Interview - Mark Foster (Heroin Skateboards)

1.Loud and fast greetings from Perú,Mark! how are you bro? hows going the things in Heroin Skateboards?
All is well here mate. Celebrating 20 years of the brand next year. 

2.Let's start from the beginning,tell us how you decided to form this infernal brand of destructive skateboarding?
I was in a hospital bed with a broken wrist when I decided to start a skateboard company. I knew I was in it for life and completely addicted, so I chose the name Heroin right there and then. I had no place to live and my girl had left me at the time. The name is also ironic because I’ve never done drugs, I’m anti drugs actually. So there were a lot of factors starting the brand and with the name. I drew the first logo with my left hand. (Switch) 

3.Which are for you the influences that have impacted on Heroin Skateboards?
Black Coffee, Tom Waits, Eric Dressen, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jean Michel Basquiat, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jean DeBuffet, Nick Cave, Stockwell skatepark, Anti Hero Skateboards, Simon True, Neil Blender, English Breakfasts, Hunter S Thompson, Bukowski, Todd Francis, Mark Gonzales, Natas, Minor Threat, Scarecrow Skateboards, Crazy Eddie, Jason Adams. 

4.Currently what is the crew or team of Heroin Skateboards?
Deer Man of Dark Woods
Chopper
Daniel Shimizu
Chet Childress
Tony Karr
Lee Yankou
Nick Michel
Nick Rodriguez
Pat Franklin
Tom Day
Joe O Donnell
Frank Shaw
Zach Riley
Craig Questions Scott
Leon Chapdelaine
Zack Krull
Corey Leso
Stephen Malet
Shane Powell
Aaron Wilson

5.Craig Questions does a sickly job with his demented artwork on Heroin Skateboards,something you want to add about this?
I met Craig when he was about 15 and he was super annoying, he’d ask you 5 Questions and not give you the time to answer any of them, it took a few years to get used to what he was like, but deep down he’s a really good guy. He did a board for me ages ago when I had a pro board, and he always hits me up with ideas for board graphics. He’s one of my best friends now. Stoked I got to see him last week and Skate with him. 

6.Explain us about the killer underground skateboarding scene from your city? some diy spots there?
Which City? I grew up in Manchester, lived in London for 18 years then moved to LA, also spent a lot of time in Paris and Osaka, so I don’t know which one you mean. 

7.You're aware of the South American underground skateboarding scene?
Not too much, no. 

8.How and where the Heroin maniacs find the destructive stuff from Heroin Skateboards?
They all contact me from all over the world, like the Japanese guys as well as the Canadian guys from Barrier Kult and the guys in England who I grew up skating with, they all seem attracted to the originality of the brand I guess. 

9.Morbid future plans?
20 year anniversary next year! Got loads of fun stuff coming up for that. Not sure after that, just keeping working on it all. 

10.Mark thanks for your time in this interview,last words bro!
Fuck drugs, let’s Skate.

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Interview - Bryan Faisy (Loco Skateboards)

1.Rad greetings from Peru,Bryan! Hows going the things in Loco Skateboards?
Hey Hi! All right we spend our day to skate!

2.Tell us how you started this killer underground skateboarding brand? how were the beginnings?
I have created the brand in January 2017 it na not even 1 year old! The recipe is simple I get the worst skater person doesn't want that pirates! My first Board in store come d be put before 1 month ago I sold them on the street.

3.what are your influences and motivations to keep going with Loco Skateboards?
My influence in skateboarding months personally the BAKER boys Piss drunks guys from FDR, Burnside, Jay Adams, Ali Boulala, Antwuan Dixon, Duan Peters, Andy Roy and more... The motivation to continue Loco Skateboards? Skate all day burn all the spots with my boys! 100% skateboards!

4.Loco Skateboards have some crew, team?
Yes we have a good team guys make everything, I invite you to watch the instagram you will see! is a spot can whatever it is we skate, we're still motivates for DIY also concrete make it know us!

5.Tell us about the scene skateboarding underground from your city.
One is between Paris and Marseilles the scene is good he y' has of drives her everywhere, a lot of photographer are motivate has go shooter it's cool it pushes the guy to send heavy, I film a lot too so it never stops to skate except when the times are t against us. We got our 2 local diy also Street Trash has dimension of Paris, and the lab in Marseille.

6.You know some from underground skateboarding scene from Southamerica?
I don't really know the underground scene in South America but it is with pleasure that I'd like to find out more!

7.Bowl? street?
We make everything! All that this Skate we take pleasure above. Me to be versatile this is where you really to have fun.

8.For you what is DIY?
What is a DIY for me? Do the spot that comes to the head, alcohol has smoking, police who gets to you not following your DIY's hide and buddies!

9.Future plans in Loco Skateboards?
For the future I work so that there is more choice of shape and I want to do lots of clothing, otherwise continue on the path that we start SKATE SKATE SKATE.

