THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

My friends and I would go after school and watch Bill Danforth skate.  He would drop in barefoot and do inverts barefoot.  He was so gnarly.  One day he mentioned there was this band called JFA playing.  I was so young that i didn’t even know what hardcore music was.  I somehow convinced my parents to let me go.  It was a game-changer for me.  It was just the craziest people moshing.  I was this little tiny kid in the pit, and I remember it was like I had entered this portal into the most debased reality that I had ever witnessed.  I felt reborn, and at that point I was off to the races.  There was no turning back.

Harmony Korine in Ferrier/Far Out