Blog Of Peril

The End of an Era

2011-01-02T22:51:00.015Z

Apologies for my 3 month absence, I've been working full time and moving house and whatnot. I've got a day off tomorrow, so it doesn't matter what time I go to bed tonight. Welcome to my life. Shall we begin?

This is an amazing 4 person Busted Air, the most difficult skateboard stunt to pull off.

Me and Kez further reaped the benefits of working for the Merlin Group by going to Chessington World of Adventures for free.

King of the jungle.

And here it is, the new flat. I now live in East Finchley with some Irish guys. Here's Irish Jenny Christening the kitchen with chilli con carne.

The first (and only) meal to be eaten at the table.

Lovely.

The charity shop down the road gets raided every week for novelty board games that we never play.

John Landis came to the gift shop at work. I told him I was an extra in Burke & Hare and he said I was the star of the film. (Which I already knew.)

Talman is also a fully fledged grown up who does his own washing and shit.

More Merlin sponging on the Eye.

My new local park in East Finchley.

The view from the office window. U DUN NO.

I often drift back to Leicester as Kez goes to DMU now. This is at the Funeral For A Friend gig with their number 1 fan- John Burke.

John right at the front with the best of 'em.

Humbug.

In spite of the flat's amazing Christmas decorations, I went back to my Mum's new house for fake Christmas- a week before actual Christmas as I had to work Christmas Eve and Boxing Day.

NOTE- the cheesy graduation photo beneath Lemmy.

Layla's (and mine) first fake Christmas.

The Fam.

Madame Tussaud gift shop presents all round this year. I aint letting my 25% discount go to waste...

Don't mention it.

I spent real Christmas at Kez's Mum's.

And so I leave you with our New Year's celebrations.

Don't ask.

'The Blue Crew.'

It aint a party unless Toby's there...

Matt was working so we all went into his room and put on his clothes and took photos and put them on the internet.

'Toby Potter.'

Sorry Matthew.

Happy New Year!

Jah Bless The Merlin Employee Pass

2010-09-26T10:19:00.010+01:00

To celebrate 5 years of putting up with each other I decided to woo Kez by paying for barely anything thanks to my amazing free entry employee pass I have from working at Madame Tussauds.

I did pay for this cupcake though.

First up was Sealife. Stoked on these crabs.

Badman shark.

Steve Irwin's arch rival- the stingray.

Squidward's house!

Awesome NLT fish.

The best thing I've ever seen.

I did the unthinkable and returned to my place of work on a day off.

To save you all time I have pictures of all the worthy people so you don't have to go yourself.

SannnDEEEE!?!

The closest I'll ever get to working in the film industry.

Ultimate badman.

God Bless that bitch the Queen.

LOL

Maggie is a twat.

HANGING out with Spiderman. Hahahaha

Kez's amazing triangle bracket close bracket shepard's pie <)

Graduation

2010-09-22T09:52:00.008+01:00

Although my graduation in BA(hons) Digital Film and Video from London South Bank University happened in July, I've only just got around to uploading the photos. Enjoy.

So here's what I devoted £25,000 and the last 3 years of my life to- wearing these Harry Potter robes and shaking some old man's hand.

A not so traditional proud parent photo, classic Dad though.

Cheers Dad.

The usual suspects dressed like twats to receive their handshake.

It was in St. Georges Cathedral.

Here's me shaking the old man's hand.

Rumour has it Trevor McDonald was going to do the handshaking, that would have been worth it.

As if I'm paying for this photo.

And now for the onslaught of cliche hat throwing photos.

Sneaking some disgusting free wine at the back.

Dad made the most of the opportunity and opted for a ham sandwich and a strawberry tart.

Daduation. hahaha

Chris Elliott, course director. Never did remember how to spell his surname.

Got pretty bored of doing this every 5 minutes.

LOL

Stoked.

After the graduation malarkey, we walked to Leicester Square Steak House. Not before Dad got some tourist shots, of course.

After my family went home, I went to see the Lion King with Matt and his family as he had a spare ticket.

No photos of course, but it was truly outstanding.

And here it is, the cheesy graduation shot. That graduation paper thingy was just a prop, I never even got one.

VERDICT: Go to university if you want to get drunk for free for 3 years but don't expect to learn anything.

My 21st Birthday

2010-07-30T22:24:00.021+01:00

I recently made my extras TV career debut on Episode 2 of Season 4 of The IT Crowd.

Nicely positioned to be center of shot...

Back of my head, far right.

Side of my head, far left.

I also work full time at Madame Tussauds now as a 'Stores Operations Assistant'.

Canteen at lunch time when the World Cup was on.

Regents Park sometimes gets hit up at lunchtime too.

Here's Mitesh on the Stores and Retail night out.

The London eye is owned by Merlin, who also own Madame Tussauds.
BARE FREE TICKETS YA GET ME.

Classic boring photos from the Eye.

Vishal's thinking pose.

The infamous empty 'Angel' pod...

