Best BMX intro ever?

Probably. The only one I can think of that comes close is Criminal Mischief, maybe Skavenger haha. Seriously this has it all; DMX, slams, fire, Eyehategod, midgets, fire, rednecks, the works. FBM MOTHERFUCKER!

AM:PM

The AM:PM video was premiered in NYC the other night, and will hopefully make it over these shores within the next month or so. You better believe this is going to be good. The web edits always have the best vibe, takes BMX back to hanging out and having fun with your mates like back in the day, before tech parts and getting coverage took over. The music is always spot-on and the riding is rad.
For more info check out www.fromheretotheear.blogspot.com or www.dahstreets.blogspot.com

Get into it.

This guy.

Ralph Sinisi is a true BMX legend. Check out Nowhere Fast, Neighbourhood Superheroes, Don't Quit Your Day Job 1 and 2, FBM Albert Street, any of the Animal videos and the Skapegoat vids to see what I mean. Ralph and Animal Bikes have helped carve out and push the street side of BMX and are probably the main reason BMX's focus switched from contests to real street and video parts. Chances are you'd still have your huge bars and slammed seat without this guy, but you would probably still have your brake on and be doing fufanus at the park all day.
Street.

Nowhere Fast weekend holiday...

Nowhere Fast had a show at an all dayer in Lancaster last Saturday, so with nothing to do on the Friday night we threw the Don in the car and high tailed it for Leeds to catch Mob Rules and Brain Dead at the Fenton. Was a funny trip, even though we briefly entered the Cockpit (after some Mission Impossible bouncer fooling due to Joe not actually existing on paper), which contained bigger bell ends than you can comprehend. There's a few pictures from the weekend down there. The Don is a prime example of a true male.

The lads, minus The Don...

Lucky's Pizza, Leeds.


Dicks.


Tom and Tank gettin' suzzy 'in da club'.

Man of the hour.

Streetest Phone Edit

This video is boss, courtesy of Bengo. Raw street shit from Jay Bean, Mini, Danny and Bengo all filmed on a phone haha. Streetest lads, streetest edit.

'they call him...macheteeee'

Adam Snowdon

this is for you.

The Jump Off 2009

We are getting back into the video thing. We ain't been around for some time now, but we're coming back. Close your windows, lock your doors, hide your fucking Director forks. The B-Team is coming, bringing the fun and good sounds.

For now, here's an old joint we did back in 2003. If you watch the whole thing there's alot of ahead-of-its time shit in there. Features all your favourite local boys; Addy Snowdon, Danny Ingram, Matty Lambert, Tank, Loz Taylor etc. Merseyside BMX.


[BMX] Fire In The Hole (2003) from Tom Pimlott on Vimeo.

This is BMX

Fuck the X Games, fuck the Simpel Sessions, fuck the fucking energy drinks.

Pop Punk - bin it.

With very very very few exceptions, I absolutely despise all that now comes under the banner of 'pop punk' music. I'm not talking about what used to be known as pop-punk, stuff like Descendents, Screeching Weasel etc, I mean the girlyboy drivel ala New Found Glory and friends. Since when has doing a terrible impression of a girl singing about love and shit in a sickening OTT American accent been punk?! Let's take a little look at some of the lyrics these 'chaps' are throwing out there, shall we? This little ditty is an excerpt from a song by the aformentioned New Found Glory:

''Let's make a date out of the cinema
Then stay out till early in the morning
I always like it cause we take it slow
While everyone around us seems so hurried

It feels familiar, cause I've been here before
When your words
Swept the ground right from under me
Remember when you were so insecure
Now you can't get your hands up off of me''

Awwwwwwww cute...fuckoff. And to think I know MALES who like this shit!! No wonder people end up forming bands like One Life Crew, that's enough to make anyone want to kick something in the face. I don't wanna hear a song about going on a fucking date with a girl. I wanna hear a song about how you wanna turn someones face into soup, something that makes me wanna run through town at 1am swinging a bat. People only start pop punk bands to get girls, it has to be the only reason. How else can you have a whole set of songs just moaning about girls? We all have our problems in that area, but jesus man the fuck up and get it out without making me want to vomit in your face with your stupid fanny voice. If you're gonna sing about touchy feely shit, and I do believe there is a time and a place and that it can be done tastefully, then leave 'punk' out of it.
Shave your swede, ditch the bitch and harden up with a bit of Haymaker you nancies.

