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We have had our heads down for a while working away on something special with respect to the future of the London and Manchester Park shows.

The outcome we were hoping for came to fruition just over 2 weeks ago but there is an initial downside in that it has been decided that we will not be running the London and Manchester shows that were scheduled for this August 08 season. This decision has been made as we do not want to rush through the aims of our new look project to hit the August show deadlines. We want to make sure everything is right so we can offer a better tradeshow experience for both the brands involved with the Park and the buyers who visit the shows.   We have a lot of good plans for the future that we will now be able to put in place!!!!

Hang tight and we will let you know more as soon as we can.

Have a great buying season!!!!

Thanks to everyone who came to the Park Winter Party, the place went off!!!! We have also been receiving a number of emails asking who the band was. The three superstars of the evening going mental on the stage while kicking out electro bleed were Fenech Soler.

And while we are on the Thanks then massive Thanks to the 2 djs who kept the beats happening Jon Kennedy and J and thanks to the Sponsors Analog, Gravis, Obey, SUSO and Relentless who all helped in keeping your glasses full!!!!

More shenanigans coming in August!!!!

Maaaaaann, this is the jump off and you are all invited!!!

The Park Party returns to Manchester this Sunday and it’s going to be huge!!!!! The Don of the Manchester trade show Parties is back and getting all dark and dirty at One Central. 

Kick off is at 10pm and we are going hard until 3am. You will need a pass that will be available at the Park on Sunday.

No Pass, No Admitance!!!

There will be Live music from Fenech Soler and DJ’s including Jon Kennedy. 

This Sunday night delight is brought to you with a little help from our friends at Gravis, Analog, Obey, Suso and Relentless. 

It will be the Shit!!!! Get On it!!!

Over thirteen years ago, a young and talented Jamie Lynn joined Dragon as its first sponsored snowboarder. Since then, riders like Peter Line, Danny Kass, Gigi Rüf and Danny Davis have all carried the torch in building the Dragon brand.

This AW08, the legacy comes full circle with the reunion and limited release of Dragon’s Jamie Lynn Signature Series ROGUE goggle. Featuring simplicity at it’s finest, the ROGUE offers classic design combined with Dragon’s leading technology and legendary heritage.

Chase the Dragon at the Manchester Park!!!!

With a great London Park show under our belts we are now on the countdown to the Manchester kick off this Sunday at 10.00am. With the focus firmly on the ‘Capital of England’ as MC Tunes once scribed it’s about time we told you a bit about Two Distribution.

Two Distribution established in 2007 has rapidly grown into one of UK’s foremost skateboard distributors with its heart and finger on skateboardings pulse.

The sales team consists of two of the UK’s finest skaters Oliver Tyreman and Eddie Belvedere so you can expect big things but whether any work gets done is a different matter!!!!

These guys look after Jart Skateboards, Antiz Skateboards, Fidel Shoes and Momentum Wheels.
Make time to check them out at the Manchester show!!!!

This Sunday night we are putting on a bit of a shindig at the end of the first day. With help from our friends at Obey, The Consortium and Relentless energy drink we are taking over Corbets Place, the Old Truman Brewery between 8.30pm and 11.30pm.

Come and have a wee bevee on us and catch up on the first days gossip!!!!  

So the London Park venue is on Brick Lane, 3 doors up from 93ft East on the same right hand side. Its going to be easy to find just follow all the direction signs.

But in addition there is an easy way to locate it from anywhere in the Brick Lane area just look out for the Truman chimney stack. The bottom of the stack is actually in the Park venue.

See you Sunday!!!!!

RVCA know how hard it is to create something unique, youthful and profitable whilst maintaining integrity. Their answer came in what they do best, art inspired work-wear. Classic hard wearing pieces, with RVCA’s unique character, where inspiration comes from relationships, Musicians, Artists, Writers Athletes… all the RVCA family.

The list is too long to mention, and full of misfits, but thats what RVCA is all about. Personality and individuality. The Fall collection features a signature line from Kevin Long, some fresh ANP artists including Iranian born Arien Valizadeh and Australian Luca Ionescu, along with RVCA favourites George ‘EWOK’ Thompson, Dmote, and Ed Templeton.

You can check these misfits at both of the The Park shows!!!

Nikita’s Icelandic based brother Atikin, the men’s streetwear line, was launched just last winter but it is already progressing into a strong 21 style collection. Atiken and Nikita will both be showing at the London and Manchester Park shows arm in arm.

Better check them out then!!

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The new Salmonella Collection is your next move forward from New Era’s original ‘Animal Cannibal Tasty Collection’.   You should know that New Era is the name in fitted hats and you ain’t going to be missing these new bad boys!!!!!!

