.

First Two Zines

skeable — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:19:11 +0000

For those of you that missed out on the printed zines I produced a while ago, well you can now read them online without getting toner on your fingers. This is all thanks to the wonder that is the Flash page turning technology which the traditional magazine publisher’s seem to be grabbing left, right and centre. Anyway there are loads of these services, I used Issuu but there are others that allow you to add animation to the product such as this quite nice Waitrose online magazine.

Open publication

Cold Hands EP Launch – Marquee

skeable — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:42:30 +0000

Last night saw the launch gig for the Cold Hands debut EP at the Marquee in Norwich. The night started well with My Gay Boy (half of My Boy My Girl) and Magpied warming the crowd up. However it was a shame that some of the energy got lost during their technical problems with a bass amp. Despite this the songs the did play were full of energy with a brilliant last two songs bringing the crowd on to the stage and a ceremonial leap into the drum kit ending, from singer Cameron Black.

Check out some more photos on flickr.

Ken Block Rally Videos

skeable — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:35:48 +0000

I’m not quite sure how DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block ended up getting into rallying, however I am thankful to him for producing some incredible videos of his skillful driving. You may have seen him scare the pants off James may of Top Gear not so long ago. Well check out the Gymkhana videos on the DC Shoes Films YouTube page (in HD too).

If you enjoy them you should also keep an eye out for the upcoming Colin Mcrae Dirt 2 game which features Ken Block.

New Skateparks

skeable — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:33:37 +0000

Mikee Jarvis - Tailslide - Southwold

With the summer coming to a close the builders around the region are getting busy with the last weeks of good light and good weather to finish a bunch of new skateparks around the region. With a new mini-ramp in Southwold opposite the pier as a temporary solution until they can get funding and backing for a concrete one.

Felixstowe's new park

Further down the coast in the port of Felixstowe their rather nice new park has just opened, check out the video of the opening day from Felixstowe TV (image above also from them).

Bendcrete who created the Felixstowe park and several of East Anglia’s other concrete parks including Ipswich, Dereham and Woodbridge. Are currently busy in Normanston Park, Lowestoft working on the new Lowestoft Skatepark which is due to open within the next month, weather permitting.

My biggest praises go to Suffolk Coastal District Council for now having three shining examples of good usable concrete skateparks with Leiston, Woodbridge and now Felixstowe. They also haven’t stopped there having recently organised jams at Leiston and Woodbridge, with events planned for Felixstowe in the near future. Showing there committed to giving young people (and not so young anymore) something to do.

Bank Holiday Weekend

skeable — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:32:53 +0000

Rory Hill - One of the many acts at Brickfest this Monday

Bank Holiday Weekends are those little breaks in the 9 to 5, 5 days a week routine that many of us live by. August Bank Holiday being the last before Christmas and in the height of summer tends to be my favourite, with the chance to spend 3 days in beer gardens, on the beach or skating somewhere. This year there’s plenty of things going on in Norwich read more for a few highlights.