Namco reserved area init...

Stores bowling competition, Alice 'Half-Strike' merked us all.

We watched the World Cup final in the Vue lounge thingy.

Adam had a bet on Holland to win, hahahaha.

Crazy Spaniards dancing in Leicester Square.

Even crazier Spaniards dancing in Trafalgar Square.

Check out that guys abnormally long neck.

Me and Chub went back to Leicester to celebrate me being alive for 21 years.

When I arrived home Dom was there, dressed as a pirate.

This was on Dad's birthday. Happy birthday Dad.

Team picture.

Shopping for my birthday food- Layla hugged this bread all the way round the store.

Nice.

My birthday <)

Do the kids in Syston have nothing better to do?

I whacked Standardly Syston on the iPads in the Apple store, for some reason.

We saw Toy Story 3, it was fantastic.

Me and Layla on my birthday.

Lynsey got me this orange Blackberry cover. Thanks Lynsey.

Lets get this party started. In a vest.

I opted for the traditional cheesy sausage-on-a-stick garden party.

Party games.

Undertaker won every time, regardless of who was controlling him.

Triple H looking worse for wear...

Mum's homemade caterpillar cake.

Jonny McFirstslice had the first slice...

Basi was on holiday and couldn't make it, but he was there in spirit.

Football on DeVille park.

Craig, being Craig.

This dog was better than all of us.

Talmanizer action shot.

Dad was man of the match.

In the end we all gave up and got pissed.

Back in my garden Jonny managed to brandish a pirate hat.

Attack Attack squat.

'Pretend we're having fun'.

This is about as wild as it got- group photo Busted jump...

Thanks for coming everyone, I enjoyed it.

That balloon is still floating, 9 days later...

When I got back to London I discovered this on my cupboard, which was obviously printed out by one of my flatmates and worded to look like the cleaners had done it to disguise the fact it was my flatmates who threw away all my dirty plates and not the cleaners. In retaliation, I ate all their food, the fucking bastards.

My cards and balloon.

Ryuk from Deathnote <)

Donut pillow!

Oliver Jay Kerby rendezvoused with me at Shepard's Bush to watch Funeral For A Friend play music.

They played Casually Dressed... in it's entirety. Stoked!

Exactly a year after I got my drums, I managed to record over 3,000,000 individual hits on the pads. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself.

And to finish this ridiculously long post off, here's a weird photo from work. just the usual, really.

Not as weird as Adebayor's glass cube portrait in the gift shop. Ha.

Dante...

2010-07-20T12:32:00.015+01:00

So this is where we watched Robert Green fluff up his England career in the first England game of the World Cup. What a prick.

So the time had come to move out of my shitty kitchen room in Mclaren.

I should probably get a suitcase to put all my stuff in...

Traditional 'charity' room looting...

We left the Jane legs there. They will be missed.

My new temporary 1 week room in Mclaren- the best room I ever got.

Although on the following morning we discovered the cleaners there away all of out food and plates.

When the cleaners discovered that they shouldn't throw away all our stuff, they didn't put it back, they just left it. In a bin bag.

ANYWAY, this is Ali handing out our Programmes and DVD's of our final year films at the end of year BFI screening.

Adam was stoked.

RayBlay on the big screen.

This one was OBV the best film there.

'Dread' will be online when I can be arsed to do it.

After the screening we ducked out to go the the Metal Hammer awards at the O2.

Steel Panther played. They get old pretty quickly, and could have been replaced by a real band.

Sir Christopher Lee got the Spirit of Hammer award, for being a badman metalhead. 'SAXON MANNNNN!'

Five Finger Death Punch were awesome as usual.

Talman's future motorbike...

Since all the rooms in our flat were left open, Ollie could take his pick of sweaty rubber mattresses to crash on.

Not sure why this photo is here but it won't move. This is Skindred, a hugely underrated british band. Reggae Metal, awesome.

Toby's birthday.

Speaking of Toby, here he is at Jenni's arty farty exhbition thing.

Josiah was part of someone's 'art'. Not entirely necessary if you ask me...

Pretentious bollocks.

My view of the Algeria - England match was similar to the quality of the game- utter shite.

I was conned into eating at some restaurant afterwards, so I ordered lamb.

Treat.

Free table football at Waterloo! Me and Claud lost out to this gay fat businessman in the semi-finals.

Beth's birthday- such a Welsh cake...

Stupid boxed toys where you don't know which colour you buy till you open it...

LOL

And so the day had to come sometime...

We hired out a van and Badar drove all our stuff over to Dante Place.

Matt truly enjoyed the experience.

London's one way system got the better of Badar.

Empty temporary awesome Mclaren room.

My junk in the trunk. Hahaha...

Thats right- we live in Dante again.

It aint so bad...

Jonny McMuffin

2010-06-10T12:14:00.002+01:00

My new toys- Zoidberg, Skeletrino and Mr Toast.

Talman chillin' on the bean-bagged balcony of the Grand Union.

