Born from the brainchild of legendary surfers, Gerry Lopez and Jack Shipley, Lightning Bolt has long been famed as the ‘original’ surf brand, offering a universal lifestyle symbol with a pure connection to its island heritage. Rumours of how the name came to be have long circulated across Hawaii and beyond, but, keen eyes on […]
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Luke Dillon On Living It Large At The Spring Classic
UK’s best shortboarder takes a load off at Woolacombe “Just one of the great aspects of the Spring Classic Invitational was having the chance to surf and hang out with all the best British surfers from all the divisions,” said Luke Dillon. “There were the best UK male and female competitive longboarders, a load of […]
The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez
This summer, Patagonia releases The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez- a film that lifts the veil on one of surfing’s most enigmatic heroes. While “Mr. Pipeline” is known for his calm demeanor in the tube, Gerry built his career with aggressive surfing that left behind a trail of blood and tears. Gerry is as […]
Gotcha Springs Back To Life
Iconic surf brand Gotcha is back, partnering the Spring Classic Surf Invitational and launching a new collection. “They were mean-spirited but that is what made Gotcha the dream,” said surf journalist Chas Smith. “It was exclusive, and you weren’t invited, and I wasn’t invited, but son of a bitch I wanted to be as I […]
Local Council Turn Down Planning Application for return of hit Drive-in Cinema
Plans for another Drive-In summer have been put on hold due to local council objections. Meanwhile, we will run the inaugural Spring Classic Music and Surf Festival in Woolacombe Bay, North Devon, 27-30 May.
Vans Circle Vee: Every Little Bit Helps
Testing Vans Surf’s latest eco-conscious shoe with ocean protector Tom Flambeaux With the need to take care of our green n’ blue planet getting ever more pressing, Vans are stepping up to try and build better shoes. The new Circle Vee shoe, aside from offering legendary Vans comfort, is made from a combo of organic […]
Final Spring Classic Headliners Announced
Creating unique events has become somewhat of a staple for us at Wavelength. From sell-out surf movies to cliff-top cinemas, and even hosting conferences to lead change. Using adventure sports to connect people is in our blood! And off the back of an epic Drive-in Cinema series, we thought we’d go one better this year […]
A New Chapter For Aussie Charger Laurie Towner
Laurie Towner is and always has been a surfer’s surfer. Back in the late naughts, if you’d have asked anyone who knew what was what, they’d have told you that Laurie was on course to become one the most decorated heavy wave riders of his generation. In the years that followed, suspicions looked to be […]
Deep Cuts From The Wavelength Archive – Part IV– Defining A Generation
Twenty-twenty-one is Wavelength’s 40th year in print. To mark the occasion, we’re diving deep into our archive to bring you a series of short stories featuring key cultural moments, entertaining asides and colourful characters from around the British surf scene and beyond over the last four decades. Read part I here. Read part II here. Read part III […]
It’s Just A Ride – The John Eldridge Profile
John Eldridge flicks up his visor and looks south. In the distance, where a carpet of rolling green fields fall away into the Atlantic, he can just about make out the small cluster of houses where he grew up. Looking down below, he points to tiny waves folding over on the sands of Boobys Bay, […]
Shaun Tomson Looks Back On 40 Years Of Stoke
Narrating a new series about five European groms chasing their CT dreams sees the 1977 World Champ reflects on his first trip to the UK, the role of stoke and some vague recollections of the Wavelength Launch Party. “We walked down from the car park for the first day and we were greeted by perfection,” […]
GALLERY: The Wavelength Drive-In Gets Rated As Best Thing To Do In Cornwall
We’re almost halfway through our summer of drive-in cinema, having already welcomed thousands of you through the gates for 25 afternoon and evening screenings of the greatest surf blockbusters, cult classics and family favourites on a giant 10m LED screen. We’ve watched Matt, Jack and Leroy surf sparkling Malibu while the sun drops into the […]
Balmy Temps & Wall To Wall Sunshine Forecast For The Opening Weekend Of The Wavelength Drive-In Cinema
We’re just a few days away from the opening weekend of our summer of drive-in cinema and with clear skies and soaring temperatures forecast for Watergate Bay, we couldn’t be more excited to welcome you all through the gates. After a stellar run in 2020, we’re back this year on the other side of the […]
Point Break At 30: Has Much Happened Since?
