Phil Billingsby Interview

Interview Dowden, Photos Coady, Mollison & Barber


Front Smith - Mollison

Hey there Phillip! Hows living in the Sydney city going for ya? Do you find it alot different than Penrith?

Yeah moved here about 8 or so months ago. It's amazing. So many good spots to skate just wish there were more tranny parks in sydney. Don't get me wrong, I love penrith, and always will but fuck that joint right off haha, there's nothing there for me no more besides the family, a few mates and kingpin skate shop. Plus Maca just moved here with Matty and kieren and Jye lives in leichardt so you lads have somewhere to crash when you come up which is never haha

Didn't you have a resident barramundi at your old place in Penrith?

Yeah my brother Wayne is right into fishing, he'd smoke Reece warren at a fishing contest. He had a pretty decent sized barra in the garage, he loved the thing and it got sick so he filled the bath up with this healing liquid shit and tried to save it but no go, the barra karked it on him haha, he was devo

Then he buried the bastard in the backyard?

Yeah I'm pretty sure he buried it behind the garage.

RIP Bazza. Tell us about that time when you couldnt get a stiffy for a few weeks.



Well I was skating with a few of the boys and I tried to Ollie up a bench, then gap noseblunt the bench after it.. Funny cause there is a dude we grew up skating with who completely fucked his face on the same bench trying gap lipslide, so Petkos warned me about it but I wanted to try it.. Tried it twice, locked in on one and then nek munnut I'm in Petkos' little red tampon mobile getting driven to the hospital covered in blood, stayed in hospital for 4 hours, everything was good though. I remember when I told you ever since I headbutted the bench I couldn't get a stiffy, you were so amazed, it was great. Don't worry, only headbutt that'd stop me barring up would be from Nigel banks!

Bullshit don't lie! No straight soldiers for you mate. Going places with you is always fun times, you got any top tips for trips that you can share with us?

I don't drive but I enjoy catching a bus somewhere and having someone else drive while I get pissed haha. Travel tips, take less clothes than you need because usually you don't shower if you're camping, well on our trips that's the case. Lots of yothu yindi and brad paisley on the iPod, don't let Maca sleep in your tent because he'll kebab himself in your sleeping bag, make sure Reece and Cheney are there because Reece lives off the land and Cheney is good at firewood hunting and picking up 17 year old German girls from the side of the road haha. Oh and don't forget your toothbrush

After seeing your two trick ledge lines and crooks fakies people are gonna be surprised to know that your not actually a full time skater. What do you do for a crust?

I'm a tree lopper, so I work 5 days a week cutting trees. Pretty sweet job, not as hard as people make it out to be. A crew of us started working for Townsville council after cyclone yasi hit up north to do storm clearance. That place is fuckin wild hey, it's just full of jocks and army wankers trying to biff anyone that looks at them. Then there's us, 25 or so tree loppers from Sydney, aging from 17 to 50.. So you can imagine the looks we'd get rockin up to a club pissed at mutes haha. Lots of crazy stories, local hoodlums trying to steal our work gear and some of the boys chasing them down and giving them a fright, staying in a $3500 a night house on magnetic island with all the fancy novelties, 30 blocks every day, and pretty much bludging 6 hours at work doing whatever we wanted, fishing, playing on the iPad all day, cane toad hunting and the boys smoking cones all day haha. Sorry to bore you.


Front Huzz - Coady

Do you rekon you could canopy lift Floyds hair or would that be too bigger job for you and the boys?

We'd need to rig up some pulleys and I reckon we could lower branches from his nose ring but we'd have to let it run, don't want to swing it back and do foundation damage to his pretty face, I reckon me and you could tackle it but no bongs before work for you mate

Give the chainy to Cheenos. I know that you and the missus are going over to the states for a holiday soon. Is it true that you are going over to 'make it" and if that fails are you going to blame it on her for distracting you on your chance to blow up broooo?

