Queercore punk band Shooting Daggers released their debut album Love and Rage last month on New Heavy Sounds. This week they head out on a tour with U.S hardcore band Spaced. Before then though they have shared the new video for ‘Wipe Out’ which features a whole host of contributions from the queer skateboarding scene.
Check the vid here:
Sal, Bea and Raquel aka Shooting Daggers, are without a doubt burning it up at the moment. Since releasing their EP ‘Athames’ in 2022, a split single with Ukrainian punk band Death Pill on late 2023 and their debut album ‘Love & Rage in February this year, the whispers are getting much louder.
New single ‘Wipe Out’ is about the queer skateboarding scene. Sal from the band comments:
"We wanted to show how fun, powerful and epic skating is. Even if it means eating shit and “wipe out” more than actually staying on the board.
With this video we wanted to show the collective sense of freedom and highlight queer skate communities from everywhere,that’s why we gathered footage online from all over the world and put it together.
I got into skateboarding during the whole”Skate kitchen” (all girl skateboarding film), “glue skateboarding” and “there” (queer punk skate crews) era. It influenced a lot of people in the UK back in 2018. There were girl skate sessions for free at House of vans, bay66 and hopkingdom every month in London.
It felt like all the girls started skateboarding around 2018, skateboarding was huge back then (all ages and all genders too). I remember seeing Beatrice Domond skating at HOV and she blew my mind.
We were all learning beginners tricks together, lifting each other up and evolving together at our own pace.
Many queer skateboarding collectives emerged and are still running like queerskatebristol, clumsy (toulouse France), siblings (london), transkaters (london), bronxgirlsskate who participated in this video, among many many others. Glad to see Trans and queer night in bay66 btw
My way of consuming skateboarding is primarily through instagram so Instagram skaters inspired the most like briana king, the girls from brixton baddest Stefani nurding, amy gillingwater, Marbie princess, Arin, Kien Caples too, atalimendes, palice (represent Birmingham), the girls from skate kitchen.
There are so many, I’m sure I will miss some. A lot of regular skaters girls and queers making sick edits and posting on IG inspire me to keep going everyday.
If I had to chose 3 from the top of my head I would say that my heroes are:
Cher Strauberry for the punk attirude
Savannah Stacey Keenan for the steeze
Vitoria Bortolo for the lines”
The band will also support U.S hardcore outfit Spaced as part of their ‘Trippin Thru the UK Tour 2024’:
29.3 Manchester @ Manchester Punk Fest
30.3 Bristol @ The Exchange
31.3 Southampton @ The Hobbit
01.4 Brighton @ The Hope and Ruin
02.4 London @ New Cross Inn
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