Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guests on the podcast are Ryan Grey and Ben Powell. We are going to talk about all these videos ! Welcome video by Josh Hallet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1AHpjfIgM&t=29s A golden egg by Chris Atherton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BkCa4VtUMQ H’min bam by Alex Craig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_NHwKNeq4 Now that’s what I call skateboarding by christian hart https:...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest on the podcast is Vaughn Baker. Vaughn is head of European marketing for Hours shoes. Prior to this part of his career he was a pro skateboarder for Unabomber and blueprint skateboards. Vaughn was part of a generation of British skateboarders that pushed boundaries and pioneered technical and switch tricks to the next level. Vaughn’s style and consistency made him stand out fr...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest on the podcast is Neil Urwin. Neil is general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Toms shoes. Neil was also one of the most prominent professional skateboarders of his generation, riding for new deal, reaction, dc shoes and zoo york. I talk to Neil about growing up in south shields, starting skateboarding, getting sponsored by new deal in the 1990’s and filming f...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 45 min
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest on the podcast Helena Long. Helena is a Professional skateboarder and drummer from south east London. Her skills have attracted coverage from all uk magazines and sponsorship from vans, Santa Cruz and from poetic collective. I talk to Helena about growing up in London, touring with Santa Cruz, playing music with the upset stomach band, finding a connection with girl skate uk a...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest on the podcast is Stephen king. Kingy is a U.K social documentary, portrait photographer and university lecturer. For nearly a decade he was staff photographer at document skateboard magazine. I talk to Kingy about growing up in Liverpool’s skate scene ,starting photography, the importance of mentors in his life , the early days of document, the collaborative nature of all his...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest on is Ben Powell Ben is a writer, journalist, commentator and teacher. For over 20 years he was editor of Sidewalk magazine. Ben, Andy horsely, Chris Forder and Wig Worland changed the way the world saw British skateboarding when they started Sidewalk and gave exposure to numerous generation’s of skateboarding talent. Through Ben’s writing and sidewalks unique sense of humour ...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 3Ep. 1
This weeks guest is Colin Kennedy. Colin works in European sports marketing and team management for Nike SB. Colin turned pro for panic skateboards and later had ground breaking video parts as part of the Blueprint team in videos like lost and found, waiting for the world, make friends with the colour blue and independent projects like playing fields and first broadcast. Colin has had a ground breaking career and is arguably Scotland’s most prolific Professional skateboarder of the last 25 years...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to the skate creative podcast This weeks episode is slightly different as its just a casual conversation with two of my best friends , my brother Seth Curtis, who works at supremes London store and Alan Glass who is head of marketing at shiner distribution. We all picked two videos that we found interesting from the last 12 months and discussed them. This is a bit of a random and new episode which I thought would be fun for a Christmas special. Hope you all had a good Christmas and have ...
Dec 29, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest is Danny Wainwright. Danny works for vans shoes in their grass roots marketing division. Born in Coventry ,He started skateboarding after moving to Stroud Gloucestershire at the age of nine. Dannys talent was evident from an early age and he and his friends were featured in Uk magazines from the early nineties onwards. During these formative years, he became a fixture in the Br...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest is Danny Wainwright. Danny works for vans shoes in their grass roots marketing division. Born in Coventry ,He started skateboarding after moving to Stroud Gloucestershire at the age of nine. Dannys talent was evident from an early age and he and his friends were featured in Uk magazines from the early nineties onwards. During these formative years, he became a fixture in the Br...
Dec 15, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest is Matt Pritchard Matt is a vegan chef, ironman and marathon athlete and an entrepreneur. Matt started skateboarding in Cardiff with his friends and later turned pro for panic skateboards. Along with Lee Dainton, Mike “Pancho” Locke and Dan Joyce he stared in the hit MTV show Dirty Sanchez. After having found success being on shows like Balls of steel and Dirty Sanchez Matt fou...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 5
This weeks guest is Tidy mike Mike is a film maker, editor and owner of simple print studios. Hailing from Ferryside in west wales Mike started skateboarding in the late 1980’s. His love of skateboard videos pushed him to borrowing his dads video camera to film his friends. This led Mike to filming all around wales ,making his own videos and filming seminal British videos for Danny wainwright and Justin Sydenham’s 5050 skate shop in Bristol. I talk to tidy about growing up in rural wales, starti...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This weeks guest is Leo Sharp. Leo is the photo editor for the skateboarders companion, a quarterly British skateboard magazine. Before starting the magazine Leo has contributed work to just about all of the magazines that have come out in Britain since the early nineties, earning him a staff photographer post for the long running institution, sidewalk. I talk to Leo about starting skateboarding and photography, the early days of the Milton Keynes scene, running the length of the country with Ma...
