Our Story
Loud Mouth Productions: 1997 – 2003
Loud Mouth Productions (LMP) was a video/media business formed in 1997 by Kieran Mansion and Jules Kelly.
The Loud Mouth video’s were a product of a crew of young mates, filming their pursuit of excitement and entertainment, which often lead to all things dangerous, illegal and controversial.
The Loud Mouth Crew quickly gain an immense underground following, which lead to large amounts of traffic through the Loud Mouth Productions website, and a massive amount of video views on the Internet.Loud Mouth Productions Official Logo:
Crew Member ‘Aussie John’ repping the LMP tatt.
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Limited Edition Loud Mouth Production hoodies made for crew members only, hit the streets and became a very sort after item.
A video camera was pretty much glued to Kieran’s hand.
A few crew members pushed it a step further and started supporting on the drag strip.
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Building the secret LMP suburban Fast50’s track…
…Kieran putting it to good use.
Jake skating the skatepark the crew grew up at. This was around the time when Sam Lyons (crew photographer) started developing his skills.
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Work on the company car begins…
Sean and Jules detailing the ride.
Back in those days Sean was actually too young for a drivers license.
Stage One at Sami’s backyard LMP track
Stage Two: Complete with metal kickers
Getting banned from Golf Courses was a normal occurrence.
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Wallpapers
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Aussie John’s wild XY featured in many LMP videos.
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The Loud Mouth Production Website. Featuring Kieran & Sean Mansion. Noticed the first signs of Crooked Uniform popping up.
Crew Member Sami’s leg at stage one
Crooked Uniform: 2003 – ?
The two brothers from Loud Mouth Productions, Kieran and Sean, started with little more than an idea of a clothing brand that would represent the lifestyle they lived. They teamed with close friends, Sam Lyons, a master at design and photography, and Jake Hollywood, sales supremo, and set to work on taking over the underground market in Australia.
‘Crooked Uniform’ was a name that was loved immediately. Its contradiction speaks for itself and the streets understood.
Starting with just two t-shirt designs, the brothers sold from the boot of their car. More and more people demanded the CU label.
Word of mouth is the best marketing tool of all. And the streets were talking.
With a professional website, exciting marketing program and excellent distribution systems, Crooked Uniform presented itself to its customers as the real deal.
The Crooked Crew was born.
Crooked Uniform’s Official Logo.
Tagged and bagged.
The very first store poster.
Early Wallpapers
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Crusty Demons rider Mad Mike repping Crooked with Jake.
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Kieran busted after a Fast50 burnout. Couldn’t get away on the blown tyre.
Kieran and Jake making video blogs for what became the crooked uniform blog.
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One of Jake’s full page magazine advertisement.
We ran a successful forum for some time before the blog took over.
Aussie John repping one of our first t-shirts in the Sydney streets.
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Crooked Uniform continued to run the Aussie Underground scene.
Mark skated for Crooked Uniform, and always delivered the craziest photos.
This black and white advertisement was our very first full page magazine advertisement.
Jake with his tattoo artist Nick. Jake actually got CU tattooed behind his ear for this catalogue shoot.
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Crooked’s ranges began to expand to female clothing.
This was the first company interview featured in Freerider Magazine. Close friend and team rider Ben Foster, was responsible for a lot of great company exposure.
Crooked began receiving a lot of magazine coverage including write ups in Freestyle Magazine, which formed business relationships which are still operating today.
Charlie Kose was Crooked Uniform’s team drag racer. This was only one of a number of his cars that sported CU support.
Any design arguments were always resolved in a mature manner.
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So many people started popping up with Crooked Uniform tattoos. This was only a small selection that I had saved. Im sure there’s plenty more out there.
Jake with Crooked written down his arm and hand.
Balls out for CU. Yes, its what you think it is.
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Support came from all forms!
Team surfer Max was one of the finest editions to the Crooked Uniform Team.
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Marking up the CU mini ramp.
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Crooked’s promo car for Summernats Car Festival. Owner Charlie Kose
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Limited Edition CU ‘Sugar Wood’ Boards sold out instantly.
These were the final previews shown of the last Crooked Uniform line. They were never released. Jake’s pro model T-shirt.
Sean’s Sugar Skull T-Shirt
I CU.
Shock Mansion: 2008 and beyond…
We posted so much content in this section it became a mile long, so we had to ditch the idea. Instead, please check out our Media and Photography pages. They will both be updated regularly. You can also follow us on Twitter & Myspace via the links below.
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