I had no concept there was a canopy band specialising in Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater soundtracks. I’m joyful sufficient as we speak understanding such a factor exists, however even happier understanding that that they had a present on the weekend blow up as a result of the person himself was there and joined them on stage for a few tracks.
The 900—named after a skating transfer that’s attainable in each the sport but in addition very hardly ever in actual life—are a band from the UK who name themselves the nation’s “first and solely Tony Hawk Professional Skater cowl band”. Which suggests they solely play songs from Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater soundtracks.
That’s a number of materials to cowl! And whereas they don’t play the whole spectrum of musical genres obtainable over the sequence—being a band they appear to solely be overlaying rock/steel/punk stuff, and I can’t discover any movies of them enjoying any of the sequence’ rap tracks—what’s there may be nonetheless a improbable sampling of one of the crucial necessary and beloved collections of online game music of all time. If the tune has guitars in it and was on a THPS soundtrack, whether or not it was Rage In opposition to the Machine, CKY, Refused or Fu Manchu, they’ll play it.
Anyway, so The 900 had been enjoying a present in Haggerston, London over the weekend, and after belting out just a few tracks had been joined on-stage by…effectively, by Tony Hawk himself, who as he appears to be more and more doing in his post-pro skating profession is fortunately settling right into a Invoice Murray-esque life-style.
That is the primary footage shared of the occasion, which blew up on Twitter over the weekend:
The band themselves had some extra skilled footage shot, although, and have begun sharing it as effectively:
It’s not possible to not love every thing about this, from the seems on the faces of the band to the very fact Hawk completely nails it, as if he’s spent his life dreaming of the possibility to stand up stage and belt out some tunes like this.
If you wish to see extra stuff from the band, they’ve obtained an entire arrange on YouTube, nevertheless it’s solely watchable on YouTube so that you’ll have to go there to test it out.
