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Then we remembered it all had to actually go in that magazine thingy we do in our spare time. The normal stresses that come with putting the magazine together started and everything was moving along fine fine.. Then the newsflash newsflash that some madman had done something crazy and terrible in London came on. That put everyone in a pretty sad mood here at Front and, I’m sure, across the country. But the way the media covered it took it to all new levels of hysteria. The guy is a lunatic, but not an invading army. army. You have to wonder wonder what the suits running the country’s press are up to sometimes. Anyway, in true Front fashion, there’s a story about the refugee crisis right next to our Agony Aunt talking about butt plugs this month. Some of us are puking up or passed out on page 114. Some of us are playing old school extreme sports video games on page 78. And some of us are calling Katie Price a slag on page 80 something. We hope you enjoy this edition of Front and, of course, our thoughts are with the families affected in late March.
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EDITOR’S LETTER EDITOR’S LETTER This was the month when everything went insane. South Africa, California, Florida, Manchester and London. We had photo shoots, saw mountain bikers, got blown away by skaters and scared/impressed by MMA fighters . ■
Then we remembered it all had to actually go in that magazine thingy we do in our spare time. The normal stresses that come with putting the magazine together started and everything was moving along fine fine.. Then the newsflash newsflash that some madman had done something crazy and terrible in London came on. That put everyone in a pretty sad mood here at Front and, I’m sure, across the country. But the way the media covered it took it to all new levels of hysteria. The guy is a lunatic, but not an invading army. army. You have to wonder wonder what the suits running the country’s press are up to sometimes. Anyway, in true Front fashion, there’s a story about the refugee crisis right next to our Agony Aunt talking about butt plugs this month. Some of us are puking up or passed out on page 114. Some of us are playing old school extreme sports video games on page 78. And some of us are calling Katie Price a slag on page 80 something. We hope you enjoy this edition of Front and, of course, our thoughts are with the families affected in late March.
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Eliza Winn loves Front Magazine and Dave Grohl, she’s also up for risking her life just for a little swim!
Our writer Tori Scholes is a big fan of this month’s street artist Kimmybeatbox. It’s pretty obvious why.
Sometimes Alt Girls need to enjoy the countryside too. So o we went outside with our t-shirts and shorts.
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Decapitations are just for starters in this very course menu of the most extreme lms of all time.
We go deep into the thrash metal band’s song writing process, as well as nding out all that other stu you want to know.
Front took the big show to Manchester this month, hanging out on the roof and trying to act cool.
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DEALER REFUGEES
Our heavy drinking foreign correspondent tries to remember Travis Barker’s seminal Socal festival. It was last week...
Nobody moans about being given this job each month. Yea, we paid someone to do this. Unbelievable.
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We went o to northern France to see what all the fuss was about near the ‘Jungle in Calais. Turns out it’s not what it seems.
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Your favourite alcohol-related passing out feature returns.
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Sam Reynolds and the Darkfest team invited us out to South Africa to see the world’s biggest MTB jumps.
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The Expedition skater talks about how skating is getting back to basics and THAT treip with our man in America.
We invited brands over to the Manchester shoot, with some exclusive Front Girl pics and the lowdown from Imfawni.
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Luke Byron reports from UFC London, along with an interview with headline ghter Jimi Manuwa the week before.
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The Bellator ghter doesn’t rate MVP or the UFC, and isn’t worried about his next opponent either
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All of the best ink submissions catalogued for your enjoyment this month. We have the Wild Thornberry’s and water colours. Not together, though, sadly.
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aboard the Spirit of Burgundy, Calais is brutalist Berlin of the Cold War, split and sectioned by aggressive razor wire fences. Thick white smoke pours out over industrial factories and contaminated water. The boat chugs into port and France pulls us in. From the railroad tracks, migrants look out to the channel, drawn to the light of paradise. It’s just the white cliffs of Dover, though, reflecting the same light they have in northern France.
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FROTHING AT THE PROVERBIAL Paradise in England is a dream sold by gangsters and smugglers, who headlock vulnerable migrants up through authoritarian Turkey, through austerity Greece and nationalist Hungary, running past the Balkans and into Schengen. Following the whispers to Paradiso Brittania, the secret land behind the fence. The biggest secret we faced was finding the donation warehouse in Calais, which was a mystery that took 2 hours to unlock and finished with a quick realisation that nothing in this migrant fiasco is what it seems. It didn’t help I was still hungover. Walking around softer than a peach in whiskey.
Some of the volunteers were going on about the over politicizing of the migrant crisis. How much of the security measures - riot vans on every corner, A4 paper warnings from the UK border force before leaving - are just governments playing politics. Yet when I informed one volunteer that we were registered with Help Refugees she sneered, “Oh those guys, that’s a shame.” Her group, Utopia 56, founded in Brittany, runs in quasi-competition with Help Refugees, creating a party political chasm that gets young idealistic women frothing at the proverbial.
It’s embarrassing. Both groups do
fantastic work, however, and the divide is superficial in reality. But it’s there nonetheless. Everyone is friendly. Some have come to help, others to be helped. Many are high, some are drunk. Everyone is loaded with something. The warehouse itself is an amazing example of the resourcefulness of the volunteers who have shaped it. There are shelves specifically for yeast and marzipan, with colourful signs directing people to the right sections. Clothes are painstakingly separated, food is stored regimentally and the Asdacar-park-sized building is instantly impressive.
TRAVELLER SITE The L’Auburge/Free Refugees warehouse is a traveller site tucked away next to some industrial units in Calais. Caravans and fires and the smell of overused spices. It’s Mad Max’s idea of Glastonbury festival, with shoulder padded freaks floating aimlessly around the subject of their lives. We unloaded our donations, “No pasta, please,” with the help of volunteers with good and bad teeth, with overfed and lean stomachs. They are a tribe not unlike the Kurds that live in the refugee camps. Many feel persecuted at home. They talk about the ‘police states’ they have left. So they moved to Calais, the most heavily policed city in Western Europe. It’s all classic bullshit. Behind all the new age bravado is a need to be helped. Me and my mate felt the same as the hangovers hit peak ‘deep sigh.’ FRONT MAGAZINE 19
WAITING FOR A SAGE
DARKNESS IN CAMP
Outside, a forklift is accidentally reversed into a pallet of wood as we waited for a man called Sage who never turned up. Luckily, the non-herb named Henry White was on hand. He was in charge of supplying and sorting firewood for the ‘Jungle Camp’ before it was torn down. “It was so stressful,” he said. “Just trying to make sure you prioritise women and children, so they have the firewood they need. But at the same time I’ve got people shouting at me, telling me they need more wood.” Henry is heading home back to his mum’s house in Somerset. “I’ll have to find a job at some point,” he said.
In 30 minutes we slipped off the motorway and into the camp. Police in 6 foot 5 inch bodies looked down on us as we bumbled through the gates. Grainy men kicked comets through the fading light. Fires made from plastic coughed black from the concrete, circled by tracksuits and no sleep. “This place is darkness, man,” Alex said. Running the camp construction was Ono, half French, half Japanese, full on wonder. His teeth were white and he smiled a lot. Things became brighter. He showed us around the camp, which holds 1,500 migrants, officially, although the real number is definitely higher. Nobody can admit this, though, because 1,500 is the current limit set by the national government alongside a list of other requirements, including building regulations and fire safety. Dunkirk’s Mayor, the Green Party’s Damien Careme, defied the government by committing more than a million Euros to help Medicines Sans Frontiers build the camp. Despite this effort, there are still thousands of refugees in the area living in the forests of Belgium and also further south, on the streets of Paris. The next day: Refugee Cricket A man and his wife look like Tibetans. Crimson cheeks and skin like caramel. They leave the camp and collect their twigs and branches from the woodland nearby. Their fire burns the same as it does in northern Afghanistan, but it cracks into a smaller sky. A toddler leaves it’s mother and points at some blue wellies in the back of our van. Next door a doctor in a bright white T-shirt wears an uncertain smile and blue jeans. He walked from Iraq. We pulled out some cricket bats and laughed and bowled. He couldn’t hit a barn door. He lives in a 2.5 x 4m shed. As we played a generator ticked over, feeding into a pair of hair clippers. The male grooming here is impressive. The Kurds are known for their
TIME TO GO After eating some donated coffee with donated milk and a few donated biscuits, the two of us in our van and hangovers left for the Grand Synthe Camp 30km away. The volunteers waved and said thanks for the canvas and wood and we headed off, east across the A16 and its Disney-Giant like pylons attacking the serene flatness, mainlining south to the France you see on postcards. We were in human power country, where metal makes energy and the water cries.
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penchant for hair gel and a touch of Brut. Huge blue letters, PKK, shine in blue glossy paint on the back of a ‘shed,’ while Ahmed contours his friend’s seagull of an eyebrow. The doctor balloons an ugly slog sweep into the air, watching on as it drops beautifully over deep square leg for four runs. He throws up his hands like any other man with any other bat anywhere else in the world. The Doctor’s name was Talan. Another Piss Up That second night we drank strong beer in the ‘Family Bar’ in Calais with a table full of other volunteers. A table full of white twentysomethings. I wonder how many facebook likes this trip will get us all, combined. I’m not sure if it was the beer that made me vomit. Cynicism is a mood. The toddler greeted us with a smile in the morning, kicking around with his new blue wellies. A grizzled Syrian Kurd had taken over the Bike Repair Shop, helping a teenage boy fix his red Raleigh racer. Along the gravel and dust we listen to broken English from a man dressed in black, pinching his floppy hat, squinting into the sun. He showed us how to build prefabricated extensions, which are then fixed to the ‘sheds’ as porches. Then off he went, rotating in another roll-up.
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PEOPLE SMUGGLERS Inside the sheds, eyes stare out from everywhere. Eight, maybe ten people. They are tired from the night before, their energy spent on trying to get into England. One boy walks out on crutches. “The police hit me and beat my friend,” he said. “They spray us with gas and hit us.” His face is animated and far older than his body will probably ever be. Next door, there’s no answer. We decide to build anyway. The boy on crutches tries to light a fire and watches us. Then from the corner of an eye, or wherever he normally lurks, a heavy set bald Kurd appeared. “You make good on that, yes,” he said, sneering through golden incisors. “I have big family and need space.” His bright white Nike Air Max’s flash the sun and spark the fire. Or maybe it was his gold necklace and watch, both strangling a jungle of black body hair. “You help my friend as well,” he said, removing a padlock from the next shed along. “Why is it padlocked?” I asked. “I keep it safe from the gang-stars.” The obvious truth is that he’s a people trafficker. I wanted to punch him.
