After a period of inactivity, followed by a period of me failing to check in, it looks like the official archive of RAD Magazine (see our stickers) is very much alive. I reference Britain’s defunct Read and Destroy every so often here, and for those who have no idea what I’m talking about, or for those that do, you should investigate When We Was Rad. Aside from the colloquial coverage of the UK scene, there’s always a bit of U.S. based interference as well. You know how fond we are of sending advisors and spreading democracy… Above left is Steve Caballero skating South Bank on the cover of the September 1988 issue. On the right is a page featuring Winstan Whitter in 1991. Winstan later direct the U.K.’s answer to the Dogtown documentary, Rollin Through the Decades (reviewed here) which was in many ways superior.
Tim Leighton-Boyce was the editor of RAD, and is naturally the person behind When We Was Rad as well. He’s putting up one page scans at a time, accompanied by any related recollections he had, and sometimes transcripts of the text. RAD existed from 1987 to 1993, so he’s go t his work cut out for him. Do a little encouraging by visiting When We Was Rad.
4 comments
houseofneil
hey PigCity, falconneil from S&B here. Yup, I turned Kilwag on to RAD and Rollin thru the decades. TLB used to be a mate back in the day, and I got all of the RADS sent to me in the states. Great magazine. He should redo the t-shirts.
PIG CITY
I don’t know why I didn’t read the last part of this post about Winstons film and went off on one, think I was just trying to get a bit of extra coverage for a mate – sorry
PIG CITY
Rad was the best mag around back in the day, killer layouts way head of the David Carson era of Transworld. Great writing too and plenty of quality free stickers. Crapped all over the lesser mags of the time SK8 Action & Skateboard. The guy on the profile shown here Winston, made one of the best Skate documentaries a few years back all about the UK scene through the years Rollin through the Decades check it out.
http://www.rollinthroughthedecades.com/.
If you have any interest in the Euro scene I would recommend this
Cheers PIGCITY
john aguilar
woooaa! oddly enough,,, in mexico city in the 80’era you could not get any skate magazines from the states, but we could get the RAD magazine and Action Now, which was great!!!! and this is a nice Blast from the past!