Bill Bycroft frontside tailslide shuvit. Photo: Justin Keeley
It seemed only right to catch up with the Gold Watch vets after the video release. Yup, it’s Tuesday Talk Turkey. 
Rhys Campbell, 50-50.
How old are you?
Bill Bycroft: Approaching 32
Rush Fay: 25 and retired
Justin Keeley: 29 (fuckin old)
Dan Kircher: Old enough to know better
Ollie Logan: 31
Matt West: 31
Rhys Campbell: 29. My clock ticks over to 30 in March
Austin Peeler: 24
Justin Keeley, wallride.
Where are you from?
BB: Oratia, West Auckland
RF: Well I was born in North Carolina but New Zealand is my home.
JK: Taupo/Kerikeri
DK: El Savador
OL: Wellington
MW: Auckland
RC: West Auckland
AP: Charleston, SC USA
Where do you live?
BB: Ponsonby, Auckland City
RF: A to the K
JK: Grey mutha fuckin Lynn
DK: Guess
OL: Auckland
MW: London
RC: At the moment Im living with my wife at her sister’s and husband’s house on the North Shore of Auckland.
AP: Kingsland, Auckland all of 2009
Best thing about your hometown?
BB: Friends and family. Good skate spots if you look for them
RF: The traffic
JK: Kerikeri gots’ good beaches, Taupo gots’ good lake and park
DK: Slightly more tolerable than everywhere else in NZ
OL: Kate
MW: High quality of living
RC: Family and friends
AP: Drinking
Ollie Logan, lipslide.
Who makes it possible?
BB: Rachel. Morri and Shiree for boards, shoes and a job. Everyone in Gold Watch
RF: Morri, Rhys and Bill
JK: Antihero, Spitfire, Thunder and Vans (Thanks Morri, Rhys, Bill and Hamish)
DK: I’m on Irrom web construction flow.
OL: No sponsors but Irrom and Boarder D have always been nice helping me out
MW: Friends
RC: I work at Irrom so I kinda just grab whatever. I like to skate Zero decks, Thunder Trucks, Spitfire wheels, Fallen shoes. I just like those dudes and what their companies stand for, among others
AP: The Irrom Crew, Dan Kircher and everyone I skate with!
Who are you five favourite upstarts? (badgers)
BB: The youngest person I regularly skate with is 25 (Rush) so Im kind of out of the loop on that
RF: Yaje Popson
JK: Tom Kelly (he’s still a grommet, right?), Brett Band, that kid from the nationals with the frontside airs, Andrew ‘Morri who?’ Morrison, and Yaje Pop-something
DK: Ollie Logan, Reggie Hunkin and Murray Murrayson
OL: Hampson, Hunkin, Butcher, Crebs and Coleman. Plus the Gold boys of course
MW: Rory Milanes, Nugget, Jin, Lucien Clarke, Steph and Shaun Witherup
RC: Dont really know too many. Saw some sick young dudes down at the nationals though. Not comp guys but just guys you could see skated for the fun. What is a grommet now days?
AP: Yaje Popson
Dan Kircher, kickflip.
Who are you five favourite legends?
BB: The entire cast of Gold Watch (see opening credits for names). Chey Ataria and Dan Buckley. Brian Smith and Mark McFadden were pretty legendary when I was younger.
RF: Gonz, Cardiel, Reynolds, Ataria and Morri
JK: Andrew Morrison, Dave Crabb, Cam Bartley, Moose man and Mark Neighbours
DK: Stevie Willams and Gonz
OL: Busenitz, Dill, Rattray, Carroll and Howard
MW: Oyola, Strubing, Stranger, Carroll, Plastic Trophy members
RC: Sir David Attenborough, Sir Charles Upham, Jacques Cousteau, Robert Williams, Hayley Campbell
AP: Too many to name but Jerry Fowler and Julien Stranger are pretty good
Austin Peeler, switch ollie.
What are your favourite five video parts?
BB: Any and all parts from the following people – Ethan Fowler (Tincan Folklore), Mark Gonzales (Video Days), Donny Barley (Eastern Exposure 3), Heath Kirchart (Rolling Thunder), Jason Lee (A Visual Sound), John Cardiel (Cash Money Vagrant), Alan Peterson (Number 1)
RF: Nestor Judkins Tiltmode, Mike Carroll – Modus Operandi, Danny Garcia Inhabitants, Guy Mariano Mouse, Danny Renaud – Mosiac
JK: Alan Peterson – Is what it is, AVE Mindfield, Cardiel – Cash Money Vagrant, Will Ackerman Skylarking, Peter Hewitt – Cash Money Vagrant
DK: Huf in Non Fiction, Gabriel Rodriguez in Paco, something from AVE, Rick Howard in Virtual Reality and all those new little Bill Strobeck ones
OL: Busenitz Diagonal, Dill Mosaic, Carroll/Howard Penal Code, Gonz Video Days, Rattray – WFTW
MW: Oyola – Eastern Exposure, Strubing – Art Bars, Busenitz Diagonal, Natas – Streets Of Fire, Barbee, Sanderson, Saiz and Thomas – Public domain
RC: Jamie Thomas Welcome to Hell, Erik Ellington Misled Youth, AVE Photosynthesis, J Wray Second Hand Smoke, Ed Templeton in whatever, hes rad.