10.Byran thanks for your time in this interview,last words bro!
Thank you! For the last word I can tell you take your Skate and burn all or you go!

Apocalipsis Toner en el Centro de Lima este 15 de Diciembre!

Lugar: Casa Bagre 

Dirección: Jiron Moquegua 112 Cercado de Lima a la espalda de la plaza San Martín

Hora: 9:00 pm hasta las 4:00 am

Fecha: 15 de Diciembre 2017

Bandas: 

Satánicos Marihuanos

Rifle

Lelo Gige

Reptil

Tröncho

Rito Verdugo

Cuarzo

The Dead End-Alley Band

Nocturno

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Interview - Jono Coote

1.Rad and destructive greetings from Peru,Jono! how are you bro! hows going the things there?
Good thanks man, dry enough to skate still and we’ve got Mwadlands and House of Vans for when it rains – winter is looking pretty good!

2.Tell us how you start into your killer skateboarding? how were the beginnings?
I started skating in a small town on the South Coast of England called Bexhill-one-Sea, a massive BMX town, but two of my best mates got skateboards because of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and I needed to keep up with them somehow – I begged my parents for one for Christmas and they hooked it up, a cheap Woolworths board which I snapped trying to roll off a tennis table in the local park. Then I snapped my sister’s trying the same thing, had to save up to pay her the money for that (she didn’t get a new one) and then eventually got hold of a Jon West Foundation board. I watched Headcleaner, Label Kills and Squadrophenia religiously and kept going when my friends who got me into it quit.

3.Which are your influences and motivations to keep breaking the knees and spots?
P-Stone videos (RIP), Stockwell, all the crew, RWTB, BMT, booze, hash, Headcleaner, foam roller sessions, Antihero videos, Cardiel’s frontside airs, Hewitt’s frontside grinds, Carroll’s frontside flips, Negative Approach, Souls of Mischief, Tom Waits, The Pogues.

4.Tell us something about the underground and diy skateboarding scene in your city! diy spots and rad skateparks.
DIY spots get knocked down quick in London, because there aren’t enough chain supermarkets or luxury housing. The Withsection crew have built some rad South London DIY spots over the years, sadly none of which are still around. On the flipside of that, Steve Barrow and the North London crew have built one of the best DIY spots in the UK – watch Ben Raemers’ In Transition section if you need clarification! Mad props to them. Skatepark-wise we have the centre of the known universe AKA Stockwell Skatepark AKA Brixton Beach, a 70s park with updated areas and one which is apparently technically DIY – the original builders had a questionable level of permission when they started laying concrete, by all accounts. Cantelowes, Victoria Park and Clissold are also sick and, like I said before, Mwadlands and House of Vans make the winter much easier to bear. There’s plenty of crumbling brick banks and crusty street spots to keep you entertained when you need to remember how to ollie.
We also have a rad network of skater owned shops and companies as well as plenty of people creating art, music and skate videos who form like Voltron to make sure the scene is constantly kicking off. Big up Blast Skates, Brixton’s Baddest Skateshop, Serious Adult, Withsection, Lovenskate, everyone else getting shit done. RIP Parlour Skateshop!

5.Which are your favorite tricks to do a great and destructive session?
Front smiths, backside bonelesses, heelblocks and badly mobbed worm-burner kickflips.

6.A word to:
DIY: The backbone of skateboard culture!
Duane Peters: Amazing skateboarder, shame he’s lost his mind and turned into a Trump supporting homophobe…
Blast Skates: BLOKES

7.You currently have sponsors?
I feel like Tiger Balm and Jameson’s Whiskey support me pretty well.

8.Tell us about your sick video called Corner Store,are you stoked with this?
I am - it was basically the video which taught me to use a camera so some of the filming is definitely questionable, but I’m stoked overall. I feel like I’ve done South London’s venerable off licenses justice, support your local beer hole. I started making it sort of because I hated the music in 99% of the videos I was watching, so thought I’d do something to redress the balance in favour of ‘things I like’.
The first clips toward the next project got filmed today, hopefully I’ll iron out some of the kinks with this one! 

9.You know about the underground and diy skateboarding from Southamerica?
I know Anselmo Arruda’s skate house in Brazil looks insane! Confusion seems to be pretty on the ball with covering the scene there too, it’s definitely one of my favourite magazines going right now and I couldn’t do without that subscription. One day I definitely need to visit the classic ‘Hewitt frontside invert Thrasher cover’ park with the fullpipe.

10.Rad future plans?
I’ve just started filming the next video today, we dodged puddles and dog shit to hit some crusty street spots. I’ve got some interviews planned for Sidewalk which I’m stoked to get done, then when the weather gets better I’ll hopefully hit some skateparks on the mainland – Spain early next year, Belgium in the summer. I’m putting together a zine based on a trip to the Pacific Northwest a few of us did in September too, it’s good to have some projects on the go when it’s wet outside!

11.Jono thanks for your time in this interview,something you want to add?
Cheers fella! RWTB.