OLD FAKE SHOES At Grand Synthe they use old shoes to make it look like people are staying in the cabin. Then they offer newcomers a key to their new home. The going rate is 2000 Euros, which rises if the shed has a shiny new porch built by idiots. It’s excruciating at first. But then you realise this is the world we live in. Vulnerable people get exploited. Other vulnerable people, namely volunteers, are the ones who offer help. And everyone else just gets on with reading the Guardian. Armchair outrage. At least right wingers are getting on with spreading lies and hatred.
FUNNY DEAL From about midday to 3pm volunteers in old burger vans serve up food to everyone on the camp. Mountains of chick peas, salad and curried vegetables. On our last day in the camp I sat at one of the pub benches eating alone. A Scottish man with bright white tombstone teeth and long black hair sat opposite me. I wondered why he was here.
“This is another universe we live in, where the volunteers, including myself, are here because it’s a kind of hub of human activity,” he said. “Something is happening that’s more interesting than many other places. That’s why I came for a weekend. Six months bloody later…Plus you can’t trust any media to show you what it’s actually like.” Talan, the low order batsman doctor, came to sit by us. “It’s you that wants?” he said, looking at me. “Me matey,” the scotsman said. “What have you got left” They lent into each other and looked into that middle distance under the table, where all good drug deals happen. “It cost you 30 Euro” “I’ve got 20 pal.” “20?” “20.” “Ok.” “Ok.” And there it was. A volunteer buying weed from a refugee. Nothing in this migrant crisis makes any sense. Not to someone from the bubble beyond.
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R E V I E W E D NO SIN EVADES HIS GAZE
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WIt takes an exceptional talent to stand out from the ever-increasing over-rans within an oversaturated scene. And with a slew of high-profile appearances at UK Tech-Metal Festival, with Bloodstock and Euroblast already under their young belts, the smart money is on Brit prog-metal upstarts No Sin Evades His Gaze to leap off the precipice into tech greatness. If 2014’s Age of Sedation was a statement of voracious intent, sophomore effort Endless Disconnect is indicative of a band who have delivered on their earlier potential. There’s a newfound sense of maturity to the album’s ten tracks, but at no point do the four-piece compromise on blistering power. Melding intoxicating Eastern-tinged melodies and polyrhythmic wizardry, it’s impossible not to be mesmerized by the cinematic title track, whilst the likes of Heavy Days and If Only To Fall highlight vocalist James Denton’s innate ability to veer seamlessly between guttural barks and searing cleans – the latter of which may induce unnatural states of euphoria. Sledgehammer riffs permeate through the blackened core of current single Doomsday Generation, and there are sufficient grime-ridden breakdowns elsewhere to thrill the most ardent of pit-raging metalheads. Beautiful bursts of proggy noodling sit alongside immense down-tuned grooves, not to mention the glorious curveball that is Feels A Lot Like Hell – which proves to be the musical antithesis of its moniker. Harnessing focus and ferocity in equal measure, 2017 promises to be a year of endless possibilities for these guys.
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SENT CORY OVER TO ORANGE COUNTRY TO DRINK ALL THE BEER HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON AT MUSINK. SORRY SOPHIE, WE’LL MAKE IT UP TO YOU ! THERE’S ALSO AN INTERVIEW TUCKED UP IN FRONT’S MUSIC CORNER WITH WARBRINGER, THE THRASH METAL BAND YOU PROBABLY DON’T LISTEN TO WHEN YOU’RE FALLING ASLEEP. ENJOY FRONTIERS !
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With one foot planted in the gritty depths of 90’s industrial and the other reaching towards an experimental future, LA’s 3TEETH are gearing up to hack into your consciousness and install their own brand of creative anarchy with sophomore full-length . With thirteen tracks sounding like the bastard spawn of Too Dark Park-era Skinny Puppy and Ministry, the fourpiece deliver the kind of vicious grooves and teutonic swagger guaranteed to have genre aficionados frothing from every orifice. Chilling, Eastern-inspired chants give way to an explosion of blackened noise and distorted vocals on opener Divine Weapon, whilst the taut dynamics and infectious beats
coursing through current anthemcum-single Atrophy and Voiceless will hypnotise and horrify in equal measure. Scathing social commentaries and the band’s signature sound collide as vocalist Alexis Mincolla rages against the machine on Degrade; but it’s the hulking dirge of SlaveGod – all post-apocalyptic synths, sampling and sense-withering chaos – that truly assaults the senses. With their ever-increasing notoriety, not to mention a handpicked support slot on alt-rock behemoths Tool’s 2016 US tour already in the bag - watch this space. 3TEETH have arrived – and they look certain to inject that potency back into the scene.
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Once upon a time, people would be quick to dismiss Deez Nuts as credible musicians based purely on that comical moniker along with their reputation as being a party band - the exact type of misconceptions that give adage to the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover.” With four ARIA-charting records and a worldwide tour already under their belts, the Aussie-American hardcore bruisers have been melting faces - from New York
to New South Wales - since 2007. Don’t be fooled by the calm atmospherics of instrumental opener Binge – what follows suit is a thirty-minute no-holds-barred blitzkrieg of unbridled swagger. From the riffsoaked Commas & Zeros to the shitkicking, Grade A brutality of Lessons Learned, these tracks come in hard; yet for all their raging aggression, the ‘Nuts aren’t short on melodies and pummelling grooves. Owing as much to Pantera as it does Refused, Binge & Purgatory is the perfect choice to transform any bedroom into a thrashing pit. The quartet might not be breaking new ground with album number five, but its omnipresent whitehot fury is well worth celebrating.
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Hi There Kevill ! Hi Rob!
I saw you guys all the way back in 2009 supporting Evile at a venue in Leeds, UK and remember it being a crazy show! How do you feel you have come along since then?
some of my favourite bands we’ve played with. From our own scene and age I have to mention bands I am great friends with like Exmortus, Havok and Vektor.
to say we are going strong currently, full of
Wow that’s some list. So how about a band you’ve never played with. Can choose any era but have to name the venue.
fury and riffs.
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell era. Since
on me like many people out there! Growing up who did you listen to religiously.
Have you had any favourite bands you have played with over the years?
place is unrestricted and Ronnie James Dio is
Black Sabbath was my first big love in music,
around, it would be held in a castle.
but around that time much classic-era hard
Many favourite bands--too many to name.
As a teen I was a huge Megadeth fan and they have had big influence
rock was (and still is) a big part of my musical
I remember that tour, good fellas, Evile. We have come along almost every way since then with all kinds of ups and downs but I’m glad
Kreator, Exodus, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, are
taste. Zep, Floyd, Purple, Lizzy, Rainbow, etc. Some of those I got into later than others. Iron Maiden was a band that when I first found I listened to little else for damn near a year, as I just gobbled up all of their albums.
Back in 2013 you celebrated the release of Warbringer IV: Empires Collapse, which was your fourth album! After that release and touring cycle, did you find it easy breaking into the writing phase for your next album Woe to the Vanquished? Oh man, the phase between these records
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TRACK: WHEN THE GUNS FELL SILENT
TRACK: SILHOUETTES
The armistice of 1918, the end of World War
This was the first single, and first song
TRACK: DIVINITY OF FLESH
1. This whole era has a really soul-crushing
concept for the record. Atomic bombs
My own secular humanitarian philosophy (Carl
theme to it, of gallant soldiers who were cut
have a really terrifying detail about them
Sagan is the man). Talks about how the power
down in the millions by devastating industrial
(as if they aren’t scary enough) where
of flesh-meaning humanity- is that though we
firepower. And yet, on they fought. In a sad
victims hit directly by the blast will have
die as individuals, our works, knowledge, and
and paradoxical way, the honour and resolve
their bodies completely vaporized, but
ideas can outlive us. Each generation builds
of the two armies condemned them to suffer
their shadow burned into the ground or
on the last, and we have come so far.
and bleed, as so many would not have died
wall behind them. The song takes place in
I believe the next era will be for humans to
had the lines on either side broken. I wanted
a future where this has happened, and the
a song suitable to this epic and monolithic
souls of all the millions of future dead are
subject, and this is what we made.
trapped in those shadows. They look back
journey beyond this world and achieve the true destiny which all other human lives have led us to.
at us today who could bring about peace
The end of the song has my own personal
TRACK: SOME FUN TRIVIA
but did not, and point an accusing finger,
touch to this- it ends with the “My words
FRONT READERS?
“What have you done?”
will live on!” line. I got chills while we were
The narration in the beginning is me speaking,
Creepy, chilling stuff, I think. Had to write
recording that, as those very words are now
it is a quote from a poem “Prelude: The
this song, part of the motivation behind
recorded and will live on when I am dead.
Troops” from British warrior-poet Siegfried
the record.
Powerful stuff for me, and a lot of the reason
Sassoon. The “We are the Guns” section is
I am so drawn to make music, that people
paraphrased and set to music from another
who have and will never met me may know
piece of WW1 literature- Gilbert Frankau,
something of me, my life, and ideas. May my
“The Voice of the Guns”. Lastly, the song
offerings be worthy.
runs 11:11 in length, and the titular event happened at 11:00 AM on November the 11th. Got to put in so much cool easter egg stuff in this song.
Havok, along with Gorod and Exmortus! How excited are you for this tour and are you hitting up any places you haven’t played before? I think we’ve been everywhere on tour, or damn near. Warbringer is a well-travelled was rough. In short- the band imploded at
was to continue some of the progressive and
band.
the end of recording Empires Collapse (fitting
melodic elements on Empires Collapse, but
But yes! This tour will rule. Havok and
title oddly) and I had to reconstruct it twice
to put it all together with the sheer ferocity
Exmortus are dudes we already know well,
during the phase of 2014-2016. During 2016
of the first two albums. The album is a total
we all started around the same time and were
is when work began in earnest on Woe to the
bullet to the face, but it is a very meticulously-
aware of each other’s bands before any of us
Vanquished but I had so many ideas that had
crafted one that I think will reveal much with
had records or anything. I am looking forward
been floating around in my head for so long
multiple listens.
to meeting Gorod . Great lineup and pure
that I was just bursting with inspiration for this
Woe to the Vanquished has a grand total of 8 glorious tracks with some pretty awesome names! Can you tell us about your favourite songs off the album and how they were named?
fucking metal.
Thanks! I think names and lyrics are important
Warbringer record Woe to the Vanquished,
and I’ve grown a lot as a writer over our
and be sure to play at deafening volumes. See
career. I’ll explain a few for you once you have
you guys out on the road! Keep it heavy my
the other answers you need.
friends
Ok great. You will be heading out this spring hitting the UK and much of Europe supporting the awesome
Cheers! - Kevill
one.
