# Read and Destroy book launch - London Calling 2 : 1980’s and ‘90’s Exhibition.
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419
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**Created:** [June 23, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419 "2024-06-23T16:07:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/1 "2024-06-23T16:07:34Z")
London Calling 2 - The 1980’s and 90’s. Dan Adams’ ‘Read And Destroy’ book launch.
[R.a.D. (@readanddestroy) • Instagram photos and videos](https://www.instagram.com/readanddestroy/?hl=en-gb)
[London Calling Skateboarding UK (@london.calling.skateboardinguk) • Instagram photos and videos](https://www.instagram.com/london.calling.skateboardinguk/?hl=en)
I’d love to get to this but won’t be able to. I hope Winstan or someone will be filming and putting something together like happened with the first thing.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/2 "2024-06-27T07:56:18Z")
Tickets for the forum on sale now:
[https://www.tickettailor.com/events/readanddestroyarchive/1300253](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/readanddestroyarchive/1300253)
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### Author:  [@Mike](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Mike)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/3 "2024-06-27T11:03:27Z")
Unlikely I’ll be making any trips to London anytime soon, however really looking forward to the book arriving.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/4 "2024-07-16T12:57:59Z")
Nice little write-up:
> **[London Calling 2….Read and Destroy….A trip down Bowling Green Lane.](https://overplywood.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/london-calling-2-read-and-destroy-a-trip-down-bowling-green-lane/)**
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> After going to the first London Calling last year I had to make it to the second one. So much time and effort goes into making this now annual event that it’s guaranteed to be worth the trip. Last …
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### Author:  [@cleam.clackers](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/cleam.clackers)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/5 "2024-07-16T16:31:34Z")
Just ordered a copy of the book ❤
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/6 "2024-07-16T19:10:03Z")
I’ve seen the book, it’s excellent. Hyped some of my favourites are in there, mad snoz doing that crazy rock, Curtis m at meanwhile, jagger at wheels, Isle of wight ramp etc
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### Author:  [@BvS](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/BvS)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/7 "2024-07-17T13:18:01Z")
Was scrolling through Ed T’s stories the other night, he was posting pages from the book - there’s a photo of a vert ramp in the woods. I’ve seen photos from that place before, out of interest, where was it?
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/8 "2024-07-17T13:40:33Z")
Hertford. Where? Guide classic.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/9 "2024-07-17T13:52:05Z")
I think it’s the one Paul Wright (iirc) built. Not 100% though
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/10 "2024-07-17T16:47:56Z")
Checked out the exhibition today. Sick. So nice seeing the pics massive and high quality.
Struck me how bloody male it all is… not that it was laddish in a cliched way (well a bit) and it didn’t seem weird at the time. I know it still is mostly a male thing but I do think skating is better for a few females in the mix.
Anyway that’s a tangent, the exhibition is great. All this stuff feels so much more alive than most of what passes for culture
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/11 "2024-07-17T18:03:59Z")
Yeah we talked about that in the prep for the forum. There were 2 pics (iirc) of Sue Hazel in the exhibition but not in the book as I think there were concerns of tokenism.
It absolutely shows how much skate culture has changed for the better since though eh?
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### Author:  [@Sleipnir](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Sleipnir)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/12 "2024-07-17T18:19:56Z")
> [@anonymity](#):
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> I think it’s the one Paul Wright (iirc) built. Not 100% though
Paul Wright’s was in Chase Land Park, Chingford. For a few years I used to go there every weekend. I remember him breaking his leg there and then skating in a cast as soon as he got out of hospital.
I also remember Pete Dossett skating there as a beginner and I taught him fakie ollies, and then about 6 months later he was better than me.
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### Author:  [@Scurbrampwoody](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Scurbrampwoody)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/13 "2024-07-17T18:50:20Z")
> [@Sleipnir](#):
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> Paul Wright’s was in Chase Land Park, Chingford
I first became aware of that ramp from seeing the jam photos in BMX Action Bike - Oct 86, back when M:Zone was still Mud Machine. The Dean Rush sans helmet slam photo that TLB shot stuck in my memory. (Actually it was the wide angle photo with the white flat bottom polka-dotted with blood spatters I remember, only I couldn’t find it, but you’ll get the gist from this one).
Jason Lunn both riding and skating hit a chord with me too at the time - as did those Life’s A Beach Three Stooges shorts, haha.
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### Author:  [@Sleipnir](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Sleipnir)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/14 "2024-07-17T19:02:50Z")
I also remember Lucian Hendricks skating there fairly often.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/15 "2024-07-17T19:10:41Z")
Cheers both - I think the Herts one must be the one in Ware though that I think Dave Allen had a hand in building
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### Author:  [@Londonskater](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Londonskater)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/16 "2024-07-17T19:41:37Z")
Thats Mon Barbour behind Dean Rush.
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### Author:  [@Sleipnir](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Sleipnir)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/17 "2024-07-17T20:16:19Z")
> [@jimvo](#):
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> Struck me how bloody male it all is… not that it was laddish in a cliched way (well a bit) and it didn’t seem weird at the time
Yes, in my experience skating was almost exclusively male back then, Sue Hazel excepted. Nowadays you see girl skaters quite often. Back then you could skate regularly and not see a single female skater in ten years or more.
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### Author:  [@jimvo](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jimvo)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 8:46pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/18 "2024-07-17T20:46:22Z")
Yeah same. Lori wassername in Public Domain, that was it. Just how it was at the time though.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/19 "2024-07-17T22:10:47Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbv-YB_W9wA)
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### Author:  [@Londonskater](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Londonskater)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/read-and-destroy-book-launch-london-calling-2-1980-s-and-90-s-exhibition/4419/20 "2024-07-17T22:26:34Z")
Lori has a great fakie pivot.
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