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SF Part 1

2008-10-20T19:36:00.004+01:00

Part one of Russ's pics from SF

San Francisco

2008-10-16T09:21:00.001+01:00

Russ and Paul got back from a ten day skate trip to San Francisco the other day, expect a load of photos and a video clip or two in the next few days...

Rain Man

2008-10-01T20:02:00.001+01:00

Steve Bailey doesn't let a little thing like the rain get in the way of landing his tricks...

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Saturday action

2008-09-30T22:01:00.003+01:00

Here's a few pics Channon shot on Saturday

Tweaker Freaker

2008-09-19T09:02:00.003+01:00

Tweaker Zine is having a photography and artwork exhibition in Slam City in that there London, opening October 16th. Paul and Dave will have work up plus there will be loads of awesome stuff from lots and lots of nice peoples.

Check the Tweaker Freaker website for all the details and the (growing) list of people who will be showing work. Both Dave and Paul will be there on the opening night, hopefully some free beer too, would be awesome if you could make it down.

Darren Johnston & Syd Barrett

2008-09-10T12:02:00.004+01:00

OG Monster Network member Darren Johnston recently made a short film inspired by Syd Barrett with help from the Arts Council and BBC Look East. Look East recently showed the short film and interviewed Darren, you can watch the film and the interview here. Good work!

Russ' Birthday

2008-09-09T10:22:00.004+01:00

Saturday night was Russ' birthday night out in Colchester, it was pretty boozy and with a healthy contingent of OG MN heads too.

Early Warning

2008-09-04T10:24:00.002+01:00

OG Monster Network homie Kev Peacock is getting married in November, we're in the process of sorting out a night out in Southsea at the end of the month so keep your diaries free.

Also a great excuse to post up an old photo of KP, classic 96 spot, Maldon Tescos.

Thursday Rumblings..

2008-08-29T07:35:00.004+01:00

Alot of driving, but with some very productive results

On it....

2008-08-26T00:00:00.002+01:00

The Bank Holiday weekend in pictures...

Dave at The Hythe

2008-08-19T09:25:00.002+01:00

Dave enjoys the pleasures of a curb and a bank down at The Hythe.

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Potter in Thrasher

2008-08-12T07:10:00.004+01:00

Friend of the site and Essex A.T.V Carl Wilson gets a well deserved sequence in this months Thrasher

Nice work boss!

Verntastic Outtakes

2008-08-05T09:32:00.003+01:00

Veran getting his swerve on in Southend filming for the as yet untitled new vid.

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Leigh on Sea Edit

2008-07-30T09:43:00.002+01:00

Jay has been busy putting together a Lik Down edit of some recent goings on down at the new Leigh on Sea skatepark in sunny Southend. Check out Jay, Dave Watson, Russ and some of the Southend and Switch crew go to work on the new concrete.

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Southend Saturday

2008-07-28T09:04:00.002+01:00

Winter, Sudbury, Holga

2008-07-23T13:10:00.004+01:00

Paul recently found an old roll of medium format film shot with his Holga camera during a winter's Sudbury session back in 2007 with Dave, Sandy and Russ. Here are are a few of the photos.

Going, Going, gone...

2008-07-16T18:48:00.002+01:00

Here's a very early mock up cover for Never Forever that never saw the light of day

Which is also here to tell you that we only have three copies left of Never Forever, so be quick if you still want to purchase a copy!

Channon at Southend Tennis Court Banks

2008-07-08T09:10:00.003+01:00

Speaking of Channon, here is a quick clippage from the Never Forever DVD at one (of the many) amazing Southend spots featured in the video.

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Leigh On Sea Park

2008-07-03T20:15:00.003+01:00

Go check it out...

Channon's Photos

2008-07-01T13:28:00.003+01:00

Friend of MN Channon King is obviously recognised for his sick skating both in Russ' video 'Never Forever' and all the way back to Blueprint and the North Essex/Suffolk scenes around the late 90s, early 00s but what people may not have been aware of is his photography. Documenting with an SLR camera and 35mm film Channon has been taking photos for a while and this week he had an article in Tweaker Zine highlighting some of these photos including some of Sandy and Steve Bailey as well as Dave Watson, Nick Jensen, Chewy Cannon, etc. Worth a look plus check out Channon's Flickr too.

Rom 30th Birthday Session

2008-06-24T09:58:00.005+01:00

It was Romford Skatepark's 30th birthday on Sunday and a huge session had been arranged so Russ went down and played pass the parcel, musical statues and had a slice of cake in kitchen roll and filmed a bunch of the sick skating that went down.