Looking back, do you feel the band has matured in sound since your last release and how do you anticipate the fans will receive your new slab of tasty thrash metal! Can we expect it to be like your previous albums or something completely different? I think it is a significantly refined and expanded version of what the band has offered before. The basic thought process
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SUICIDE SILENCE SMASH SET IN RUSSIA, EVERYONE LAUGHS Apart from not taking into account the sound of a noose creaking, suicide silence have made some pretty bad faux pas recently. Well, it wasn’t all their fault. It was a fan, after all, that said this about the deathcore band’s new music. NO! “Nickelback’s new track is heavier.” This is why you remind me of a really fun-ny fan. (Sing in appropriate tune).
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SMASH TIME So then, after all that, they go and smash a set up in Russia because they’re I’m hard Bruce Lee. Check the video out over at frontmagazine.co. C’mon, laugh with us. Then lock your doors.
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BITCHFEST Then vocalist Eddie Hermida decided to call his contemporary over at Thy Art is Murder a ‘sellout’. Now, we aren’t going to be the judge of sellouts over here at Chox backpack’s favourite magazine, but he got some pretty hard shots for saying those words. Luckily he was on hand to fire straight back. “Every shot that tries to get fired at me just makes me a stronger person,” he said, crying into a gallon of cookie dough, slowly turning down David Grey down to hear the cute bit with Hugh Grant at the end of Love Actually. Deathcore baby, yea !
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F r o n t L i v e at M u s i n k h o s t e d b y T r a v i s B a r k e r
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Musink. However, after how crazy just that Sunday was, I honestly don’t think I could have handled it.
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Musink is a three-day tattoo convention, car show and concert series in Orange County, CA. The lineup for this madness was intense. Featuring Punkrock legends like NOFX, The Used, Bad Religion and Pennywise. Our adventure started with my friend Holly. Who is my driver for events, normally because I’m hammered throughout. First stop inside was the Famous Stars and Straps/ Tribal Streetwear “Slow n Low Car Show.” These cars are amazing and it’s crazy how much work goes into making them. Everything from the paint and chrome to the upholstery and ashtrays is given a ridiculous amount of attention. So it’s not exactly surprising that the owners aren’t letting them go for less than $60k, with some as much as $125K.
with some old friends from BlackFlys and Sullen Clothing. Brands Front has a lot of time for, especially after what happened next. First of all, these guys like to party just as much as we do. Second of all, because we arrived on the last day our VIP bracelets had somehow become useless. Third of all, Jeremy Hanna, co-owner at Sullen, hooked us up with free drinks all day and the ‘real’ VIP treatment. And fourth of all, that made us nearly as useless as the bracelets in a few solid hours of drinking.
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We had arrived early that day so took the time to meet up
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tattoo shop on wheels. Trust us when we say we are going to start doing FRONT events in Southern California, and the Body Art Bus will be FRONT and centre. PENNYWISE TATTOOS
Luckily the artist talent on show was just about the opposite of useless, with Jack Rudy, Nikko Hurtado, Big Gus, Bob Tyrell all hard at work. Ok, so opposite of useless is the understatement of the year. Those guys are stupidly talented. By 2pm the place was crawling with spectators and revellers to the point you really couldn’t even walk the inside of the convention. So we headed outside to see our good friends at The Body Art Bus before their appointments filled all the way up. They told us about a second bus, which is an unbelievable, state of the art
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After that it was back to the bar for some more drinks before we headed up to take the stage again, only this time it was full backstage access for Pennywise. As always they put on one hell of a show to what had to be more than 2,000 people, all crammed into an indoor/outdoor venue. If you have never been in front of a crowd that size, let’s just say it’s fucking amazing. And yea, I stood there and just pretended I was in the band. The show went off without a hitch and ended with what looked like 100 people on stage singing along to Pennywise’s infamous “Bro Hymn.”
BAD RELIGION
Backstage, Bad Religion were getting ready, so I grabbed another beer and enjoyed the BBQ. Fuck, this is a difficult job sometimes. Being backstage was an experience in itself but you really don’t get the full experience of the show, so we decided to take full advantage of the VIP area for the finale. Bad Religion just absolutely killed it. I haven’t seen them perform since I was a teenager during the palladium days and the show has only got better over the years. Musink was one of those shows where if you know, then you just know. A blast from the past hosted by the brilliant Travis Barker. See you next year everyone. Now can someone pass me a beer?
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WHAT?
She’s been beatboxing for nearly five years now, which started off as a party trick. WHERE?
On the streets of Manchester, Liverpool and London. MULAH?
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On average she makes between £40-£225 an hour. (Who did this average?) She gathers inspiration for new sounds from everyday life. WORST DAY?
A group of kids in Liverpool egged her while she was busking on a Saturday night.
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Geeks and Because sometimes there’s fun outside of the magic box.
INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT
GLOOMHAVEN
Welcome to the brilliantly drawn world of cat-based Russian roulette, where only diffuser cards stop you from being blown up. There is also a NSFW version which makes this game even better. Mainly because the cards are funny, illustrated really well by Oatmeal, and basically make you laugh while hoping not to get ripped into tiny little kitten pieces.
We keep hearing about the Kickstarter beast of 2017, a game with more twists and turns in its fantasy world than James Mcavoy’s most recent personality. Unlike a lot of other card and dice dungeon crawler games, you can actually get Gloomhaven done in less than 10 years. About an hour and a half actually. So there’s huge scope for getting to know the different scenarios, characters and distant lands. Is it completely fantasy geeky? Yes. Is that actually pretty sick if it’s raining and you’re bored of getting lost searching through Netflix? Yes, yes it is. Will need friends though...
EDITOR’S PICK
By Matt Taibbi
Everyone is already bored of reading and hearing and talking about the Donald. But then not everyone is looking in the right places. And Matt Taibbi’s brain is the right place, just in case you were wondering where we were going with that. The Rolling Stone contributing editor starts us back at the beginning of the campaign trail, when old ‘thick mop’ was a still just a reality star shouting nonsense. You know, before he became El Presidente of the free world. Shouting nonsense. The big thing about this book is the context. Of how nobody saw what was coming. Even on the night of the election. Trump was never going to be president. It wasn’t possible. The fact he did is still confusing for a lot of people but Taibbi does a good job of explaining why, using ‘real facts.’ Pretty SAD, really, but worth a read if you’re completely ‘Pathetic’ and ‘Boring.’
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@TheofficialKittyCrystal What’s the most extreme thing you have ever done? I once rode a child’s tricycle down the middle of Hollywood Boulevard at 3 am topless!
Craziest thing you’ve said to get a guy/girl? Craziest thing is absolutely nothing. Just took him home and he stayed for week. I didn’t even know his name till day 3! ??
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@littleinkeddreamer Something Extreme? The most extreme thing I’ve ever done for a guy was get his name tattooed on me! Yes, I’m one of those people lol but I did get it very small! The most extreme thing I’ve ever said was “I love you” I think that’s about as extreme as it gets.
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@Daedramuse What’s the most extreme thing you have ever done? I’d say the most extreme thing I’ve ever done is parasailed over 100ft in the air above an estuary in the outer banks NC.
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Favourite thing on four wheels? My favourite thing on four wheels was just recently sold ::majorsadface:: it was a black ‘67 Chevy II (box nova) powered by a 434 small block Chevy on nitrous that was also owned by Ed the GTO owner and driven by Joe. We just didn’t have enough time to run both cars so it’s in Chicago now at it’s hopefully forever home. We have a lot of winners circle pics with it from events we’ve won, and I even got to line Joe up at the starting line a few times for some races #crewchiefwas “I love you” I think that’s about as extreme as it gets.
@missprettylittlelucy Favourite thing on four wheels? Definitely my favourite thing on 4 wheels is a quad bike. Most extreme thing you’ve ever done? Well when I was younger I got both my collarbones pierced and I tattooed myself with a needle and Indian Ink, it was the powerpuff which later I got redone..
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@BitterBrue What’s the most extreme thing you have ever done? When my closest friend invited me to move to another country, with him, I just packed my bags and left that same week. It was the best decision in my life. I fell hopelessly in love with the place, the people, the country and the person I became here. I became a backpacker, a nude model, a gamer; things I always wanted but was too afraid to try
Craziest thing you’ve said to get a guy/girl? When my best friend started in photography I knew I had my chance to fulfill my two fantasies; to have sex with him and to have photos of me having sex. The problem was how to approach it. So, I told him that I loved his photos (which I do) and just wanted to be captured by his camera in my most lewd and sexy facet. He agreed, and it was one of my best experiences ever!
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Craziest thing you’ve said to get a guy/girl? I’ve never had to say anything too crazy to get someone I want; I usually let them come to me instead. I’ve heard some pretty crazy things before from guys trying to get my attention though!
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JIMI MANUWA: PREPARING FOR UFC LONDON Luke Byron talks to Jimi Manuwa before UFC London.
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RESISTING THE UFC Just two years later and still yet to hear the final bell of a contest, the UFC would come calling for Manuwa. The biggest MMA promotion in the world didn’t get the answer they expected. “I’d only been training two years, I was the number one in Britain, but I knew I was still
N
ine years ago, a 28 year old
learning,” he said. “I’d seen a lot of British
Jimi Manuwa went to see a
fighters go into the UFC and get chewed
‘Cage Rage’ show in London
up and spat back out because they
and wasn’t impressed, in his own words he thought “I could do better.” As an avid fan of the UFC already, the
weren’t ready.” A year later the UFC came calling again. They got the same answer. Finally, in 2012 he accepted the UFC’s
“I can finish any fighter on the planet, not many can take what I’ve got to give,” Manuwa said. So the big question is if the American
inspiration from the ‘Cage Rage’ show was all
advances, content that he was ready for the
Corey ‘overtime Anderson can make the
the Londoner needed to get him into training.
rise in competition.
Londoner come unstuck on home turf.
Two weeks later he fought and won his first fight. ‘The rest is history’ he said.
“I was 13-0 with 12 KOs. I always knew that
The winner of Ultimate Fighter 19 arrives
with my knockout record and with the way I
in England with outstanding wrestling
fight, that eventually the UFC would be back.”
credentials and an all business style.
he said. Manuwa would set the UFC alight in his first
Manuwa, though, seems relaxed, ready to fight again where he feels most comfortable.
