FRANKENBROTHER Skate Video Podcast

We had a lot to say about this wonderful documentary covering the life and death of our local Adelaide City Skatepark, a spot each of us have a lot of history with. We ramble about the fifteen years of the park itself and what its creation and eventual demolition meant to this funny old town of ours.    More Than Concrete! on YouTube - https://youtu.be/3Io6nOlfvYM

In Part 2 we discussed the first day of Olympic Skateboarding from the Tokyo Olympics, how 13yo girls shredding that hard makes our creaky bones hurt, and that Tom and Stuart are too old to work out how to use TV apps.  See Part 1 for our discussion about DGK's 2014 video Blood Money. 

We split this latest episode into two parts because we simply couldn't shut up and it went on a bit. This first part covers DGK's short Blood Money video but we end up talking about music mostly (again). Part 2 covers the first day of the Olympic Skateboarding street events. 

Midnight Express. Faces of Death. The Waterboy. Another 48 Hours. Hot Rod. The Warriors. What do all these films have in common? We manage to draw tenuous links between them and 2013's The Deathwish Video.   (Apologies for the dodgy cables making some awful noises at points)

We go right back to the beginning with the one that not only gave birth to skate videos as we know them, but helped revive the entire skateboarding culture that took over the world. An absolute classic.   https://www.instagram.com/frankenbrotherpodcast/

    Come for the discussion of an incredible British skate video - stay for the ramblings of three tired old men reminiscing over awful early 90s vegan hardcore bands.    Also includes our first extended audio contributions from filmmaker Ford Brookfield and featured skater Dan Cates.   https://www.instagram.com/frankenbrotherpodcast/

This 2007 documentary focusing on former skater and businessman Steve Rocco (World Industries, Blind, Plan B etc) covers the wild ride of the 1990s skateboarding industry and the culture more broadly. As a trio of old buggers, you know we had a lot of feelings about it all. 

We crawled out of our dusty quarantine caves to have a chat about these weird times and respond to a couple of listener emails. 

It's nearly March, but here's what we though about 2019.

Another long episode, but with good reason - we had incredible feedback and background info from Heroin Skateboards owner Mark 'Fos' Foster and were able to go deep on a really great, newish, gnarly video. 

A classic. Apologies for the length, we couldn't shut up about this one.

Three crotchety old men reminisce about punk, hardcore, and metal - and occasionally remember to  review a great new(ish) skateboard video in the process. 

We all loved this one. Ripping soundtrack, creative skating, and some great feedback from a few of the people involved in making it. "Police Academy 5 is the Godfather Part II of Police Academy movies" 

In this episode we take a slight detour from traditional skate videos and look at 'Eastside - A Skateboard Journey to Asia and Beyond', a short documentary about skateboarding in Asia from 2002. We recorded this just before things started really popping off in Hong Kong. 

 A stunningly produced video and a magicians' underground hideout?

In this episode we talk about a great Adelaide video with a questionable soundtrack (Coldplay?!?) and a tonne of local spots we know.

A much later Blind video this time, but this one is still nearly 15 years old by now. Jeez we're getting old.

Another one with a great soundtrack. Tom and Stuart go through some correspondence from skaters involved in the video, while Gabe overuses the term "angular" and completely slanders the memory of Michael Hutchence.

Stu, Tom and Gabe watch 2005's Ellis Island promo and reflect more broadly on Zoo York as a company and cultural icon. 

In this Bonus Brother episode Tom, Stuart and Gabe talk about a few movies they've seen recently. 

Stuart and Tom talk Gold's 2015 video GOONS, while Gabe discusses the soundtrack.   (Apologies for the dodgy third mic at times) 

A newer one this time. Stuart and Tom have mixed feelings about Expedition One's 2014 video Gone Fishin'.

Stuart, Tom and Gabe recap the year in skating but somehow end up mostly talking about the Olympics.

Welcome to the first episode of the Frankenbrother skate video podcast! In this episode Stuart and Tom find their podcasting feet while exploring Blind's seminal Video Days (1991)