Useless Wooden Noise

 Episode 17 The UwnSolelo Comp is still up and running and will be announced very soon, you still have a little bit of time to get those feel good clips tagged up on instagram. As we talked about last month, our forum is now launched uselesswoodennoise.com , check it out! The good skate folk of Portrush are campaigning to get themselves a skatepark, sign the petition and help the north coast out, its well overdue! TicTac Skate Schoo l headed by Bangor local, Jared Purvis, is holding skate lessons for beginners, check out his socials and get your wee brother or sister hooked up.  Useless Wooden questions this month brings you film maker extrodinaire, hailing from Bray but living in Malmo Sweden, Phil Evans and skater, animator, content creator, manny mania slayer, Paddy Maguir e our mucker from Belfast.  Ssick skateboards have some new wheels on the market and since recording also some longsleeves also. Half of the Uwn duo, Tony Moore has teamed up with Donegal local ...

  Episode 16 Episode 16 is upon us folks, but first we'd like to thank all the listeners for the positive feedback for episode 15 , the chat with MYMY and Womens Aid NI , was greatly received. The episode starts with a load of Useless Wooden Noise related stuff. Uselesswoodennoise.com now hosts a web forum, we hope you can all join us over there to chat and share tales of Irish skateboarding. The money for the Uwn enamel pin badges has been totalled up and donated to The Larder Foodbank in Belfast, together, we managed to raise a grand total of £354, thanks everyone who bought a pin. Back again with another comp, with a chance to win £100 worth of gear out of Solelo, Listen to the pod to find out how to enter and win. Useless wooden question this month with our man from Waterford, Ian Grant aka Flanders and Olivia Lillie, a new breed of skaters and one of the masterminds behind norfsideskates and Belfast Skate Collective. Jamie Griffin has been announced as a competitor for Ba...

Episode 15       Cheers for all the nice messages about episode 14 ! Jay Dords tales of yore went down a treat.   This episode of the pod starts off on a serious note, following recent events within the scene,  we thought we would speak to a couple of people who work within the counseling and victim support field, Sonya mcMullen from Womens Aid N I and Ray Cunningham who helps run Mymy a mental health organisation in Co Down. Other links that may be helpful, with mental health issues,  Relate NI , Nexus NI , Rainbow Project and Cara Friend   Useless Wooden Questions this episode, bring you, nice guy, Ross Doyle , straight outta Cork City and Boarder Co front man and Dublin legend, Wayne Gallagher .   Skate Parks are popping up all over the place, A site has been allocated in the Castlebar area for a park, we havent much on this but we'll keep you posted. Twenty minutes outside of Limerick in Moroe another new park, check Mark Longs Insta to see...

 Episode 14 Already a month in to 2021, episode 14 , the first pod of the year! First up starting the show with a couple of shout outs, Paul McConnel l has been taking a few online yoga classes via zoom and is trying to adapt a few yoga style stretches for over the hill skateboarders, to try to help you not feel sore or damage your old legs. Jess Bryne from Dublin got herself a slot on Ten Skateboards , a Berlin based company, stoked for you Jess. Beach Skateboards have themselves some new hoodies  and this clip on their homepage, showing the team skating all sides of the globe. Killing time coming through with new hoodies also, you can check the hoodies out over on their instagram. Sick Skateboards have a range of different coloured beanies just about to drop on their website, hit the lads with a insta dm for more info. Uwn is proud to announce their first bit of merch in the form of these lovely little pin badges , pins are available via insta dm's or email uselesswood...

 Episode 13 The end of year episode of Irelands premier skateboard podcast. Thanks again to all the good folk who helped the pod throughout the year, this is all done for the love of the game! So without you all it wouldn't be possible.  Kicking things off talking about Killing Time Skateboards new zip up jumpers, check the Killing Time Website to snag yourself one. Nah have added to their 'Rain or Shine' series, with an in colour rain or shine deck , theres also tee's and another deck graphic in the series, peep it all at the Nah online store . Paro Gentlemens Club have some 'Grand Theft Auto' inspired T-shirts on their insta, with a sick Paro GTA add  to promote the gear. Sek One an Irish brand with their roots in graffiti have launched their first board graphic 'Elephant on Acid'  , stay tuned to their social media to see what they are up to.  Hoods Belfast headed by the creative mind of Johnathan 'Bonkers' McConkey are hitting the Merc...

  Episode 12 Its the One Year Birthday show, Whoop Whoop! With a special intro, from none other than Beagle of Baker and Shake Junt fame. The birthday ep sees a new original theme song for the show, Peter Brien blessed us with the new theme and a couple of music beds for our question segments. Check out Petes band camp for more bangers. Belfasts, Katie Ellis  snagged herself a flow spot on Swedish board brand kaleidoscope skateboards , kaleidoscope ran a comp asking to see some clips on instagram, they spied Katie and the rest is history. In Episode 11 the lads chatted about ' Skum king of the units Jam' in Longford being hosted by the Cavan Concrete Surfing squad, unfortunately because of lockdown restrictions the jam had to be rescheduled, keep an eye on their Instagram for the new date. Drogheda Skaters had an online comp called 'Show me what you got' entrants had to post their clips to insta and tag the the page for a chance to win an 8.25 Route One deck, shou...

Episode 11 Greetings from Podland! This month sees the beginning of a new segment on the pod, "Useless Wooden Questions" Where the lads ask two listeners or friends of the pod to answer nine questions about themselves and Irish Skateboarding, this time its with Christian Hunter out of Belfast and Tom O'Brien from Cork who lives in Galway. Because of Ryan and Tony's unpredictable schedule and the pod not always being recorded at the same time every month a couple of events got missed out, In Belfast Jonny McConkey organised a jam at the new Belfast hot spot, but unfortunately they had to retreat to bridges, due to shite weather. In Galway a Girl Skate Day and all ability and gender event was organised on the 26th September, they to had to retreat to the skatepark but not because of the weather because of the fecking Police. New park news, Carlow is now home to a brand spanking new skatepark  and soon to follow, Kilkenny's park is under construction, keep an eye ...