skroez cvk - Cardiff based graffiti artist

I've been searching the web for reference flicks etc for some London Underground paintings, Ive recently begun and I'm waiting for some canvases in the post, Anyway I come across this video Steel Injection

So dope to look back at the scene back then in London, I wish I was a part of it in some way, (I might of been if my Granddad didn't move to Cardiff from London)
The closest I and my fellow crew mates got, was to travel to the Big smoke a lot back in the 80s.
It felt like London was the closest you'd get to the south Bronx, esp around Ladbroke grove and Westbourne park.
Its hard to imagine now, with the internet etc, but what happened in London would filter down to city's like Cardiff some months later, I'm not talking about Graff too, It was everything from Fashion, Music, If you wanted the freshest trainers or tunes etc, you had to visit London it was that or nothing, not like today with a touch of a mouse.
But that was so appealing about travelling to London and citys like Bristol which had a fresh vibe its self. 
Its like paint for instance, You couldn't get pink in the 80s no way, apart from mixing caps or mixing white and red at the same time on to your piece you where doing..
Apart from Inkspot that sold buntlac which was a tiny shop in clifton street back in the 80s that was so damn difficult to rack from, the paint was behind the till, perched on top of a ledge only the tall old man that owed the shop at the time could reach. Also the paint was prob more expensive than gold weight for weight, It felt like that when you where earning £5.50 a week doing a morning and afternoon paper round, and the paint you wanted was £7-8, Prob about £25 in today's money.
You had more luck with London, It was a status thing too to have pink or lilac in your piece back in the 80s, esp here in Cardiff.
Yeah London was like a time-zone back then.You followed styles too, If you wanted to be fresh you had to vist London, I remember when me and Hoxe where heavily into doing long stretched wildstyle letters with side blocking or 3D, I remember coming back from London after seeing some pieces by Hate, (He was one of my fav writers, him Kast, Cazbee Foam etc), that where just basic straight letters but looked fresh..From then we where back doing more simple styles that had more funk in a way ( I alway think that simples are the key and foundation to every other style)..Everybody was inspired by what was going on in London, from handstyles to colour-schemes etc.I loved  the ledge as you approached Paddington it gave you a rush of excitement, and a sense of who was up and the health of the scene that week. This must seem so alien to anyone from London that lived it and was used to the city graffiti scene.
Anyway, I must link another site thats pure gold, for what was going on in London back then, Easily one of the best sites out there for u.k/London graffiti history.
http://www.rockingthecity.com/

 Such a dope site!!

 And this is the very piece by Hate I was talking about, Flick is from photos we me and Mao took during one of our many visits to the bog smoke..
I'll post more photos from this collection soon..