DAY 5
MONDAY

Oli capturing time

Took the train back down from Scotland to London.
Monday night, we were invited for dinner with nabours, Paul and Alice, Paul is a film director and Alice has played many roles in some well known movies, such as the Borg queen in Star trek. They are two very kind natured people who are always happy to meet my friends and hear about skating. Gabriel got to talk with them about films and project ideas whilst Paul filled us up with Shots of heated rice wine and Vodka. Was a good night.

DAY 6
TUESDAY

LDN

We took a day off to recover from Scotland. We spent some time playing music and things like that.

DAY 7
WEDNESDAY

Gabriel and Miss Daisy Honey

London squat

Planned to shoot with Kola, rained off
Gabriel came along to my band practice, drank beers and hung out at the studio and met Ben Jiminez, younger brother of well known French skater Jeremy Jiminez. Jeremy has always been one of my favorite skaters to watch. Bens an incredable guitarist/ keyboard player in the project, how I met Ben is another story.
After practice we headed out to a party, which ended up being in some run down house which was partly under construction. The place had scaffolding poles running through the rooms when Gabriel asked the host where he could find the bathroom, the guys said go in the room next door. Shortly after, I had to make a call so had stepped out into the freezing cold hallway which stunk like piss. I heard shuffling around in the pitch black room ahead of me and assumed it must be Gabriel, so called out to him and asked what he was doing, he was going to toilet in a room without toilet and replied, it’s all good man, the man said that everyone goes in here, it’s cool mate!
We left shorty after that.

DAY 8
THURSDAY

Eliott Stevens

Billy Doyle

Gabs last spot

Met with Kola, SSM UK Leon Humphries and friends, Elliot Stevens and Billy Doyle. Skated city, just as the session was kicking off Gabriel got juiced to try a high rail to drop and unfortunately hurt his foot pretty bad, and resulted in him not being able to walk to good, we hit the pub for Gabriel to recuperate. Gabs foot just got worse so the session came to an end for the day.

Later that night Gabriel was dragged to a masquerade ball where we chilled. A crowd of people invited us back to their house for an after party we headed there for a while and then I decide to head back home, but Gabriel had seemed to have become extremely joyful through alcohol and insisted that we stay longer, he seemed to be having a great time so he decided to stay longer and hang out with his new friends.

DAY 9
FRIDAY

Brighton town

Gabriel turned up at 1 pm Friday afternoon, after being lost on the London Underground. As he hadn’t slept all night he needed to sleep and headed upstairs to bed.
Kola had already headed back to Brighton, No photographer, no Gabriel and no one else was around to skate with, We had planned to shoot in Brighton so I caught up on all the boring things in life so I cleaned up the house which had become trashed and ran errands etc.
In the evening we caught the train to Leon’s and drove down to Brighton where we stayed with Kola. Good friends Sharpy, Steve Collis and all the Brighton crew were heading out for a night on the town and everyone was pleased to meet Gabriel for the first time.

DAY 10
SATURDAY

Brighton town, just as the train comes in

Everyone went for breakfast and we headed out for a session, once the weather got worse, we hit the road and returned to London.

DAY 11
SUNDAY

Oli, Kira and Gabriel at Christmas festival

We hit the Christmas market in the local town, Kira had a stall outside the theatre I work at, so we helped out on the stall for a few hours. Skating had come to an end this trip. Later that night Gabriel got to see one of my neighbours, Liam Gallagher of Oasis, and then we hit bar Solo for one last beer, where I found out that one of my band mates had knocked out our bass player with a champagne bottle. It now sounds like our bass could be pressing charges on our lead singer after needing surgery on his face, so the project might be over. Was sad to hear such bad news on Gabriel’s last night but I guess things will resolve themselves, as long as no one ends up in jail.
This morning we found this random picture in the news paper from Christmas Market, hahaha Hohoho and Merry Christmas to everyone.