FARRAN GOLDING — JOURNALIST BASED IN LEEDS AND MANCHESTER, UK
CORRESPONDENT, QUARTERSNACKS; ASSOCIATE EDITOR, CLOSER SKATEBOARDING; COPYBOY, SKATE BYLINES
+ GQ, BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, ROUGH TRADE BOOKS, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, VANS, NORTHERN MONK BREW CO. AND MORE
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Writing
Quartersnacks: Keys To The City — The Making of Palace’s ‘DETROIT 313’ with Lev Tanju
The story of Palace Skateboard’s seven-year-long loveletter to the Motor City.
Quartersnacks: New Futures and Distortions in Time — The Mechanics of Skate Magazine Covers
A deep dive behind the front page into the editorial dynamics and creative decisions of magazine publishing.
GQ: Three Years Ago, Alexis Sablone Skated in the Olympics. Next Up? Designing Team USA’s Uniforms
A conversation with the trailblazing professional skateboarder, architect and designer about creating Team USA’s skate kit for Paris 2024 and the growth of the women’s global skate scene.
Video
Quartersnacks: CURRENAISSANCE: A Frank Chat with Curren Caples
Skateboarding is in a constant state of reinvention, especially in its professional class, where reinvention is part of the job. This biographic interview with Curren Caples traces his journey from child star to one of skateboarding’s most stylish and talented.
Quartersnacks: ‘Utah, Get Me Two! — Andrew Allen’s Movie Matinee
A conversation with Andrew Allen about the link between movies and his skateboarding career, from recreating shirts seen in GoodFellas, his love of cult ’80s and ’90s flicks, paying to homage to Michael Mann and David Lynch, and many more cinematic easter eggs
Skate Bylines: The Eleven O’Clock Number — Kate Bush with Geoff Campbell
“They’d get a record player and crank [“Wuthering Heights], dance about, get really theatrical and I remember that vividly.” Videographer Geoff Campbell discusses the storied use of Kate Bush’s music in skateboarding videos.
Podcasts
Skate Bylines: A Puzzle of Andrew Reynolds
An interview with the author Kyle Beachy about the career of Andrew Reynolds, what he means to skateboarding today, and how writing about Reynolds provided a foundation for his book The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches From A Skateboard Life.
Skate Bylines: The Civic Center of New York City Skateboarding
A conversation with Ian Browning whose article ‘Civic Center: A Profile of the Lower East Side Skatepark at Ten Years’ explores of parks and municipalities in New York City through the lens of skateboarding facilities.
‘Ranked & Filed’ — A Simple Magic and Skate Bylines Experimental Co-Production
Cole Nowicki’s Simple Magic is a weekly newsletter about “skateboarding, the internet and other forms of escape.” Together, we produce ‘Ranked & Filed’ which presents the headline story from Simple Magic in audio and video form.
Publications
Vans: ‘AVE, photo: O’Meally’
I produced a zine for Vans celebrating the career of Anthony Van Engelen. Told from the perspective of photographer and friend, Mike O’Meally, through an interview and his archives, the limited edition zine focused on O’Meally’s time with AVE during the making of Alien Workshop’s Mind Field.
‘Safety Net’
A zine of photographs taken throughout the making of Safety Net, a skate video by Joe Allen.
Division 24: ‘Now and Then’
Division 24 Skate Store in Wakefield, West Yorkshire reached its 20th anniversary in 2025. To celebrate the occasion, I worked with Ben Powell to create a publication chronicling the story Division 24 and history of skateboarding in the Wakefield area.
You can find more of my work for specific publications below
(or head here for an archive of just about everything I’ve worked on).
Quartersnacks
GQ
Closer Skateboarding Magazine
Skate Bylines
Vans
Slam City Skates
Free Skate Mag
The Scribe by Northern Monk Brewing Company
Greg Hunt for Speedway Mag
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