Professional skater Tony Hawk surprised fans in London on Saturday by turning up unannounced to a video game tribute band – and joining them on stage.
‘The 900’ describe themselves as “the first and only UK Pro Skater Tony Hawk cover band”. The band are currently on a UK tour performing “every song from THPS1 to American Wasteland”.
On Saturday, The 900 performed at East London’s Signature Brew, and seemingly to everyone’s surprise, Tony Hawk himself appeared and performed two songs from the Pro Skater games on stage.
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“Thank you for having so much respect for [the songs in our games],” Hawk told the crowd. To see also : How do I start playing with my voice in video games?. “It’s been really an honor for me to have these games going on for so long and, hey, we keep going, right? I had to join the fun!”
“WE LEGITIMATELY PLAYED 2 SONGS WITH @tonyhawk WTAF,” 900 tweeted.
Venue Signature Brew added: “I’m not going to lie, when we booked the @tonyhawk cover band we didn’t expect the real Tony Hawk to turn up in London and cover @goldfingermusic with them. Excuse me, what just happened??”
Tony Hawk was in London to appear at An Evening with Tony Hawk at the London Palladium, but the show was canceled seemingly without explanation.
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Tony Hawk recently claimed that the planned remake of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 was delayed due to Activision Blizzard’s decision to accept 1 + 2 developer Vicarious Visions to Blizzard last year.
“That was the plan, even up until the release dates of [1 and 2],” Hawk said. “We did 3 and 4, and then Vicarious got busy, and then they looked for other developers, and then it was over.”
He added: “It’s true that [Activision] were trying to find someone to do 3 and 4, but they just didn’t trust anyone like they trusted Vicarious.
“So they took other suggestions from other studios, like, ‘what would you do with the title THPS?’ And they didn’t like anything they heard, and then that was it.
“Who knows? Maybe when the dust settles, we’ll figure it out. You never know. I never would have thought we’d be doing 1 and 2 20 years later.”
Tony Hawk also announced that he is entering the world of blockchain gaming with plans to build “the largest skate park in the metaverse” in partnership with virtual world The Sandbox and NFT platform Autograph.
