Club Of The Waves
Welcome to the blog of COTW featured British surf photographer Mickey Smith entitled 'The Dead are Dying of Thirst'. This page displays the 20 most recent posts from Mickey's blog, you can see the rest on his blog. You can also subscribe to this blog's RSS feed by clicking here: 
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Mickey Smith...The Dead are Dying of Thirst
February 3rd, 2010
Well done lads
Just wanted to congratulate our brothers Greg Long And Anthony Walsh for doing so well in Hawaii this year. Greg took out the Eddie and Walshy just got second at Pipe to Jamie O'brien. Get on lads!
February 2nd, 2010
Plucka
Heydon 'Plucka' Bunting was one of my favourite riders to watch as a kid. I was buzzing to see this clip of him still shredding and havin fun, no matter what waveriding vehicle he's riding. Like he says, as a grom, you just want to have a go on every ride in the park... Legend...
Heydon Bunting Sequence: From Seaworthy from Nathan Oldfield on Vimeo.
February 2nd, 2010
Cold is the Water
The past couple of weeks have been pretty much full time salt duty at home in Ireland. At one point we were getting amongst solid waves twice a day for a full week. Might not sound like much, but when the wind chills in the minus's and the mizzle forces every last layer of warmth out of you, it takes a fair bit of mental strength to stay motivated at times. Up in the dark, home in the dark. A few hours sleep to thaw out, on it again. That's Winter for you. We've had welcome visits from psyched brothers such as Igor Harris and Patch Wilson to keep the amp factor cranked up a notch though. Bombie missions out to sea, lost in freezing fog, pumping Aileens, awkward Rileys, howling winds and still water, drunk late nights into first light bombs, we've seen a fair bit of action, lucky lads that we are. Long may it continue! Heres a few...
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January 31st, 2010
Mutineering
Went to watch Mutineers play Love Riot on Friday night. Was a rockin set. The lads even called me up out the crowd for guitar duty on their last tune Hyde Road. It was pretty hilarious, quite enjoyed playing a Les Paul for once though. Here's a couplea shots from the combined skills of Ally Sopp and the Wilbot.
January 28th, 2010
Big daddy K
Kirstin Prisk or Big Daddy K. Whatever you may or may not know him as, take my word for it, the man is big, not yet a daddy, one of the funniest humans alive when he's in the mood, and generally an absolute legend. Here's a rad clip of him getting tweaked on the knee with a go pro rig. I feel dizzy, top...
Dropknee Gopro surf hero HD from Kirstin Prisk on Vimeo.
January 25th, 2010
Astray...again
Last weekend I travelled to Manchester for some studio time with Strays. We laid down the first song of our album, wrote three newy's, and mighty fun was had by all. I also found out one of my best mates Iwan Gronow was getting married. As he just bought a house we christened it properly. Heres a few shots from another lost weekend in mancville...plus a little clip of Nat laying down his slide part for 'Outsiders'.
January 22nd, 2010
Back in Action...almost
We've had three mad days of heavy salt this week. I tried to shake off my dopey xmas hangover and document them, but...
I fell over and broke my housing on the way out to Aileens. I patched it up with blue tac, went out anyway and hoped for the best.
I developed a love for speed blurs. Most of them are shit in the cold light of day.
We almost drowned Fergs landrover on a slipway swamped with surge. We put some nice big dents in our ski instead of ditching the rove.
Stef got in a fight with the reef at Rileys. He now has a crab claw.
Willy got lumbered with a ski in the lineup at 20ft Aileens. He'd never driven one before.
I almost drowned in the foam of doom, twice. It's the first time I've panicked in the sea since I can remember.
Maybe I'm getting old. I still thoroughly enjoyed it all however, so probably not.
Hopefully shot some decent gear for the mags either way, because, like everyone else, I'm SKINT!
Here's some I might not submit...
