All our old Videos

The first Heroin Video "Good Shit" was filmed on an old VHS-C camera that I was given by a Mexican gentleman while on holiday in SF in 1996. I believe his cousin "Liberated" it from a tourist at some point, and he ended up giving it to me because it was PAL format. In those days I was utterly broke, sleeping on couches (Thanks Josh and PJ) and looking in the back of the sofa for spare change so I could buy some red licorice or dollar taco's, so to be given a video camera was a huge deal. I'd never really considered filming skating, I just skated. But I started to take the camera around to spots and got my friends to film me if I did anything I thought was worth pointing a camera at (yes, thats debatable, I know). I used to use two Video players to crash edit little video parts. At some point I started a Skateboard company and decided to call it Heroin Skateboards, I had something that could possibly resemble a video part scattered around on about 20 VHS-C tapes, some footage from an unknown up and comer from Lancashire called Snowy and footage of a mysterious hobo type lunatic who skated Stockwell known as Rough Mike, along with some very enthusiastic friends footage. I called a friend of a friend called Alan Glass, who was an editor living in Brighton and asked if we could make a video together using all this footage. I went down and met Alan and over the course of a couple of weekends we made a skateboard video called "Good Shit". That came out in 1999. A lot has happened since then, we got more team riders, we got some new cameras, we got international distribution, but we're the same as we ever were, scratching around trying to get stuff together filming with cameras that are falling apart. 

So, anyway, we've put up a youtube channel that has all our old videos on there. Good Shit (1999) Everything Going to Be Alright (2002) Live from Antarctica (2005) and Magic Sticky Hand (2007) All of these were made by the very talented mister Alan Glass along with myself. Enjoy. 

Steve Malet Remix

Rogie made a re-edit of our guy Steve Malets part from Video Nasty, new song, extra footage, its really good. Cos it's Easter we're going to put it up at the "Live Skateboard Media" website for you to see. Steve has an interview going up there tomorrow too! 

Osaka Daggers Youtube

In addition to the Chopper footage, Hamaji edited an Osaka Daggers part and put it up on Youtube. The Osaka Daggers are Choppers crew, they are made up of a whole bunch of eccentric and inspiring characters. I'd say these guys think outside the box, but they don't even know there is a box. Skating with them is so much fun, watching this makes me miss Osaka a lot. Enjoy. 

Heroin Summer 2014 Drop

New Heroin line is coming to all good skate shops! Hit up your local, support skater owned and operated shops and companies.

Stoked on this series, some very special guest art by the Osaka Dagger known as Colt for Choppers board. My old friend Paddy Jones did the Shimizu Lovecats graphic, our rider Craig Questions bugged me until I let him do the Scratch team board. Don Pendleton carries on his Scatterbrain mini series boards this time for Gou Miyagi, and I did the rest, but figured I should just take the credit for the Rogie Cig and Deerman Skeletal 2.  

Shipping for these starts this week! 

Save Little Oasis Skatepark

If the Long Live Southbank campaign has taught us anything at all, it's that our voices DO count for something, and we can make a difference. Recently some skaters from Thanet in Kent took a disused golf course and made a DIY skatepark from it, the spot looked rad too, and then without warning the local council bulldozed it. 

If you can take a minute (Maybe even less) and sign this petition to save the skatepark (UK residents only) it would help them out enormously. 

Thanks

Oderus Urungus R.I.P.

It is with a heavy heart that I write that Davie Brockie, lead singer of Gwar (Oderus Urungus) has passed away. Gwar were a huge influence on Heroin skateboards, reminding us never to take anything too seriously, and that just because someone is from outer space and want to destroy your whole planet that it doesn't mean that they're not awesome. Myself and Alan Glass wouldn't watch skate videos before we went out skating, we'd watch the Gwar live video "Live from Antarctica" and it was such a huge influence on us that we decided to name the third Heroin video after it in tribute. The last time they played in L.A. I brought Rogie, Steve Malet and Craig Questions to see them, explaining that as a Heroin rider it's your responsibility to see Gwar. 

I can't express enough how amazing a Gwar show is, it will ruin every other show, you'll be bitterly disappointed when you figure out that all other shows are just guys standing around and playing music, no beheadings, no giant worms from space eating members of the audience, no fighting dinosaurs. 

I thank Gwar an infinite amount for the pleasure they have brought me over the years. Here is my video part from "Live from Antarctica" our DVD from 2005. Which features the Gwar song "The Salamainizer". Now go and buy Scumdogs of the Universe and listen to it 100 times.