gyppo army: March 2008

Here's A Bit...

of footage from the demo we did at Revolution a while back, filmed by Brooks and I'm told that the music is by Brooks and Aaron? Who cares? I don't!

Bilbao

Here's some photos from the recent Bilbao trip...

Accomadation for the trip, our tents nearly blew into the sea because of the strong winds. You've got to like the way Marcus' and Doug's "shelter" is just a tent tarpaulin sheet and a stick.

Some bloke who we met at the skatepark had crazy eyes, was 40 odd and followed skaters around all day. This was probably his dog.

Sick street spot, hardly got a chance to skate here, police came along and threatened us with fines so we left.

It's raining, you can't skate, you're freezing cold, it's really early in the morning, you've got no money left and it's day 3 of the trip. Don't worry, we've got over 500 fags for the trip!

Aaron just before getting away with something gnarly in the bowl!

A full article will be getting run in a future issue of Document so keep your eyes on the lookout!

Gyppo Trips

The demo at Revolution was pretty good, Rob Smith got bottled the night before and had a stained bloody t-shirt. New Gyppo Army rider Elliot was lurking, he threw a pretty bad whitey the night before, just started puking up randomly and passed out!

We're off to Ireland on Thursday for Van City 2 which should be sick. Ireland's finally got it's act together when building parks so that should be a sick little trip.

We're off on a non-stop trip to Belgium/Barca and then Scotland for War of the Thistles for two weeks in April. Fuck knows where we're going to get the money from to do that trip, it's going to be fucking tight though!

I don't know what else to put up on here, I've got nothing too interesting to say...

Rain...

...and plenty of it poured down on us in Bilbao. We only had one fully dry day which sucked, but we still got a fair bit of skating done. I'd be too long if I explained in full the whole story up on this blog, I guess you'll have check an upcoming Document to get a better feel about what happened over there with photographic evidence too! In short, Kev and Aaron's tent had holes in it and all of their stuff got soaked, Marcus ended up sleeping in a sandy puddle (and that's no exaggeration), Doug sought refuge in a church one night and Kev had to jump out of a hostel window on the last night to avoid paying! I guess you'll find footage of what went down at some later point too, fuck knows when exactly though!

The Demo at Revolution skatepark is taking place this Sunday, so don't forget about that one too!

A Grand Day Out

Did you read the weekend post a while back? Here's the footage from that day. Filmed and edited by Phraeza

Transient Mulisha

A 14 page article has just materialized on the web's finest skater run magazine Tweaker Zine. Don't worry, it's mainly pictures so you won't have to practise those reading skills. Click the image below to go straight to the article.

We Are Off...

...to Bilbao on Thursday for another Document article. The weather there is crap and we're going equipped with one tent which is stored in a plastic bag and one army tent that this random bloke gave to my mum knowing that it might serve me well. Our hand luggage on the plane will be sleeping bags with whatever clothing we can get crammed inside them.

What a fucking tour this is going to end up being. Unlike 90% of the English population, I haven't been to Spain yet, I hope Bilbao isn't infested.

Aaron is now technically an "actor" and has filmed for his 2nd ITV show yesterday. Fuck knows what the world is coming too...

Nobody knows where Doug is, hopefully he ends up around my place before Wednesday so that he ends up on the plane even though he doesn't have any money whatsoever.

We might adopt a child(ren). At £350 a week to look after each kid, you'd be stupid not to!

Following On From The Previous Post

Kev got a tattoo on his right leg on Friday whilst "under the influence." The scribbling seems to resemble "Gyppo Amy" and is already peeling/fading... Watch out for guys who have recently acquired a tattoo gun! I'll post up a picture in a bit when I can be fucked.

I've had enough of fucking girls who act like they're the fucking world as their parents/parent lives on the continent and possibly has a helicopter. Get down to the real world and maybe take a dick up the bum and we'll all be happy.

Following on from that theme, Aaron got with this ongoing girl yesterday, well, he didn't really get with her. They were just texting and apparently Aaron ended up in a relationship. Today however! Kev broke into Aaron's Myspazz and exchanged a few comments with said girl and ended up tweaking with his profile to put him in a unfortunate position. In a nutshell, Kev fucked it for Aaron despite Aaron having repeatedly fucked his chances many a time in the past. Chances include receiving and ignoring/replying with stupid answers to texts such as "I'm at home naked on my own and bored, want to come over?" as well as "I'm crazier than most girls, I want to show you how mad i can get, want to fuck on broken glass?"

All i have to say is, "Silly Dick..."

Oh yeah, The "Baghead Flats" premiere is in London on Weds, who's going to that?

Zarosh is now in my favourite skaters list.

Doug has also been spotted sitting in a car with Aaron and Kev going to a skatespot. This is pretty amazing news! Doug got an NBD at Royal Oak the other day, you might find out what it is, you might not. Aaron did an NBD on the vert wall there too, somebody nicked the coping from it, but that didn't stop Aaron going fucking nuts on it. Kev was polishing up his "street" moves on the curb next to the skatepark due to injuries from eating shit last weekend.

Other Gyppo Army weekend activities include telling Aladin to blow his nose, skating Crawley, hurling abuse from a moving car to hopeless passers by, laughing at passers by from a moving car, laughing at Gorm a bit, being laughed at by Gorm, skating a "secret spot/skatepark in S. London" as well as doing the odd illegal activity here and there.

There's been quite a lot of skating footy/pics up on this blog lately. I'm going to try my hardest to make sure it has it's original touch of being a pile of shit that might have made most of you visit the old blog in the first place!