Nov 03, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Welcome to the Skate Creative Podcast, This weeks guest is Alan Glass. Alan is head of marking for Shiner distribution and has worked filming and editing skateboard videos for over twenty years. He started making his own videos and went from there to collaboration on the fledgling viewfinder video magazine with John cattle and Tom Moore. After editing the first Heroin video with Fos, he was then employed full time and went on to film and edit all of Heroins releases as well as the last landscape...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. This weeks guest is Mark Foster. Fos is an artist ,designer and founder of Heroin and Landscape skateboards. He started Herion as joke between friends and over twenty years later the company’s still going strong. Its use of humour and loose punk rock aesthetic made Herion stand out from its inception. In late 90’s a lot of skateboarding had become quite conservative in its video making and grap...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Part 1 This weeks guest on the skate creative podcast is Dan Magee. Dan is a film maker, editor and designer. Blueprint skateboards was established by Dan and Faze sevens Joe Burlo in 1996 as an addition to Panic skateboards. Dan rode for Panic and then Blueprint before taking over filming and design duties for both companies. Dan went on to make seven full length videos as well as countless ad’s and promo videos for Blueprint which raised the standard of what could be achieved by a British skat...
Aug 18, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This weeks guest on the skate creative podcast is Dan Magee. Dan is a film maker, editor and designer. Blueprint skateboards was established by Dan and Faze sevens Joe Burlo in 1996 as an addition to Panic skateboards. Dan rode for Panic and then Blueprint before taking over filming and design duties for both companies. Dan went on to make seven full length videos as well as countless ad’s and promo videos for Blueprint which raised the standard of what could be achieved by a British skateboard ...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This weeks guest is Percy Dean, Percy is a photographer ,filmmaker and director of photography hailing from Liverpool England. For over a decade he was editor of British skateboarding magazine document. Document folded in 2008 after nearly 11 years of covering British skateboarding In its own unique way. This was a watershed moment for Percy and his career. He used the opportunity to complete his masters and start working with a wider range of subjects and techniques, with his work going from st...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Morgan Campbell is a collage artist and skateboarder. He has worked in almost every aspect of skateboarding ,from over two decades of being sponsored and pro to writing and editing magazines and internet content. Hailing from Perth Western Australia, Morgan was part of a wave of skateboarders in the 1990’s that brought Australian skateboarding to an international audience. Known for his positivity , handrail destruction and infectious smile , Morgan is seasoned world traveler who’s now settled i...
Jul 21, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Toby Paterson is a visual artist from Glasgow Scotland. Toby studied at Glasgow school of art and the Art institute of Chicago. He won the Becks futures prize in 2002, a Creative Scotland award in 2006 and was given honorary doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2011. His art often takes form in painting, sculpture and installation. His work often references modern architecture and how we all interact with city’s , public spaces and its influence on our culture. I caught up with Toby t...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Sam Barrett is folk and country musician and recording artist from Leeds, Yorkshire. Taking from traditional British folk and mixing it with an influence from American blues and country Sam has has a unique singing and writing style all of his own. Having spent over a decade touring the U.K , USA and Europe he’s more than earned his stripes as a formidable live performer and with a string of studio and live records on his own ya dig label sam has shone bright with his song writing skills and hyp...
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This episodes guest Is Nick Jensen. Nick is a professional skateboarder ,painter and art director of Isle skateboards. Nick is one of the most prominent and prolific British skateboarders of the last twenty years. Being a member of the pioneering Blueprint skateboards team from the late 1990’s onwards, Nick had landmark video parts in Blueprints , Lost and Found, Make Friends with the Colour Blue and international release Fully Fared by Lakai footwear. After blueprint ended he and fellow bluepri...
Jun 08, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Hello this is the skate creative podcast, My names joel curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. On this podcast I’ll be talking to creative people on how skateboarding has influenced their work and creativity. This episodes guest is Richard French sayer. French is a graphic artist and illustrator and has worked for some of the most famous skateboard company’s in the world. He’s produced graphics for Santa Cruze, real , independent trucks,zero and heroin skateboards to name but a few. As well...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
My names joel curtis I’m a musician and skateboarder. in this podcast I’ll be talking to creative people about how skateboarding has influenced there work creativity and life experience. Our first episode will be with coming soon and you can subscribe where ever you listen to podcasts by searching for the skate creative podcast.You can follow us on Instagram @theskatecreativepodcast For more information on upcoming guests and episodes. I do hope you’ll join me then
May 19, 2021•1 min
