Our man Mike kicks it for a breif Q and A with the North
East's best kept secret, Mr. Kev Bell.
Mike: How do?
Kev: Nae Bad, Nae Bad
Mike: It's customary to give your relevant details now; so who are you?
Where are you from?
How long have you been a skateboarder and why did you dye your hair black?
Kev: I'm Kev Bell of Meldrum, been skating 7 years this Christmas, haha, that's a fair while.
I dyed my hair black; for a change, that's all.
Mike: When did you first start to see skateboarding as something you wanted to take part in?
Kev: I was watching the Foundation video " Nervous Breakdown" with this guy Callum Berry, that's what really got me into taking skateboarding seriously, before that it was just a piss about.
<< Flip Nose Slide, Kem of the Nay, Kev's Playground.
Mike: What are the good, the bad and the ugly sides of living out in the sticks?
Kev: The good is probably the pubs, and the peace and quiet, the bad is probably that I'm
a loner, write that ! It's bloody true! I'm isolated that's what it is! The ugly well.all the girls!,
there's no hot ones, It's a nice place. just theres 2 girls and they don't come out. There is
one hot one but she's a goody goody girl.
Mike: Is that how you like 'em?
Kev: Nah! Hahaha
Mike: You farmers don't like outsiders do you? I've seen the big eared boys on farms.
Kev: that's a f'd up question...
Mike: Did piercing your lip and dying your hair make you irresistible to Meldrum quines?
Kev:Hahaha no, no ,no.
For the record, I have shaved my head and removed my lip piercing!, Now I'm just plain old Kev!
Mike: Can you explain the story that lead to you being thought of as enemy number one around Old Meldrum?
Nollie Front Krooks, Glasgow >>
Kev: Uhh, are you talking about
the roof? We'll talk about the roof.
Mike: So what happened?
Kev: I was drinking one night and I ended up really drunk, so I drunk some more and decided to go up the road and then for some stupid reason I followed some people, some ned, on to roof of the legion, just messing around and I was the idiot that stood on the skylight. f'ing muppet. That kind of thing happens when your that drunk I suppose. I fell though and just managed to grab the roof before falling. If I hadn't I would have got f'd up, probably broke a leg if not both. Looking back on it I was f'ing lucky.
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Mike:Any reprisals?
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Kev: Nah, done and dusted. Paid the fine.
Mike: Has Old Meldrum got any interesting local nut cases?
Kev: There is a few.um..this guy right, we were skating these stairs and this guy came at us with a golf club, he's a f'ing nut job that guy.
Ollie Ollie Nose Wheelie, Aberdeen
Mike: How is it you make your folding money?
Kev: Part times jobs here and there. Enough to get some decks now and again. I'm working full time just now, bit of a bastard though.
Mike: Have you always been shy or is it just that you don't like me?
Kev: Haha, dunno, just too busy skating, no offence. Haha
Mike: When Transition Skatepark happens, what should they take from all the skate parks that have failed in the past, to make this the one that finally lasts?
Kev: Couldn't take anything from the Skatepark down the beach it was shit, except the rail, that was good. The rest was just shit. From Stoneywood they should take that flat bank hip, that was good, I'd only been skating a year when that was around. I remember seeing Ant, I think it was, do a kickflip, that was good!
Nollie Nose on the Mitchell to finish up, Nuff Said. Mike: What's your favourite:
Doric word or phrase?
Kev: Nae Bad
Mike: use of skate jargon in an ordinary situation?
Kev: Sick!
Mike: Incarnation of the God Park on the Beach Boulevard?
Kev: They were all shite!
Mike: Trick on transition?
Kev: Kickflip Fakie
Mike: Trick on street?
Kev: Nollie Cab Backside, Frontside, either way is good
Mike: DJ?
Kev: Don't have one
Mike: Part in H'Min Bam?
Kev: Rattray, duh!, that was an easy one.
Kev would like to Thank:
Alex Ivine, Andy Dobson, Jo, Callum, Callum, Alex Craig, Ma and Da, Brother, and can I thank myself? Haha!
Oh yeah and this guy Gordon Perryfae Meldrum he's a good guy, bit of Alcky, but a good guy. And any one else I missed out.you know who you are!
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