Look at these cosmopolitan twats queuing for iPads.

The Gaylord Restaurant.

Me and Kez went to the Anime convention at the ExCel centre. It was full of weirdos playing Digi-go-ball-mon cards.

We were the only normal people there.

The guy behind me kept shouting 'Fake! This is sooo fake!' Yes. We know.

The bad guy cheated and won so I booed him.

We had noodles for dinner to fit the theme.

This guy gets bullied for 364 days of the year but is cherished by all when he wears this ridiculous costume at the annual Anime convention.

I bought a Lord Farquad mascot figure- the guy who runs away from Shrek with the big head on and Shrek just walks through the barriers? Yeah, but I didn't take a photo. Its amazing though, trust.

Fat dickhead.

Jonny McMuffin came round for a 3 day weekend to begin filming for the new NLT video.

As usual, this spot got the better of us.

Old King of NLT DVD's are being left around London now.

Jonny Rebel.

Jason and Toby in Spoons.

We went to see the UK premiere of Macho Taildrop. I wanted to like it, but didn't. It sucked. John Rattray and Rick McCrank were in it though, and did a Q&A afterward. As we were leaving, we discovered we were sat directly in front of Ed Templeton the entire time :|

After a 6 month hiatus, Jay is officially back at McLaren!

What is with these people?

Josh sessioning the new spot.

So I finally got Skate 3 and mad Syston.

It was so good I decided to go back to Syston and skate it in real life.

I won a fiver!

Layla was sleeping :|

'Lamb Of God'

Oh dear.

Lynz and Mumz.

Like Uncle like Niece.

Laylaj.

Poke.

Boring family shots.

Check out Mum's new soccer mom car!

Complete with borderline incorrectly perceived racist England flags for the World Cup.

Me and Lynsey got Mum a Download ticket to see Aerosmith, Motorhead, Billy Idol, Slash and Saxon! Don't worry, her friend T is going with her :)

DISSERTATION

2010-05-23T23:24:00.009+01:00

With two weeks till deadline day, we all decided to star our dissertations.

This is in the BFI library. Hahaha- splash back.

These awesome elephants are everywhere.

Classic South London Press headline.

Me, Paul and Matt all voted in out first general election.

I was strictly Lib Dem.

Back to the BFI library to dissertate some more.

The disgusting LSBU library was a familiar sight in the closing days. I myself clocked at least two 12 hour sessions and a couple of 8 hour bad boys.

Lewis here would end up staying till 'the first train back to Lewisham'- That's right- 24/7 library. Urgh.

My dissertation was evaluating the importance of Star Wars' sound design in relation to the revolution of the science fiction genre. And in case you were wondering, it was pretty important.

Adam left his too late and asked for a 3 day extension.

Matt and myself however did manage to get ours done on time, although we had to leave them in the dreaded 'coursework submission box' as it was after 4pm.

My disserbadaman.

Nearly... there...

To celebrate we all went to the Dolce Vita Italian Restaurant.

Chung Master came skating. We didn't really go anywhere worth mentioning, so here's us in Marie's.

I WAS SO STOKED TO SEE JAY AGAIN!

He's been missing in action since Christmas. Turns out he 'didn't agree' with the new management system and quit/got fired. What a gully badman.

LSBU Screening of final year films. (We get a BFI screening in June.)

A screenshot of mine and Matt's film 'Dread', I'll put it online shortly when we tweak the sound levels.

Ross and Matt stayed in the Library from 7pm-8am doing a 2000 word reflective essay, which takes normal people about 2-3 hours to do.

Claud adding the finishing touches to his essay at 8.30am ready to put it in the box for 9am.

The entire class submitted the last of their degree work at the latest time possible, in true student fashion.

DEGREE FINISHED.

Another early morning fry up to celebrate the end of an era.

I can finally go skating now. I say skating, I mean sitting around on walls with Matt, Faris and Basi.

Shopping with Kez means the soul destroying Topshop.

I was stoked to see Basi in there though...

Bullet for my Spectacles

2010-04-30T10:54:00.009+01:00

I went back to Leicester for the Easter holidays.

Me and Jonny went skateboarding.

Crazy.

Wilko was on a Wreake ting.

The batteries ran out so we charged them up inside.

As if.

Braunstone, Sam about to do a front tail.

After an unproductive 2 weeks in Leicester, I returned to London to shoot my final year film with Matt. This was our equipment.

On set- Kez's house.

Everything running smoothly...

Until the 'bin incident'.

The dolly was so shit, it the tripod couldn't go as low as we wanted so we just used an upside down bin.

Ray to the rescue...

...to angle grind our murder weapon in half.

Editing suites in uni are pretty good.

Classic boring sunset view from my window.

Classic LSBU toilet graffiti.

Me and Matt went to watch the Marathon again.

'I think i'll do it in a lion suit this time...'

This awesome brass band were playing somewhere throughout.

The best South Bank statue thingy I have seen in a long time.

