Dub Jam Liverpool...

Tom hadn’t slept for 24 hours after finishing the co-op graveyard shift and watching the Emmerdale omnibus. Theo had spent half the night having sex dreams on the sofa while Elvis watched TV. Heading for the train to Liverpool I knew this was gonna be a good day.

After a frisk and a bit of a fondle the 5-0 let me leave the station amongst the crowd of rowdy football plans and within 10 minutes we had by complete chance run into The Mute and Tom Mann who knew the way to the first spot. As we rolled up to the courts the turnout was already impressive, especially considering it had started off as a jam to get old friends together, although, the large majority of the riders there were 10 years my junior, I felt old!

The riding was off the hook from the start rails and stairsets and a hand full of the famous Liverpool street spots got a kicking. Tom Mann bailed and took out Jack whilst he was filming leaving him sporting a bright red swollen cheek for the rest of the day to remind him to get out the way faster in future. I still don’t really like writing or reading trick lists of places and jams I wasn’t at so check out Tom’s photos instead, didn’t take too many but there should be an edit up soon I’m guessing so keep your eyes to www.streetphire.co.uk and www.myspace.com/dubbmx

Highlights, drunken heckling at the end of the day which resulted in three people doing their first rail, the high speed board up stairs 180 fly out competition which left all involved grazed and battered, chatting up grandma’s on the train home, shotting vodka straight from the bottle with Danny from Hollyoaks and watching Thumbs after 33 hours awake shit faced and stumbling around.

All in all an awesome day, unfortunately rounded up with a drunken trip to the hospital with Theo after a collision with Thumbs left him with a hole in his chin which resembled a second mouth but after his apparent dislike for stitches it was mended with butterflies instead… helped by Doctor Gez, holding his face together whilst the strips were put on whilst scrounging medical supplies for my first aid kit with the reasoning, “if I have this stuff myself it’ll save you time cos I’ll use it to mend people rather than coming in here” after retrieving our cider from the bush outside the hospital waiting room it was home to bed!