FRANKENBROTHER Skate Video Podcast

We had a lot to say about this wonderful documentary covering the life and death of our local Adelaide City Skatepark, a spot each of us have a lot of history with. We ramble about the fifteen years of the park itself and what its creation and eventual demolition meant to this funny old town of ours. 

More Than Concrete! on YouTube - https://youtu.be/3Io6nOlfvYM

In Part 2 we discussed the first day of Olympic Skateboarding from the Tokyo Olympics, how 13yo girls shredding that hard makes our creaky bones hurt, and that Tom and Stuart are too old to work out how to use TV apps. 

See Part 1 for our discussion about DGK's 2014 video Blood Money. 

We split this latest episode into two parts because we simply couldn't shut up and it went on a bit. This first part covers DGK's short Blood Money video but we end up talking about music mostly (again).

Part 2 covers the first day of the Olympic Skateboarding street events. 

Midnight Express. Faces of Death. The Waterboy. Another 48 Hours. Hot Rod. The Warriors. What do all these films have in common? We manage to draw tenuous links between them and 2013’s The Deathwish Video.

(Apologies for the dodgy cables making some awful noises at points)

We go right back to the beginning with the one that not only gave birth to skate videos as we know them, but helped revive the entire skateboarding culture that took over the world. An absolute classic.

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Come for the discussion of an incredible British skate video - stay for the ramblings of three tired old men reminiscing over awful early 90s vegan hardcore bands. 

Also includes our first extended audio contributions from filmmaker Ford Brookfield and featured skater Dan Cates.

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This 2007 documentary focusing on former skater and businessman Steve Rocco (World Industries, Blind, Plan B etc) covers the wild ride of the 1990s skateboarding industry and the culture more broadly. As a trio of old buggers, you know we had a lot of feelings about it all. 

We crawled out of our dusty quarantine caves to have a chat about these weird times and respond to a couple of listener emails. 

It's nearly March, but here's what we though about 2019.

Another long episode, but with good reason - we had incredible feedback and background info from Heroin Skateboards owner Mark 'Fos' Foster and were able to go deep on a really great, newish, gnarly video.