3 performances, recording 3 knockouts and
This is a knockout machine that gets
making waves in the division.
homesick training away from his kids, even
Then there was the loss to Alexander Gustafsson in London. “It goes to show that I’m a true warrior,”
more motivated when he’s defending the place they live. “Even now in Stockholm, it’s a beautiful
he said in a reflective mood. “It was a great
city but I miss home a lot, I really miss my
night in my hometown, but at the time I just
kids,” he said. “I love fighting in the UK,
wasn’t ready for him, but I didn’t know that. I
people say you have to go to America and
did a few things wrong and a few things right,
fight, but I don’t really give a shit.”
but that’s just how fighting goes.” Manuwa said he took a lot away from that fight, which is demonstrated by the fact he . w e l C y l l o D / s r o i r r a W e g a C : t i d e r C o t o h P : T I D E R C E G A M I
now trains with Gustafsson at the AllStar Gym in Sweden. “That loss did me a lot of good,” he said. And it did. His next fight was a unanimous decision victory against Jan Blachowicz, setting up a bout with Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson. Cue the second loss and more development, more learning, and, scarily for the rest of the division, more power. “From the ‘Rumble’ fight, I realised I can be a lot more powerful,” he said. “We’re the two hardest hitters in the division and I came in too small, all this time I’ve been too small.” Manuwa now describes himself as a “static puncher-finisher’ rather than a ‘mover.’ And as the bright lights hit Manchester for Michael Bisping’s first title defence against Dan Henderson, Manuwa was the chief support, knocking out Ovince Saint Preux in vicious fashion. Saint Preaux had just gone five rounds with Jon Jones.
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LONDON DESPITE THE BLURRED HINDSIGHT, WE SHOULDN’T HAVE EXPECTED ANYTHING LESS.
ARNOLD ALLEN This young Englishman can expect a strong
A tactical, tentative strategy wouldn’t have
following in his career if he keeps fighting
been true to Pickett’s legacy. This is the
and talking the way he did at UFC London.
man they call ‘one punch,’ who walked out
“I owe my girlfriend at least a week’s worth
to the Octagon holding a newspaper and
of loving,” he said after the fight, sending
wearing his trademark trilby, tears rolling
the crowd into raptures.
or those of you that didn’t
down his face. He was here to put on a show.
The victory that set up the punchline was
know yet, Jimi Manuwa
The hometown kid saying one final goodbye.
extremely impressive, not least because his
knocked Cory Anderson
After the fight Vera spent his entire victory
opponent Makwan Amirkhani had a terrific
out with a precise, almost surgical
speech talking about Pickett, with a mention
amount of Finnish support behind him. He’s
left hook at UFC London. Making a
also for his ill daughter for whom he fights.
also a hugely underrated fighter.
prophet of himself, “He can’t handle
Everyone has a story in this game. So as one
The bout itself was technically excellent,
what I’ve got,” and a mockery of his
finishes another starts.
with the type of groundwork, countering
F
doubters. But among the London
and constant place changing that makes for
crowd, buzzing with a sense of
engaging fare. None of that cage leaning
collective achievement, there was
slouching you often get with middle skilled
also a sense of sadness.
heavyweights. By the end Allen probably
Another native, from the east of the city, had
took the victory on account of his more
gone. Brad Pickett was defeated by Marlon
frequent takedowns, but Amirkhani will be
Vera and father time, knocked out by a
back and avoided by many.
head kick “The younger me would have
UFC London was a night full of the type of
chewed up.”
narratives the UFC brand has become so
It was true. But there was the problem.
good at writing, with retiring greats, talented
Pickett fought like the younger him when a
prospects and knockout masters all
more tactical approach would have seen him
sticking to their iconic, intriguing and
win. Again and again he charged forward,
explosive scripts.
boxing inside with that street fighter elegance he has always had. He was ahead with the judges after two rounds. But in the third and final still he came forward, eventually walking into a sharp, practical head kick.
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LINA LANSBERG V LUCIE PUDILOVA. After losing the first two rounds and being behind on the scorecards, Lucie
Marc Diakiese’s knockout of Teemu Packalen
the Finnish Lightweight to push forwards
Pudilova went into the final round
arguably stole the show on Saturday night.
before Diakiese nearly took his head off with
knowing that she had to produce something
The Brit came out quickly, he missed a
a brutal one punch knockout that brought the
spectacular. She nearly did just that, Pudilova
spinning kick by an inch and then landed a
arena to its feet and sent a message to the
did all but stop Lansberg in the final round as
spinning back kick to the body. This prompted
rest of the division. (Below)
she butchered her with elbows in the clinch and a variety of kicks and punches elsewhere in the round. Lansberg was left looking like
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something out of a horror film but it was
Following his explosive knockout win,
a really dramatic start to an excellent card.
Manuwa called out the winner of Johnson and
Lansberg scraped through the contest on the
Cormier at UFC 210, David Haye when his leg
basis of her work in the first 2 rounds and
gets put back together, and later had
went to 2-0 against Pudilova.
some harsh words for Jon Jones in the
After fighting Cyborg in her
post-fight press conference. It’s near
previous fight, it’s not been an
certain that Jones will get the first shot
easy start in the UFC for Lina.
at the winner of the belt at UFC 210. If the winner of Johnson and Cormier is out for a while, then Manuwa could potentially face Jones in the comeback, if not then a top 5 contender is likely before a title shot.
WHAT NEXT FOR GUNNAR NELSON? After a stellar performance at UFC London, in which Nelson submitted Jouban in the second round. The SBG Ireland stablemate should get a tougher test up next. Coach John Kavanagh has called for a ‘Karate faceoff’ against Wonderboy but it’s unlikely the pair will fight next. Nelson was ranked at 9 going into the contest and so will have risen by the time the next sets are completed. A fight against similarly ranked Neil Magny, Dong Hyun Kim or even Donald Cerrone would make a lot of sense next.
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CAGE WAR WARRIORS BRAD WHEELER V WARREN KEE The chief support on the night didn’t disappoint, with Wheeler combining a perfect mix of aggression and technique as he stopped Kee in the second round. This fight stood out for me because of how quickly it x x x x x x x x D / s r o i r r a W e g a C : t i d e r C o t o h P : T I D E R C E G A M I
started. Wheeler stormed in and backed his man up against the fence with a flurry of strikes.
BAD BLOOD
Then Kee proved just how tough he was and
Following a tense face off, concluding with
came back swinging. The fight continued
the pair refusing to touch gloves, Inman opted
largely back and forth with Wheeler just about
to begin tentatively, throwing kicks from
getting the better of the exchanges. Early in
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the outside, whereas Amoussou was able to
the second round, Wheeler backed Kee up
Chris came in with a clear game plan.
establish an early jab and continually cracked
once again and this time landed a brutal body
Blitz Nic into the cage and work in
the Brit on the nose.
shot to sink his man into the canvas, before
takedowns as soon as possible. It worked
After measuring his opponent for long enough,
landing another strike to end it all. It was a
a treat in the early rounds, with a bit of
Amoussou launched a devastating right hand
really great performance and got Wheeler
ground and pound thrown in for good
that dropped Inman to the canvas. Referee
back to winning ways.
measure.
Marc Goddard had seen enough, and called a stop to the action following the pressure the Frenchman had piled on with ground strikes. The bout ended at the 3:13 mark of Round One and thus continued Amoussou’s streak of not entering the second round in over two years.
AMOUSSOU MAY HAVE TO WAIT? With the UFC currently hosting a stacked Welterweight division, it’s hard to see the bright lights coming calling for Amoussou in the near future; The likes of Maia, Masvidal, Lawler, Diaz, Nelson, Cerrone and Kim are all plying for the big fights in the division and so you’d imagine they’ll keep each other busy for a while. But if the Frenchman can keep winning, and almost more importantly keep looking impressive, then Dana and the UFC will come calling eventually and continue the long list of fighters who have made the leap from Cage Warriors Gold to trading leather on the big stage. Cage Warriors are returning to the O2 Arena on June 2nd and I’m expecting Amoussou to be defending his new title.
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PAUL DALEY I N T E RV I E W
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n May 19th Bellator MMA makes its return to London Wembley Arena. The main event will pit British MMA legend Paul “Semtex” Daley against Rory “The Red King” MacDonald. A huge Welterweight affair with definite implications for a title shot. The bout is particularly intriguing as it will be MacDonald’s first appearance post UFC, where he was ranked number two in the organisation. A massive coup for Bellator it might be, but Paul Daley wants to spoil Macdonald’s party. I recently sat down with Paul to discuss the upcoming fight and his thoughts on why Bellator is better than the UFC. A little MVP shit talking is also thrown in for good measure.
So first things first, Rory MacDonald is a well rounded, versatile and gritty fighter. HOW WILL DALEY DEAL WITH THAT? “It’s going to be a hard fight,” he said. “If I land a clean shot on him he’s going to be knocked out, it’s as simple as that… That’s just the truth.” Is he not concerned about MacDonald potentially using his strong wrestling and taking the fight to the canvas? “Maybe he’ll try and do that, maybe he won’t. I’ve done it all, faced every type of opponent…so it doesn’t matter to me.” The man they call “Semtex,” with a combined 43 knockouts in 55 MMA bouts and 21 Kickboxing bouts, seems confident and relaxed, but will need all of his experience to prove the bookmakers wrong. “I’ve got such a laid back attitude I don’t care if I’m the favourite or the underdog,” he said. “I believe in my ability and I believe I can knock anybody out, and so we’ll see what happens on the night.”
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RORY MACDONALD
SO IF HE WERE TO WIN THIS FIGHT,
BELLATOR OVER UFC
WHAT’S NEXT
So why does Daley believe people should be watching Bellator over UFC? “Everything you know. The freedoms you have, everyone is an individual. You look at the UFC, guys walking in and they’ve got all the same Reebok shit on and nobody has their own character. At Bellator everyone is their own person, Tito still came out in his flame shorts, we’ve got all our sponsors and come out to fireworks.”
“Definitely the rematch with Lima,” he says, without hesitation. Douglas Lima is the current Bellator 170 champ. I mention to Paul that Michael “Venom” Page (MVP) wants him after the MacDonald fight. Does he want that fight? “Nah, MVP isn’t even in my next 4 fights in all honesty. For me he’s got a lot more to prove yet, he’s been fighting old men and people that nobody has ever heard of.” “Maybe they should put him in there with someone with a bit of experience who is still able to get in and out of the bath without help.” Daley doesn’t stop at calling MVP ‘overrated’ and his fans deluded. “People are urging me just to bang him out now,” Daley said. “If I can squeeze him in between big marquees or champions or former champions that I want to fight, then I’ll put him in there, but otherwise it’s not a fight that will happen.”
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AND WHAT ABOUT FIREWORKS INSIDE THE OCTAGON?