This was the time we got accidentally drunk at Josiah's.

Awesome dogs/bears.

I was lucky enough to see Bullet for my Valentine for free at their secret show.

I got moshed up in the first song and lost my glasses. A proper Velma moment.

Lenses are gone.

So, off to Vision Express to pay an unnecessary £220 for a new pair.

Got a cool eye scan though. Cool.

Ta da.

My Flickr

2010-04-11T13:43:00.003+01:00

Be sure to check out my Flickr page for recent photos taken on my Canon EOS400d.

You Me At Trivium

2010-03-29T11:57:00.007+01:00

Lakai must have sent a shit load of Koston's old shoes to TK Maxx in retaliation of him skanking over to Nike.

This is Trivium on St Patrick's Day at the Koko.

Amazing, as always.

Shattering! The skies above!

Stretchy Matt was wearing his St Paddy's T-shirt.

World's End for Guinnesseseses.

My Dad's old band lives on in the men's toilets.

Dangerous.

Kieren told me he needed help with a film he had to make for uni called 'The Mysterious Parcel'. All he brought round was an old shoe box, a plastic gun and this hilarious old man mask.

Found some spots when we were filming.

'The Mysterious Parcel' will be released on Youtube via Jane Productions later this year.

Me and Kez saw You Me At Six at Brixton.

It was full of 14 year old girls and people that looked like Ollie.

Which was great because there was no queue at the bar.

Yes Ray.

Mmmmmm, Lucky Charms...

Found this amazing perfect spot, but we all realised we were shit and didn't do anything but play a game of SKATE on flat next to it.

Off to Leicester for 2 weeks, safe.

King of NLT Online

2010-03-21T12:46:00.005Z

My latest skate video entitled 'King of NLT' is online now in 5 parts. If you would like a copy on DVD, you can pick one up for a pound in Casino.

Part 1: Intro

Part 2: Team One

Part 3: Team Two

Part 4: Live Final

Part 5: Outro

Street Countdown

2010-03-13T21:35:00.010Z

John almost finished a number 4 at Mama's, he just couldn't eat his tomatoes.

We eat greasy fry-ups way too much.

Me and Kez went back to Leicester for Kez's interview at DMU.

London, dun no.

Some museum gallery thing in Leicester.

It has an Egyptian section for some reason...

Me and Callum had a quick sesh at Syston.

Orange Shop is better than 24.

Me, Josiah and Matt bought these Wii controller conductor thingys. I don't even have a Wii, but at that price, who can argue?

Burke and Hare called again, they wanted to pay me £95 to stand around eating samosa's all day.

It was at Somerset House, a 15 minute walk from my flat.

We were there till 8ish. Chillin' though.

A Subway has opened up opposite McLaren.

The phone won't stop ringing- this time we were extras in the IT Crowd.

We're geeks watching Moss in street countdown.

Moss!

Day 2 was a 6am start- naturally I caught some Z's on location.

It was set in a club. We bust in next door to discover it was a filthy strip joint.

Yes biscuit bum.

I was chillin' in the private booths.

Benedict Wong was 'trying something' with the model girls...

I bought this Sonic game at dinnertime and got it signed by Moss and Roy!

Got a photo too, see?

John came down so I went to Mudchute to skate Humberstone style.

Callum- wallride.

John is so dangerous.

Blunt pull in.

Me and Callum went on an adventure around East. So many spots.

Burke & Hare

2010-02-20T11:01:00.010Z

Talman's entire wardrobe is on sale in HMV.

This was before it snowed everyday for 3 weeks when it was all new and exciting.

This is the only photo I have from the 'King of NLT' premiere. Oops.

My brand new shiny Niece- Layla.

Thanks for driving me back to London Mum.

Anyone claiming a siderock?

Not me, it's ridiculous to skate.

Imbibe.

Me and Matt got a signed Peter Serafinowicz Tottenham calender for Talman.

Me and Matt also went to the Imperial War Museum. Twice.

Some crackhead came up to me and Josiah outside Iceland and asked us 'if shopping should be banned?'
Of course it shouldn't, you greazy bastard.

This is Diagon Alley.

It really is. The shop where the Leaky Cauldron should be is conveniently shut and 'for rent'. Sureeeee....

Me and Kez saw You Me At Six at HMV.

Might as well get the old album signed.

To make up for my gay You Me At Six antics, me and Talman went to see Lamb Of God.

This is my costume for the film I'm an extra in- Burke & Hare. It's directed by John Landis, starring Simon Pegg, Ronnie Corbet, Bill Bailey, Tim Curry and loads of other famous people.

Matt's costume was well better than mine.

Paul.

Paul's hair style changed everyday. This is my favourite.

Classic bus from 'Extras'!

Here's Keith in the driver's seat.

This was the main set where we spent 3 days. It's an 1828 market place set in Edinburgh. It was actually in Sevenoaks, Kent.

This horse was shitting everywhere.

Simon Pegg gets hanged. Sorry for spoiling the film for you.

