This months edition

Ladies and Gentlemen, here we have it, I care about everyone seeing this so much that I'm officially posting on my birthday.

Heres the montage loves. happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.......

Boom Boom Boom a-let me hear you say Bristol... BRISTOL

As my girlfriend is now in Bath being a hot shot designer, I have no option but to journey down south on a regular basis. My first excursion to the south-west happened to be on a glorious day which I was lucky enough to be able to share with everyones favourite (no longer local) local OG David Hopper, and as they say 'when your girlfriend's at work and Bath has nothing to offer, go to Bristol because lots of good stuff is there!' At least that's what I've heard they say.

Anyway, after texts full of rail and bus instruction from David and alot of moody public transport workers, I finally found David Hopper looking super fly in alorralorra diamond atire (to quote Cilla Black)

First we went to Lloyds which is big and round and sick! Then we went to a lovely mellow bank, but first Hopper showed me his favourite outdoor seat in the whole of Bristol. I wasn't allowed a go.

Then after alot of complaining about my sore legs we were on a bus. Usually I can't think of anything worse than a bus ride, but as I had my 'First day ticket' it was all cushdy. As an added bonus we were traveling through the roughest part of Bristol where some building were so urban that even Hoppers XXL tee-shirt were upstaged.

We had a right session at Filton skatepark with Hoppers good friend and even better skateboarder Jason Lewer who put down some ha-ha-ha-hammers for Matty's Monthly Montage. He said he wants to come and do King of the Howman this year, and if he does we're all in trouble! After seeing a Banksy piece it was time to go. An all-round lovely trip...

...especially when you've gotta come back to Mr Krishna Muthurangu's unorthodox rock'n'roll filming stylings!

PEACE!

My Monthly Montage

Rightee ho, the time has come. A month late and not the most I've been out I'll be the first to admit, but anyway, here is March and Aprils efforts. I promise I'll do better next month.

MATTY's MONTHLY MONTAGE 6 from mattysmith on Vimeo.

Fester-Le-Shite

Aside from it being the place I lived until the age of four (and a glorious first four years they were) I have recently come to the conclusion that I hate Chester-le-street. While the town square looks like a spot that only Barcelona's finest could dream of finding, it turns out it's festering with slack jawed yokels doing wheelies on moutain bikes and their younger siblings asking me if I'm sponsored because they saw me do a tre flip. which, don't get me wrong, is flattering, but my joy and modest sense of pride was torn down after I attempted the wall ride I'd done 9 times already, and instead of riding up the wall like the agile salamander that I am, I managed this...

You may be thinking, that's not so bad, but after seeing the gap it left in my nose, your mind should be changed. Three plies down, three or four to go. (can't be arsed to count)
After a day of ollying gaps I didn't think this would be how I'd destroy my day old board.

P.S. Palace boards are actually very nice. Don't be put of by my sheer stupidity and/or their sheer hippidy hoppidy hipsternesss.