“It’s massively more entertaining, even from the fans viewpoint, there’re more fun match ups because they match well. They match to entertain. They (Bellator) make the fights the fans want to see rather than make fights that advance the guy that gets the most viewing figures”. WOULD DALEY EVER ENTERTAIN A RETURN TO UFC?
“Not unless it happens in the next 18 months, because in the next 18 months I want to be hanging my gloves up, concentrating full time on my gym, running that as a business and maybe putting out a few fighters.”
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HANG ON. RETIREMENT?
“I want to retire when I’m 35. By that time I would have been doing this 15 years non-stop and so it would be about time to chill out for a while.” In the MMA game 35 is still a relatively young age to retire. WOULD THERE BE A FIGHT HE WOULD RECONSIDER HIS DECISION FOR?
“Well, there is one fight I would definitely take if it came up as it would be a big money fight, and that would be the Nick Diaz rematch. I would get in shape for that fight. Why not?”
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A So what's the fuck up Kay you blazed or what? It's my day off work and I'm high af. Glad you took time from your daily to chill with me. What's new in the life of Kay Possible, besides 15 hrs of tending bar last night (Brutal)? I do it every Sunday. It's not that bad really. It's not like doing 15hrs behind a desk although, I've stopped drinking for "lent" so maybe it is like being behind a desk. I miss whiskey. So you are Catholic? What is that like 40 days of no whiskey? I praise you ..... I can't do it! I was raised Catholic. I love the idea. But I am by no means a Catholic. The stories in the bible are amazing to read. "Lent" was an excuse for me to do this. And it's all booze dude. Not just whiskey. I particularly miss drinking whiskey because it is my holy water. ???? I have 4 weeks and 2 days left. Well I give you mad props either way! So what's the deal with skating? Do you collect, ride or what? Our riders (Readers) wanna know! Well I used to skate a ton more when I was a teenager. My first deck was a hook-ups board. So back in 1998-99 I was skating at the Brooklyn Banks and Tony Hawk was there filming a video. It was cool. So far I've met two out of my top 3. I still ride around to this day. I have a fun skate shoot booked with Steve Pruetopless skating with my dog pulling me around. I collect by proxy.
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Oh that's a story for another time..... stay tuned folks! Thank you for spending your day off with me and we will def get that in another feature. You rock Kay! Thanks so much for having me. I wanna give love to my girls in Tattoo’s where and why? I pick artists whose work speaks to me. It doesn't necessarily mean anything. Well, there's one swallow bird tattoo which represents a drunken time in Magaluf.
@LADIESOFMETAL!
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left for Tampa on February 28th, flying the red eye flight. Everything was good, had a few beers before
I boarded the plane. It plane. It was 12:15 am and I remember that shit because we were just getting ready to take off when the pilot announced that we had to turn back!
THURSDAY A PASSENGER WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK!
Up and early for another
That shit delayed us another 45 min. Turns
hotel and hit the Uber
out all this mayhem caused me to miss my
to this amazing house
connecting flight in Miami. Seeing I now had
John Montessi rented for the
an 8 hour layover, I did what any normal
week. It was super nice (who writes this shit?).
person would do...I drank my ass off in Miami!
Anyway, we hung out, opened a few cold
Now if you read my Tampa AM article from
ones and chilled, smoking this place out! John
SATURDAY
the Christmas issue you’re gonna see a
had to take off and grab Tyrone Olson from
pattern here.
the airport...That’s when the party got started!
“Contest pre-qualifier time.” There is just so much amazing skating that takes place inside Skatepark of Tampa. Everyone was just dropping hammers. The scene was intense and filled with pure laughter. Skateboarding Skateboarding is the only competition activity where no matter who you are, you are a brother. Everyone cheers for you even more when there are 30 skaters from all over the world competing for only 10 spots.
beautiful day. Left the
After a few more rounds at the rented crib
INTO FLORIDA
we headed out for a night on the town. Last
Finally made it into beautiful Tampa, Florida
call at the Chop House, yeah we got bounced.
where my great friend and fellow deviant,
It happens.
John Montessi, scooped me up for some much needed R&R before heading out for
FRIDAY
dinner and drinks in Ybor.
Tyron and I hit the Uber for SpotTampa, getting some practice runs in before the competition. All the homies were just killing it! Everything was kosher as fuck when some kid who didn’t belong on the course shot his board right into me, causing a broken BIG toe!
WEDNESDAY Woke up early and headed out to Skatepark of Tampa for some serious park sessions with the fellas. Also grabbed my all access bands. The sessions were fire and we worked up an appetite for some late night parties! So with that in mind we got cleaned up and headed out, only to find police absolutely everywhere.
Made the rest of the jam and the contest hard as hell to skate. Still, managed to finish the day and get back to, hey you’re catching along, DRINKING! So we headed to the crib for some much
WE TOOK A DETOUR ONLY TO GET STOPPED ANYWAY.
needed partying with good people.
Turns out there was a shooting, poor sap.
for dinner at the Shrimp Company. I don’t like
Not trying to mess around and kill our mood
seafood so I ate a lousy hamburger.
for the night, we headed to the bar with the
We hit the crib, got cleaned up and headed
Luckily, the house was lit with the whole
CONVERSE JAM Day turned to night and the Converse Jam was starting. Converse built these insane plexi-extensions plexi-extensions and if that isn’t enough, they lit that shit on fire! Big ups to Charlie Blair for destroying it as always. And also Even Smith with his band and Ray Barbee all providing some killer tunes for the night. As the night winded down we headed out to some Columbian restaurant. This place was awesome! The dancers, the food and the vibe just presented an amazing experience. experience.
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homies for a long night of drinking. Nothing
crew when we got back. Too many names
beats a night out with friends and serious
to drop but I def remember Chris Joslin,
intoxication! As you know, FRONT readers.
Nick Matlin, Jake Wooten, Torey Pudwill, Eric
full of sweat and fire as the top skaters from
Dressen, Wes Kremer, TJ Rodgers, Tom Asta
around the world sought out to be Tampa Pro
and more.
2017. In the end there could only be 1 winner.
FINAL POSIT ITIIONS
Like I said, the place was lit!
“Hectic skating all the way around.” Everyone was on point and the course was
Congratulations Congratulations to Louie Lopez for taking the title. It was an amazing trip and the Tampa experience is always the best. Once again if you haven’t been, you need to hop a flight and enjoy all that Skatepark of Tampa has to offer! Huge shout out to FRONT Magazine for all the love and support. John Montessi for always taking care of me. Brian Schafer, Gabe Clement and of course Westside Skateshop. Nothing but love for Explosive Industries for sponsoring my trip, you guys ROCK!
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Our man in America GrindThis caught up with Legendary skateborder Kelly Hart to talk about Expedition, treflipping the Macabre Gap and how skateboarding is going back to basics. One of my riders, Dave wanted to Thanks for taking time to sit with us at Agenda. Totally rad to be here. Let’s start off with Expedition Skateboards. What’s the difference between when you left and came back? Nothing was wrong with Expedition when I left, it was more that it just had a different vision. So then I just went out and had fun skating without the pressure until Troy Morgan hit me up again. He said “Why don’t you come in here and bring Expedition back the way you and I envisioned it?” So that’s what I’m here to do, bring it back with the clean, athletic look and feel that Expedition is really all about. WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH KAYO AND EVERYONE LEAVING? The brands are re-branding themselves and finding their own styles and going again. Stevie is still holding it down for DGK and the riders are still sick. They are just doing what we are. Finding themselves and bringing it back to basics. The organic way.
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So getting back onto four wheels, how did it feel doing the treflip at the Macbre Gap? I don’t know, that was a funny one. I was just skating one day with a bunch of friends and I remember Ruben Garcia had nollie hardflipped off of it. That was the first time I had seen it. It looked like a lot of fun. But no one really skated it and the the filmer/ photographer said: “It doesn’t look that cool, I don’t know if we are gonna film it.” So I had to wait for my friend Derrick to film me and it has become my most talked about trick. To think they thought it was gonna be stupid (laughs). You know there was a kid that tre flipped the gap to land into a nocomply 180. Really? The thing I love about skating is that people will bring their own style into it. Everyone does the same thing but they add their own twists to it. It makes it awesome.
know how the hell you kept a straight face during the SLS (Street League of Skateboarding) commercial? How many takes was that? (Laughs, very loudly) You know it was kinda funny, they were like “this is what you gotta say.” It was my first time rehearsing lines since like grade school plays. You know what I mean? Can I ask if I add my own lines? It was actually easy. I was surrounded by all my friends doing the filming and recording. It was fun and I actually liked acting. They put me in this scenario with a dope house filled with killer stuff. Did you actually win the Rolls Royce? Yeah, that was sick! I have been in and out of skating since 1981 and don’t follow the whole circuit like these kids today in the last 10 years. You used to have to sit on a clip forever. How has that changed for you? If you don’t get the film or photo out, you will get snaked on that trick or spot. (Pierre Andre (Owner of Sole Tech) jumps in to say hello.) Personally I would just post them immediately after doing them. I might save certain things but like I said before I don’t care if anyone does the same trick. Not to say I’m gonna go do someone’s trick. I haven’t had a photo in a magazine for
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awhile. If I’m gonna have a sequence or ad in a magazine, I will hold on to that footage. Some filmers don’t get paid for the footage.
That’s what I’m getting at, what happens to them? I was filming basically in 2016 with this (Shows iPhone), that’s it. One of my boys is the best iPhone filmer I have ever seen. We go out and just have fun! The only way I thought Skateboarding is ever gonna grow is if skateboarders have fun. Skateboarding got really serious for awhile. It was about who’s in the mags and who’s progressing.
Let’s Talk about the Nine Club? I love that show! We wanna know about the button, did you get suckered in and stuck with the button? I’m not suckered into nothing, I think it’s cool!
it right now. They are so unique and they
Well it seems like Chris Roberts dogged you a little bit on the show?
brought different things to skateboarding and
Hell we dog each other, it’s just how we are.
one of my favorite skaters, totally ripping it.
We have been friends a long time. I was
Ryan Townly, they have a certain style that is
always there and lived there. All the guests
so different people can associate with it.
would be talking to me. The button is so
What is Expedition’s style or look compared to other brands?
they are having fun! Ryan Lay is on there and
that people can hear me in the conversation.
There’s only one episode I didn’t watch and that was the Lil’ Wayne episode. Just not a fan of him in skateboarding.
Expedition is more of a clean athletic style.