''There is a fight in the pit and we don't care
Cause we're not stopping or going anywhere
We're on a mission to self destruct
And we don't care who gets fucked
So beat each other with chains and bats
And we'll be your fucking soundtrack.''

In fact, on second thoughts, don't bother.

Mississippi lap dance.

This guy can make better noises than you. So good.

What the man says

Northwest BMX 2009 Takeover...

Y'heard


www.dubbmx.com
www.myspace.com/dubbmx
www.nonstopvid.com
www.myspace.com/nonstopvid_official

2009

Here for you, on New Year's Day, is a list of 15 things I want to see much less of (and in some cases never, ever again) in BMX in this foul year of Their Lord, 2009.

- God
- Electro pop on videos
- Toboggans
- Headbands
- Sunglasses
- Girl's pants (can't be said enough really)
- Doing pointless tweaks when hopping over something
- 'Club Rap' in videos
- Slammed seat/massive bars/brakeless bikes that look like everyone got them from the same vending machine
- Park riders riding street for money + coverage
- Horrendous tshirt designs that look like they came out of Topman
- Whips to the pedals
- Freecoasters
- Fixing things that ain't broke. Or should that be fixing things until they ARE broke...(hi Odyssey)
- Brakeless 'street' riders who aren't legit


And here's 15 things I want to see more of in 2009. Get to it.

- Good, proper punk rock on videos
- Scerbo bars. So far pretty much everyone I've seen riding these is legit.
- Real street by real street riders.
- Grinds. Not Luc-E grinds in the skatepark, i mean double pegs on concrete ledges. Fannys.
- Good classic bikes parts, shit that worked for years and didn't need changing.
- People realising that Adam Snowdon is king
- More DUB BMX related events, them guys have it down good.
- Non-anorexic bikes. Fuck your paper plate bike and your breezewhips. Be a man and be prepared to lift some shit.
- Proper hiphop on videos. Wu Tang, Mobb Deep, Big L, Tribe Called Quest, all of that shit. Can't stand all the plastic rap on vids these days.
- Whips to the frame.
- Vic Ayala/Will Taubin/Gonz/Zach Sprinkle appreciation.
- More kids checking out the past classics like Albert Street, All Time Low, Turbulence, Animal 1, Base Brooklyn, Sombra vids, Criminal Mischeif, Seek + Destroy
- FOUR PEGS
- More Black Sabbath on videos
- More SUN AND HEAT.


To cap it off anyway here's Will Taubin's part from an old Ride video called IN THE LIFE. I think i swapped my copy with Adam Durkin for a Primo Hemmorroid seat years ago...anyway watch and learn coz this guy is well STREETER than you, and better than most of the drivel on 'Brighton Aint Ready' (exceptions noted).

New York City funtime

The am:pm videos are among the very few BMX web edits that actually excite me, and this is definetly my favourite one. Such a good-time feel to this video, plus The Sonics are a beast.

Floorpunch.

Floorpunch are one of those bands I won't listen to for ages, forget about, then listen again and buzz off how fucking good they were. So simple, so hard, so straight edge. This video is an old favourite of mine that must have just been re-upped because I couldn't find it for ages. Show looks fun/scary as shit.

The Mongoloids

I have a weak spot for mosh-your-dick-off heavy hardcore, and The Mongoloids from New Jersey fit that particular bill perfectly. Saw these guys at United Blood, so much fun live.
Best bit is the Mosh Instructions at about 2:30. ''...set this shit off Madball style! IS ANYBODY FEELIN' ME?!''

BMX

One of these is the real deal, one is an impostor. If you can't tell the difference, please do one.

Out Cold.

Tank and Mackem constantly bang on about these being the best band ever etc etc, and I always thought they were good, but not THAT good. Until now, having heard the 'Will Attack If Provoked' album. FUCK ME how can hardcore punk get this fucking good?!

Get into it.

US Trip.