[The Wavelength Drive-In Cinema is back for 2021, bringing you a range of surf cinema, cult classics and family favourites from the clifftops of Cornwall. Browse the full lineup and get your tickets here. Or, subscribe to Wavelength now to get free entry to a screening of your choice.] There are different ways of realising you’re old. Being ideologically opposed […]
Introducing The Wavelength Heritage Range Presented By Oakley
In the spring of 1981, Simon Evans and Geoff Tydeman sat down to consider the pressing issues of the day. The Cold War, the coming launch of the space shuttle Columbia and Michael Jackson’s Thriller almost certainly came up. Other business included Simon’s designs for the masthead logo for Geoff and John Conway’s exciting new […]
The New ‘Low Velocity’ Collection Is Globe But Not As You Know It
Founded in the 80s, Globe is a brand well accustomed to life at the leading edge of surf and skate culture. From adding an air cushion to their classic Rodney Mullen shoe in the 90s to their many critically acclaimed forays into surf film making, the brand has spent 30 years in a constant spin […]
Culture Wars: The Warm Up
[Stretching before surfing? Jaunty little mince up and down the sand? As with so many of surfing’s polarising issues, being decisive is more important than being right. The executioner’s blade glistens in the early morning sunlight; be on this side of the block, be on that side of the block. Anywhere but caught betwixt the two.] […]
The Quik Cup, 2002: The Party Animals’ Mass Extinction
[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] How an era-straddling celebration of cross-over boardsport culture – and a Daily Telegraph kiss n’ tell of it – marked the beginning of the end surfing’s vaunted age of debauchery. “So now, less than […]
Stories & Shots From The Monumental Epsilon Swell
First spotted as a spinning wind somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland, the level of hype ahead of last week’s swell looked, to a miserable pessimist, like a recipe for disappointment. However, after Hurricane Epsilon merged with another Atlantic depression early in the week, it did just as it was supposed to, making landfall on […]
‘We’re Gonna Explore The World, Our Way’ Pat O’Connell on The Endless Summer 2
[The Wavelength Drive-In Cinema is back for 2021, bringing you a range of surf cinema, cult classics and family favourites from the clifftops of Cornwall, including a screening of Endless Summer II. Browse the full lineup and get your tickets here. Or, subscribe to Wavelength now to get free entry to a screening of your choice.] We caught up with ES2 […]
The WL Drive-In Cinema; Much More Than Just A Movie Screening
Last month we announced we’d be putting on a series of drive-in cinema nights, running throughout July and August, to fill a little bit of that fun shaped hole left in your summer but the widespread cancellation of festivals and outdoor events. Since then, we’ve been excitedly unveiling our line up of films, including local […]
Wavelength Drive-in Cinema; Brand Partners
Community is at the core of everything we do at Wavelength and that is why we are incredibly excited to have kicked of the Wavelength Drive-in summer series with a bang this weekend serving up the cult classic, Blue Juice. The opening three nights were sold out meaning we welcomed over a thousand people to […]
Wavelength Drive-In Cinema Presents: Dogtown & Z-Boys
We’re excited to announce the next film to be added to our summer drive-in cinema line up is the award-winning surf/skate doc Dogtown and Z-Boys, showing on the 23rd August and the 4th September. Ticket numbers are limited. Enter your email here and we’ll let you know as soon as you can get yours. Set […]
Introducing The Wavelength Drive-In Cinema; A Summer Of Cult Classics From The Cliffs Of Cornwall
As if the news we’re allowed to gather and be merry again from the 4th July wasn’t enough to brighten up your week, we’ve got an exciting announcement to throw into the mix. Starting on Friday 24th July and running every weekend until the end of summer, we’ll be hosting a series of drive-in cinema […]
Emergency on Planet Shred: Choose Your New Normal
What do you want out of the #newnormal? As you were? Something else? It’s still very early days since the Covid spring, but so far it feels like the major positive changes in the short/medium term might chiefly be ideological ones. As if significant shifts in our thinking might well endure, even if things appear […]
WATCH: Gearoid Mcdaid Isolation Dreams In South America
It’s a well-known fact that most of the world’s free surfers possess at least a stack of hard drives festering full of surf footage from their lives of illustrious travel, perfectly suited to pasting together for a web clip release, if only they had the time. Recent isolation have finally offered them a minute to […]
WATCH: Victoria Vergara In A New Short By Morgan Maassen