That one is cool though. It’s one of my
would fit more with the athletic feel. We are
favorites. The cool thing with Lil’ Wayne is
bringing back polos and nicer t-shirts and
that, I look at it from his world. He came in
chino’s. It’s a Nautica, Tommy look
and we talked about skating and he was
for skateboarding.
all into it! He had a perspective that was so
It’s fun to watch. I’m not saying I’m fun to watch, the brand is clean and fresh to watch. Not trying to put us in a category but we
into skateboarding that I was like, this
there are just killer and I have a new squad of
Last question, who do you think will win “Trick of the Year” with SLS?
is dope.
young rippers that are tearing it up. I’m now
Kyle Walker (50-50 grind the kinked rail)
Did his music move you into skateboarding?
in a new position to mentor these kids and
I’m gonna say if every person at Agenda tried
help them out promoting the brand. Maybe
that trick, 99% of them would really
His music influenced me to go skate. I
make a career out of skateboarding.
hurt themselves. I think that’s the most
started listening to him when I was 18 and
“There are so many different types of
Insane trick.
I’m 32 now (Josh Kings, pops in and says “If
skateboarding now that you can exist in. 10
it wasn’t for Lil”Wayne I wouldn’t be skating.).
years ago if you’re not in magazines or videos,
That dude.... when he eats shit, he gets up
you don’t exist. Now with social media anyone
Thanks for chilling with me and Josh Kings for Front Magazine Kelly..... Time to get drunk with BlackFlys.
and starts skating again. After every show
can bring their own fashion into it and exist
Thanks for the good times!
he’s out skating.
in skateboarding. They can grow their own
What’s the next move for Expedition?
audience. That’s what’s so awesome about
By the time you are reading this...... Kelly called
skateboarding!”
it! Kyle Walker took the cheese at SLS 2016
I’m so stoked on what’s going on. New
Just look at Welcome Skateboards (Already
Trick of the Year. Congrats to Kyle Walker and
graphics are so dope, the people working
one of my favourite brands) they are killing
that fresh triple set kink! You earned it!
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By Ryan Child INS ID E
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THE LOOP OF DOOM
L
ate last year, under the cover
Fast forward a few weeks and Darkfest is one
would be an understatement.
of dawn, a lone figure ghosted
week away. The rain is pouring. Matt Macduff,
The almost evangelical apostle to the
a Canadian rider, shovels his feet through the
mountain bike gods took too much speed
and left with blood on its teeth. Before
muddy course.
with him that night, and was slingshotted
the kill it had stopped, hearing music,
“So this is the Loop of Doom,” he says,
back the way he came, falling from the
pricking its ears, listening as another
pointing to a mad max, 40ft structure of
highest point. His wrist and ankle were
beast stirred in the mountains. Pure
wood and bolts. “It’s the biggest loop de loop
smashed to pieces. So was the dream. To
Darkness fell.
in the world and it almost killed me.” me.” He also
some anyway.
An hour later and the leopard had gone. So
built it, which gives you an idea of the people
But to think that would be to misinterpret
had the farmer’s Great Great Dane. But the music
we are dealing with here.
what the Pure Darkness guys are about. This
hadn’t. Further up the track, track, in a big share shared d
Macduff was helped in the construction
is legacy, and Macduff will be back.
house, Sam Reynolds stirred a big pot of
by carpenter Marshal Marc-Andre Lucat as
“I don’t want to be some Mountain biker that
coffee and decided to cut the music. It was
well as a former movie set builder, the aptly
doesn’t have an impact on the sport,” he said.
time to go to work.
named Gunter Brainstorm. Together, the three
“I’ve learnt so much from this, and I’ll be back
of them set on an engineering mission that
on my bike again soon.”
into the Garden Route Trail Park
lasted a month. It was supposed to last two weeks. To say there was was pressure on Macduff, that evening a year ago when he hit the loop,
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SO WHAT HAVE THEY BUILT EXACTLY?
TRIPLE BACKFLIP
The step up has a 35ft lip that sends riders
attempting the first ever triple backflip
flying 60ft in the air. That’s two yellow school
again and again and again. The other riders,
buses stacked longways.
crowded behind the step up muttered
And then there’s the biggest Rollin Tower in
technical changes he could make, wide eyed,
the world, a six storey building riders attack
like football players discussing the best way
On the final day of Darkfest he did just that,
this incredible and unique set of jumps from.
to score an overhead kick from the opposite
SAM REYNOLDS
One of those jumps is the Stepdown, which
end of the pitch. You can’t imagine it’s
While Macduff is the loop specialist, Sam
catapults riders “So high on takeoff and
possible, but it just takes one visionary to pull
Reynolds is the chief instigator. A softly
so low on landing,” that it’s “probably the
it off.
spoken professional Freeride mountain biker
gnarliest jump here.”
Silva never landed it, but that doesn’t mean
with a slightly sadistic side.
“We just thought fuck it,” Reynolds says,
he won’t. This is a guy who woke up one
“To see the gnarliest riders in the world kind
laughing again. “Let’s build a huge tower
morning, walked walked into the shared house living
of crawling at the top of the roll in tower
and then build the jumps from there. And it’s
room with his parachute on and told everyone
we built shows you just how crazy it is,” he
about giving something back. To the legends
he was jumping out of the chopper. There was
said, laughing. “But obviously we aren’t here
we grew up watching and also to the young
no chopper. There was a parachute though.
to hurt anyone. There’s nothing better than
kids that are really impressing me.”
And it’s this kind of thing that goes best to
having that scared feeling in your stomach,
One of those young kids is 19 year old Adolf
defining not just Reynolds, Silva Silva or Macduff,
for sure that’s why we do it.”
Silva, the man one camera guy said was ‘so
but the whole crew of riders here.
Reynolds has been building this place for
fucking crazy I would be scared if he wasn’t
They see things from a different perspective,
three years now, with help pulled in this year
so fucking good as well.’
that the right answer isn’t always the best one.
from Nico Vink and Clemens Kaudela. All
“Yea,” Silva says. “I like to do crazy stuff, but
Maybe that’s because they’re visionaries, or
three of them painstakingly building with
mainly I want to do different stuff. Go big and,
maybe it’s just because they spend so much
heavy, blunt diggers, creating jumps where
yea, be doing different stuff.”
of their time upside down.
one, fine inch can mean success or failure. “We built this because nobody else in the world is building jumps as big as we want them,” Reynolds said. Understated and modest, he forgets to mention the incredible amount of work he and his team have put in. Digging, raking and shovelling, reshaping a few acres of land in the Barrington hills for their riding pleasure.
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MONET ROSE ADAMS At the bottom of the Rollin Tower, a bearded guy started rushing around. “Who is that at the top?” he said, pulling his facial hair out. “I don’t recognise that helmet, is it just a local? They shouldn’t be up there it’s dangerous.” The unidentified rider steadied themselves and raced down without trouble. One of the other riders calmed the beard down. “It’s Monet dude. She’s all good.” After she dropped down the 67 ft, almost vertical ramp, she took a few obligatory high fives and walked back up towards the big Monster truck. “I knew I had to do it before I left,” she said. “I would have been gutted if I hadn’t.” Adams is a sponsored rider and the only woman riding at Darkfest. Does she feel a level of responsibility? “In a way,” she said. “But not to the point where I’ve actually thought about it without you saying it. I was inspired by women in other ‘action sports’ so I suppose if I can, in some way, do that as well then that’s good.” It’s worth saying here that Adams was modest in the extreme, and probably felt more comfortable hurtling at speed than talking about herself as a role model. “I do think it’s important though,” she said. “But I have a lot more I want to do in the sport before I start talking about being an inspiration to other girls.” She went on to talk about the fine balance between having an equal ride for men and women and understanding the differences. “If you won’t hit a trail because you’re worried about being caught up, but you are complaining about not being treated as equally as the boys, then something’s obviously wrong there.” “Personally, I’m just pushing myself as hard as I can and seeing how far I can go,” she said. And the last time we checked that was full speed down the biggest Rollin Tower in the world.
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aving had a ten year career as a Glamour model, I’m no stranger to the action sports world, so when Front told me this issue was all about that, I racked my brains for what I could write about this month. Then I thought why not take you down memory lane with me, as pretty much most of my career highlights in modelling have had something to do with some kind of extreme/ action sport!
Winning the last EVER nuts bikini competition at surfing festival Boardmasters....Far out duuuuude! !
My Maxpower days are still some of my fondest memories, being on the road with them was amazing and I loved dragging randoms up on stage to play weird and pretty fucked up games with us! Then there was being a ring girl for The Bamma fight between Tom Watson & Alex Reid.
Being taken for a drive round the Silverstone circuit with the Touring car world champion for the racing sponsors Mountune.
Two years ago when I went to interview Dan Bilzerian, he flew me out in his private jet and his pilot let me flip the plane 360 - I’d say to this date that’s still the most thrilling thing I’ve done!!
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recently I’ve worked with Arena Cross, a live motor cross show, watching it blew my mind, how they have the stomach to do all those air flips and jumping off their bikes mid air and landing back on them I have no idea!! I got a tight chest just watching them!! But I first fell in love with pretty mental sports when I started watching banger racing- Bet your weren’t expecting that !!
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I became the place car model at my local meet in St.Day Cornwall until I was 18 which led me to modelling at Autosports and the rest as they say is History!!
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FASHION BY ANDREW MARSHALL. @SEM IPROGEEK
THE
EDGE
OF DECENCY
A lot of cinema is made as pure entertainment, but occasionally films are made to push the boundaries of what might be deemed acceptable, sometimes presenting wild rides of implausible histrionics, other times plunging to the lower limits of what people are capable of. Presented here for your reading pleasure is an international assortment of films that, one way or another, take things to the extreme.
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punching straight through the bodies of his enemies with blood and bone bursting out of them in gory explosions of viscera, the film is peppered with such sights as decapitations, dismemberments, nails impaling faces, heads torn by razors, and a climactic bloodbath of an entire body being minced from the feet up in an industrial meat grinder. HE TIES HIS TENDONS BACK TOGETHER WITH HIS TEETH
Ricky is a young man sent to prison in a corporation-controlled future, but the system will soon realise it has taken on more than it can handle. A practitioner of energy channelling art Quigong, Ricky is a living weapon possessed of superhuman strength and a near immunity to pain, and can dish out even more punishment than he can take. NAILS IMPALING FACES, HEADS TORN BY RAZORS, AND A BODY MINCED IN A MEAT GRINDER
Hong Kong action movies are renowned for their lack of plausibility, but Riki-Oh stands out as a result of its supremely gory and hyper-stylised violence realised by painfully obvious props work. As well as Ricky regularly
In one of the most infamous scenes where Ricky faces a powerful knife-fighter, after having the tendons and veins in his arm severed he simply ties them back together with his hand and teeth, before smashing his opponent on the back of the head, whereupon his eye flies right out of its socket and is immediately set upon by crows. After disembowelling himself in a botched attempt to commit hara-kiri, he attempts to strangle Ricky with his intestines, and is then finally finished off with a punch that shatters his skull, complete with an X-ray shot demonstrating it. Riki-Oh thrives on the same kind of brazen depravity that makes the early works of Peter Jackson and Sam Raimi such demented fun, but dialled up to eleven and every minute of it an experience of raucous joy.
