Shooting Daggers share video for “Wipe Out”
Shooting Daggers have dropped their video for “Wipe Out,” a track from their debut album Love & Rage, now available on New Heavy Sounds.
With critical acclaim, Shooting Daggers has swiftly become a dominant force in the London punk scene since their 2022 EP Athames and the release of their debut album earlier this year.
“Wipe Out” transcends being just a song—it's an anthem for the queer skateboarding scene, celebrating the freedom and camaraderie found in the sport. The video showcases these themes, highlighting skate communities from around the world.
Talking about the track and video Sal from the band comments:
"We wanted to show how fun, powerful and epic skating is. Even if it means eating shit and "wipe out" more than actually staying on the board.
With this video we wanted to show the collective sense of freedom and highlight queer skate communities from everywhere,that's why we gathered footage online from all over the world and put it together.
I got into skateboarding during the whole"Skate kitchen" (all girl skateboarding film), "glue skateboarding" and "there" (queer punk skate crews) era. It influenced a lot of people in the UK back in 2018. There were girl skate sessions for free at House of vans, bay66 and hopkingdom every month in London.
It felt like all the girls started skateboarding around 2018, skateboarding was huge back then (all ages and all genders too). I remember seeing Beatrice Domond skating at HOV and she blew my mind.
We were all learning beginners tricks together, lifting each other up and evolving together at our own pace.
Many queer skateboarding collectives emerged and are still running like queerskatebristol, clumsy (toulouse France), siblings (london), transkaters (london), bronxgirlsskate who participated in this video, among many many others. Glad to see Trans and queer night in bay66 btw
My way of consuming skateboarding is primarily through instagram so Instagram skaters inspired the most like briana king, the girls from brixton baddest Stefani nurding, amy gillingwater, Marbie princess, Arin, Kien Caples too, atalimendes, palice (represent Birmingham), the girls from skate kitchen.
There are so many, I'm sure I will miss some. A lot of regular skaters girls and queers making sick edits and posting on IG inspire me to keep going everyday.
If I had to chose 3 from the top of my head I would say that my heroes are: Cher Strauberry for the punk attirude, Savannah Stacey Keenan for the steeze, and Vitoria Bortolo for the lines.”
Featuring themes of unity, self-love, and empowerment, Love & Rage challenges societal norms and demands justice and solidarity.
Watch the video for “Wipe Out”
