Surfstock

Tickets are now on sale for Surfstock, 29-30 August at St Agnes. The lineup includes The Gossip, Supergrass, the Go! Team and The Likes with 60+ acts on four stages. There’s also the Cult Energy Drink Tag Team Surf Challenge and Tow-At Challenge with a £10,000 prize purse (the largest in the UK). This year’s festival also includes the first annual Surfstock H30 British Big Wave Awards in association with CARVE magazine, with six categories and £3500 prize money. Surfstock ticket holders will vote for the Surfer Of The Year and Photo Of The Year. Tickets and more info available from www.surfstock.co.uk at £80 (including two nights camping). Kids under 14 go free! To enter the Tag Team Challenge, register your team of four as soon as possible: crewchallenge@surfstock.co.uk.

Masked Ball and Surfstock Challenge

The Masked Ball 2008 returns due to popular demand on 20 June in Porthleven. Shit Disco and Friendly Fires (amongst others) will whip up a strictly limited crowd of 500 from six ’til six. Champagne, strawberries and cream and a hog roast will be served, there’s free camping and Mickey Smith will snap you an exclusive free photo on entry. Glamour and masks the order of the day. Tickets are £35 (to include a donation to Love Music Hate Racism) from the usual outlets; check out www.getmaskedup.com.
Also, if you want to enter the Surfstock Challenge (29-31 August) tag team surf event, you need to register your team of four (all from the same beach, please) as soon as possible. With £10k prize money on offer, you best get those entries in to crewchallenge@surfstock.co.uk; there are only 24 team places available. See www.surfstock.co.uk for more info on this premium Cornish festival.

SurfStock - It Ain't Over Til The Fat Lady Sings

SurfStock were granted their license yesterday and we hear rumours of a 'cracker of a theme' and headliners to include a band fronted by a larger lady…

The boys have been celebrating their lawyer's awesomness all night, so if you see a couple of boys drinking rose in Truro today, give them a yell. And yep, those are girls' jeans he's wearing…he had a little accident in his own. Bless.

Maya Gaberia wins Billabong XXL

Brazilian Maya Gabeira has won the Billabong Girls XXL award for monster waveriding, netting a $5,000 prize. If the website was a bit more user friendly I'd give you more info…here's what the press release on Surfer's Village says:

‘Maya Gabeira, 21, took back-to-back titles in the Billabong Girls Best Performance Award after notching up a collection of giant rides in Tahiti, California, Hawaii and Mexico over the past twelve months. Gabeira proved without doubt that she is the world's premiere female big wave surfer.

“It is such and honor to be here again, two years in a row,” said Gabeira. “All my friends are here and my mom flew out from Brazil. To see those waves on the big screen here and listen to everyone scream is such a good feeling.”’

Maya features in this issue of SurfGirl, riding one of the Teahupoo bombs that won her this accolade.

Check out the webcast of the awards ceremony here – hotties Shane Dorian and Greg Long feature!

Xmas party!!

Even though it says 'Carve and ThreeSixty' party, it's the SurfGirl Xmas party as well! And tailor-made for those of you who love 80s themes - and who doesn't?! Come, it will be fun! Anyone who actually wears rollerboots gets a free drink. (I made that up, but if you're that brave I'll buy you one!)

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Reckon I won the office's 'most irreverent place' sticker comp at Unleashed…

Young Guns 3

Pretty much the whole office went to watch Young Guns 3, the new Quiksilver flick, last night. The free food and beer in the Sugar Lounge in Newquay went down nicely and there was a big crowd assembled upstairs to watch the action. Nice to see so many girls there - the last premiere I went to there were about five…Also lots of hot men there, which was good entertainment. Jake Paterson was on board to intro the film, not that many people seemed to be listening to him.

Anyway, I think it needed a bit of editing. I loooove all and any surf films, but I wasn't all that impressed to be honest. The kids blow up, there's no question of that, but there was little coherence to the film and no theme. Also, the camerawork had nothing like the 'wow' factor of the amazing helicopter stuff seen before. I guess I just expected more, even from Slater's section. Loved the music and don't get me wrong the surfing really was shit-hot, but the waves weren't great and it wasn't put together how you'd expect. Throw more money at the film less on the parties, I guess…I'm still in love with Ry Craike tho. ;-)

Check out the mini-site here, very interactive: Young Guns 3

sticker mad!

The next issue is neeearly finished, once again we're just waiting on the boys! It'll hit the stands for Bank Holiday weekend. We've heard lots of reports that the SG summer special has sold out/can't be found - if you want one, ring the office and we can send one direct or point you towards a shop that'll have some.



Gearing up for the Boardmasters, we've produced some gorgeous SurfGirl stickers - it's only taken us three years to get some done, but boy, were they worth the wait. If you're at the Boardmasters go grab one from the lovely Joe and Duncan on our stall, or order anything from the shop and we'll throw one in. OR just send us an SAE. (The sticker is shown here half size.)