Youth hostelling with Chris eubank
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A new board company with no team. Just what skateboarding is screaming out for.
Edit: Can only London skaters be on the team, if there is ever one? The name kind of pigeon holes it massively.
Is there scope to do what Anti Hero have done and have an umbrella company with factions?
I only became aware of the concept when someone mentioned Grimple Stix who I’d never heard of so looked them up.
I reckon it could be done.
National Skateboard Company would lend its name so well to this sort of thing as the umbrella company.
It’s already use though and very legit so something else it would have to be.
Factions being named as various key cities across the UK or more generic but localised still, regions.
As examples…
South
Midlands
North
You get my drift.
It’s realistically beyond the realms of possibility but I like the idea in my own head at this moment.
Surely you could have anyone from London all the way to Gloucestershire if you’re going by the river?
Right across out to Whitstable.
Doesn’t start in London.
…and that whale that swam up it once while he’s at it then.
Yeah but you have kids in Northern mining villages wanting to be all East Coast Wu. No-one wants to pretend they went to Eton.
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Blondey Mccoy Releases Official Statement About Thames Reintroduction as a Skate Brand
https://hypebeast.com/2019/9/blondey-mccoy-thames-skate-brand-reintroduction-teaser-statement
‘I started Thames when I was very young. Exactly how young I don’t recall because, as with skateboarding, I don’t care to remember much of life before it. The earliest evidence of its existence is at my grandmother’s house: a Mark Gonzales skateboard I bought the first time I went to New York at the age of 14, slapdashedly adorned with poorly printed Thames stickers. Thames, like my grandmother Salma, has no official birthdate.’
Hmm…
I don’t remember how old I was when i was 14 either.
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I was probably about 9 or 10 when I was 14. Girls at 14 are usually 17. What’s the word for those people who define themselves by the age they feel they are not the number of man made years? (apart from dickheads etc)
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Interesting that Gareth from Palace recently resigned as a director of thames and slam are having a massive reduction on Thames gear.
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Wow didn’t expect Sam Sitayeb to jump Yardsale for this shite
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Heres the full statement
"I started Thames when I was very young. Exactly how young I don’t recall because, as with skateboarding, I don’t care to remember much of life before it. The earliest evidence of its existence is at my grandmother’s house: a Mark Gonzales skateboard I bought the first time I went to New York at the age of 14, slapdashedly adorned with poorly printed Thames stickers. Thames, like my grandmother Salma, has no official birthdate.
My first visit to Slam City Skates in Neal’s Yard was a pivotal moment in my life. The board wall served as my introduction to art, the type that seemed to seek no approval and need no validation – an attitude more compatible with the school of skateboarding than with actual school. I came to favour the former over the latter but, for some time, Thames was my attempt to stay enrolled in both. In fact, I only originally gave the artwork I was making out of newspaper clippings a name and a logo in an attempt to establish a congruent theme for my GCSE Art portfolio. It wasn’t until 2013, when I was 16 (by which point my stickers and tee shirts were stocked in Slam and Supreme), that it dawned on me that this GCSE Art project had become a brand.
I wasn’t much more conscious of this fact by 2015 when I partnered with Palace Skateboards (my board sponsor at the time) to expand Thames. Thames became a medium-sized operation with two collections a year, seasonal lookbooks, collaborations and real distribution. It had left the comfort of my bedroom and entered the world of ‘product pushing’. That’s not to say I particularly minded that. In fact, it was in 2015 that I did my first art show which, like the following three, consisted only of graphics I made for Thames that never made it onto clothes. Phase two of Thames’s existence had its moments, but I always think of that time as its adolescent years – a little unsure of what it wanted to be when it grew up.
I formally parted ways with Palace on the 21st of April 2019, having officially put Thames on hiatus on the 1st of January, with no intention of resurrecting it anytime soon. My wanting to make tee shirts never subsided, and I had started to do so under my own name. ‘Blondey’ is art merchandise: for every exhibition, there is an accompanying collection of tee shirts that act as editions. ‘Blondey’ the brand, as I prefer not to call it, was always intended to be a democratisation of my art, and it shall continue to be so. On the other hand, THAMES phase 3 (full name THAMES MMXX) will be in every way a brand, and everything I want a skateboard company to be.
Not only is THAMES my board sponsor, it is also my vehicle to support and work collaboratively with other people. In this sense, I was looking for a team of art directors as much as a skate team. That the riders meet these rather specific criteria, of being shit-hot skateboarders who are also creatively driven, is essential to my utopian dream for a skateboard company. It is the reason that the THAMES skate team consists of Sam Sitayeb and myself.
I always take comfort in the tendency for things to come full circle, and it was with this in mind that I decided to replicate my old school uniform for the first collection of THAMES MMXX: ‘Boarders’. I should have been at school, but I wasn’t – I was skateboarding every day and as a result, I was asked to leave. Edith Piaf said ‘use your faults’ and I wholeheartedly agree."
So sick.
This is a conspiracy devised by head teachers to try and get kids to thinks its ‘cool’ to wear their school uniform.
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It’s not good.
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Thought the school uniform bit would have been an “art” exhibit in one of his shows.
And to think that Nathan Barley came out 15 years ago…
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Wow it’s hard for an actual skater to make skating look so uncool.
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No way he didn’t wear a blazer at school
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