A little late, whatever. Me and Tank spent the days between March 11th and April 12th across the pond and had a blast. We went over with no real plans other than to eat pizza, and the only thing we had to base anything on was a few gig dates in various cities. We made some amazing friends, saw alot of crazy shit, went to alot of incredible shows and came through with our plan to eat lots of pizza. A few highlights, from what I can remember:

(photos are up here - http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=3472909&albumId=2164916 )

New York: Flew into NYC, immediately shit ourselves as we realised we were in America on our own for 5 weeks and had no clue what we were doing. Took a cab into the city to our hostel, took about an hour and we took pictures of the stupidest shit ever the whole way. Heading into New York City for the first time was such an insane experience, very overwhelming.
Our hostel was right next to Central Park which was cool, and we were apparently two or three blocks from Harlem (a no-go area according to a dude from the hostel)! Walked pretty much the length of the park after we had checked in, just walking towards the huge skyscrapers. The walk from the end of the park through to Times Square and beyond was another thing i won't forget, I felt like I was in a cartoon or something. Shortly following this we had our first pizza of the trip at Ray's Pizza. Dead good.
The next few days were spent mainly walking around, riding the subway and eating pizza. Other than a few highlights like The Empire State Building, The Village (and the best record shop ever), the World Trade Center site and some other mad stuff, New York got boring pretty fast. So, after 5 days we decided to leave NYC. Now, our original plan was to head north to Boston for St. Patricks Day and spend a couple days there, but Boston being full of American Irish etc, everywhere was booked up. So we just decided to ease Paddys day and go south to Richmond in Virginia.

Richmond, Virigina: Jumped on a Greyhound bus to Richmond and just headed straight down there. The driver managed to get lost coming into DC on the way down and had to be directed by a passenger. We also passed a shop in a small town called 'Bombay Gaylord' and me + tank proceeded to absolutely crack up laughing for a good 5 minutes, while everyone else wondered why we were laughing...

We arrived in Richmond and realised we had no way of contacting the lads we were mean to be staying with, so Tank had to phone this girl Amanda whose number we had, and her and her friend came and picked us up. The next three days were spent floating around the Richmond suburbs, sleeping on the floors and in the cars of these two girls, it was pretty surreal. The second night we went into Richmond to see The Ladies, Shoot It Up and Cloak/Dagger in a tiny bar/cafe place called Ramakins, our first show of the trip. It was rad, especially The Ladies, as it was their first show and their set was about 5 minutes long, but perfect for all 5 of those minutes. We still hadn't gotten hold of the boys we were meant to stay with though, and we had no idea what they looked like which didn't help. We asked around a bit, but no luck. The next night was another show in the same venue, and was even better. The Ladies played again, also with Brutal Knights from Canada and local boys Wasted Time, who were amazing. There were people spilling out onto the street, diving off the bar, just going mental. This was an awesome night too because we finally found Judge and Kage, the guys we were supposed to be staying with.

Now, this was a very important turning point in our little trip. See, we thought we had been having a pretty good time up to that point already, and we were super grateful to Amanda and Tori for helping us out and being cool, but everything just got fucking amazing as soon as we threw our gear into Judge's car and headed to Trey Brown's house. We had gotten talking to Judge and Kage about 6 months prior to our trip through Kage responding to an email I had sent to Swamp Thing about 6 months before the trip (Kage played bass in Swamp Thing at the time), and it turned out that their dad was from Liverpool, and they said we were welcome to stay with them anytime which was cool as shit. Anyway, I think it must have been between midnight and 1am when we got back to Trey's house that night, and me and Tank just thought we would be getting in and going to sleep. But, over the next half an hour people just started coming into the house and chilling, and we were introduced to the likes of Dan (Snax), Brett, Trevor, Jessica and some others I think. It was just crazy that it was 1am on a wednesday night and these guys were just like 'So what are we doing tonight?'. They decided we had to experience 'Sheetz' which turned out to be a kind of petrol station/all night diner combo, so we all piled into cars and drove out there, where we met a bunch more hardcore kids and ate M&Ms + laughed til our faces hurt, it was boss.
(That night, and in the weeks to follow, we met easily some of the best, soundest and craziest fuckers we had ever encountered. Our holiday wouldn't have even come close to being as good as it was if it wasn't for the Richmond kids. I just want to say thanks to Judge for driving us absolutely everywhere (including Miami!!), taking time off work to chill and do cool stuff with us, and just being a boss dude; Kage/K-Pei/Belmar for being the funniest and weirdest guy ever; Dan (CEO of Snax Inc...) for driving us to Philly and moshing when excited; Trey Brown for putting up with us taking over his couch for like 3 weeks, thanks so much mate; Brett for being massive and from New York, for making fun of us non-stop for being English, for riding an FBM and for killing abot 45632 kids at United Blood; Trevor aka Space Trigg for doing the dance of death to Mind Eraser and trying to puke on purpose, and for being well funny; Mary for letting us ride in the back of her pickup truck, sorry we got you pulled over!; Ethan for being totally unhinged and having the best most intense rants about hardcore ever 'you know why he loves Bitter End? Coz he's never heard Void!!'; thanks also to James, Ashton, Anna, Caroline, CRAZY ZACK, Greg, Sean Patrick, Lil Lexxx, Sean from Naysayer, the crazy guy who worked in 7-11 that kept calling me New York, Swamp Thing, Mind Rot, COMA and STEP ABOVE!!! + anyone else who I've inevitably forgotten, thanks! We love Richmond.)

