From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Winter Sucks

November 30, 2009

Well winter is well and truly here, if today is anything to go by. The sun was out, by it was so ridiculously cold that even looking outside gave me a chill. Determined to make the most of a day off, I tried to get out for a skate this afternoon. As hard as I [...]

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The Skatepark Situation: Part 4

November 25, 2009

So here we are, back again for another round of “The Skatepark Situation”: a now reoccurring series of articles on the Covert site about skateparks in Coventry, which aims to fulfill the task of trying to get the council to understand skateboarding, as well as trying to get the skateboarders to understand the way the [...]

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CTHULHU

November 25, 2009

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by horror author H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, first appearing in the short storyThe Call of Cthulhu” when it was published in Weird Tales in 1928. ” Cthulhu is one of the central Great Old Ones of the Lovecraft Mythos. It is often cited for the extreme descriptions [...]

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Interview: Mick Wilson

November 23, 2009

Covert hung out with Coventry DJing legend Mick Wilson recently for a bit of a chin wag. Mick first hit the music scene in the 90s as one half of The Eclipse resident DJs Parks and Wilson. He then went on to record as Tilt (also with Mick Parks), and later formed Cov band The [...]

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Burton Upon Trent skatepark

November 19, 2009

Warning: The following blog entry is heavily related to my series of boring editorials about skateparks in Coventry and why they aren’t good enough and why the council should be looking at other areas of the UK for inspiration when it comes to designing parks. If you’re sick and tired of these articles then skip [...]

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The Big Push

November 16, 2009

Sidewalk’s Big Push 2009 is now fully online, with all 6 edits available for viewing via MPora! For those of you who don’t know what the Big Push is; it’s a 6 team road trip competition across various cities in the UK, started by the now out of business skate mag Document. Sidewalk took on [...]

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The skatepark situation (Part 3)

November 15, 2009

For this entry into “The Skatepark Situation”, I’m not going to be doing a whole lot of the talking, I’ll leave that up to the skatepark users who have provided their thoughts and views below. What I will say is that during a session down the memorial park skatepark today, I counted 38 people who [...]

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Mighty Mos In The UK

November 13, 2009

Mos Def is playing a one off UK show in London on Sunday 29th November. His most recent album, “The Ecstatic”, for me anyway, is one of the hip hop releases of the year so here’s hoping the show is a killer too.

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Faceplant Skateboards 666

November 12, 2009

Homegrown D.I.Y skateboarding from Coventry’s own backyard based skateboard company. Bowls, slams and serial killers, what more do you need! Faceplant 666

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