NOW A SKATE PRO....(oh yea)

A Nokia event isn’t normally one to attract me, and no I’m not on a capitalist rant and nor have I got a nipple piercing and underarm dreadlocks. But I was pleasantly surprised.

The launch party for Nokia’s SKATE ALMIGHTY was seriously mighty, after the first 5 minutes I managed to stop looking like an African who can’t swim in a swimming pool, and was dancing around like Madonna and yes… I was actually wearing a leotard concelled by my jeans of course! I wasn’t shocked to see a few of those professional (show-offish) guys you would normally see busting out flower shapes with their wheels in Hyde Park,, scaring the old folks and inspiring the children.
It reminded me slightly of a very small festival, with greatly disco-balled-up 80’s remixed DJ sets from Simian Mobile Disco and Hot Chip, I tried with all my force not to use one of the portaloos on offer but the open bar limited my girlish attitude and I even found myself re-doing my make up and having the pleasant sight of an andrex roll.

I’m going to be frank and refrain from sounding like a writer from Cosmo girl…but it’s the perfect place to pick someone up this summer!, I had a few encounters with the same ‘bad skater’ who kept insisting he’d ‘never skated before’, seeming to think I was the race line for his skate marathon. The fact that he was lacking crucial coordination skills was a huge turn of so I ended up purposely trying to knock him to his feet again, making me look way cooler to all those scared onlookers trying to look busy and un fazed by taking pictures.
So after an episode of continuous laughter causing me to develop hiccups, sweating of all the free cocktails I was sent back into the real world queuing for half an hour to swap my four wheeled contraption for my one heeled stilettos, ready to party on concrete and cringe as Alice Dellal and pixie Geldof acted up for the cameras.

Get back in touch with the once lost campaign that ‘dancing is the best way to loose all the weight’ and get skating its seriously fun and if you find yourself pretending to skate down the flat escalators on the way back at waterloo then you know you’ve reincarnated a lost fruitful passion. Oh and yes I did fall over once but I was ‘dragged down’ by farai who lacked my talents…!! I still DIDN'T touch the floor.














Skate Almighty is rolling into London's Southbank on the 11th, 12th and 13th July. There are DJ sets from Norman Jay MBE, Zero 7, Guilty Pleasures, Bodyrox, Seamus Haji, Alistair Whitehead and Graeme Park. Get that skate date. AND ITS FREE!!