Romford is probably The Monster Network's oldest and most favourite skatepark and the skating certainly gave the old place a 30th birthday to remember with many old faces and lots of new ones ripping up the concrete.

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Savoir Faire Premiere

2008-06-20T13:26:00.003+01:00

Good friends of the Network Kev Parrott, Alex Irvine and Ciaran O'Connor have been working hard on their 'Savoire Faire' video for a while and tonight it gets premiered in London:

Red Bull
The Courtyard
12 Sutton Row,
London
W1D 4AD

Tickets are tight so check their website for details and email addresses, etc to try and hook up a spot.

Here is the trailer:

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Clacton

2008-06-20T13:22:00.001+01:00

Russ has been emailing this around, I think it's because it has Peppers in there near the end. A piece of Essex YouTube gold:

Watsontours.com

2008-06-19T10:48:00.003+01:00

Dave took Jay and Russ to a few spots around his manor on Tuesday. A very productive day yet again.

Milton Hips

2008-06-18T11:03:00.002+01:00

Some digicam footage from Sunday's warm up at some skatepark hips in Milton in Southsea.

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Southsea

2008-06-16T08:49:00.003+01:00

Russ, Jay and Dave Watson popped down to Southsea for the weekend with Gorm and Paul resulting in street spots, filming, photos, bbq and beers with the sunshine shining (most of the time).

Hurricanes at Royal London

2008-06-12T12:50:00.001+01:00

Paul and a couple of hurricanes at Royal London banks.

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Dave Watson, Slamaholic

2008-06-10T09:33:00.001+01:00

Ouch.

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Another double shift

2008-06-08T19:50:00.003+01:00

Filming duties haven't let up at all since Never Forever was finished

Jay and Russ have been keeping busy both days this weekend in Southend and Romford

James v Shaolin

2008-06-06T07:10:00.003+01:00

James shuts down the Shaolin with his Wu remix.

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Enter the Remixes

2008-06-04T09:57:00.003+01:00

Jay knocked up some Wu remixes of some of his pre Never Forever footage, check out Jay's today and be sure to check back on Friday for Jamie's which is killer (bees).

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Straight back on it

2008-06-01T21:46:00.004+01:00

The weekend in photos; Southend and Ipswich

Paul Crystal Palace

2008-05-29T06:33:00.002+01:00

We've got a few more clips from NF knocking around, here Paul has a spillage at Crystal Palace whilst on a last minute filming mission in south London

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Final NF Photos

2008-05-28T23:38:00.004+01:00

p.s. Apologies for the hairs and dust on the negatives.
p.p.s. If anyone knows/remembers why Ben is on the floor, we would love to know

Leigh On Sea

2008-05-26T13:05:00.003+01:00

Russ and a few others were in Southend yesterday and checked out the progress of the new Leigh On Sea Skatepark. Its on the same site as the original Rampage park and is looking really sick. Good street area, nice bowl and even a large spine to vert wall which we are guessing is a little nod to the old park!?

The builders reckoned it will be finished in a couple of weeks, see you there!

Meat Feast

2008-05-23T15:54:00.005+01:00

Adam Mondon and Dave Underwood have been busy boys of late, putting their three classic videos from the late 90's/early 00's onto one DVD. That's right you can now own Grow Up, Ex Rental and Hoax promo, plus the very rare Pork Sword and a brand new never seen offcuts film called Scene It all for £6!!! Starring Frank Stephens, Ben Rogriguez, Channon King and a host of others!

Head over to the Meathead site and purchase a piece of East Anglia's skateboard history right now!

More Premiere Photos

2008-05-19T08:22:00.003+01:00

Russ in Tweaker

2008-05-16T14:53:00.002+01:00

Tweaker Zine just added a load of new content including an interview with Russ about the making of Never Forever plus loads of great photos during filming and at the premiere. Get clicking and reading...

DVDs in Manchester

2008-05-16T13:59:00.003+01:00

Note Skateshop up in Manchester are now selling Never Forever so if you are up that way say hello to Ian Brown and then pop in a grab a copy.

Slam & Jake's Alley

2008-05-14T18:26:00.002+01:00

Slam got some copies of Never Forever in stock today so if you are in the big smoke and would rather get black soot in your nostrils rather than use PayPal scoot over to Covent Garden and see those nice fellows asap, check the mighty fine Jake's Alley for details.

