When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: July 2007

  • Homage to Hockney Skate Mag Advert

    Subscription adverts were always a weak spot in the magazine. They were more the publisher’s thing than ours. But we had to come up with some comment. This was my favourite one because it combined two things: the feel of a suburban room full of magazines, stickers and posters and another attempt to explore space…

  • Birmingham Days Gets Going

    Now we get down to some words, at last. In this case I can’t be quite sure who wrote them. Probably me, but I’m not quite sure. The theme of ‘space left over’ by the planners is one of my pet themes, but “you get the feeling that you’d be mugged by the environment before…

  • More Birmingham Skateboarding, 1991 style

    Jovial Jagger, Crucial Christian, Bustin Benny and… who? After all these years we’ve corrected the missing name-check for Egan on the last page, courtesy of Jagger. Who can help out with the skater featured top-right here, please?

  • Skateboarding in Birmingham, 1991

    These are the features which mattered most to me. My obsession was always with getting out into different places and covering different scenes. The roots of R.a.D magazine date back to when I was working in a skateboard mail order company and dealing with skaters scattered all over the UK — often in the remote…

  • Billy’s SK8 Shop Advert May 1991

    As I glance at these adverts I realise how little interest I had in the equipment, even though I was surrounded with it for most of my working life. Instead I find myself contemplating the technology which was used to produce pages like this: the effort which a shop would have had to put in…