The three weeks we spent in Richmond have kinda melded into a big blur in my mind now, but I'll try and remember some individual incidents.
Earth Crisis night was a good one haha. Me, Tank, Dan and Trevor went to see Earth Crisis, Terror, Sworn Enemy, Shai Hulud and Down To Nothing at Alley Katz. We missed DTN and the rest of the show was fucking crap, afterwards was awesome though. After the show everyone went a few blocks down to this club where one of the local hc kids was doing a rap set at a dance party under the name Lil Lexxx. It was crazy, about a hundred hardcore kids just crashed this club, went crazy for Lexxx then left haha. After 'Da x God' was done, a few of us drove around looking for pizza places that had closed and put leftovers in the bins out back. After a fruitless search, we went to this guy's flat and one of the lads we were with just walked in, took a pizza from the kitchen and ate it outside. We chilled outside this guys flat for about an hour or two, during which we pissed off the whole neighbourhood by shouting at student houses, setting cardboard on fire and having Crazy Zack piss on it, and Dan screaming at some drunk girls while trying to pull a street sign out of the ground. We had the police called on us twice that night...
I'm at the point now in this recollection where I have realised that to carry on like this would take me days, so I'm just going to list some other highlights and leave my memories in my head.
Boss shit: Our trip to DC to see 86 Mentality's last ever show, which was one of the best/scariest things I've ever been to. Judge driving us almost non-stop for 24hrs from Richmond to Miami then staying for one night and driving back so Ana could go to a job interview. United Blood fest being amazing, and getting to see THE WRONG SIDE and MIND ERASER. Illegally going onto Belle Isle, then getting stopped by the police for riding in the back of a pickup at 3am, and being put on the Richmond City Police gang files. Oh and Tegan getting royally fucked with haha. So much more.

Thanks lads.

Road Fools 8

is amazing. matt beringer is a beast. that is all.

Life updates.

Alot of this probably won't concern you unless you're my mate or you like one of my crappy bands. as usual, read on anyway.

On tuesday the 11th (in like 3 days time), myself and my good friend Tank are embarking on a 5 week exploration of the east coast of the United States of America. This can only be absolutely brilliant, as our borderline-ridiculously loose plan involves eating huge slices of pizza, spending St Patrick's day in Boston, shooting guns and seeing 86 Mentality's last show, as well as United Blood festival and numerous other amazing punk rock related ditties. Effort will be made to make it to the Deep South, because even though the idea scares me it looks worth a visit for the hick factor alone.

Because of this, I am having to record in two bands this weekend to ensure we can deliver the goods without a huge wait. Tomorrow myself, Tank, Ad and Joe will be going in to record four or five songs for the Nowhere Fast demo. We are a new band, about 4 practices deep, with yours truly on vocal duties. We basically want to sound like SSD, SOA, Negative Approach, Minor Threat, Negative FX, Adolescents etc, so in short it's going to be fresh sounding and creative...ha. Look out for the demo soon.
www.myspace.com/nowherefast81

Cold Ones are also 'hitting the (makeshift) studio' this weekend, recording one song for the Town Clock Records compilation and a few more new jams for one, or perhaps two, new releases due out in the near future. Keep em fuckin peeled, they won't be shit.

I think that's all for now. So if I don't post anything else, and I don't see you, IN A BIT.

The state of BMX.

I'm sure those of you that frequent the BMX related websites, blogs and messageboards are well and truly sick of hearing stuff like this. If this is the case, the following might do your head in but read it anyway.
Really, whats going on? I may not be out there putting the hours in everyday anymore, but I am definetly aware of BMX changing for what I see as the worse.

