Online Silverscreen 2: The Harmony “Wolfstadt”

Posted on October 12, 2007.

Did you get together much as a team to go on filming missions or were the riders mainly responsible for gathering their own footage? Which filmers helped you out the most?

A:We did try to go on as many filming trips together as we could. It works so well when you have everyone buzzing off each other for a whole week, especially if its abroad somewhere a bit different. We were and are so lucky to have each of the riders near to decent filmers.The ones that helped us out the most and that we consider part of the Harmony film crew (haha) are - Russell Cowling, Dane ‘morph’ Crook, Sean Lomax, Alex Irvine and Ciaran O’Connor with Chris Jones and Dykey helping us out too. Of course there was a small bunch of contributing filmers that are listed on the DVD.

Did any of the team riders exceed your expectations of them for this project? If so, who?

A:Well our hats go of to all the team for pulling it out the bag and having full on parts, but it would have to be Mr. Jamie bolland who exceeded our expectations. We started flowing Jamie stuff a while back and just said lets just see how it goes and film bits where you can. Jamie is his own man and just does what he does. Anyway, after a short time we were getting reports of Jamie filming quite a lot of stuff and I was seeing some good footage coming through with it turning into the part he has now. Jamie’s section is a firm favorite among the older generation of skaters, because his part is just raw street skating with an original style. It’s also Danijels favorite too.

I know it's hard to pick favorites, but what is your own personal favorite line/ piece of footage from Wolfstadt?

A: Jesus, that’s a hard one. I would have to say Jamie’s end line with the road gap then the nose bump straight after. Pure style and originality there. Plus that road gap is fucking massive to do in a line. My favorite single would be Jak’s back lip to nose manny on the step up blocks. I had never seen that trick done before Jak did it. I was genuinely shocked. My own personal favorite that I filmed would be Danijel’s bs heel over the bench in Sardinia. Never has that trick looked so good and so stylish and mixed with the spot and the colours, it just shines, for me anyway.

D: Jamie’s end line, but Eddie’s line with the Nollie flip at the gas works, makes my guts sink. It’s so epic and the bro down excitement of Grove makes it for me.

Now you've finally got Wolfstadt projected into the eyes of skaters nationwide, what's the immediate future hold for The Harmony?

A: After we have finished promoting Wolfstadt and the team is in the position to start filming again, we will see. I don’t want to say too much now. Other than that, we are spreading our wings into euro territory other than Sweden and getting the name of the good ship harmony out there. Also, there will be all new boards and a clothing range around xmas time. Now we are with ifive distribution, it’s a lot easier and more productive for both Dave and I to get shit done, as they say.

D: I think video wise there is going to be a blow out in the next few months, Nike, Lakai, Habitat…so we’ll just chill back and you never know we might surprise you with a little something?

Anybody you'd like to thank?

A:There are many people that we would like to thank, not just for the help on Wolfstadt but in general too, so here a few to be getting on with :-

Adam and Jane @ ifive. All the shops that stock our stuff. All the folk that buy our stuff. All the team for putting in 100% nearly all the time. haha. The harmony filmers – morph, Sean Lomax, ciaran O’Connor, Russell cowling and all the filming contributors. Our families and Skateboarding.

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