By day 3 I resorted to pretending to go to the toilet but really just taking photos of myself in the mirror.

Waterloo Station at 4:30am. Yeah, really long hours.

This was at some theatre near Tower Bridge.

Cheers Matt.

The last day of filming was in Osterley House...

...Which is where I got my hair tampered with by 'the girl with the face'.

More Tom Foolery.

Osterley Park has swans.

£550 for 6 days of standing around pretending to cheer and boo isn't bad at all.

A Morbid Christmas

2010-01-01T11:15:00.013Z

This is art, apparently.

I escorted Kez to the Tate Britain for something to do with her college. I browsed the galleries.

Classic council skatepark near Kez's house on the way to the cinema.

The mini doesn't look too bad.

If I had those shoes, I'd probably leave them there too.

Matt agreed to rinse his mouth out with the contents of this ash tray for £20. If you are willing to donate £1 to this worthy cause, please get in touch. Seriously.

I got a copy of Square One. It's fantastic. Buy one.

I got in the lift and saw Ariyan eating pasta from a pot.

This was the month where I didn't go food shopping because I was going back to Leicester 'soon'.

FIFA tournament. £1 to enter, winner takes all.

I merked josiah in round one, Tally went through, as did Ross and Paul.

Here's Ross about to beat Callum 1-0 in a last minute headed goal.

Callum, down and out in the first round. Giving it the big talk on Facebook, internet badman.

After beating Ross I pummeled Paul in the final 5-0.

Kerrching! Easiest £7 I ever made.

Doh!

Matt's back in Northen Ireland now, drinking Guinness and harvesting potatoes.
Ter te ter te ter...

Suprise pancake keyring.

Kez came back to Leicester with me for a bit over Christmas.
This shit was a nightmare on the train...

Ah Syston skatepark. I've been back for over 2 weeks and it still hasn't been dry...

You need this- £5 in HMV!

Callum Downs.

Christmas!

This is actually on fire like they do in the adverts. We've never done it before, and we never will again. It was shit.

A rightfully uneaten brussel.

Our morbid Christmas decorations.

I got this for my Mum.

I finally got a Mr. Potato Head! I hope it moves around and gets really pissed off when I'm not there.

New set-up!

Stoked on this.

Me and Callum went on a date to Bradgate Park on Boxing day.

Old Badaman.

Callum, you could've waited 'till we got home...

Pro kite flying stance.

Midland for Wilko's birthday.

I didn't take a photo of Wilko though.

My phone camera is really shit...

...Good job I bought this badboy then aint it!

King of NLT Premiere Date

2009-12-15T22:32:00.005Z

Make sure you head down to the Boardroom Skatepark on January 8th to watch the King of NLT video and witness the live final between Basi and Wilko.

King of NLT Finalisits

2009-12-12T21:20:00.001Z

After some discrepancies in the voting of the King of NLT semi-finals, the rightful finalists are Tom Basi and James Wilkinson both with around 45 genuine votes.

Talman was on some George Bush shit and gathered around 90 votes, however only 20 were genuine. Jonny had about 12 actual votes and Clark got just 3 real votes.

So anyways, stay tuned for a premiere date to be announced real soon and the details of the final to be unveiled...

King of NLT Semi-Finalists

2009-12-05T12:20:00.005Z

Make sure to vote for your favourite trick performed by our finalists at south bank.
The two with the most amount of votes will face each other in the ultimate final showdown, and you're all invited to watch...

Prem date and the details of the final to be announced in a week.

Four Gigs and a Church Paedo

2009-11-30T16:08:00.009Z

Don't ask.

I was so pissed off when I did this.

Kez bought me a Mario mushroom keyring <)

Basi's new 'I'm-never-gonna-get-a-job' tattoos.

Ross ollied that rail. Then left.

Spot hunting around Westminster.

This was about the best thing we found, although I forgot where it was.

Hahahaha

After failing miserably to find somewhere new to skate, Talman's pub suggestion came in handy.

My new salt and pepper pots!

Shaun of the Dead init.

Me and Matt saw Fightstar. It was good.

As it was Halloween, there was some weird chicken man on the tube home. We didn't dare take a better photo than this.

Mama's.

Moldy plums all round.

Myself, Matt and Talman tackled a KFC mega bucket. It was horrible.

We went to the Science museum to take photos of things we weren't supposed to.

I don't really see how this is Science.

This is the new 'X' crossing at Oxford Street. I was bitterly disappointed with it.

The South London Press never fails to amuse me.

Me and Kez saw 30 Seconds To Mars at the KoKo.

The 'set' for my Advanced independent Project 90 second film.

It's entitled 'Money Isn't Real' and will be online shortly.

Spot?

Me and Talman went HMV to meet Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. That Angelos guy was there too.

Ooovavoo!

This was the ticket for Five Finger Death Punch at Electric Ballroom. So budget.

Me and Tally 'old manned' it at the back with Gaymers and Red Stripe.

