New Wheels in a New Town

wheelWe are very stoked to announce that these incredible wheels are now exclusive in 2 of the best skate shops on the planet. Focus and Boarderline, both located atop the rugged paving of Scotland. If you’re in the area stop by, say hi, grab a tee or a set of wheels and glide over pavement Predatory Bird style. Embrace your inner gull.

Talking of inner gulls I just watched The Brave Onions. It’s a short skate vid straight out of Aberdeen. From the danger filled intro to the inspired editing Continue reading “New Wheels in a New Town”

10 Hard-Ass-Gangster-Bird Images

As you know gulls are among the most gangster of all the birds and, whether you like it or not, they are aggressive predators.
They have been observed attacking
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sausage rolls

rappers busy applying lotions Continue reading “10 Hard-Ass-Gangster-Bird Images”

This is NOT the new Anti-Hero Video

This is NOT the new Anti-Hero video! This is a Friends-of-The-Predatory-Bird video called HITAROCK. Although HITAROCK stars Div and Tom, who both rep Anti-Hero, they are also deeply connected to the inner workings of The Predatory Bird.
The title of this post is inspired by This is Not the New H-Street Video and HITAROCK is inspired by the following romantic factors and notions:-

  • Hitting rocks
  • Ginger Beards
  • WSVT
  • Bombing Hills
  • Zingers
  • Mike Frazier’s part  in Celebrity Tropical Fish.
  • Zaggers
  • The psychic space travel of legendary Detroit techno producers Underground Resistance.
  • Riser pads
  • The idea that the rocks we hit in life are unavoidable. They are our destiny and after every humiliation we must pick ourselves up and get back to the business of living and helping each other to laugh it all off.
  • Evil Dead 2
  • Many ghosts of skating past.
  • Understanding that much of the appeal of techno music lies in the troubling idea that it echoes all the disfiguring industrial horror we have wrought on the planet.
  • Enjoying life despite all the industrial horror.
  • Lance Mountain in general

Morphine’s a Hell of a Drug.

Returned a couple of days early from the 2012 Zero Canada tour. Snapped the left forearm just above the wrist while trying to stick the trusty, old, kickflip fakie on a concrete potato chip at the Winnipeg demo. It teaches me a stern lesson not to skate when in a bad mood. Company owner James took some photographs that do a great job of illustrating the title of this post and Joe Brook is busy shooting the tour for an upcoming issue of Thrasher Magazine. Be on the look out!

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“Och no! My arm! What have I done? Broken…arm…aargh!”

Continue reading “Morphine’s a Hell of a Drug.”

The Predatory Bird Comic.

Nesting season, the predatory bird comic and KrookedKolorado.

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks.

Amongst the usual murderous violence on the planet 250 gulls were systematically shotgunned for illegally squatting at an abandoned Saturn dealership in Michigan. Continue reading “The Predatory Bird Comic.”

There is Another…Predatory…Bird!

Rumour has it that there is another person, who also grew up in the North East of Scotland, who is soon to release a CD containing strange songs and stories. The weird coincidence is that this artist also happens to go by the name Predatory Bird. Now, we are certainly aware that coincidences are rife in this universe but given that this alter-predatory bird is not in any way, shape or form affiliated with this predatory bird, that released the lifestyle promo or sells wonderful tees wheels decks and completes over here, this is all a little intriguing. The communication we received claims that one of the stories is inspired by the following youtube video. Continue reading “There is Another…Predatory…Bird!”

WTF is The Predatory Bird?

The Predatory Bird got started while I was on the narcotic painkiller Oxycodone. In a series of post-surgery visions, the swooping screaming gulls of my childhood shrieked the words “Blaaaaaawwwwwgggg!!! Blaaaawwwwwwgggg!!!”
Since it’s beginnings I’ve found gull culture and skate culture to be more similar than I ever expected and I am no more insane than you are. Both gulls and street skaters are reviled and misunderstood by mainstream society. They’re noisy, they make a mess, they wax ledges, they shit on cars, they terrorize the elderly. Both are compelled beyond their will to do what they do. Both are on an endless search to satisfy some deep primal urge. Gulls feast on food discarded by humans who often think of themselves as above and better than gulls. Skaters feast on Continue reading “WTF is The Predatory Bird?”

Investigating Skateboarding 3: Andy

I just got back from the Zero Bacon and Legs tour which began curiously, progressed to curiouser and ended downright bizarre. More on that at some future point. In the meantime I’m all about these amazing boards that Folk Custom Skateboards made for The Predatory Bird. The complete item with the custom Thunder Trucks and Predatory Bird Wheels is a thing of beauty. It is available along with the Bird-in-Hand tee-shirt over at the shop. In the following video we meet Andy, my father in law, as he describes his fantastic experiences skating in LA in the 60s and gives us a wonderful Predatory-Bird-board sales pitch.