AP: Brian Anderson (Welcome to hell) Jake Johnson (Mindfield) Jason Dill (Photosynthesis)
.too many
Bill Bycroft, frontside boardslide.
Top five YouTube vids?
BB: Old videos of bands that I like, and will never be able to see live for myself
RF: Play him off, keyboard cat, 5 Black Males Repetitively Hump a Chair/Wall/Floor/Mirror/Air, Daigo Full Parry Come Back and Win (SFIIITS), Dave Chappelle – Grape Drink, Screwed in Houston
JK: James Brown Wasted Interview- amazing! Grape drank, sugar water and of course purple , Knees and hands russian skater dude is good for a laugh, Dave Chappelle cribs
OL: I would like to buy a Hamburger, StarWars canteen, Champ and Master
MW: Episodes of Fawlty Towers
RC: I thought David after the dentist was funny when I watched that but I dont really look on youtube.
AP: Grime and grit (atlantahatesus)
Favourite Quote?
BB: You cant bullshit a bullshitter – Digby Emmett RIP
RF: “Put her in some three quarter pants and she’d be alright.” – Morri
JK: Its got to be either: “Every man needs his jewels” or “Im only getting lobster dinners from now on”
DK: Anything that comes out of Morri’s mouth
OL: Nobody fucks with the Jesus – The Big Lebowski
MW: Lend me ten pounds and Ill buy you a drink
RC: “Its hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys” – Shayne Storey
AP: Fuck it
Rush Fay, switch ollie.
Best city for skateboarding?
BB: Barcelona with Rachel, Craig, Matt, Luke and Lambchop; London with Craig, Matt and Glenn; New York with Ollie and Glenn; But Ive had the most fun skating Auckland with my friends trying to find new spots and some wed forgotten too
RF: Te Aroha
JK: Pretty much everywhere except Auckland, San Francisco was pretty amazing
DK: There’s stuff to skate anywhere
OL: Barcelona
MW: Barca
RC: Sydney, pretty much all my NZ homies over there is what makes it cool
AP: NYC/ATL
Favourite song?
BB: Too hard to choose one song, but my favourite album is Minutemens Double Nickels on the Dime
RF: An unanswerable question really but let’s just say Andre Nickatina – Soul Of A Coke Dealer
JK: Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
DK: “Nobody’s Fault But My Own” by Beck
OL: Miss You
MW: A National Acrobat by Black Sabbath
RC: Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Iron Maiden
AP: Any James Brown will do
Dan Kircher & Austin Peeler, dual ollies.
Favourite Park?
BB: Te Atatu
RF: Waterloo
JK: Owairaka is pretty fun and Washington Park in CHCH is sick
DK: There’s one out near the West Coast that just has a metal manual pad and a metal wedge ramp, it’s epic
OL: Queenstown
MW: Stockwell or any Jason Parkes creation
RC: Owairaka is cool. It’s new and thats where we all meet up
AP: Panmure
Favourite Magazine cover?
BB: Ethan Fowler Big Brother
RF: Tod Swank Transworld cover
JK: Any of the 20 covers that Rhys has had. They don’t call him RTMC (Rhys The Man Campbell) for nothing
DK: One of the three Rhys Campbell ones
OL: Cliffy Reiss, Manual
MW: Cardiel backside air through the rafters, Thrasher (as least I think that was a cover?)
RC: John Cardiel frontside ollie on a bank. Feb 1997 Transworld. Ive had it on my wall at every place Ive lived in since then. Now it is next to my desk at work.
AP: Mags are a dime a dozen
Bill Bycroft, boardslide. All Photos: Justin Keeley.
What are your bad habits?
BB: I could definitely be more tolerant
RF: Laziness
JK: Noseslides to fakie and the odd one beer too many
DK: Pretending not to know who the new upstart pros are
OL: Working weekends
MW: Bar, OCDs, coffee, terrible financial planning and working
RC: Beers, potty mouth and I pick my nose in the car when my wife is driving. She gets embarrassed.
AP: Not skating as much as I should
Whats the worst thing about skateboarding in NZ?
BB: Skate parks being considered skate spots
RF: Tom Smithers
JK: The winters, the shit spots and the Tom Smithers skate parks everywhere
DK: The average skateboarder’s ignorance
OL: The run up
MW: Going back for the summer and blowing your ankle
RC: Rain, miles away from any other country to travel to but most of all, the people in the skate industry that dont give a fuck about it and are slowly killing skateboarding in this country.
AP: RAIN!
Whats the best thing about skateboarding in NZ?
BB: Friends and the freedom to skate where and when you feel like it
RF: The people I skate with
JK: Skating and having a brew with my buddies is pretty much the best
DK: Everyone else in Auckland just skates Vic park, so there’s never anyone at our plush street spots
OL: Sunny days and big botts
MW: Weather
RC: The dudes I skate with and the cool people Ive meet around NZ through skateboarding.
AP: RAD DUDES!!
Gold Watch from Dan Kircher on Vimeo.