The following day, we saw motorhead at Hammersmith.

Although they practically had the same set list as last year, It was so much better. Maybe I appreciate Lemmy the older he gets. Like a fine wine...

Signed Motorhead drum skin!

Yes Shadwell!

2009-11-23T20:36:00.010Z

I visited Kieren at the infamous Binnie Court.

This is his sink clogged with sick from eating too much fried chicken. Seriously.

No expense spared at Binnie Court.

Mudchute- Kieren's local.

Amazing.

Yes Shadwell.

KFC's mini variety box is so shit.

Is this where they film the One Show?

That spot.

London Bridge looking surprisingly sunny.

Toad is the latest addition to my action figure thingys.

Chinese takeaway buffet got rinsed.

More American chocolate from CyberCandy in Covent Garden.

Daa... DAAAAA!

Matt Hay?

This tasted exactly the same as standard Dr Pepper, only 3 times the price.

And so I have finally made a start with my dissertation. Treat.

This is what Matt's writing his dissertation on.

Callum.

I found this on my floor and I have no idea where it came from. Should I be worried?

Ozzy Osbourne and a Pissed Wasp

2009-10-13T18:17:00.010+01:00

We nearly got caught stealing mugs in the Chamber of Secrets.

'South London Press' is so grimey.

Speaking of grimey, this is where Kieren lives...

Beef and chicken salami?!

The Prince of Darkness was at HMV signing his book.

We didn't meet him, but breathing the same air was good enough.

Facedown at the Scala.

Don't know who this is, what a loser.

Kieren stayed at mine to play Left 4 Dead all night.

Fatboy.

'I'm the pod! THE POD! HAHAHA!!!'

RIP Liverpool Street benches.

When a spot dies, a new one is born.

I betrayed Mama's and went to Marie's for breakfast. It was horrible and was served by rude, ignorant Thai women.

I offered Matt £10 if he crawled across the road in the road on all fours. He was seriously contemplating it...

Janes?

Who would ever buy half a pumpkin?

Basi tried to give himself a tattoo. It didn't work.

I was Toad, obviously.

This fake rollercoaster thing got well old and made me feel sick.

Stoked on 100 tickets at Funland!

Treat.

New Standardly Syston badges!

I went back to Leicester with Kez to look at DMU's open day.

To save you time, this is the best piece of art they have there.

Some halls, well better than shitty McLaren.

Pub sesh- Jonny OAP.

I brought these films back to London to write some of my Dissertation on.

This is actually Basi's new tattoo.

Switch FS Lip aint it.

Bursting Package

2009-09-28T16:14:00.009+01:00

This sweet shop in Covent Garden has loads of classic Asian/American sweets.

I opted for the American extreme sports sponsor choice.

Can't get enough of this view.

New board/wheels/bearings.

I checked out Mile End with Basi.

Best park in London.

Ipswich Matt is now New Cross Matt.

Chinese.

Disease.

This is pretty spooky.

Sam and co. were at the Rigg. For some reason.

We lost at pub crawl. Freshers- over it.

Back to Mile End with London noobs Callum and Talman.

Callum's halls are like an early Tony Hawk's level.

Whites Grounds is pretty shit.

A group of us met Marcus from Big Brother at the cinema. He was almost as irritating as the film we watched.

They must really be struggling for prizes over at Fun Land.

This guy provided a good 15 minutes of entertainment on the tube with his ridiculous denim and tracksuit bottoms get up- complete with bursting package.

Matt's gummy bear was taking a dump.

New student cards- old photo...

Me and Matt barricaded ourselves in Paul's toilet when he needed a shit. When we moved away from the door Paul barged through, swinging himself into the wall. Hahahaha.

I'll stop now.

Basi's Birthday in Camden.

Mine and Ollie's present.

Ross reps McLaren and NLT with the best of 'em.

Choklit!

Standardly Syston

2009-09-24T00:24:00.003+01:00

This is what I've been doing all summer- filming 'Standardly Syston.'

'In keeping with the current surge of alliterated location skateboard representations, NLT present 'Standardly Syston'.

Featuring Sam Taylor, Suriyan Kanlaya, Jonny McManus, Sam North and the rest of the Syston locals.

Filmed and Edited by Phil McDonald.

www.facebook.com/nltskates'

Summer Part 3/3- The Finale

2009-09-20T11:44:00.003+01:00

I dug out the legendary Flats and sold them on to Adam for a quick buck. I feel sorry for his neighbor.

This was funny, but tastes horrible.

Ipswich Ben- FS Shove Roundhill new-improved 4.

I had some progress with the broken mac- turns out I needed to format the new hard drive. Sorted!

Wilko, Jake, Callum's sweaty arse.

Most pointless cricket wickets ever.

This guy was on GMTV talking about being ugly. Surely wearing a paper bag will just attract more unwanted attention to your putrid mug?

Callum had a £20 voucher for the Hobby Horse, so we just got £20 worth of booze and cake.

