Posted: June 2,2008
STU GRAHAM
Photos: Hammeke | Interview: Gold

Birthplace?
Bangour hospital, Livingston, Scotland UK, complete shithole.



Nicknames?
Folk usetay call me Wee Fat Stu wen a wiz a younger, but then a got bigger than everybody and became Shrek. Or just oger a dinnae mind oger!

How’d you get roped into the whole crazy skateboard thing?
Fuck man, a owe it all tay ma granny. She took me down tay the park in Livi wen a wiz like six years old. She bought me a Nash—it fucking ruled—aw the older cunts were jealous. It felt sick; that would av been 1990 a think. A stayd like the equivalent of 10 blocks fay the park so ad skate there everyday. A wiz a full on wee park rat!

Do you get any grief from people back home about living here? 

Nah. Yay know wit, allot cunts talk shit, but it’s just kiz they know they’re never gettin outa the town alive. A go back there n al see cunts a went tay school with, n there like, “Aw yay still playin’ around wit that skateboard?” They have no clue wat the world has tay offer. It’s fucking crazy, they just know the town—that’s it! 





Is skating here any different than in Scotland?
A think over here it’s way more serious. Back home it’s all fun. I think if it wiz as hot as it is here back there ad maybe move back! B yay know wit, am here tay stay, that’s fur sure. Scotland’s only gonna get colder. 



Did you have any misconceptions about the US before you got here?
Aw mate my whole family usetay go tay Florida fur our holidays as a kid. Ad been well acquainted wit America! It’s sick though, av fully been back through some a the towns a visited as a kid, fuckin drank in the bars in old town kissimee wiz fucking sick! 



Where can you usually be found skating? 

A mostly skate doon the brig at Washington Street in SD, I stay kinna close tay Poway skatepark so sometimes a cruize around there. It’s super fun tay cruise around—there’s a sick little snake run wit a tombstone at the bottom. Been skating the new Pala skatepark—that shit’s super sick; it’s on the reservation tay, so it’s super chill.



Who have you been skating with?
Recently av been skating wit young Tom Remalard n wee Marky Clements, these wee dicks bring the napalm tay the table! It’s sick watching them skate, man; makes me feel super old in am only 26!





Creature been keeping you on the road? Where have they taken you?

Well we all got tay go tay the UK, we drove up the country tay Scotland. The whole way a wiz tellin every cunt tay be ready fur the worst shit ever kiz that’s just Livi: expect the worst, that way yay won’t get bummed. We drove from San Diego tay Florida and back as well; baby lamb ground that crazy rail in Tallahassee! Am going out tay Australia in October fur a while wit Creature. It’s gonna be the shit, like av never been out there yet!



How come you didn’t make it on the Skate Rock tour?
Awwww mate tellin yay the now, a wiz gutted wen a got the dates. It fell on my youngest daughter’s first birthday, then it actually fell on the anniversary tay, like so it wiz a case a double barrel yay know. Believe me mate, ad a fuckin loved tay been a part a that shit!



You probably have the biggest Skate & Destroy tattoo out there. What does it mean to you?
A fucking lot mate! A got it done on the East Coast by Fred Smith. It took about six hours or some shit. The next day a went back and got the Indy truck and the bearing, best fucking time man. A wiz looking fur a sleeve but a just thought fuck it, SKATE N DESTROY aw the way!



What’s a common misconception people have about you?
Cunts always think am some sort a raging maniac. A do know wit there on aboot.





Who’s got your vote for Skater of the Year this year? 

Fucking Duffman. My vote’s fur Corey!

What’s your drink of choice? 

How is it your round like? Al take a double vodka Redbull. 



What does William Wallace mean to you? 

That cunt fought tay death fur his country n countrymen. Put it this way, fuck Bush n aw this new age war shite. Ad huv nothing tay do wit any of it. The only time ad fight’s fur Scotland against the English, if it ever came tay that shit again. Yay know wit? Wit America done tay the Indians is just like wit they English cunts done tay us—it’s a fuckin strange world, man!



Advice or last words?
Don’t drink vodka Redbulls, move tay somewhere on the West Coast. Skate aw the concrete yay kin get yer stinking paws on!