1. EVERYONES's bike looks like one of those stupid fucking Monty trials bikes. You know, brakeless, seat slammed, no pegs and them huge bars that look completely daft. Seth K's bike on Road Fools 12 = perfect.

2. Videos never have good music anymore. Electro and plastic 'gangsta' rap should be banned from BMX. What happened to videos having amazing soundtracks? Nowhere Fast with Slayer, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Redman, Black Sabbath etc, the first Animal video with The Jam, Deltron, Jefferson Airplane, Four Walls Falling etc, Who Brought The Dicks? with The Misfits, Buzzcocks, Distillers, Iggy and the Stooges, Dead Kennedys...need I go on? I'm so sick of seeing mincers in their sisters pants doing barspins to fucking Kanye West. Bring back the punk rock, the thrash metal, the real hiphop.

3. The fact that being a brakeless 'street rider' used to be rare and fun. I know it sounds a bit lame, but the brakeless thing and the 'street' style used to belong solely to those who learned to ride in carparks and city centres. This seems to have now gone out the window, as every little meff who learned all their moves down the skatepark on their tech as fuck featherweight bike has now ditched their brakes and started to do 180s and barspins, essentially ruining it for those who have always rode street and learned everything that way. This doesn't concern myself too much as I'm not big on learning tricks anymore, but i know alot of riders who are probably overlooked because some little park-trained fruit is whipping down 500 stairs or something. Not that these lads give a fuck about being overlooked anyway...
But yeah, this recent trend has kind of ruined the feel. So kindly take your progression and fuck off so this lone fair-weather rider feels a bit better about things.

4. Taking it too seriously. I think myself, and Jack from Wrexham, got our first videos finished about a year before the start of the 'web video' boom, so I didn't really keep up with this until it really got going. When me and my friends were making that video, I never could have imagined that people would be arguing, or even bothered, about people filming the same tricks at spots and whatnot. I've heard so many people moaning on websites about 'footage poaching' or whatever that I wouldn't be surprised if people starting asking you to fill out fucking forms before you get your camera out. RELAX.

5. All of the above, coupled with the obsession with platinum-plated new era caps and girls pants (a completely rinsed subject, but an issue that can't be raised enough. dads need to get strict) and the fact that almost everyone on these web vids I'm seeing is apeing the exact same style, means that while BMX is progressing at a faster rate than ever before, it bores me to death. I may be speculatiing a bit, but it seems to me that filming videos and taking pictures for the internet is probably a bigger concern for BMX kids these days than just chilling and talking crap with your mates at a good spot on a nice day. While I probably seem irrationally concerned about BMX issues that may appear trivial to you, the latter was, and still is most definetly the main agenda for me and my friends.

More moaning probably to come when it enters my head. Watch Dave Parrick's classic NOWHERE FAST.

Working.

Most people with a bit of sense and who aren't custard donut testers hate their job. Due to this, most punk bands take a minute or two to tell you this really loud. I am all for this, and here is one of my favourites, lyrically speaking anyway.

'Slavedriver' by Colin Of Arabia:

9 to 5, daily grind
no double time for overtime
i have to save every dime
christ sakes i steal to eat sometimes
i'm still stuck inside this dump
all for a few measley bucks
i hate all you stupid fucks
i won't miss this place, it sucks
monday mornings killing me
this slave driver won't free me
days i want to call in dead
show up late chop off your head
i won't miss this fucking shit
fuck off, die, i fucking quit.

Should have just copied this out and handed it in as my notice.

Spiked bat.

First of all, Career Suicide (and this guy) are amazing. Perfect hardcore punk band. Attempted Suicide is, upon an in-depth listen- absolutely superb. First song is such a rager.


In general Tom news (haha), I've handed my notice in to work, started a new band and on the 11th of March me and my esteemed colleague Tank are embarking on a month-long unplanned adventure to east coast (and hopefully Deep South) USA. This is going to be brilliant. We are going to see rednecks, bears, insane nutters, eat loads of huge crazy food and also get to see bands such as 86 Mentality, Wasted Time, Mind Eraser, The Wrong Side, Bracewar, Cardiac Arrest, COA, Breakdown, Cold World, Living Hell etc. Life is pretty good eh?

Re: My last post...

I am going to the last show over in DC.


86 Mentality
Wasted Time
Cardiac Arrest
Baltimore Bastards


I win.