After growing up between the tropical isles of Reunion and New Caledonia, Victoria Vergara entered the world of the model/ surfer aged just 14. Since then she’s developed a style and approach in the water that has seen her become one of the most appreciated female longboarders in the world. In this brand new short, […]
North Shore Lore: The V-Land Ghetto
[During the Vans Triple Crown, we’ll be bringing you a whole stack of stories centred around Hawaii’s North Shore. You can read them all here.] When surf spots undergo metamorphosis, it’s usually sudden, rather than gradual. The 2007 Indonesian earthquake lifting the reefs at spots like Nias and Macaronis, making them heavier waves than previously, […]
The North Shore: An Idiot’s Guide
[During the Vans Triple Crown, we’ll be bringing you a whole stack of stories centred around Hawaii’s North Shore. You can read them all here] Presumably, you’ve heard all the Hawai’i cautionary tales. False cracks. Knuckles to da head. “Talk like a man, take a punch like a man” violence visited upon female tour pros […]
Local Hero; An Exhibition Challenging The Stigma Around Mental Health By Jon Mackenzie
On Friday evening the Wavelength team and 200+ people had another opportunity to take cover from a horrendously wet summer’s evening. This time though we were not laying on a party after a cancelled festival, but collaborating with award-winning photographer Jon Mackenzie on his ‘Local Hero’ exhibition, hosted between Open Surf and The Canteen at […]
Wavelength X Cohesion: Loose Ends
On Tuesday night last week, as a storm threatened to rip all twelve stages from their clifftop roosts, the Boardmasters crew made the difficult decision to cancel the festival. Disappointment swept through the town as it dawned on the 50 thousand ticket holders that instead of bouncing to Wu-Tang in the glow of a Cornish […]
The Wavelength Guide To Boardmasters Week 2019
The biggest week in Cornwall’s summer calendar is right around the corner. To help you out we’ve compiled everything you need for your diary- or the notes section on your phone, because it’s not 2006 (although please no one yell that at Razorlight. We want nothing but the old school bangers. America, Golden Touch, In […]
An Introduction To The Fletcher Dynasty
If there’s one thing surf culture has properly nailed, it’s the multi-gen dynasty. From The Hos; legendary stalwarts of the North Shore, to multi-craft Aussie style masters the Youngs, there are loads of surfing families that offer ample proof, when it comes to talent and influence, the apple rarely falls far from the tree. In […]
Highlights From The Deus 9 Foot & Single 2019
The Deus 9ft & Single Surf, Art, Music & Film Fest just completed its ninth iteration! It all started as a one-day event on the grassy knoll above Pantai Batu and each year since the team at Deus have been adding and tweaking, seeing it morph into the surfing extravaganza, complete with ladies division, Fish […]
WATCH: Sandy Kerr Samples The Very Best Of The North Sea
Sandy Kerr is the most recent in a long lineage of talent to come out of Britain’s north east. Like Nigel Veich and the Davies brothers before him, Sandy’s approach to surfing has been shaped by the unique waves and surf scene that occupies his corner of Britain. In his latest short, filmed in Scotland, […]
The Momentum Generation; Where Are They Now?
On the eve of our UK wide tour of ‘Momentum Generation’, Sam Lamiroy investigates what became of the individuals who made up the seminal Momentum crew. Rob Machado – born 1973 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rob Machado (@rob_machado) on Mar 14, 2016 at 12:23pm PDT Then: The 18 year […]
In Conversation With Taylor Steele
Taylor Steele is unquestionably one of the most influential filmmakers in surfing history. His movies have evolved from the 90’s masterpieces of high octane, punk sound-tracked action fests that introduced the world to Kelly Slater, Machado, Dorian et al – through to the exquisitely conceived, sumptuously filmed and emotively scored surfing travelogues he has become […]
In Conversation With Rob Machado
It’s not often a surf movie brings you to tears but you might just want to pop a couple of hankies in your pocket if you are coming along to join us for the nationwide screenings of the epic, and very touching ‘Momentum Generation’ movie over the next few weeks. It’s rare we get to […]
Jeff & Michael Zimbalist On Making ‘Momentum Generation’
Earlier this week we announced our UK tour of Momentum Generation, a seminal new documentary from directors Jeff & Michael Zimbalist. The brothers are well known for their documentaries portraying grassroots youth subculture in Brazil’s Favelas (Favela Rising) and their exposé of the intertwined lives of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and Colombian football superstar Andres […]
British Women’s Success Stories Are Not Being Told. It’s Time To Rectify That.
