I don’t think any of this hype is within skateboarding; London or otherwise.
It’s all customers and followers on the peripheries be it Thames or Blondey or his artwork…all of it.
That’s not a snide diss. It seemed like that was a definite direction: to sell on the fringes of the skate/Palace fanbase.
I just have no idea if it actually sells or if it is just noise to elevate the main player and earn in other areas because you rarely - if ever - see anyone with the product.
In face, aside from people who have got it as riders, the only two places I can think I’ve seen it in public are on a father of two who skates but is kind of exiting skating and now skates 3-4 times a year…and the other was a hat in TK Maxx.
Just looked at the Thames site and there’s a lot of products on there, not everything is in stock but most of it is, it looks like a lot of stuff for a brand you don’t really see anyone wear.
Ecco is an odd name to have associated with him too, probably pays the bills from his side but don’t really see what they’ll gain as a brand.
The description of that deck reads
‘Rolled on the thighs of a pissed-up slapper.’
I googled the phrase to see if it was from withnail and I or something and the only other relevant search result was this guys insta profile, who wears a lot of Thames and presumably quoted the phrase from the Thames website on one of his insta captions. he looks posh and like someone who skated or was into the hypebeast trend as a pre-teen
I guess this is the demographic of people buying thames
clicked to look and first page on website there’s a photo of dude smoking and an ashtray. Fucking vile! smokers, do what you want but why do people still promote it?
So I packed my dream away and put it on the shelf to come back to. And you know how they say God closes a door and opens a window, or the other way round? Not a week later, an opportunity without any of the above problems arose, right here at 6-10 Lexington Street .
Shockingly, in the building of his father’s art firm, Heni.
I should imagine it probably is. Tbh I sound pretty much the same. Over the years I’ve had people make assumptions as to what sort of a person I am based upon what I sound like or even give me shit for it. They’ll find it amusing to mimic me to my face even if we don’t really know each other. It doesn’t bother me but I do find it a little strange. Now I’m older it certainly doesn’t happen as often. If one were to do the same thing to someone with a Cornish, scouse, brummie, or geordie accent it would seem a little fabricanty, eh. Although, somehow it’s ok to bag on someone with what is perceived to be a ‘posh’, Home Counties, RP, public school accent. I’m not saying that’s what you were doing, maybe it was a genuine question with no other implication. Just from my experience it seems like some people have a weird double standard when it comes to accents.