Talman's 'year book.' Seriously? we're getting so American now.

'What next?' Future terrorist.
Midland sesh.

My street looking all arty farty.

My Grandad is the Tony Hawk of pigeon shows. Check out them earnings!

Poke poke.

Jonny's hygienic BBQ skills.

Receiving my 'dessert' next to Talman's was so awkward.

'Standardly Syston'- a 6 minute masterpiece will hit the net real soon.
This won't be in it, mind.

The infamous decking where Callum killed his Dad and buried him.
'You wouldn't understand!'
And we've never seen him since...

Paris AKA Syston's TK will feature on Standardly...

It seems Andy got there first.

Goodes Lane.

Old Billy Bates has got a new ride for the fair.

Dom preferred to stay on the tie-dye U.S Army truck.

This would eventually pop and make him cry...
£1 for the 'hall of mirrors'.
I won this prize on a darts game but left it in the bumper cars.

Adam got done over on these.

The only ride I went on. It lasted way too long.

The best part of the fair.

Mum's Fiesta held a TV, Xbox, laptop, speakers, 150 DVD's, a small chest of draws, a small wooden bedside table, all my clothes and shoes, my kitchen utensils and cutlery and an entire drum kit.

NLT Merc.

View from my new room back in McLaren. 6th floor, but the dreaded kitchen room.

Habitual trip into central.

Mum bought me a good fortune cat.

The form I have to fill in with things wrong with the flat was like a 2000 word essay.

The lift is broken. I live on the 6th floor! NOOOOOOO!

All fully moved in now.

And so that was my Summer- pretty uneventful really, I probably should've got a job.

Summer Part 2/3- The Festival

2009-09-19T12:35:00.001+01:00

Festival essentials.

Talman drove to Knebworth for the first ever Sonisphere festival.

Check the leopard print suitcase.

Talman would eventually be up all night with food poisoning due to these disgusting burgers.

Soil (5) Were the first band to play, who gave a pretty standard performance until their last song of their set- 'Halo.' It's pretty safe to say that this band will never be more than a one-hit-wonder.

The fact that Michael Jackson has recently died may have had something to do with Alien Ant Farm (9) appearing on the bill, but I'm glad they did. An entertaining live performance proved that AAF are not just an MJ cover band, but a unique and initiative rock band who have much more to offer than a fat bassist.

We only managed to catch a glimpse of Skindred (7) but the audience seemed to like them. You wouldn't think there was much of a market for reggae-rock but Skindred offer a change from ultra-death-metal-breakdown-core that seems to be flooding Myspace recently.

The Dead Formats (1) demonstrate how NOT to play at a festival- on the back of a truck with 30 people watching. It's not like they're a promising prospect in the rock and metal world, who will go home knowing that an extra 30 fans is a big achievement, they're actually just a really shit band.

Now Sylosis (9) ARE a good demonstration of how to play a festival, and a 750+ man strong circle pit around the entire tent is a clear indicator that Sylosis' melodic modern thrash will soon be a part of every metal fans music collection.

Talman and some gay Guitar Hero people.

Bjorn Again (6) are surprisingly good and went down surprisingly well at a metal festival.

At the end of a day, it's just an ABBA tribute band. Kind of strange, really.

I wasn't too familiar with Anthrax (8) before their performance but as soon as they began to play it felt like I was a life-long fan. Bring the Noise was definitely a highlight of the festival.

Greebos.

Plenty of these '6 for £3' Donuts were consumed over the weekend. This photo was taken as we sat through The Used (?) who I didn't really listen to/care about.

We went to the mainstage to check out Coheed and Cambria but they weren't there. Instead we were punished with Fact (2) who I couldn't help but feel sorry for. The entire mainstage audience just vacated the arena to get as far away from their oriental mess of a performance.

At this point it pissed it down and we were drenched and miserable. Not a good sign for Airbourne (6), so in an attempt to keep the audience entertained (besides their average AC/DC imitating rock) the singer/guitarist climbed to the top of the speakers on the left and hung off with one arm.

Heaven and Hell (5) are basically a poor mans Sabbath, and perhaps I would've enjoyed them more if it wasn't pissing it down. It was good to see Dio- the innovator of the metal horns, do the metal horns. (enlarge the picture, look at the screen)

Bullet for my Valentine (9) were the only band that could turn a miserable rainy evening back into a true metal festival. I had recently sort of forgotten about Bullet and their perfect live performance was just what I needed to reaffirm my appreciation of them.

A new song they played was confirmation that their upcoming album is going to be a good'un.

Headliners Linkin Park (6) were good. But that's it- they were only good. They are the first ever band to headline a night at Sonisphere, and yet their performance seemed like a standard tour date for them.

As well as having an identical set to their headlining slot at Download in 2007, Linkin Parks' lack of new material seemed to leave the question of 'why are they even headlining at all' in the back of my mind.

After a rainy night, the morning seemed to look promising.

Hardly the crazy camp of Download '07, but it'll do.

