As we’re on the subject of covers – your friend Jimmy Boyes is on the cover of this particular issue – for those people reading who maybe don’t really know too much about Jimmy, can you fill in some history on that f*cking maniac?

Jimmy is a free spirit, a seeker, a lover, a skater, a man of passion and strong beliefs: he lives outside the bubble. A freedom fighter, driven to live to the fullest, take your negative vibes and he will cleanse them. A true Englishman, Northern soul, the hardier the better, weather-beaten, travel merchant: he has cycled across the U.S.A. from New York to Florida, Florida to San Diego, San Diego to San Francisco, then Seattle on a separate journey back to San Francisco, alone! Having never been to the States before.

He slept in graveyards along the way, was approached by a trucker and asked to perform lewd acts, chased by coyotes along a small highway in the night and many other equally as crazy things have happened during his constant travels.
He has climbed all the major mountains in Europe and Mt. Kilimanjaro with a native guide, walking through families of mountain gorillas. He has climbed to base camp in Everest, just to check it out! He has also cycled across Morocco and Australia, he cycled through the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, one of the flattest and most arid roads there is. Along with these trips he has also cycled around the whole coastline of England during the winter, half way across Alaska with myself and a few smaller trips through the Arizona and Colorado mountains, again with myself.

Does this help the readers understand how rad he is?
I am honoured to call him my friend, he has been there for me and I appreciate who he is and what he stands for. Just don’t smell his socks.

“Yam Dat Still”, the first monthly offering from Morph, is online right now and features Big Smoke rawness from the likes of Chewy Cannon, Jak Pietryga, Neil Smith, Paul Shier, Joe Gavin, Lucien Clark, Snowy, Harry Lintell, Kevin Lowry, Barney Page and plenty of others.

Get stuck in below and expect more of the same from Morph this time next month.

Prepare to rewind the clip’s intro a good few times too – the term “comedy gold” doesn’t even come close…

Give it a watch below, then be sure to pick up the latest issue of the mag for more Simo bangers in print form!

When Vaughan parted ways with Blueprint towards to end of 2008, Dan Magee passed all of his MFWTCB footage onto us to form the foundations of his next full section; everything was going well until Vaughan unfortunately damaged his knee last winter, taking him out of filming right as we were getting into the flow of things.

Seeing as how the lion’s share of the footage we’ve been sitting on was produced over his last couple of years riding for Blueprint, Vaughan recently decided that instead of leaving his footage to gather digital dust on our hard-drives until the video is released, he’d prefer for it to be made available now, then start filming for the project afresh towards the end of the year once he’s made a full recovery.

So, here it is in all its raw glory – no incidental footage, no properly thought out intro or complex editing, simply unseen Vaughan Baker skateboarding set to the track of his choice.

If you’d prefer not to watch this on some five-inch window on your computer, the edit will also be available as a DVD extra on the Sidewalk video.
The main feature will also include some bang up to date Vaughan footage too.

Anyway, essay over. Enjoy…