Playing with companies such as 10 Deep, Obey, Upper Playground, Kidrobot, Mishka, and Johnny Cupcakes keep New Era a head of the game!!!!
Get on it!! Throw on a plaid shirt and dress like A-Trak and make some money!!!!!!

Corey Smith introduces his fresh solo exhibition ‘Liars Laughter’ across the UK, in conjunction with Ambiguous Clothing, starting at the upcoming Manchester Park show.  The mobile installation will consist of very limited prints on canvas from Corey's latest original paintings which offers his take on the Manufactured American Dream.

Corey Smith is a painter and photographer, who resides in Portland, Oregon. Through his masterful use of contour, Smith?s high gloss ultra-flat paintings cleverly capture the joys of plasticity, absurd recreation, and the fall out of the pre-manufactured American Dream. Smith's candid photographs are memorials to the joys of thoughtless reasoning. They celebrate the spontaneity of humanity and youthful self-destruction.

This guy goes for broke, and he fuckin’ rocks. This is awful, deeply wrong, utterly fantastic stuff, a perfect distillation of a time, place, and generation.

It was 1976 and skateboarding was undergoing changes that would forever shape the sport and its culture. The urethane wheel had just been invented, the first outdoor skatepark was built in Florida, Alan Gelfand pulled the first ollie and it was the year Vision Streetwear was born.

Synonymous with names Mark Gonzalez, Lance Mountain, Duane Peters, Mark ?Gator? Rogowski, The Psycho Stick, The Aggressor and The Gator pro model, you know Vision has the history.

We’re Stoked. We’ve got them at the Manchester Show. Get the details in the exhibitor section and give them a call or they might be after you with the shovel and a walk to the desert, Gator Style!!!! 

Each season we throw our arms open to welcome and embrace the quality brands that join the Park ranks. Feb 08 is no exception, check out these big hitters that you will be able to view at the Park shows.

Avalaan, Clast, Dragon, Green Apple Tree, New Era, Penfield and Vision Streetwear.

Better give them a call and book that appopintment!!!

Our crazy friendly Swedes at WeSC continue to stir the cauldron and have once again served up a remarkably insightful range of collaborations and original takes on their already Superlative Conspiracy.  The new campaign ‘A Superlative Day’ sees comprehensive collaborations with the likes of legendary spray can wizard Stash and DJ Stretch Armstrong, right the way through the collection to their breathtaking range of Headphones.

Check out what we found at B&B in Barcelona!!!!

So here’s the first piece of brand gossip, hot of the press!!!

Our friends at Obey Clothing, not shy of a good collaboration or two, (DJ Shadow, A-Trak, Fender, Fuji Bikes etc etc) have let it slip that they have been working together with Chuck D and Flavor Flav on a Public Enemy collaboration that will consist of 14 pieces across mens and womens clothing!!!! The pieces are for the AW08 season and will be shown as part of the AW08 Obey ranges at both Park shows.

Not bad for starters eh??

So with the mass exodus to Barcelona for B&B just around the corner it’s time to step up the ante and let you know what we have in store for the best two Feb 08 streetwear trade shows in sunny blighty!!!

From here on in we will be letting you know which brands are signed up to the shows, what parties are where and when, and all the latest brand gossip from the brands themselves.  Like your weekly copy of ‘Heat’ this news section will give you the low down as soon as we have it. So keep checking back to see what’s what.

So the first thing to do is hit the ‘Registration’ section of the site as show registrations are free and by filling out the registration form you can expect your free passes awaiting your arrival at the reception desk of your chosen Park venue.

The next question is…. Did you know that we have expanded the London show and moved into a bigger venue within our London home at the Old Truman Brewery?????  Well the answer is that we have and this means a new show entrance at our new location on Brick Lane. Check out the ‘Dates and Locations’ section of the site to find the new map.

In addition while you are scanning the site hit up ‘The Park vs Vans’ section in the gallery and see what good work we got up to in the summer with our good friends at Vans,  some damn fine artists and two old cars!!!!!!!

Catch up very soon!!

We are now live with the new updated Park website. We hope you like it!!!!!

We have been tweaking things around in the past months to make everything easier for you to find out information about the Feb 08 shows, register for free so that your show passes will be awaiting your arrival at your chosen show venue and have a good old read about some of the art events and parties we had at the last show and the ones we will be having in Feb 08. 

If you don’t have the confirmed dates for the Feb 08 tour of duty already, this is what you need??

The Park - London 10th, 11th, 12th February 08
The Park - Manchester 17th, 18th, 19th February 08

The London show will be held at the Old Truman Brewery and the Manchester show will once again be held in the Great Northern Building.

Catch up soon for some more gems and innane witterings!!!!