I receive a lot of emails from readers promoting bands. I do not post them all, but when a reader is promoting is own band and sends me a video with some portuguese waves (my country) you have to post them. And better when the music is good!

The Al-Berto & the Fried Bikinis is a project from surfer and traveller Al-Berto, who’s for a long time “travelling for waves and rock around the world. On these remote places he also met a special kind of songs he had never seen before and decided to spend some time with them.”

Solid Sunday: Australian Tom Plummer, SurfAid International’s malaria-program director, based year-round in the Mentawais, unwinding on his only day off of the week.

photo: Paul Kennedy

High and tight on a board with no fins, Derek Hynd heads down the Jeffrey’s Bay racetrack with more efficiency - and balls - than most.

photo: Roy Harley

Mick Klauzner drops in from the WA sun …

photo: Scott Bauer

Tropical squalls, cumulonimbus and a lonely pico perfecto, Central America.

photo: Matt Clark

Another of the surf music classics. This one is from the Astronauts, a major surf group in the 60’s.

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This happened when a hurricane swell hit Mullaghmore, Ireland. Good height and period. At dawn it looked perfect and clean but shallow, with boils everywhere. People were waiting for the tide fill in when Mikee Hamilton and Dave Lavelle turned up, didn’t think twice about it and started towing each other in. It was heavy.

Photo: Aaron Pierce