The Skate Creative podcast

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. My guest this week on the podcast is Mike Manzoori. Mike is a legendary skateboarder and was part of a generation of UK skaters who exploded on to the European and world scene in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Riding for companies Powell Peralta , Santa Cruz and later turning pro for ATM click. A...

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. My guest this week is Alex Irvine. Alex has worked as freelance skate photographer for all major uk publications and was also the editor of kingpin magazine for many years. I talk to Alex about starting skateboarding and photography in Aberdeen, his work at kingpin and beyond and his move into p...

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast, my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder. My guests this week for another video review episode are Alan glass and my brother Seth curtis. Alan is head of marketing at shiner distribution and Seth works at supreme in London. We will be taking about Matlock Bennet jones’ passport presents Section, baker video with Tyson and t funk, Deedz...

My guest this week for another video review episode are ben powell and Ryan grey. Ben is a teacher but was the editor at sidewalk magazine for over 20 years. Ryan grey works for the skateboarders companion and also worked with ben at sidewalk. In this episode we’ll be talking about videos from Tyshawn jones, Nyjah Huston, Louie Lopez, and Tristan Funkhouser in the run up to the thrasher skater of...

My guests this week are Neil Macdonald from science VS life and Quentin Delille from the Beyond boards podcast. Quentin is a French podcaster and has interviewed many important and inspirational skateboarders about their careers or as part of the skateboarding industry. His podcast, beyond boards has released 36 episodes talking to amazing people from all aspects of skate culture about their lives...

This weeks guest is josh Stewart. Josh is a film maker and runs theories of Atlantis a web shop and distributer. Josh’s series of Static videos starting in the late nineties introduced the world to different aspects of American skateboarding showing more creativity and showcased josh’s style and artistry as a film maker. Over 5 instalments of the static series skaters like Bobby Puleo, Paul Shire,...

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 John Rattray. John works in consumer strategies for Nike. Before this he was a professional skateboarder riding for blueprint and zero skateboards as well as having pro shoes for Savier and Osiris shoes. After the death by suicide of his sister Katrina in 2011...

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...

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...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 numero...

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 bre...

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...

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 ma...

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 ma...

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 Dir...

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...

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 a...

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 e...

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 incep...

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...

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 pro...

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...