Yeah the plan is to move over there, get a season pass to an indoor skatepark and 'train' for a year berrics style, then I'll have a welcome back part and people will be like 'what the fuck who is this dude' I'm imagining I'll be like if Shane oneill, torey pudwill, Dylan rieder and sheckler put their sperm together into like a little sperm egg omelette and get a surrogate mother to have me

Who would be your top 3 choices for surrogate mothers other than Reece and Jackson?

Umm, probably the 3 ugliest women in the world coz then I would have an ugly mum that none of my friends would flirt with, I'd start with magda zubanski or whatever the fuck her name is, crazy cat lady from the Simpsons and probably that Asian chick from sbs or abc that reads the news in a weird blocked nose voice

FSTS Kicky Out - Barber

Lee lin Chin. Shes a real woman. I bet she is a gun at the pub trivia nights. What about ya top three surrogate fathers?

Cons for sure, then me and Floyd could be brothers, then probably schooner because he is proper skate coach dad driving us around and stuff plus he's got the whole weird dad thing goin which I like, and I dunno, Kevin bloody Wilson would be pretty sweet to have as a dad

Good choices. I rekon Kevin and Cons are brothers for sure. I thought you woulda gone with Cheney. Or Bodnar! Who hooks ya up with shit to skate other than Kingpin!

Afends and fallen, theeve, hoon, pig wheels flow. I also ride for kingpin, best shop ever and if you go in to the penrith shop you're guaranteed to get stuck in the Dave Bodnar vortex

Dave bodnar vortex?

He's a very persuasive dude, whenever I plan to go into the shop to get something quick and go skate or go see my mum or whatever, I end up in there way longer than usual. He always convinces me to do fuckin chores and shit haha. Like 'ohhhh can you mark this stock off' or 'phhiiiiiil you look hungry man can you go get me some food' haha it's funny though, Dave Bodnar is my favorite washed up skater

Is it true that Cuzzos is sending ya boards now? If so how does it feel being on Hoon ripping two trick ledge lines!

Yeah he hit me up the other day about it and I'm stoked. The whole hoon vibe is amazing. I've always looked up to cuzza, not trying to get on his end but I remember the first time I saw him skate was at a criminal demo at my local and he sold me one of his old boards for $25, it had a guitar on it I think. I've always been into his style of skating, rips street and trannyis one of my favorite skaters is Dan drehobl and I guess they have similarities! Maybe his street side is liking my two trick ledge lines haha I dunno! But yes, I'm stoked on it. Best people on the team too!


BSNBS - Coady

Do you think you will start skating more tranny now that your riding for Hoonos?

Probably not, Sydney is shithouse for decent tranny, five dock is the dogs but everything else is wack, bondi sucks, maroubra sucks, everything tranny sucks here, I try my best on Waterloo mini but it's no belco haha. Club moos ramp was the goods but that lasted about 4 weeks before council threatened quad digit fines no good

Top 5 YOLO's off the top of your head?

#YOLO is the gayest shit ever but here we go. I'm a big fan of getting the blades on when I'm pissed, sometimes I don't wash my hands after a piss, I had a 10 inch dildo we called Denzel come full pelt into my mouth from a car exhaust full revs, it made my lip bleed, it was a v6 too bit of power behind it, I had a naked shower with my mate Jye and he pushed me into broken soap dish and I've got a sweet scar on my ribs, that was pretty fun/gay. Anddddd I've got two vb tattoos on my legs, ones pretty big too, I reckon boonie would be proud if he didn't switch to Canadian club

Hahahahaha! Wickid! Thanks for your time Phillip! Any shout outs broooaaooooaoooo?

Dave and guy at kingpin, kent at afends, Pete at goliath, Ti and barnaby at blackbox, Trev and Steve at theeve, cuzza at hoonos, mum, bros, barra, penrith, Sydney, Canberra, dadcam, Sam Coady and other photographers and filmers that put up with my shit, club moos, brad paisley and vb. cheers cunts