Gorm Premiere Photos

2008-05-14T10:56:00.002+01:00

Gorm posted up some photos from the premiere on Saturday night:

PayPal It Up

2008-05-12T18:36:00.003+01:00

As you may have noticed on the left side you can now order your copy of Never Forever on DVD for only £5 plus a quid P&P via PayPal. Get clicking and watching.

Crossfire

2008-05-12T14:58:00.002+01:00

A quick review of Never Forever just went up on the Crossfire site. Check it out here and then try and name as many people in the photos as you can...

Rednecks

2008-05-12T09:24:00.003+01:00

A huge thank you to everyone who turned up on Saturday night, it was an amazing turn out and great to see everyone laughing and boozing and stoked on the video. While we are tinkering with the site to sort out PayPal ordering of the vid and rounding up everyone's premiere photos here are some photos from the pre-premiere skate earlier on Saturday afternoon around the Hythe part of Colchester. LBD was back and ripping and Lloyd was back and...drinking! Skateboards, crappy spots, friends, sunshine and supermarket sandwiches with beer...not a bad start to the day's main event and subsequent horrific hangovers on the Sunday. The start of the premiere photo dump will begin tomorrow...

The Bomb Is Ready To Be Dropped

2008-05-09T19:41:00.002+01:00

It's here, ready to get dropped tomorrow night.

Get there or be square

2008-05-08T17:13:00.002+01:00

See you Saturday

7pm @ the Bull, Crouch Street, Colchester.

Del Boy and the Yoot

2008-04-24T10:06:00.002+01:00

Russ has spoken to a few of the Colchester under 18's and it has been decided the easiest course of action is that Russ will head down Colchester skatepark between 5pm - 6pm on the day of the premiere with DVDs. So if anyone can't make it to the premiere due to the age restriction at least they can buy a copy of the DVD beforehand and then enjoy it on the same night as everyone else.

Russ is really sorry about the age restriction but we really had no choice.

Or of course you can get your fake ID sorted, grow a good tash and risk it on the night!

New Venue!

2008-04-21T09:38:00.003+01:00

The premiere for Never Forever has changed venue to The Bull pub on Crouch Street in Colchester. It's only a stones throw away from the original venue and by the sounds of it is way better. There is a band playing on the night, a beer garden (cross your fingers summer arrives by then) and it's open until 1. Only thing is no under 18s, sorry about that.

Super8

2008-04-17T11:38:00.003+01:00

As you may be aware from the second Never Forever trailer Super8 will feature heavily in the new video. Here is a photo of Russ a while back logging some of the first Super8 footage for the project

Sand at a skate spot?

2008-04-15T14:13:00.002+01:00

Veran puts his sand wheels on to get through the beach run up

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Deadline? Pah!

2008-04-11T12:07:00.003+01:00

Russ met up with Jay, Jama and Date Watson yesterday for what turned out to be a very productive last minute filming trip...

Never Forever Premiere

2008-04-09T18:50:00.003+01:00

Here are the details for the long awaited premiere of the new Monster Network video, Never Forever:

Saturday 10th May
Appetite Cafe/bar (same venue as last time but has a new name)
17-19 Church Walk, Colchester, Essex. CO1 1NS
7pm onwards
Free entry

Going to be an amazing night. Russ has been working really, really hard and the video is sick, going to be a great excuse to get everyone out of the woodwork with a pint in their hands! Be there!

P.S. DVDs will be for sale on the night too.

Vern, Saffron Walden

2008-04-01T09:11:00.002+01:00

Photographer Lee J captured Vern mid crook the other day. For more photo goodness by Lee check his Flickr.

Bromley, Crystal Palace & Croydon

2008-03-31T07:29:00.002+01:00

Russ came down to Paul's neck of the woods over the weekend, Sunday saw a hangover bank mission with Gorm and French around Bromley, Crystal Palace and Croydon on a lovely warm, spring day.

Into The Fall

2008-03-28T06:15:00.000Z

Watch the video in full:

Scarf Steez

2008-03-26T08:06:00.002Z

In between saving the galaxy Dr Who, sorry I mean Paul, crailtaps in Jaywick

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Almost There

2008-03-24T09:21:00.002Z

Russ texted these over (due to no Internet at the new place), looks like Never Forever is almost wrapped up. More details about the impending premiere soon.

Bailey DSA

2008-03-19T07:28:00.001Z

Could Steve be a little more relaxed on his skateboard?

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Hands Free

2008-03-17T09:14:00.001Z

In between filming a trick, Vern takes a call

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Those banks looked...

