DOGPISS ISSUE #1

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MARK VAN VASEY / KEEN WILL / JERRY PRICE / BRUCE MCCLURE tim smith

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dave bevan

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ISSUE 1 EDITOR : BEN HAIZELDEN principal photographer: ben haizelden contributors

cover photographs: ben h. joe hill / backside flip

flynn trotman

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aron ward DAVE BEVAN Bruce mcclure jerry price hasan kamil simon ‘pigdog’ pegler TIM SMITH LIAM FURNEUX ed ‘brian’ shaw & neil turner sincerest thanks to all.

contents

in no particular order

skateboarder spotlight: keen will mark van vasey stone bridge ep review by aron ward jerry price illustration bruce mcclure; THE STRANGEST PET ON EARTH’s poem raw gallery: a photo bulletin by smak skating in the peak district by tim smith & dave bevan

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keen KEEN will WILL SPOTLIGHT

photo: ben h.

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So maybe I’m not the best person to write this piece about Will. don’t get me wrong will is awesome but I’m old and disconnected from what he and his mates get up to. i asked some people to do it but they were too busy skating.

What I can say is that he deserves his nickname Keen Will, he’s one of the most eager guys I’ve ever met. Whether it be chucking himself on a handrail, or starting a new job (he worked for me in a pub I used to run) he goes in all guns blazing. He’s a solid, unpretentious and humble dude. i don’t wanna blow smoke up the guys ass but there’s barely week goes by where I dont hear a story or see some clip on Instagram where Will has done something ridiculous. He is genuinely one of my favourite skaters. You cant fail to be stoked out on his willingness to get gnarly, and pure love for shredding.

Never a dull session when Keen is about.

Ben. frontside air / dean lane photo ed ‘brian’ shaw.

keen lives up to his name and eagerly hops on a long boardslide. photo: liam furneux

works in progress:

the cave

by ben haizelden

presented here are a small slection of images from upcoming book ‘the cave’. the photographs were made in and around the theme parks of orlando florida in august 2016.the book is to be printed early 2017.

francis peters / crook / photo: liam furneux

george hill / 360 flip / photo: liam furneux

SELF CONGRATULATORY SNAPBACK FS GRIND BY THE EDITOR

Photographs by PIGDOG

NON PC TRICK? CHINK CHINK BY JOE HABGOOD AT SHINER TF.

skating in the peak district p h o t o g r a p h s b y t i m s m i t h & d av e b e va n

SKATING THE PEAK DISTRICT PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT BY DAVE BEVAN &

tim o smitho.

frank one foots by the water / photo: tim smith

frank is well ‘upriver’ with this kickflip / photo: tim smith

NICK HANSON DROPS IN TO SOGGY FEET

ALEX HALFORD dips his rod INTO A GROTTY ONe

get the fuck outside photos on this page by

dave bevan

…yeah, yeah, yeah, but it’s not even like the photos make it look like it is, it’s much more than that. Right, what you’ve got to understand it that firstly you had to dive off in the back end of nowhere and hope that the directions that you got where right. Then you had to wrap you shoes in plastic bag and hack your way through the undergrowth and hope that you would find the spot. Then you had to have remembered to bring a spade and shovel and clean up the spot, pull up the weeds and stuff some dirt in the cracks. Then you had to find a line amongst all the crust, whilst also making sure that your board didn’t fall in the reservoir. Then you have to ask yourself ‘why the fuck am I even here? It’s cold, windy… ’and that’s when you realize that yeah it’s only a front slash (and yeah all the kids at you local have them on lock) but…it’s a front slash on something that anyone else will be hard pressed to find or even be bothered to find. And why would you even bother, right? Because it’s not your local.

Because you don’t give a shit about the new ledge spot in town. Because the spot is more than half the trick. Because the scooter kids don’t get dropped off by there mums here.

Because it’s personal. Because you don’t live in LA. Because it’s not like it looks in the photos and that’s OK but… tim smith.

Load the van with stoney shroom heads and leave the city.