January 15th, 2010
Big Dav Transcends Mount Doom
Heading home from the waves down south yesterday my pocket buzzed and I left one eyeball on the road so t'other could read a text from brother Wilbur. The lad needed collecting, he'd just arrived at Shannon airport. Without thinking I started drawing what I thought would be the straightest route from me to him. Up through the hills. Follow the trusty nose into the wilderness. I love these little missions. After a half hour or so of climbing though, the road began to get pretty damn icy. I kept plodding along in my old transit van Big Dav, but soon enough I was skidding left right and centre as the lane I was negotiating became more of a runway into the abyss. There was no way to stop, no way to go back. Braking was certain doom. The only thing keeping me going forward was momentum and a little acceleration. I pressed on for sometime by the skin of my plums, but eventually of course, I slid miserably into a hedge. It was pitch black. Freezing cold. I had no phone reception. I had no idea where I was. Suddenly out of the pine trees comes a wild lookin old geez carrying a chain saw. I kid you not, for a second I thought I was done. After we'd established he didn't want to hack me into pieces though, dude turned out to be a quality ol' pard. He advised me to keep going. It was ten miles or so to safety, heading back would be worse. I hiked a little higher to reception and phoned the boys. Come save me brothers. Half an hour later they tracked me down. Ferg, Lowey and Patch armed with Relentless landrover. Sigh of relief. Thank fuck for friends. Little did we know the journey was just beginning. It took us 3 hours to crawl ten miles across the thickest blue ice I've seen on a road. You couldn't even stand on it. Draggin Big dav up hills, then lowering him precariously down the other side became standard procedure. Of course it went tits up plenty of times, and we hedged Dav more than thrice, almost sending him to his doom at one point. We almost left Dav to weather the deep freeze. In the end though, Fergs drivin, Patches knot tying, Loweys man strength, and my determined cackle's got us through to the other side. Now Wilburs safe and settled in Moybeg, and we have an epic memory of a not so standard airport run. Gotta love the unexpected. Thanks fellas.
January 12th, 2010
Snow Virgins
Yesterday was one of the funniest days I've had in a long time, so I cut a clip to celebrate. This is what happens when 24 hours worth of snow falls on a town whose inhabitants rarely get to see it, let alone roll around in white powder all day. Work goes out the window, driving down the lane becomes lethal, big hills become mountains, said mountains are scaled, and a complete lack of snow riding experience is overcome by the kid inside us all. Thanks to Ferg, Pete, Rivie, Aisleen, Hugo, Stef, Mel, Robin, George and Steve for a classic adventure... Happiness is a snowball and a pair of frozen wet socks...
Snow Virgins from mickey smith on Vimeo.
January 10th, 2010
WILBURRRR
Brother and co conspirator on many an off the wall adventure, Allan 'Willy' Wilson arrives in Ireland next week. I'm looking forward to frozen hang time with the ol dog as well as gettin stuck into work on some quirky projects with him. Heres a couplea edits Wilbur recently put together from our stint filming in Tahiti last Summer, and his Winter in Australia around the same time...
Lime juice and the sea! from allan wilson on Vimeo.
Time to Go in the SEA! from allan wilson on Vimeo.
January 10th, 2010
Le boogie Le iphone
Me ol' pard Phil Toinzy Gallagher has done it again with a Bboard industry first, an iphone/ipod touch application for Le Boogie magazine. He's even giving away the app and the first issue of the mag for free at the minute, so go get yourself a copy here, and watch the clip below to see Toinz unveil his silky smooth application and even smoother chest to the world.
le BOOGIE iphone application from Phil Gallagher on Vimeo.
January 9th, 2010
Crooked contrast
Two interesting clips, Nirvana scaring the living daylights out of the Jonathon Ross show circa '91, and Them Crooked Vultures on the same show 2009. Dave Grohl, geez still pushing it through all those years in between.
January 7th, 2010
icy world
January 7th, 2010
Heaven Can Wait
Top music video for Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg by Keith Schofield, watch HERE
January 5th, 2010
Black Sabbath 1970
Been going through a bit of a Sabbath stage for the 1000th time since I was born and thought I'd share this clip of them in their prime. Hold on through them pissing about setting up for a full blast version of Paranoid. Imagine what they sounded like live back in 1970, coming down from flower power into chaos. Rad. Ladies and gents, the mighty Black Sabbath.
January 4th, 2010
Jive talkin
Watchin this underground cat named 'Zancudo' from El Salvador throw down his own tweak on riding a bodyboard in little waves resurrected wicked memories of hilarious summer stand-up-boogs sessions past. You wouldn't believe how fun it is, or how tricky. Goes to show, whatever you're floatin on, whatever the waves are like, if you're laughin, your doin better than most, and this lad looks like he's havin a grand ol time jivin in his own way... Here's the clip, and below it, a shot of Brendo rockin the stand up boogs love at chopes for the hell of it to...
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