My photographs are in the art show downstairs at the Foundry this weekend. The show is a group show which is part of London's Calling
Here is a quick review/preview from Bill.
Each of the four images represents a courier killed while working in London.
Working as a courier you come to expect the unexpected each day, you expect a near miss, some lost skin, a stolen bike or to be wet and cold all day. No one expects to lose their life. These images are dedicated to the eight London couriers who have died at work over the years.
The locations and even the dates of these tragic deaths have become blurred. I wanted these photographs to remind us of the real dangers and unexpected turns in the road and also to remember the eight riders who died doing their job.



Mark Francis - London, d. June.1999, died in hospital from injuries sustained June 8, 1999, East Smithfield, by unknown lorry.


Sebastian Lukomski - London, d. 23.Feb.2004, killed at junction of Lower Thames Street and Queen Street Place, by a left turning tipper truck.



Joe Cooper - London, d. 1989, killed on the job at Pentonville Road, by an unknown HGV


Calvin Simpson - London, d. 1991, killed on the job at Stamford Street by an unknown HGV.

Names and details can be found at the Messenger Memorial

Link to Japanese Fixed blog

Bill's write up at Moving Target

London River fact...
"· Neckinger: rising in Southwark, the Neckinger joins the Thames via St Saviour’s Dock, where pirates were hanged in the 17th century. The river’s name may derive from the term ‘devil’s neckcloth’ (i.e. the noose). In the 19th century, the mouth of the Neckinger was known as Jacob’s Island, a place of great poverty and squalor, described as the very capital of cholera and the Venice of drains. Charles Dickens lets one of his best-known characters, Bill Sykes (from Oliver Twist) meet a violent death in the mud of the Dock."
London's lost rivers

Holga double exposure

Crossfire Contest at Meanwhile 2.......cinco de mayo.

Spencer was looking forward to this Crossfire jam all week but unfortunately for Spencer i had told him the wrong week, Spencer was back in Budapest King Diamond style......back in West London though the Westway was the place to be, at least under it, just where Harrow Road slopes off from under the grimy overpass, behind the garage is

Meanwhile 2.......it is skate history down there under the Westway.
The flyer was designed by French and had a lot of blood on it.....French likes

blood and metal, sounds like a good name for a Manowar tribute...besides the blood there was the bearded Haslam flying across the legendary gap wizard like...a sight sadly missed as he had a broken toe and kept his skating low profile....it wasn't hard to see though from what little stuff he was doing that he was super solid and was indeed a wizard if a bit under the weather.
I had caught sight of Chris Haslam the evening before though wandering around Waterloo looking a little lost with Lewis Marnell. They headed off up towards Westminster Bridge and i in the other direction towards Hercules Road to collect the van i was borrowing to drive the contents of our flat down south to Worthing....another story though and not much to do with the Crossfire Jam.
The video is for Spencer...i used Pailhead from Spencer's ipod....i love that song....Ian MacKaye and Al Jourgensen....asides aside the skating was amazing and the atmosphere was amazing and Crossfire pulled off another amazing day......

Rollapaluza 7........................



I played a few records at Rollapaluza 7....here's what went down...
I took singles only because in previous Roller Races there has been a scrum of "DJ's" fighting to get on the decks.....
Proper mixing, legit DJ types unlike myself, i prefer the one after the other, long silences and wrong speed school of
DJing.....heres my set:
Beastie Boys-She's on it
Billy Joel-It's still rock'n'roll to me
Magic Sam-21 days in Jail
Man or Astro Man?-Transmissions from Venus '94
Queen and David Bowie-Under Pressure
Minor Threat-Salad Days
Boogie Down Productions-Stop the violence
Rush-Spirit of Radio
Neneh Cherry-Buffalo Stance
Pee Wee Erwin-Muskrat Ramble and Royal Garden Blues
X-Ray Spex-Identity
Special AKA-Gangsters
The Pogues-Irish Rover
Black Flag-Nervous Breakdown
The Clash-White Riot
Charles Aznavor-Nous Irons A Verone
Electric Frankenstein-I was a punk before you were a punk
Dinosaur Jr-Freak scene
The crazy world of Arthur Brown-Fire!
Stiff Little Fingers-Alternative Ulster
Sensefield-Beautiful Beautiful
J-Church-Girlfriend in a coma
Egghunt-Me and You
Ignition-Proven Hollow
Lag Wagon-Angry Days

Anyway the racing was cool...a report will show up on Moving Target soon i think but bookings taken for wedding music based on the above set list welcome........

Tony Hawk skated the vert ramp down under the westway..........