Hit the narrow road to the north, where it is always raining, particularly in winter, and pretend to not notice the rain peppering the windscreen and laugh and shout and jive over the noise of the wipers. Follow your nose/rumors/hokum/jive/half remembered tall tales/hand-scrawled maps to the arse-end of bumfucknowhere, looking for Chin/ the grail/unskateable half-pipes which are more moss and grass than stone and have rivers running through the middle of them. Scratch something out of the seemingly unscratchable. Slam hard trying to ride over holes in vertical granite. Get some, on someone else’s land. If you cant avoid the river, try building a ramp over it, and when that doesn’t work, then drop straight into the twat. Wet socks will dry and there’s cures for pneumonia these days.

When all’s said and done, wander off into the fields and pick the next batch of psychedelic aggregates to get you through those long, cold winter nights, to keep you curious, to keep you searching out Chin/the grail/unskateable water-board relics to scratch summit out on. dave bevan.

photo; neil turner

THE STRANGEST PET ON EARTH’S POEM

BY BRUCE MCCLURE FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM @THESTRANGESTPETONEARTH

available at markvanvasey.bandcamp.com

Review The Stone Bridge EP

Kick, snare, some desperate piano and an unforgiving, distorted Morricone guitar and you already feel like your heart is being ripped out for sacrifice or salvation. Then Mark starts singing.

Fuck’s sake.

The honesty and raw beauty in his lyrics are what hold everything together through out this piece of work. A man recognising his demons and dealing with them deftly through these tracks.

The arrangements are sparse, kind of seafaring, and sound like someone who lives on a boat. That’s because he lives on a fucking boat. But that’s why it’s so damn good and refreshing. There’s no pretending to be or sound like someone else. There’s no stepping lightly here. Sure, you can hear Mark’s influences but he’s using them almost like instruments themselves.

The opening to “Smile” is so…sad! It’s immensely personal. You have to decide if you’re singing out loud to your bastard self or to some bastard you still love and want them back. “I did everything to dismiss/ You falling into a deep abyss”. The way the guitar struggles to get one over on the string arrangement is perfect. “Tritone Hoofs” is all that kind Tropicalia/GBV action.

The freak out track. Your head will just swim around with Vasey’s woozy almost nonsensical words. “The inkwells turned to red/ Was it something that I said?” sounds like it’s coming from paranoid unfounded guilt.

The HIT of the E.P. for me is “The Sinking of the HMS Dignity”.

Surprisingly, Mark said he wrote this one quickly but plays out like the most accomplished track of the lot. I think anyone who has ever lived Southside or around the harbour can relate to the swagger and sway in this tune. The drunken walk home past the Balmoral at 4 in the morning. The strength to write these kinds of lyrics is fucking admirable to say the least. All of the tracks almost feel like they’ve led up to this beautiful conclusion.

The penultimate “Near Then and Gone Again” cruises us through with a sort of slowed down fucked up nod to Pavement’s “Range Life” and early Nick Cave. The sophisticated haunting vocals deliver one hell of a chanty hook that will feel like a knife with your name on it sinking slowing into whatever’s left of your soul. Sounds like a promising segue to whatever Mark has in store for us next. Closing the E.P. is “Beautiful Sight (The Horror Song)”, a more positive outlook and approach is felt here. A desert song. Still melancholic but with heat of a sunrise on your back as you head out west. Killer.

Aron Ward to listen to mark van vasey go to

www.markvanvasey.bandcamp.com

mark van vasey

photo: ben

BEAR 5050’S WHILST THE HOMIES DAYDREAM ABOUT THE NEXT SUPREME DROP / photo: ben

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‘the general’ FLYNN TROTMAN SHOWs THE campus pool HIS BACKSIDE (NOLLIE HEELS) / photo:ben

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JERRY PRICE illustrator

“jerry’s drawings are like some sort of fucked up commentary on humanity. looking at them you can imagine what it’s like viewing society through the grotoesque prism of jerry’s eyes. fucking horrifying.”

emily price (jerry’s wife).

see more of jerry’s stuff plus plenty of cute baby photos on his instagram feed @crush_the_pose

rooney ollies over a rail in huddersfield. photo tim smith

kieran mcdonnell

boardslides in bradford. photo

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