In a recent British Surf Broadcast, documenting surfer’s success stories so far this year, I couldn’t escape noticing that alongside the nine male surfers mentioned, there was only one female. And rightly so that young Ellie Turner was included, Ellie has been pushing the standards of British female surfing and continues to endlessly amaze me […]
In Conversation With Shane Dorian; Wisdom From A Life Long Hellman
Last weekend saw the world premiere of ‘Vague A L’ame’ a brand new film which takes you behind the scenes of the quest to ride the biggest, heaviest waves on the planet. It stars Shane Dorian and Benjamin Sanchis and features near death experiences, whirlwind strike missions and a secret Spanish slab as the pair […]
From Painting Boards In 70’s California To Designing High Fashion In New York- Meet Mike & Courtenay
From Painting Boards In 70’s California To Designing High Fashion In New York- Meet Mike & Courtenay
Wheels and Waves festival is always a trip. Existing as unlikely bedfellows for seven years now, this fusion of two wheel transport and wave riding attracts such a varied, interesting and vibrant crowd it’s as difficult to work out where to look as it is to place yourself amongst the bustling crowds. Set between the […]
Introducing ‘North Coast Asylum’; A Cornish Art Collective Setting Up A Gallery In An Old Newquay Church
Meet Jo and Ben, the artist – photographer duo behind Newquay’s freshly launched creative sanctuary, North Coast Asylum. Previously based in the big smoke, the pair pooled years of experience working in London’s creative industries and relocated south to promote emerging and established artists. Whilst Cornwall’s association with the creative arts go way back, NCA’s […]
Wavelength Presents: The Seawolf – Newquay Premiere
Last night we brought an evening of surf cinema to Newquay, with a string of new flicks culminating in the showing of Ben Gulliver’s new cold water epic The Seawolf. A packed out gathering of surf film fans from all over the South West gathered at the Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay last night to enjoy a series of shorts, […]
Artificial Waves: In the Eco Eyes of Leah Dawson
Leah Dawson does things on single fins that every surfer should see; the little Achilles shuffle, the knocked-knee readjustments to hang 5, taking the drop in a low bent back crouch and bottom turning with a banana back arch. It’s surfing like this that makes her stand out as a storyteller. But there is something […]
Worldwide Memorial Paddle Outs Honour The Pioneer Of The Wetsuit
The life of legendary waterman Jack O’Neill was honoured spectacularly in a worldwide series of memorial paddle outs on Sunday 9th July and Monday 10th July 2017. The moving display united surf communities across the globe with over 3,500 surfers joining hands in the world’s biggest floating memorial sequence to date. Jack’s hometown of Santa […]
The Best Kook Slams Of May
It’s been an epic month for Kook Slams, the Insta account dedicated to providing you with your regular dose of surf related fails. We’ve sifted through the entirety of their May offerings to bring you some of our favourites, to help you while away those final few hours of work before the weekend begins. First […]
Bronze Medals and Maldives Barrels
Jenny Jones is Britain’s most decorated snowboarder and she has the medal to prove it. Wavelength speaks exclusively to our most successful board sliding Olympian about surfing in Devon, Team GB’s hopeful Peony Knight and the Jamaican Bobsleigh team.
It Ain’t Pretty: Women’s Big Wave Riders Upsetting the Old Guard
Hardcore women bustin’ down the big wave door, changing history and scooping a raft of awards in the process.
‘Shorebreak’ -A Brand New Documentary About Clark Little
Clark Little first got into shore break photography when his wife came home with a photo of the Waimea shore break she had bought from the supermarket and he looked at it and realised he could shoot a better one. Since then he has worked his way up to become one of the most talented […]
Jimmy’s Wagon Of Destiny
Take a moment to appreciate the advantages of a van, then combine them with the strengths of a light-duty truck and you’ve got a beast of a vehicle, the Mercedes-Benz Vario 613D. I managed to get one of the last ones off the production line, making our new business van only three years old with […]
Morocco With Marc Lacomare and Joan Duru
Filmed over one day in the land of never ending rights, this is Marc Lacomare and Joan Duru and a festival of backhand surfing. https://vimeo.com/155642242
Waveform
The O’Neill UNREASONABLE film festival continues with film no. 4 “Waveform”, from award-winning artist Stefan Nadelman from Portland, USA. Featuring surfers including Jordy Smith, Malia Manuel and Mark Matthews. Find yourself being sucked into this fast-paced video filled to the brim with surf, colour and varying waveforms that’ll have your eyes twisting and twirling into swirly […]
‘Dedicated to the Craft Series’ Episode two: Christian Barker
Bob McTavish and company will be releasing a collection of short films introducing and expanding on the lives of the people who ride and build our boards, and share the lifestyle pioneered by Bob and his friends in the ’60s. McTavish Surfboards recruited local Byron film maker Stefan José to create this collection of portraits […]
CODE ZIRCON 99: EPISODE 3
AFENDS PRESENTS CODE ZIRCON 99: EPISODE 3 Please experience Episode 3 in our AFENDS reality defined video series ‘CODE ZIRCON 99’. Filmed by Ishka Folkwell, edited by Toby Cregan and with insightful narration by Ed Sinnott. In this Episode our focus turns to JS (not the JS surfboard) but Josh Sleep the vanguardist of counterculture, […]
The Litmus Effect
Intro by LSFF founder Chris Nelson Offered a slot to show any film you want, on the big screen, in Dolby sound, to 200 like-minded souls, what would you choose? Curating a night of cult surf cinema, this was my dilemma. Only there was no dilemma. The choice was simple. There was only one possible film. […]