After the pregnant fiancée of intelligence agent Kim is brutally murdered by serial killer Jang, he devotes all the resources and sanity at his disposal to hunt down the murderer and subject him to a fitting revenge. A SWIFT DEATH IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
TS REE T ” T S H CK “BA K, ALRIG C BA
A frequent theme of vengeance thrillers is the suggestion that pursuing a path of retribution pushes you towards becoming that which you hate, but I Saw the Devil takes this to a different extreme. Although Kim tracks Jang with little effort, he decides that a swift death is not enough of a punishment, and after half-suffocating Jang, beating him unconscious and implanting a tracker inside him, he then leaves him to escape so he can hunt him down again and subject him to further indignities and suffering. However, this also leaves Jang free to instigate further atrocities, the victims of which are merely collateral damage in Kim’s cyclical vendetta. A JAW RIPPED OPEN AND BALLS SMASHED WITH A WRENCH
The implacable stygian rage driving Kim arguably makes him little better than the psychotic murderer he is toying with, and a few of his inventively brutal bursts of fury include a graphic depiction of Jang having his Achilles tendon severed, and some other undesirables having a jaw ripped open, balls smashed with a wrench and hands impaled to a table while being throttled with a chain. The film culminates in a climactic connivance of pure spite inspired by contemptuous hatred, and brings the sadistic infliction of suffering full circle.
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MOVIES
Although A Serbian Film got all the infamy,
A RAPIST IS DECAPITATED WITH A
Sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara
its potency is diminished once you get past
CHAINSAW
becomes obsessed with hunting down
its artificial litany of shock tactics, whereas
As well as its boundary-pushing content,
Ichi, a mysterious madman who kills
this Serbian film makes far more of a lasting
which includes horse fellatio and a
without impunity and leaves behind
impression.
Deliverance-style gang rape, the film is
visceral massacres of blood and body
most distinctive from its titular group being
parts strewn liberally about the place.
CONVINCED TO MAKE SNUFF FILMS
ordinary people. Even though their snuff
Shot in a faux documentary style, The
films feature mostly willing victims, they soon
Life and Death of a Porno Gang sees film
begin to react accordingly as the extent of
graduate Marko become frustrated with
their complicity in murder as vaguely justified
financers’ unwillingness to fund his grand but
art sinks in. It’s only a matter of time before
pretentious artistic visions, and after a stint
someone is adversely affected by being
shooting cheap porn he gathers together a
involved in deaths such as a terminally ill
group of like-minded reprobates who form
man slashing himself with a straight razor,
a live sex cabaret touring the backwoods
a traumatised army sniper having his head
provinces. Soon afterwards, a German
repeatedly smashed in with a hammer, or a
ex-journalist convinces him to branch out into
rapist being decapitated with a chainsaw, and
the extremities of moviemaking and make
before long misfortune and tragedy make
snuff films.
good on the film’s title and gradually claim their lives one by one.
A PROTRACTED TONGUE SLICING AND A MAN BEING VERTICALLY BISECTED
Over the top violence can often be more funny than it is scary, but what makes Ichi the Killer different from Riki-Oh and others of its ilk (and the source of much controversy) is its bleak tone of unapologetic spite. Scenes of torture punctuate the film, such as a man hung suspended from the ceiling by numerous meat hooks lodged in his back, while other moments of graphic violence include a protracted tongue slicing, a man being vertically bisected, various gory After being kidnapped and gang-raped,
NOTORIOUS FOR ITS UN-SIMULATED
slacker Manu kills her brother when he
SEX SCENES
suggests she enjoyed it. During a heated
Upon Baise-Moi’s release it became
argument, part-time prostitute Nadine kills
notorious for its un-simulated sex scenes
her flatmate and runs off with the rent money,
and subsequent accusations of being thinly
then witnesses her best friend’s murder. Upon
disguised pornography (the title quite literally
a chance encounter between the two women
translates to ‘Fuck Me’) but upon actually
each intuitively recognises how adrift and
watching the film it becomes clear that
angry the other feels, and they embark on a
nothing about it is intended to be in any way
nihilistic road trip of sex and violence against
arousing. What gives the film such an impact
the society that has rejected them.
is, paradoxically, just how meaningless it is. The sex is hollow and without emotion, and the violence is most vicious not in its goriness but its casual spontaneity. Manu and Nadine become beings of pure id, driven by nothing but the basest of impulses to fight and screw. “We don’t have extenuating circumstances,” NADINE COMMENTS WHEN THEIR MOTIVES ARE QUESTIONED.
Shot on digital video, the grainy visuals match the seediness of the societal underbelly
dismemberments and blood spraying in vibrant arterial geysers. Every female character in the film is a prostitute, and each invariably meets an abusive and unpleasant fate. YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN THE UNREPENTANT CRUELTY
For all his deadly prowess, nominal hero Ichi is so pathetic he inspires contempt rather than pity, and is revealed as being manipulated to the extent he is barely in possession of his own personality, while his arousal by sexual violence purposely defies any attempts to feel empathy for him. The biggest source of unease comes from the film’s lack of moral stance over its content, which leaves its brutality presented solely for the viewing of the audience, thus making them complicit in the unrepentant cruelty.
the film wades through, as though its very presentation is a reflection of the nadir of humanity it portrays.
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By Lukas Chomicki
D I S C L A I M E R :
H EA V Y N OS T A L GI A AH EA D !
KICKING IT OLD SKOOL
DIRT RALLY Let’s go a bit more modern. Codemasters have done some experimenting with their “Dirt” games, giving them a more “arcady” vibe. Their latest instalment: Dirt Rally, goes back to the simulation gameplay roots of the Colin McRae series. It’s not a game for everyone. It is challenging, time-consuming and at times frustrating (a lot like my girlfriend). Don’t let this put you off however. Dirt Rally is a very good game. With its beautiful graphics, sharp controls, satisfying gameplay and painstaking attention to detail, it’s a driving game that’s better than the (already high) sum of its parts and will keep you coming back for more. As already mentioned, the game is difficult but if you stick at it, it will give you a sense of accomplishment that only a few games can manage to do this well. Think Dark Souls, which also reminds me of my girlfriend.
1080° SNOWBOARDING For its time, this 19-year-old game was quite a ground breaker. The resolution may not be quite 1080p and the graphics may appear poor, but in its day 1080° looked almost like digital photorealism. Okay, that’s pushing it a bit but you get the gist. It’s a game that’s easy to learn but hard to master. It offered around 30 tricks which if you think about it, is loads when you have to remember 30 different button combinations. The authentic sense of sheer speed, leaping through the air past the tree tops and the feeling of achievement after you’ve pulled off your favourite stunt will always live long in our hearts.
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TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER 3 Is anyone surprised to see a Tony Hawk game here? The series may not be what it once was, but the legacy from its early games will live on. It was hard to choose which game we should feature but Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 took the cake. And what a cake it was! With the introduction of Revert, the unforgettable soundtrack (Motörhead or Red Hot Chili Peppers anyone?), pedestrians to pester and the option to create female skaters, Pro Skater 3 managed to keep the captivating magic of the old while mixing it up with some new stuff. THPS3 was first and foremost a PS2 game but was also ported for PS1. Regardless of which version you played, the games were a laugh. It also holds the highest metacritic score of 97% on the PS2, tied only with GTA III.
SSX (2000) Here’s some more of that lovely nostalgia for you. Many extreme sport games try to have a combination of racing and over-the-top stunt performing. Most of those games usually tend to put too much focus on either one, or the other. It’s almost bi-polar. However, one of the best things about SSX is that it found that perfect blend of both. Allowing you to go crazy but also keeping you down to earth. Something like controlled chaos. SSX 2000 is fun and it turned gamers onto snowboarding. It gives you complete control over your character and allows you to do insane stunts at high speed without going all Fifa Street on us. This snowboarding funfest was one of PlayStation 2’s launch titles and with its graphics, gameplay and size it was the perfect game to show off the PS2’s power. EA did Sony a huge favour there. Yep, you read that right. EA did something good for the gaming industry.
MAT HOFFMAN’S PRO BMX After the huge success of the Tony Hawks games, it was only a matter of time before Activision expanded their Pro franchise onto other extreme sports games. These included Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder, Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer and Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX. While all three games are good, Mr Hoffman’s BMX title was the one that fully lived up to the high standard set by Hawk and Co. It was developed on the same engine as its skateboarding counterpart and even included Tony Hawk as a secret character: “Granny”. Pro BMX had the same controls as Pro Skater but it felt different, as you would expect when changing from four wheels to two. Activision also did not disappoint with the music, which had some pretty heavy rock and even our very own Stone Roses. FRONT MAGAZINE 79
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SNIPER ELITE 4 FORMAT: PLAYSTION 4, XBOX ONE, PC
Sequels are usually a cause for some concern. They raise a lot of questions, or are met with a derisive eye-roll and sighs of “oh, another one. Cool I guess.” At best, a sequel can elevate the existing franchise, but the worst case scenario is like sleeping with your ex. Sad, tired, and probably dry in the areas it shouldn’t be. Luckily for everyone involved, In Sniper Elite 4 (which came out a few weeks ago) Rebellion Studios have cooked us a nice meal, put on our favourite “let’s smash” playlist, and given us the night of our lives. For those of you that can’t read past the first 131 words of a review in a sexy, cool magazine full of sexy, cool stuff: Buy this game. You need it. You need it more than oral sex and ice cream. ■
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THE DIMPLED ASSCHEEKS OF THE ONE YOU LOVE In what could’ve been a much overlooked, quickly rushed out cash in, SE 4 has clearly learned and evolved from its predecessors, improving on the already rock-solid game mechanics and giving the player an explicit sense that their actions affect the world they inhabit. And oh, what a world you inhabit! Graphically SE 4 is the dimpled asscheeks of the person you love. It’s the morning dew you spot during your Sunday morning walk of shame. The landscapes are stunning and the improved X-Ray KillCam is blisteringly, savagely beautiful. For those that know me via YouTube/ Twitter, you will know that I have
a disdain for AAA “gimmicks”: Collectibles, point-and click waypoints, “Open World” environments. Most of the time these cut-and-paste mechanics are the result of lazy developing and are a corner cutting excuse for gameplay longevity. What SE 4 manages to do with these features, however, is nothing short of a miracle. Nothing in the game feels forced, with the player deciding how much of the mission they consider a pass. The level design informs the payer of the best path to take, but not in a way that feels like your hand is being held.
