📀 Sounds: Louie Jones in Heroin's Live From Antarctica
With the recent release of an incredible Palace edit, we were reminded of Louie Jones’ breakout part for Heroin in the classic Live From Antarctica. He’s gone through a couple of clothes style changes in the time between, but the style that matters is timeless…
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We re-upped in high quality to our YouTube channel for the sake of clarity…
Heroin's official upload and full video can be found on their Vimeo channel.
I thought I’d write down my initial memories of the part before a rewatch for the purposes of this article - it must be at least five years since I last watched it.
A couple of things stand out as I remember; flip tricks of every stance down increasingly ridiculous stairs, particularly with 180 turns involved (Switch Frontside Kickflips and Heelflips, Nollie Backside Flips as well as some big regular Backside Flips…), the punk style to the past the point of caricature, into it being cool again, and how well Mudhoney’s Hate The Police goes with the footage.
Turns out on a rewatch, the part is much more varied than that!
Tech flatground, including a Nollie Backside Flip in the rain, Nollie and Fakie 360 Flips mid-line,
Various kicker flip tricks,
A perfect Kickflip 5-0 up and into the Southbank Kicker to Bank,
Plenty of ledge tech including Kickflip Backside Tailslides and Frontside Bluntslides.
Handrail Boardslides and Feebles throughout,
Flip tricks on / into varying levels of banks.
All the footage as far as I can tell, was filmed mostly around London, with the exception of a particularly productive Paris trip, where a lot of the bank footage was shot. Louie makes use of the unique bank spots that were popular at this time around Paris, but the style and technique of the tricks performed keeps things far more interesting than the usual flip-on-bank footage.
Getting back to those hammer-time flip tricks from earlier, they’re definitely still present in the part, they just don’t take up as much of it as I’d remembered…
A Switch Frontside Heelflip and Kickflip down a pair of formidable stair sets, the former of which comes after a Fakie 360 flip at the sorely missed Shell Centre, offering an unexpected, but pleasingly symmetrical reply to an earlier Nollie 360 flip.
A properly popped and stomped Switch Frontside Flip into Paris’ most famous mid-2000’s white bank, followed by a fakie-looking Nollie Flip into said bank begins the crescendo of the section.
Possibly my favourite line in the part towards the end, on, I believe, the stairs outside the Southbank Centre - Switch flip down the little set, a timely slide back to regular-stance, ended with a textbook pop, turn, catch of a Nollie Backside Flip down the big stairs.
An incredible ender caps the part off, a Backside 360 Kickflip into a bank before you saw those every other part!