Sam Bailey – King Kong Edit
Sam Bailey’s perspective of the recent King Kong skate jam at Southsea Skatepark, good stuff as always from Sam:
King Kong
King Kong 2010
The 24th of July, the beautifully sun-soaked Saturday just gone, saw the urban culture & skate event; King Apparel King Kong 2010 take over Southsea Skatepark.
Aimed at celebrating & encouraging the creative sides of urban culture, it certainly did that. The ‘Street Art Doodle Wall’ was well and truly covered in a bit of everyone’s creative (and messy) spark, shout out to all the artists down on the day who had some great freestyle pieces going down, stuART, Mr. Kemp, Leila, Bryan & Joe. Also our arty sponsors Graphotism & Ironlak (well worth checking out if your into that kind of thing).
Plenty of fat beats boomed out across the park and common around it thanks to DJ Mos, Kenny, Random Scarves & the Durty Sound System DJs, a beastly selection of dirty dubstep, DnB, hip hop & alternative funk kept everyone’s tastes more than satisfied, sound track to the day couldn’t have been better.
Anyone unlucky enough to not make it down missed out on some hot as hell discounts on some of the freshest threads about, as the King Apparel team were down in force with a stall showcasing their selection of fine garments and not to forget the crafty locals Individual Threads.
Last but not least the key part of this year’s event; The Herbal Skateboards Mini-Ramp Jam was SICK.
Contest format was a minute each, going into a final 5 skaters with 2 minute runs. It was a heated battle and off the chain tricks were going down left, right & centre, but in the end the victors looked a little something like this:
In 1st Adam Keys, 2nd Noddy Rands & 3rd Bob Grist. All well deserving winners, with plenty of King Apparel, Herbal SBs, LovenSkate & Vans products as prizes. Again well done guys!
This was followed by a best trick contest and Casey Brown took top honours with the smith to kickflip out that he had nailed pre-contest…so sick. Some King Apparel T-shirts and a Herbal skateboard found their way into Casey’s mitts.
Thanks goes out to the Herbal crew who ran the jam, Strong Island’s Paul Gonella who kindly came down to help judge the contest, SUSO Drinks who kept everyone from going thirsty on a very hot day and everyone at Southsea Skatepark for helping making the event happen.
Writeup by Nick Stokes.
Video by Herbal Skateboards.
King Kong 2010
This year’s King Kong skate event at Southsea Skatepark will be this Saturday 24th 12-6pm and like last year will be too good to miss. The event will include live DJ’s, street art workshop, stalls to buy stuff and a mini-ramp jam/comp on the new mini. Will see you there!
The Bazaar: Urban Culture Market @ King Kong 2010
The King Kong event is all set to return to the Skatepark on the 24th of July, as well as the usual shinanigans, sound systems, BBQs, skate/BMX jams, graffiti artists & DIY graffiti sessions, they’re using the area just outside the park for a bit of an urban culture market so they’re looking for as many brands, projects & possible traders, big & small as possible. Trading fees will be as low as possible, between £10-£20, to make the market accessible to even the newest projects and brands with very tight budgets.
If you’re at all interested in having a pitch & trading at The Bazaar or have any questions about the event, please e-mail info@kongfest.co.uk starting the message TRADE or hit up their Facebook group.
Friday Night’s Alright for Skateboarding
By the sounds of it the King Kong event at the Wedgewood Rooms went down a storm with good music and good skateboarding on a little mini ramp. Harvey Mills was at the event with his camera and took some great photos, be sure to pop over and look through his Flickr to see more.
King Kong Wedge:One
You might remember the King Kong event at the skatepark back in the autumn of last year (our photos are here and here), it was really successful and raised a lot of money for the skatepark. On Friday 12th March the next King Kong event will this time be at The Wedgewood Rooms with a line up including music and an indoor mini ramp. Yes. Indoor. Mini ramp. Doors open 8pm-2am (U18s allowed 8pm-12). Tickets are £5, £6 on the door.