NAZI BOLLOCK SHOTS
The story is the only minor criticism of this stunning release. It’s a little samey to that of previous releases, but honestly who the fuck cares when you’re shooting Nazis in the bollocks from 200 yards? The execution of the narrative is perfectly acceptable, putting most of Steam’s Greenlight hopefuls to absolute shame. This isn’t your typical run-andgun, despite being able to be played that way the game is at its best when you’ve accidentally sunk an hour into completing a level because you were so drawn into patrolling guards, waiting for a plane to go over to mask the sounds of your shots, and hiding bodies so as not to get discovered. This game is Metal Gear Solid 5, with all the nonsense stripped away. It’s diluted brilliance that everyone who’s ever called themselves a gamer should experience for themselves at least once. Did I mention you can shoot Nazis in the balls? ‘Cos you can totally shoot Nazis in the balls.
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Fron t’s e xplosi ve co ver girl laughs, figh ts and reminisces her wa y through an in ter vie w wi th Edi tor R yan Child.
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WHEN YOU’RE NOT DRESSED UP LIKE A SUPER VILLAIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Well later I’m getting my hair done and heading to boxing tonight.
BOXING? I DIDN’T EXPECT YOU TO SAY THAT. Yea I absolutely love boxing. I’m planning on having a fight.
LIKE A CELEBRITY FIGHT? No, away from all of the celebrity stuff. I’ve got so into it and just want to be the absolute best, which is my attitude to everything I do. So, yea, I’m going to have a fight but not as some publicity stunt. Away from the ring, controversy seems to follow you around. What’s the big obsession with Jem Lucy? I don’t think people are obsessed exactly. I think that it’s that people are intrigued because they don’t understand who I am. They are trying to work me out, maybe.
YOU SEEM TO BE A BIT OF A MENTOR/COUNSELOR ONLINE, PARTICULARLY WITH ADVICE ON TWITTER. A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE YOU AS A ROLE MODEL NOW BECAUSE OF IT. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT? If I can give advice it makes me feel good because I know how hard shit can be. Especially because loads of people give me shit, and so if I can relay some advice to others, then I want to do that.
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SO YOU ARE A BIT OF A ROLE MODEL THEN?
Well, I’ve never, ever once said I should be a role model. And I get slagged off a lot with people saying that I am and should do this or do that. But I’m still young and learning myself. I’m not 65 looking back and reflecting yet. I’m doing what I want and I’m living and learning. And I think that’s what people should do. Don’t do what you’re told, go for what you want and learn from it yourself. SOMEONE YOU’RE DEFINITELY NOT A ROLE MODEL TO IS CHARLOTTE CROSBY, CAN YOU CLEAR UP THE WHOLE DEAL WITH HER ONCE AND FOR ALL ?
All I can say is she is a Cunt. And that’s it. Everything that happened between us…is because she’s a cunt. I can be one but I’m not deep down. She is. End of. RIGHT, NOW THAT’S OUT OF THE WAY. YOU’VE BEEN MAINLY MODELING DURING YOUR CAREER, IS THAT THE MAIN THING ON YOUR HORIZON?
Well, apart from the boxing, I’ve got a dating app that focuses on people with tattoos. Others can of course join as well, but the main idea is to provide a platform for people looking for love who have tattoos. WHAT’S IT CALLED?
Datingink. Oh, can I just mention my boxing trainer Lyndon King Arthur. I THINK YOU JUST DID! WHERE ARE YOU TRAINING?
At the Collyhurst and Mosten Amateur Boxing Club. There’s no pretty boys, no girls with makeup on pretending to work out. It’s a proper gym and I love it. BACK TO THE MODELING FOR A SEC. DO HAVE ANY TIPS FOR YOUNG GIRLS STARTING OUT?
When I got started there were so many magazines, which are all gone now. So it’s just so different now. God I sound old saying that! But it’s true. Social media is massive now, so it’s probably easier to get spotted. But it also means making a career out of modeling is a lot harder. All the content is free and there are just so many girls out there sharing their pictures. And I feel for them because it’s always going to be hard to be the one who gets successful with so many doing it now.
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TATTOO! FIRST ONE AND WHY?
I got a weed leaf on my bum when I was 14. I suppose it was the Xmost rebellious thing I could think of at the time. Plus we used to smoke back then. I don’t now, by the way. ANY ONES WITH A SIGNIFICANT MEANING?
Yea, my Eminem tattoo on my arm definitely means a lot. He was my obsession and still is, as a person and a rapper. We love Eminem as well. Especially his first album ! Any plans for a new one. A tattoo, not a new Eminem album. Well right now I’m getting a full leg sleeve. It’s going to be made up of the cities I’ve been to, including the landmarks and themes of those places. There will also be a few other things inside it, like exotic dancers because I used to be a dancer, and other things I like. ANY FAVOURITE ARTISTS?
Ken Patten in Newcastle and Tommi Crazy in Manchester. Love them both. ANY THINGS THAT YOU DON’T LOVE?
Uhh, yea a few (Laughs). I really don’t like people being slow about things and not doing what they say. And people moaning about things they can’t change. Like someone sitting their eating doughnuts and complaining about their body. No thanks. No time for that. GUILTY PLEASURE?
Justin Beiber. I love him. IDEAL NIGHT IN?
Naked movie night. IDEAL NIGHT OUT?
Me and Chantelle going everywhere. Talking of Chantelle, so much has been written and gone back and forth about you and these three people recently. In two words, can you sum them up? CHANTELLE CONNELLY?
Loyal. Crazy. KATIE PRICE?
Slag. Bigger slag.
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Hi Eliza, welcome to Front Magazine’s Extreme Edition. What’s the most mental thing you have ever done?
Hi Front ! There is a spot in Aspen, Colorado, called the Devil’s Punchbowl where I grew up. In the summertime my friends and I would all go over there and jump off these mountain cliffs into an almost freezing cold river. You have to jump about a 4-5 foot gap to even get to the spot that you take the jump from. If you miss that gap, you’re hitting rocks down into the river and you’re done. Thinking back on that, we were totally mental and we did it all the time ! Can you tell us about your tattoos?
My Tattoos are a mixture of memories and art pieces by friends or tattoo artists that I appreciate. I seem to have collected a lot of band tattoos. My side reads “Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which is an album by Social Distortion. My leg says “Survival Never Goes Out of Style,” that’s a lyric by Jawbreaker. I have a lot of rock/punk eclectic stuff. And then there’s just art and things that I like. I also have the names of family and loved ones tattooed on my right arm. Most Meaningful bit of Ink?
I think the tattoo that means the most to me has to be my little brother’s name. I have my mom and older brother too, but he’ll always be my little baby bro, and that makes me smile. Any favourite artists?
I’ve always been a huge fan of Nikko Hurtado’s work. I absolutely love ONEQ’s art work. He has an art nouveau meets pinup geisha style that my jaw drops over. Who’s your hero?
Dave Grohl. Guilty Pleasure?
Reading magazines like Front and Maxim and eating dark chocolate. I can’t tell you any others because they’re not all legal haha.
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Thanks Eliza, Hope you enjoyed MUSINK as much as we did ! Thanks Front xx Come say hello on my social media
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DROPOUT CLUB INTL PRICE £15.99 Seattle’s Noel Sinclair Boyt encompasses the dark humour of humanity, largely concentrating on his discomfort for popular culture. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Boyt renders a barbarous and obscure introduction of culture. Aside from previous work on brands like Huf and Flying Coffin, Boyt continues to express his ambiguous and creative work in classic tees for the Dropout Club Intl collection. Boyt’s work is featured in the collection with his bright yellow “Dealers Choice” short sleeve tee outlined with its myriad of sketches.
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NIGHT : SHIFT X PLAYBOY PRICE £99.95 Just as Playboy brings back nudity, NIGHT : SHIFT links up with the iconic brand to bring some new excitement to the bedroom this spring with their collaborative line of bedding. Heavily focused and inspired by iconic imagery from the worldrenowned magazine, the NIGHT : SHIFT x Playboy collaboration will provide edgy contemporary fabrics to an underserved pop culture market. Mmmm, there’s an idea in here somewhere!.
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THIRTYTWO DEEP CREEK PARKA PRICE £250 Chris Bradshaw’s favourite fishing spot is now his favourite jacket. Classic 2L military fishtail parka with Level 2 lining system, appliqué sleeve branding and patch back pocket. We chose this particular parka because of its design and all around use in wet weather, making it a solid companion for any outdoor related messing around. .
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SEXTOYS.CO.UK I mean, use your imagination. Ughhh, not that much.
We had some great brands join us in Manchester on March 18th, covering our models up with posh cloths and the rest. So here are some of our favourites for your viewing pleasure
SPOILER ALERT! spot the bunny from next months shoot
CHOX ‘Life is like a box of chox’
Well actually life is a bag from chox... and it’s true; you never know what you’re gonna get cos there’s that many styles and colours to choose from. Kin the creator, apart from having such a good new nickname, has pretty much covered everything by making these robust backpacks with water and laptop protection as standard. The HOLO range embodies the crazy cyber look which I love, however, for the more low key personalities there’s a Commuter and Camo range so you can blend into a wall, but also look like you’re going to do some work instead of heading off to a mad rave. Oh and there are drinks (beer) holders on either side too. You’ll never be bagless or beerless again!
FREEMIND Freemind
The idea behind FREEMIND is to promote positivity and to empower self confidence. In a world where not everyone can be themselves this t-shirt screams F you to the convention and judgement of society. And you can see that from the logo, a little crazy brain on the wings of freedom. FREEMIND isn’t just a brand; they’re here to promote that it’s okay to be different; have different ideals, different likes and different interests. It’s what makes the person (the wearer) them. Help them spread good vibes one T-shirt at a time.
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SLIPPY ‘She was born slippy’ Slippy’s main motif is a banana, so obviously we had to give some of our in-house models a real banana and do something suggestive. It would be rude not to. If you like the film trainspotting then you’ll get this brand’s vibe, bringing you a bit of instant 90s nostalgia. The creators, based in Sheffield, say the brand has been heavily influenced by the underground music scene which is clearly reflected by their gritty edge and bold designs. So go and get yourself a glass of perno in a sweaty basement and slip yourself into a right little pickle, just like these lot !
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