Wale @fortunesound
Wale was recently in our city, and we had the pleasure of having him come through our Gastown location. Check the pictures below of him rocking our new city tee and the de la soul dunks, which are BOTH available at our west 4th location. Peep the video snippet of his performance that night at Fortune Sound Club. Shout outs to both Dj Hedspin & Dj Marvel for warming the crowd up right, and Mark Gutknecht on the photo’s.
What a week !
About a month ago I was down in LA hanging out with the guys from the hundreds. The topic of the olympics came up and I was asked if I had planned on going. I said no and really had no intentions in partaking with the up coming event. Thanks to NIKE I have avoided one of the biggest disservices I could have ever done to myself. Photos are taken from the big picture on the Boston Globe
Over the past 6 days I have been a tourist in my own city, one of the lucky people to be a NIke guest. I along with a few “key retailers” was hosted by the swoosh for the last six days of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. They put us up at the Loden hotel in Coal Harbour area of Vancouver. If you ever get the chance you should stay here the service and food was amazing.
My olympic adventure was a little skewed towards hockey. We saw 8 games in 5 days. I’d only been to two hockey games in the past and they did little to prepare me for the full force of Canadian hockey fans. The first day I saw team USA play and they seemed like they knew how to take care of some biz.
Team Canada’s loss to the US and a tie in one other game set us up to be knocked out by the gold medal favourites. The Russians.
who are lead by this guy…….. looks like he’s ready to take car of some shit. To bad for him team Canada handed them an embarrassing 7-3 win. After a 3-2 win over slovakia that set up the Canada Vs USA gold medal game and a jackpot for scalpers. As we were leaving the game there were dudes with signs “gold medal game tickets $4,000″, rumours had them going for as much as $20,000 a ticket for prime seats
Of all the things I watched it was coolest to see the ladies hockey team win gold. For sure the mens was insane but the ladies are all amateurs, and there is no level for women like the NHL. This is the highest level for them, was dope to see.
Overall the Olympics were amazing for Vancouver, for Canada and for myself. Again a huge thank you to nike for the love.
Nice Kicks First Flagship Store opened FEB.27
Big ups to our friends over at nicekicks.com
This past Saturday Feb.27 our good friends to the south decided to step outside of the digital world and into the retail realm with their first brick and mortar on 2815 Gudalupe Ave. in Austin Texas. We wish these guys the best of luck for their great future ahead. Check the video of them gettin it poppin in the durrty
Calgary Livestock Sale!!!
Look out Calgary, we are having a winter SALE!!! Head down to the Hi Fi Club, where Giant 45, Group 7, and Livestock are joining forces for a one day sale with up to 80% off!! Be sure to roll through and cop some goodies to rock for spring.
Wale in 3 CITIES
Wale is coming through 3 major cities in our lovely country. Check him out @ Fortune sound club to start on Feb.23, Republic nightclub in Winnepeg on Feb.25 , & finally Tattoo Rock Parlour in Toronto on Mar.2. Big up to all the opening performers in all cities: Dj Marvel, Dj Hedspin, Dj Lonniece, Jon Smith, The Lytics, Dj Wristpect, and Mc Sir Lancelot.
Olympic Invitation
With the Opening Ceremony of the olympics only days away nike has graciously offer to host me for the final days of the games. If the invite has any foreshadowing to it I think I’ll be in for quite an amazing few days. I’ll be sure to post up some pics and recaps of the events.
