JOe Gavin, photos by Percy Dean
These 5’s are so hard to make work, the premise is a noble one, to let the subject of the image write the caption… but some dudes just aint down for that! The funny thing is I reckon Joe would have been, especially now that we forced him to get an email account! He would have rambled about Kev sitting in the back seat of the car or how he rubs magic juice on his knee before he skates or how the favourite meal in his “cooking portfolio” is a sandwich. We opted for this mild form of dream therapy because every time you meet him he’ll say “Oh I had the craziest dream last night” we figured they would be more interesting than the sandwich and magic juice.
Switch Back Lip
I'd love to tell you all the amazing stuff that happened when I did this trick , but the truth is nothing really earth shattering went down so I'm afraid your gonna have to settle for my crazy dreams. I have this re-occurring dream where I'm walking down a tunnel, but it changes depending on how I feel at the time. When I'm feeling good the tunnel is clear, bright and totally smooth. When I'm feeling bad or stressed the tunnel is dark, greasy and full of mechanical parts that I have to climb over.
Switch Heel
The other day me and a few mates went to the world cup final. It was Brazil V's Shrewsbury ! The stadium was absolutely massive, the pitch was a giant tank full of water. All the players were swimming about trying to kick the ball underwater to score. It was so frustrating to watch so we went outside for a fag, then my mate did a throw up in front of the police and we got arrested. The night after I had a premonition that I would switch heel this bar thing, but every time I tried to pop I uncontrollably did a fakie benihana late shuv....
Tree Bump Wallie
I'd like to tell you about the skate time machine but I don’t remember it so the seven foot rasta will have to do. I was asleep in the dream and my phone rang so I woke up and It was my sister telling me that there was someone on my balcony and I had to let him stay over. So I went to the front door and found a seven foot black man with dreadlocks. I let him in and he stayed on my couch. In the morning when I woke up (reality) I was speaking to my girlfriend for about ten minutes when I said "Is that rasta still on the couch" she looked pretty scared then I realized it was a dream. That’s better than "we drove to Chorlton and I wallied a tree"
Switch b/s Five 0, f/s shove out
The other day I dreamt that I went to a graff jam with a girl from my primary school she was still ten years old in the dream but had the sickest style. When we got there she pulled out about thirty cans of hot colours, I pulled out a massive ladder and a tin of brown paint, every one was painting but when I tried nothing happened, I'm standing on my ladder panicking then it breaks and I fall about 10 feet, as I'm lying there I see the girls piece and its fucking amazing then I look at my small brown square up high on the wall. I leave disappointed. By the way, this was the last thing morph ever filmed with his trusty VX before losing it on the way back to London eating chicken skin and chips.
Pole Jam, Nose grinder
The other day I had one where I was planning, designing and building Manchester’s first skate plaza. Going through all the steps with the council making it just right. It took about six months to build and then It was ready. I couldn't wait to skate it, the day came and I was so stoked I went down and skated it for about two minutes then got kicked out by security saying "you just cant skate here lads sorry, go and ask the council for a skate park or summit". The skate plaza was a bust! Don’t ask me why I’m dreaming about skate plazas when we’ve got pole jams like this to skate.
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