2008-03-14T08:20:00.002Z

...so much better from the car! Paul tiptoes a 360 flip into the tunnel of doom in Southend

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Mad Snaps

2008-03-12T07:49:00.001Z

Expect almost a second part from Jay in the extras, footage machine!

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Houses on Stilts

2008-03-10T08:50:00.001Z

Russ took some rotten slams getting this line at Jaywick but it still didn't make the cut.

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Paddling Fool

2008-03-08T07:57:00.003Z

Dave narrowly avoids a Mr Wilson moment at Harlow.

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Romford Royalty

2008-03-05T10:16:00.004Z

The steady hand of Mr Kev Parrott has kindly hooked us up with some Simon Skipp footage for the video, it just wouldn't be the same without some Skipp gold now would it!?

P.S. As the video approaches completion expect lots more offcut footage in the coming weeks

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Dan Update

2008-03-03T10:20:00.003Z

Pinched a couple of photos of LBD's current local shralp spot in New Zealand from his blog. Rip it up

Nice Shirt

2008-02-29T06:54:00.002Z

To celebrate the leap year here's a line of Russ in his Sunday best that didn't make the cut...

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Vezextra

2008-02-27T06:43:00.002Z

Here's a clip from a while back of Veran at an OG Clacton spot...

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Time please..

2008-02-25T19:01:00.004Z

Here are a few random pics from the weekend, Russ pulled a double shift this weekend allowing a few heads to get some last bits. Think we are now done.

Tate Offcut No.1

2008-02-22T09:12:00.000Z

As many of you will know Mr Jay Tate is a footage machine both in-front of and behind the lens. Jay has some serious footage sitting at MN HQ so here is one of many of his offcuts. More soon...

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Dave Watson & Smack Alley

2008-02-20T08:33:00.003Z

Gorgeous Dave Watson and Simon Skipp were in Colchester on Sunday, here's a little offcut of Dave to wet your appetite.

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Bailey Out

2008-02-18T08:43:00.003Z

Steve went back to 'those steps' for 'that trick' again on Friday and this and a trip to A&E with Russ was the result. Somehow, fortunately, it isn't broken. Get well soon Stevie!

Sunny Seaside

2008-02-12T07:26:00.000Z

Here's a quick clip of Russ and Jay from a little warm up spot in sunny Southend yesterday.

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Thursday flyer..

2008-02-07T06:16:00.000Z

Hastings Invasion

2008-01-31T19:21:00.000Z

Croydon crew headed down to Hastings on Saturday and hit up a bunch of street and transition spots. Gorm took care of camera duties, French handled the gnar spots, Paul took photos and hippers and ringer Jamie Morley straight killed it. The friendly locals were friendly and rad and it resulted in a full day of skateboarding and good times.

Check the rusted up, old metal bowl/halfpipe...lethal when wet and muddy!

southend sunday showdown

2008-01-27T20:51:00.000Z

With the deadline for never forever now looming it was time today for one last trip to sunny southend..

LA/MN/DD

2008-01-24T12:15:00.001Z

Everyone's been getting pretty jet set of late, this past week it was Dave's turn to cash in those air miles as he visited Los Angeles where himself and his fellow Scrawl Collective were having an art show. Needless to say he checked out a load of famous spots whilst there. Here he is at 7am sweating off the jet lag in one of LA's many amazing parks.

Croydon Night

2008-01-23T09:00:00.000Z

Paul, Gorm, Ray and French hit up the Croydon streets last night. Here is some bits & pieces of footage shot ala Gnaughty on the digital camera.

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Mischief & MN

2008-01-18T18:22:00.000Z

Good friend Bingo is repping the MN in his skate store, Mischief, one of the original MN stickers from 1995 graces the shop sticker collection. Give him shout for any skate product needs, he does the business with next day delivery if you are lucky some a free stickers!

you can take the boy out of essex...

2008-01-16T09:16:00.001Z

Jay and the likdown visited Steve, Russ and Sandy last saturday in sudbury. Unlocked lorries, muddy wheels, plenty of footage and a fish and chip supper...all in all a very good day!

Bloblands & Crystal Palace

2008-01-14T09:13:00.000Z

Paul, Gorm & French hit up a few South London local spots on Saturday, Bloblands and the Crystal Palace banks. Bloblands was flooded but CP banks were fun and due a filming visit soon.

Friday flyer...

2008-01-11T09:50:00.001Z

thanks Dave

Calling Steve Bailey..

2008-01-09T11:08:00.000Z

Sorry to turn the site into a myspace page, Steve if you want to skate this friday or saturday get in touch!

