RSD X FAIR OHS

Photo by Benny Ellis

Record stores all over the country today were filled with free live performances, special vinyl releases and celebrity guest appearances. Record store day 2012 was upon us and London seemed to be the best place to enjoy it. When having a peek at the events list only one thing stood out for us, Fair Ohs.

Eddy Frankel (vocals/guitar), Matt Flag (bass) and Joey Ryan (drums) started out as a hardcore thrash band called Big Fucking Deal, after a few name changes they settled on Fair Ohs and began throwing awesome lo-fi music at our ears. After putting out splits with amazing bands like Women, Male Bonding and Spectrals they finally decided to drop their debut full-lenght album Everything is Dancing.

The East London surf rock trio played at Flashback in Angel earlier today, a small record store filled with plenty of character and a shit load of incredible vinyls. 

The band played an array of boner jams that got everyone moving and their energy was more contagious than an STD. When the indian strings at the beginning of ‘Everything is dancing’ were played the small crowd lost their shit.

In between songs they interacted with the audience and vise versa. You could appreciate the beauty of seeing a band in small space rather that in an arena filled with thousands of people. We could feel and see every chord, every lyric and every playful rift.

  

The threesome also released a limited Record Store Day 7inch called ‘A Tribute To Paul Westerberg’ which features covers of two Westerberg songs. On side A, ‘Waiting for Somebody’ and on side B, ‘Dyslexic Heart’. 

Fair Ohs were extremely entertaining and exciting live and were as funny and friendly off stage as they were on. Many call them tropical punk pioneers, we just call them fucking RAD.

Photo by Steven Fessey

- Words by Natalie Archer

PALACE X UMBRO

We don't give a fuck about the upcoming Euro footie bullshit but what has got our attention is the unexpected collab between London's Palace Skateboards and sports brand Umbro.
Together they created a primo six piece S/S12 football inspired capsule collection that is suprisingly swank. It includes trill tops that comes in 3 different colours with a removable palace logo pin badge and a sweet reversible Anthmn Jacket. Our favourite is definitely the Italia 90 Jersey pictured below that is Palace's twist on the classic 1990 England home and third shirt.

The promo video is a perfect throw back to a typical British pub in 90s showing England's semi final game againt West Germany. It is filmed on VHS, a cool but dead format that Palace is known for shooting their promos, graphics and 6 minute skate video TRES TRILL on.

 

The collection will no doubt sell out real fast so don't miss out on bagging the remixed footy lad attire. 

Words by Natalie Archer