Wight Trash

Wight Trash is a skateboard, entertainment, and apparel company local to the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom headed by John Cattle.[1]

History

Wight Trash originated as a joke name between John and his friends over on the Isle of Wight in the early 1990s, but was first seen outside of this within the end credits of issue 2 of viewfinder# - the skateboard scene video series in 1998. Soon after this, logo T-shirts and stickers were produced and passed around to friends and family. Wight Trash, as a brand, was officially launched with the help of Inbiz and a Prince's Trust loan in April 2004 (April the 1st to be exact).[2] It is now in its 10th year and has big plans for this milestone anniversary in 2014!

Team

Wight Trash is also the name of their associated skateboarding team, which consists of:[3]

Team members have appeared over the years in films such as the viewfinder# series, the Death Skateboards movies (most recently 'Ordinary Madness'), in the Fifty Fifty Skateshop series (now all available as a box set), in the Bristol's Finest films,[6] All of Andy Evans' productions: most recently 'Heel Toe Magic',[7] also seen in The Chip Shop Army videos, Reskue Skateshop DVD and in the FancyLad Skateboards videos.[8] In 2013 Chris 'AVI' Atherton and Jesse James released - A Golden Egg [9] A video in which they experimented with skateboarding, and what crazy contraptions it was possible to build and then do tricks on. A.G.E. proceeded to go viral and was picked up by places such as Thrasher, Transworld, The Berrics and pretty much everywhere else around the skate world.[10] Wight Trash have also competed at large events such as Manny Mania, NASS, Urban Games, War of the Roses, Battle of Hastings, The Shoreham Ham Jams, U.K. Mini Ramp Champs as well as in Euro events over the years such as the Vans Italian Open. Two guest riders were added to the WT lineup, the first in 2011 was Alex Moul whose first graphic was an Arthur movie parody graphic. Alex had his second guest board in February 2012 which was a reworking of Herb & Don Brider's 1990 Moonchild graphic. The second guest rider is the American 1990's legend, Kris Markovich, who designed his own graphic and which has been available since May 2012.

Retail

Wight Trash is stocked in retail outlets such as The Skateshop,[11] Note,[12] Drugstore,[13] Fifty Fifty[14] Empire,[15] The Ventnorian,[16] SS20,[17] and Getaround,.[18]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "White Air 2008: John Cattle, White Trash". Ventor Blog. 10/08/2008. Retrieved 2 January 2010. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ Findon, Ross (12/04/2009). "Wight Trash is so Valuable Now". Isle of Wight County Press Online. Retrieved 2 January 2010. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ↑ "Greg Nowik is Shit?". Caught in the Crossfire Skate Zine. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  4. ↑ "Alex Moul MPORA". 2013-12-16. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Kris Markovich". 2013-12-16. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "Bristol's Finest Video". 2009-11-17. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  7. ↑ "Greg Nowik Birthday Mega Mix". 2013-12-16. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Hotbus Hellride Tour 2012". 2012-07-31. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "A Golden Egg Video". 2013-03-31. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "Exposed- Caught in the Crossfire AGE interview". 2013-04-08. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "The Skateshop official site". Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  12. ↑ "Note Skateshop official site". Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "Drugstore Skateshop official site". Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "Fifty Fifty official site". Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  15. ↑ "Empire official site". Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  16. ↑ "The Ventnorian official site". Retrieved 29 October 2010.
  17. ↑ "SS20 Skateshop official site". Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  18. ↑ "Getaround Skateshop official site". Retrieved 17 January 2014.
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