Today i got a new pair of skate shoes to replace my beaten to shit Lakais, off a very nice guy called Simon Peplow, who i only realised they were from after i received the box this morning. I've never met Simon but had been a fan of his art and skateboarding over the years from seeing him and his installations/projects in Sidewalk amongst other places. The reason this stood out to me is because i messaged him before buying(Ebay) mentioning that i was leaving the country Tuesday and he said he'd make sure they got to me on time, what i didn't expect was him paying £8 to send them special delivery, really good to see such genuine goodwill directed to someone he'd never met to fulfil a duty that wasn't really his responsibility in the first place. Just goes to show there's noone better than skateboarders! Incidentally, you can view his work here on his blog, quirky character based illustrations, buy some of his art or something!
The shoes were a replacement in actual fact, i had a pair of Quiet Life edition Lakai Belmonts which have been the best skate shoes i've ever been blessed enough to do bonelesses in, if you see a pair anywhere i'd very much recommend them. 
I also stumbled upon a pretty cool website today which could yield good things for anyone out there interested in various mainly UK undergroundish indie acts, BSM esque stuff generally amongst other gems. Its called Beatcast TV and can be found here, there's currently live set videos of Dartz, Tubelord, Johnny Foreigner and Pennines amongst others, with ones from Blakfish, Cats X 3 and others soon. Pennines are currently one of my favourite UK bands, being in my opinion some of the catchiest melodic mathy indie available to loll your head about to along with Colour. Another reason why they're worth your time is they're all really sound guys, short anecdote but i remember putting Cinemechanica from America on and it going to shit, them being good enough to take me on tour with them for a few nights to make up for it, sessioning smart price beer and Tekken in their van(so so good) and making it to Norwich where Tristan from Pennines was putting them on. He ended up being really out of pocket at the show but remained genuinely stoked on getting a chance to see the guys play and let me crash at his flat with no warning or hesitation, and was a welcoming enough host to make me and another guest food, stay up and play Super Mariokart until the earlier hours and never get bummed out about the lack of turnout, something i always found impossibly infuriating to deal with. I have a feeling he was also the person who first introduced me to Mates Of State which deserves added kudos. You can check Pennines out on myspace here and watch this video of them from Beatcast below, for some reason it's recorded with barely any bass at all, but i'm sure you get the gist. Goodnight x
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