ROOM:ONE
The Ruskins
“a wonderful f**king band – like Jamie T on steroids” – Tom Robinson (BBC 6)
“Anyone who can stick the words ‘cycling proficiency’ in their song deserves to be on my show!!” – Steve Lamacq (Radio 1)
Milk Kan
Blaggers, chancers, punks and urban poets
“Milk Kan you rule. Somewhere between Bob Dylan and Mike skinner. Poets with Attitude, free-form, stream-of-consciousness blues-rapping with acoustic guitars…” – Steve Lamacq BBC Radio 1.
The Hit-Ups!
“…A hugely energetic mix of funk, ska and bruising hip-hop.” – Venue Magazine
“F**king awesome!” – live-music-scene.co.uk
Orange Blossom Specials
Fresh new addition to Southsea’s indie scene.
PLUS: AN INDOOR MINI-RAMP!!
A mixture of Bored & Herbal’s skateboard team & a handful of Southsea’s finest in-liners shredding it up throughout the night.
Plus DJs Fotza & Spikey Mark
ROOM:TWO
Durty Sound System
funk.hiphop.dub.rock.latin.jazz.reggae.soul
+ Skateboard, In-Line & BMX films screened all night
There will also be an afterparty too:
BREAKNECK & 10TON AFTERPARTY : SDM & CHARGE
drum&bass.dubstep.grime
Goes without saying these guys are top of the game and will be ending the night like no others can.
Midnight >> £1 OTD
Once again all profits made will be going to SOUTHSEA SKATEPARK
Ticket Outlets are:
Portsmouth
- Box Office, Albert Rd | 023 9286 3911 | tickets@wedgewood-rooms.co.uk
- Bored Skateboard Shop, Albert Rd | 02392 426 388
- Southsea Skatepark | 02392 295360
Southampton
- Reskue Skateboard Shop, 10 Bargate Str | 02380 710528
- Pijin BMX Shop, Above Bar Str | 02380 336777
Chichester
- E.S.P Skate/BMX Shop, Cathedral Courtyard | 01243 532828
King Kong: More Photos
Just heard that the King Kong event at the skatepark was attended by 350-400 people on Sunday, the busiest it has been in a long while, plus a fair bit of money was raised to help support the park and make some much needed repairs. Here are some photos from the day, you can see more over at Forever Circling.
King Kong at Southsea Skatepark – This Sunday 4th
The King Kong fundraiser held in Southsea Skatepark between 12midday & 6pm will be going ahead as planned. The weather looks slightly less hot than the last week, but will hopefully shine on the day entertainment.
LIVE & DJED
Ska/Punk, Pop, Indie, Metal, Rock, Hip Hop, Drum’nBass & Dubstep music from, Kids Cant Fly, Little London, Dred, The White Coats, Kizmit, Jack Presto Fotza, Barrie Bun Roi, Grayzee, Ruby Soho, Underbeat, Spikey Mark & Danny Bass hosted by the one and only MC Sidekick.
SKATEBOARD, BMX & IN-LINE COMPS
With prizes kindly being donated from BORED skateshop & TKUK amongst others. Remember, if competing you need to sign up between 12.00 & 12.40.
+ GRAFFITI ARTISTS, FREE RUNNING SHOWCASES, BBQS & STALLS SELLING NICE STUFF.
All for just £4 and don’t forget the after party @ LJRs, with Gentle Bren on the decks and free entry you can’t go wrong!
King Kong Southsea Skatepark Jam
This event isn’t till the 4th of October but we’ve put this post up to make sure it goes in your diaries. We’ll put another more concise post up closer to the time. Plus I’m a bit busy. Here’s what Nick Stokes has to say.
S.N. Events & the Skate Park User Group presents KING KONG your chance to watch & take part in extreme sports, listen to some fantastc live music, eat slighty burnt bbq food, catch some handy grafftit artists at work and help raise some money for the South Coast’s premier skatepark all at the same time! Well if your any good at multi-tasking anyway. Join the Facebook thing HERE.
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