Music

Tommy Couzens

Tommy Couzens is a skater and artist based in London.  After seeing his creative approach to skating and then discovering he makes great paintings we had to find out more about him, so we hit him up for a chat about his work. We found out beyond his sick skating, that he has a great …

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John Murphy

@bradderz111 John Murphy is a skateboarder, rapper and skate video maker from The South West of England. His tech skating and verbacious lyrical output both contain inventiveness, ingenious and a unique quirky intricacy. After discovering skating from American TV and media in the late 90s and now creating as a filmer-editor John is a driving …

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Paul Sunderland

Paul Sunderland is a skateboarder and musician who has been running punk and metal label Give Praise Records since 2005. You can see from his company’s collaborations with skate musicians and it’s skateboarding graphical output that he’s devoted to skating and includes it in everything he does but specifically the street skating thrash era of …

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Matt Rodriguez

Matt Rodriguez’s skateboarding, music and art is flowing, fluid and fast. He’s got a unique, loose style on a board and a diverse trick selection and his spontaneous approach to skating on all-terrain oozes with creativity. So it’s no surprise he takes the same energy to the canvas and to his drumming. But behind Matt’s …

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Ray Barbee

Ray Barbee is a skateboarding pioneer and musician who put No Complys on the map in the 90s. If you’ve never seen his video parts or listened to his music, you need to. Just like the soulful sounds he makes with his guitar Ray has been a peaceful and compassionate presence in skating since what …

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Julian Klincewicz

Julian Klincewicz goes for everything on and off his board. He skates anything at anytime, that he can find inbetween working as a film director, musician, photographer, fashion designer and model. He’s created films and creative work for Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh, Kanye West, Slayer, Supreme and Calvin Klein. He’s shot models for Gosha Rubchinskiy …

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Alex Moul

Alex Moul is a musician and pro skateboarder from Oxford, England. Mouly invented tricks, got sponsored by Flip , made music, became a DJ and went pro. He’s done the impossible and more. We are Stoked Alex Moul is Now a No Comply Network Member. So we had a chat about growing up in Oxford, …

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Joey Pressey

Joey is a skateboarder and musician. You skated for Heroin with Fos. How did you get on and how was it skating for them?    I’d just moved to London and had a flat to myself in Ladbroke Grove. I was really straight – had stopped drinking and smoking – and was on a mission, …

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Rory Nelson

Rory is a West London-based skater, musician and DJ who plays under the name Adibanti “I’m a multi-instrumentalist (playing keys, guitar, bass, sax, synths & I sing) but I write and produce all different types of music from, Underground Pop, through UK Garage, House & Techno. I aIso work for the company Skates & Ladders …

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Zulu Kruze

Zulu is a skateboarder and musician from London Growing up, skateboarding and music had a huge impact on my life and they definitely both go well with each other! I haven’t had a lot of time to skate lately but need to incorporate it more into my music, the whole lifestyle has molded me into …

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Cosmo Pyke

Cosmo is a skateboarder, singer-songwriter and guitarist from South London. I think the relationship between skateboarding and making art is an important one.Because the skateboard can be an instrument too and you can make sounds and movements out of it that you never imagined when you started, just like playing the guitar. I don’t really …

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Joel Perry

Joel is a skateboarder, motion graphics artist and filmmaker Skateboarding and film making go hand in hand, skating wouldn’t be where it is without the film makers. Film lets you document your scene and capture memories. I fuse skateboarding with motion graphics and rave visuals and I think graphics are important as they communicate what …

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Ross From Friends

Felix Weatherall makes music as Ross From Friends. For me, there has always been an important relationship between skateboarding and music. Not only in a directly audio-visual sense, which you see often in a skaters’ music choice in their video part that often epitomises their personality and tastes but you also see it through being …

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Helena Long

Helena is an sponsored skateboarder, illustrator and musician My name is Helena Long. I skate a lot, drum a lot, work a lot and enjoying illustrating things here and there. I think skateboarding and the other artistic,creative things that you do always overlap and feed off each other. What I particularly enjoy from skateboarding, I …

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Kyan O’Brien

Kyan is a skateboarder and musician from London England. Skateboarding is the reason I ended up making music. My first proper job came from skating on the street and meeting a director who got me a job at a studio in Soho,this led to me making music for adverts and releasing Drum n Bass for …

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Neil Bailey

Neil is a skater and musician from Birmingham “I like playing in bands and there’s so many aspects of skating that you can take in to your music, and I am liable to bend your ears about that, especially when I’ve had a drink or two. I think the most important thing I take from …

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SENDAWG

SENDAWG is a skateboarder and hiphop musician. “I MAKE MUSIC AND SKATE BECAUSE I ENJOY TO CREATE”

Alice Price Styles

Alice is a music writer and skate culture fan based in London I write mostly for Wax Poetics and have interviewed hip hop artists such as Prince Paul, Shock G, Souls of Mischief, and Bishop Nehru. In Wax Poetics issue 61, I wrote the front cover feature on Bishop Nehru and also a feature on …

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Serious Sam Barrett

Sam is a skater, singer-songwriter and guitar player. Yeah, I get inspiration to write songs when I feel alive and skateboarding makes me feel alive. On top of that nearly all my friends are skateboarders and so its a big part of my life and has shaped where I go and what I do so …

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Jon Richards

Jon is a skater and musician based in London. I’ve played with Notorious Hi-fi Killers, Joeyfat, Unhome and produced music with Duke Garwood, Alexander Tucker and Part Chimp. My music’s been used by the BBC and I’ve composed music for fringe theatre productions. It’s a real stoker to join The No-Comply Network. I think that …

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