Saxon (8) are the most under-rated British metal band. Their new material is amazing, so epic. They deserve so much more recognition.

Lamb of God (8) are up next and don't disappoint. The catchy riff in 'Now You've Got Something...' was the highlight if the entire festival. A strong performance but perhaps a little unimaginative with the set list.

Weird gay guys.

Machine Head (5) were the 'special guests' even though they pulled out and threw a hissy fit because Limp Bizkit were above them on the bill. Me and Talman are quite bored of Machine Head touring the same album for 3 years now.

Limp Bizkit (6) played an identical set as they did at Download, and as I've seen them before I really didn't care about them.

I think we watched Feeder (5) here, who did that song about a CD player. It was quite funny.

Nine Inch Nails (?) played the mainstage as we waited for the next band on second stage. I don't rate them myself.

Only a couple of bands left now.

Avenged Sevenfold (9) were the best band of the entire festival. The fact that they haven't released any new material yet they still receive a huge reception shows just how good this band is. Like some of the other bands they seemed to play it safe in terms of the set list, however their performance was second to none.

This bouncer guy was egging the crowd on to crowd surf over to him!
Epic.

I'm looking forward to see just how far A7X can go.

On the last few songs me and Talman barged our way to the front which resulted in my glasses being swiped off of my face by crowd surfers. I thought I'd lost them forever until some guy announced he 'threw them to the front.' At the end of the set I asked the bouncers if they had any glasses, which they did- without a scratch.

Metallica (7) end the festival in style, with classics such as 'One' and 'Master of Puppets' and even a cover of Queen's 'Stone Cold Crazy' which we all recently discovered thanks to the latest Guitar Hero.

All in all a brilliant festival which in due course will overtake Download as the premier 'alternative' British festival thanks to it's rotating stage system and general better quality of bands.

On the way home I finally got my hands on the illusive 'Pepsi Raw'. It's horrible.

This number plate says 'PUBE' hahahahaha.

Summer Part 1/3- The Beginning

2009-09-18T10:19:00.000+01:00

In case you're wondering why I haven't blogged in 3 months, it's because my hard drive broke at the start of summer, resulting in a loss of the 'King of NLT' video, along with all my photos, graphics, music, videos and fonts. Not to worry though, the footage is all on an external hard drive.

In spite of this, I began my Summer by taking a trip to Bradgate park with Callum and Talman.

Would you really pay good money for this custom number plate?

Me and Lynsey got Mum rats for her Birthday.

Filming for 'Standardly Syston'.

The weeks of rain we endured was shit for skating, but must have been amazing for www.ultimatepuddle.blogspot.com

Gloomy.

Paris is good at everything- even little girly BMXing.

These are the electric drums I would eventually buy for my Birthday.

The Engish's.

Check out this postman actually getting harassed by someones dog.

Kieren and AJ were unleashed upon Fleckney.

Another standard side rock.

Basi- Low to mid FS D.

AJ- 50-50.

BGP's!

Basi got NLT some coverage in Front magazine.

Yes Door Bellend.

Remember when everyone was scared of Swine flu?

In a vague attempt to fix my laptop I installed a new hard drive myself to save money. It didn't work though.

Jonny Layback.

Gutted.

On the night that would've been the King of NLT premiere, John sat on Talman's car roof on the way home. Amazing.

This was my Birthday meal. Stoked!

Amazing Birthday cake.

Talman had great pleasure in eating the traitor Tevez slice.

I saw You Me At Six in London.

A good, solid gig. The Forum is a nice venue too.

I got my results from second year through- a 1st, five 2:1's and a 3rd.

Part 2/3 up soon, if anyone even reads this anymore.

For Untold Reasons Video

2009-08-23T00:24:00.002+01:00

This is the first of two 'For Untold Reasons' videos I shot and edited at The Shed in Leicester. Additional filming by Mike Simons.

The second video will be up in the following weeks, as well as the rest of my Summer antics.

For Untold Reasons Video Shoot

2009-07-01T23:18:00.003+01:00

I will be shooting For Untold Reason's live music video this Sunday. Doors are at 5pm, come down and get crazy while they tear the Shed a new one.

Get To The Chopper!

2009-06-28T20:42:00.007+01:00

Callum got a figure of that dodgy old man from Family Guy.

This is Paris- a new Syston local. Killin' it!

Here's Dom at my Grandad's.

I ventured back to Donington Park to film my Dad's track day.

I climbed over a fence to get a good view from the VIP area!

How embarrassed would you be if you were riding that chunk of crap around the track?

'New-wheel Wednesday's!'

Callum ollies the hip.

'Orange Wednesday.'

An actual good pair of Fallens in TK's.

Yes willy grind.

Another FS ollie by chub chub.

Lloyd- FS Disaster.

Cal- Boardslide.

Nice one Syston- a staple!?

Paris is new to the blogging scene. He'll be throwing 'the arms' in future photos...

Tally Ho.

This was my best trick.

Oh Syston...