Ben Powell

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 numerous generation’s of skateboarding talent. Through Ben’s writing and sidewalks unique sense of humour he exposed a side of British skateboarding that was not just London centric but reflected the diversity of the entire U.K., showing the grit and grime but also the beauty of everything it had to offer. Ben has been journalistically and a lot of the time ,physically been the voice of British skateboarding as his commentary at many competitions has become legendary. Ben has always brought intelligence, wit and a rye sense of humour to everything he has done in the massive contribution he has made to skateboarding culture. I talk to ben about Starting skating in Wakefield and the 90’s scene in Nottingham The early days of sidewalk The creativity and amateur nature of British skateboarding The rivalry of sidewalk and document , shoe holidays How sidewalk changed in its over 20 years of publication His career after sidewalk, class and inclusivity in skateboarding and The future of skateboarding its self Ben on instagram https://www.instagram.com/beeps1973/ Interview with Ben by long live Southbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrk_LvQf6ZY In motion the sidewalk video (part 1 of 8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_A0rVGaVGA Slamcity skates blog with bens articles https://blog.slamcity.com The skate creative on instagram https://www.instagram.com/theskatecreativepodcast/ My website! http://www.joelcurtismusic.com