Well, it’s the time of year to set up the beach catapult, brace yourself, put your back into it and ping yourself into the chaos theory. On your marks, get set, go! Yes, we are now in the thick of the Brighton… Read more →
What do you get if you cross 30 pirates with ten fairies and 20 bumble bees, 15 naughty nurses, oiled-up strippers and alcohol by the bucketload? Answer: A typical Saturday night in Brighton. I’ve only ever been to one stag do in… Read more →
It’s been a strange week! For some bizarre reason my DVD sales have started going through the roof (www.mattwhistler.com). One year on since ‘Surfin’ Bird’ and that tea-tray video and they are still flying out. I have absolutely no idea how this… Read more →
What makes a trend? In my early teens it was Sergio Tacchini, Kappa, Nike, Addidas and old skool Dunlop. This vast array of synthetic technicolour was shown off by either a white-knuckle skateboard ride holding onto the back of a milk van… Read more →
Ok, I fess up: the push scooter days are coming round full circle. First there was the Veriflex Scooter sponsored by Skate distributor: Shiner Ltd in Bristol, was one of the few push scooters available on the market at the time of… Read more →
Memes, memes, memes. The talking orange, the cats with bread around their heads, the Techno Viking, the baby in stitches at tearing paper. There are dire consequences to filming a meme, kids getting run over by trains according to South Park. The… Read more →
After performing a Saturday night comedy gig that fought off three stag parties and some ferocious heckling, a Sunday cocktail of dibbling and dabbling was required. The day consisted of a touch of painting on the beach using glow stick tubes to… Read more →
Traffic cones, oh traffic cones, where art thou traffic cones? On top of Winston Churchill’s head or perhaps Queen Victoria. Maybe on a rusty fridge in a student pad or in London auditioning to be an international VLC icon. They fly in… Read more →
I can’t believe it! A small ad was put out on Gumtree for a Barbarella style actress to appear in an epic B-movie and already 200 people have come forward. I can’t reveal too much at this early stage but the film… Read more →
Robot girlfriend has decided to view the world from a different angle. I was strolling along the seafront the other day when a telepathic interjection bounced off my bonce. Low and behold, ATM was dangling from the end of the West Pier… Read more →
