Interview and video editing and production by Farran Golding
“I always remember Callum Paul and Jimmy Roche putting on “Wuthering Heights” when we were drinking. They’d get a record player and crank that song. Jimmy and Callum would get into it, dance about, get really theatrical and I remember that vividly,” recalls videographer Geoff Campbell regarding how Kate Bush’s “James and the Cold Gun” made the soundtrack of Cunnie’s Box, his 2013 Melbourne scene video. “Of course, the other thing is Nick Jensen’s part in Eleventh Hour…”
The power of a song to elevate a good video part into a great one, or make a skater outside one’s taste suddenly appealing, is a phenom of music supervision. ‘The Eleven O’Clock Number’ is a new Skate Bylines video series about the sleeve-notes of skate video soundtracks. In our first episode, Campbell traces how this balled of a gunslinger gone rouge became part of Cunnie’s Box, Kate Bush’s cultural stature, and if there’s formula to finding a good song for a video.
In memory of Alex Harvey
For more commentary on skate videos
“‘MOMIJI’ is a win for all skateboarders because it reveals that we survived the Olympic doomsayer’s worst fears” — Natalie Porter on Momiji Nishiya and accomplishments after the Olympic podium.
“He’s performing tricks that should be beyond the reach of mortals.” — Cole Nowicki discusses Tom Schaar and the future of vert in ‘The best of what’s left’ for ‘Ranked and Filed’, a Simple Magic and Skate Bylines co-production.
“A canon at a time when so much of the conversation is geared around things moving too fast for a consensus.” — A round up of the annual Quartersnacks Readers Poll articles from 2019 to present.
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“The Boss became “The Boss” because at some point he stopped being the guy you were worried about and he started being the guy who people were guided by. He was a north star for all of these other skaters.” — Kyle Beachy, author of The Most Fun Thing, on his essay ‘A Very Large Puzzle: On Andrew Reynolds’.
“It’s an accessible first point of, like, ‘How do I connect with this culture?’” — Ian Browning examines municipal space in New York City through the lens of the Lower East Side Skatepark in ‘The Civic Center of New York City Skateboarding’.