Russ

Gonella in SF...

2008-01-05T13:11:00.000Z

Paul is in San Francisco at the moment visiting some friends on his way back from Vancouver where he spent christmas/new year.

Apparently the weather there is much the same as here; rain!

Have a good time PG

photo: Bram

Lost in Oz...

2008-01-03T18:30:00.000Z

Anyone seen Steve Bailey yet? He's meant to be back from Oz by now....

Bromance..

2007-12-31T13:16:00.000Z

what with all this bad weather we have been experiencing it has been decided to cancel making a skateboarding dvd and instead Never Forever will now be an adaptation of a romantic novel.

Thanks for the pic Dave

poster hype..

2007-12-28T09:39:00.000Z

Double shift...

2007-12-21T07:21:00.001Z

Russ clocked in for a double shift of skating/filming yesterday, meeting up with Ben and jay during day and heading back out in the evening with Dave.

Fairfields

2007-12-19T11:51:00.000Z

Could Croydon's famous Fairfields be cropping up in Never Forever?

Paul, 360 flip, photo by Gorm

G'day Steve...

2007-12-17T11:16:00.000Z

Steve has been back home in Australia since last month and is set to return to these shores at New Years. He seems to be having a good time enjoying the sunny weather and getting a few skates in here and there.

Enjoy the sunshine Steve as when you return you're gonna need to film your enders in the freezing cold!

New Trailer, New Site!

2007-12-14T17:37:00.000Z

As you can see the site has had a face lift to tie in with the hype machine that is our next film 'Never Forever'.

Check out the new trailer below and don't forget the old one in the 'trailers' section to the left and keep checking back for regular updates, off cuts, flyers and premiere dates when we have a rough idea!

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P.S. The videography, galleries and other sections from the old website will return with a brand new website after the release of Never Forever.

Crawley & Reigate

2007-12-04T15:10:00.000Z

On Saturday Paul & Gorm popped down to the newish Crawley skatepark and then up to the opening of the brand new Reigate skatepark. Both different and interesting. Check the Crawley top mini bowl...!

Paul, 360 Flip to Fakie

Paul, Frontside R'n'R

Crawley

Crawley

Reigate

LBD No Complys

2007-11-30T08:46:00.000Z

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Whilst looking through some tapes we came across this footage of LBD a little while back getting his no-complys on (or should that be complies?). Word is Dan is back in the UK for a visit next year!

green fingers..

2007-11-26T08:00:00.000Z

Jay and the likdown have been keeping themselves busy in between filming their section for never forever, they've just put together the offcuts from their latest video; the Lik vol1.

these guys are killing it right now..

Sandy Is A Dad!

2007-11-23T08:53:00.000Z

Yesterday Sandy and his lovely lady wife Sally became proud parents of a healthy baby boy, Isaac David Sandford. A huge congratulations to the young family from everyone at MN. Beers for the Dad next time at the pub!

Lakai

2007-11-20T08:22:00.001Z

Russ, Ben and Veran hooked up with Paul, Rob, Ray and London Dave in London on Sunday for the Lakai premiere. Needless to say the video was incredible but so were the beers before and after with the the MN crew. LBD is going to wet his pants when he see's Carroll's part!

P.S. Cheers for the pic Rob

Meathead Films Anthology Soon

2007-11-17T09:25:00.000Z

Mondon has been hard at working going through the old hi8 tapes in preparation for the release of the Meathead Films (Adam and Dave Underwood) Anthology on DVD. Here is the new trailer...hold on tight for the January release.

fire up the death star...

2007-11-16T19:29:00.001Z

Russ has been a busy boy this week getting all the footage logged and captured onto the computer..

knucks to mr jay tate too for the loan of the mac at the eleventh hour..

Kevin Peacock, Scholar & a Gentleman

2007-11-12T13:46:00.000Z

Today is MN OG Kevin Peacock's birthday. This weekend saw a serious amount of booze consumed in (the sun always shines on) Southsea with Paul going down from Croydon and MN Welsh homie Tambini coming down from Cardiff. On the Sunday with rusty knees and hurting heads Kev and Tambini dusted off their skills on Kev's local mini whilst dodging puddles and heckles. Keep on rolling KP!

Big news of the weekend was of Kev and his lovely lady Alex getting engaged! A big man hug and handshake to them both from all at the Network.

chalk em up..

2007-11-10T11:36:00.000Z

"happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear David, happy birthday to you"

the DD is another year older today, big man love from all at MN hq.